{"id":12210,"date":"2023-08-31T23:08:40","date_gmt":"2023-09-01T04:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=12210"},"modified":"2023-08-31T23:08:41","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T04:08:41","slug":"airbus-korea-aerospace-industries-launch-light-armed-helicopter-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=12210","title":{"rendered":"Airbus &#038; Korea Aerospace Industries launch Light Armed Helicopter production"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Seoul, South Korea\u00a0<\/strong>&#8211;<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Airbus <strong>(OTC: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zacks.com\/stock\/quote\/EADSY?q=EADSY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">EADSY<\/a>)<\/strong> Helicopters and Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) have signed an agreement to initiate the serial production phase of the Light Armed Helicopters (LAH). This follows the contract awarded by the country\u2019s Defence Acquisition Programme Administration to KAI in December 2022 to supply an initial batch of ten LAH to the Republic of Korea Army. Deliveries will begin at the end of 2024, with follow-on orders to continue into the next decade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This agreement will see Airbus Helicopters and KAI enter into the next phase of the programme, ramping up production of the LAH at KAI\u2019s Sacheon facility in South Korea. Airbus Helicopters will support KAI\u2019s order fulfilment with delivery of the required kits for the mass production.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The two companies have also signed an agreement to deepen their commitment in the joint Korean Utility Helicopter (KUH Surion) programme, to meet a wide range of operational requirements for the military, civil and parapublic markets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This follows the recent launch of the joint development of new KUH variants, such as the Marine Attack Helicopter and Mine Countermeasure Helicopter, and their corresponding future versions. These programmes will benefit from Airbus Helicopters\u2019 expertise in flight control systems and helicopter drive systems, and KAI\u2019s industrialisation capability for local production. Airbus Helicopters is also committed to supporting KAI for additional serial deliveries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"681\" src=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Korea-Light-Armed-Helicopter-1024x681.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Korea-Light-Armed-Helicopter-1024x681.png 1024w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Korea-Light-Armed-Helicopter-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Korea-Light-Armed-Helicopter-768x511.png 768w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Korea-Light-Armed-Helicopter-1536x1022.png 1536w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Korea-Light-Armed-Helicopter-676x450.png 676w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Korea-Light-Armed-Helicopter.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seoul, South Korea\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0Airbus (OTC: EADSY) Helicopters and Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) have signed an agreement to initiate the serial production phase of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12212,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10172,4510,798,7890,89,5804,5637,13618,8222,1836,5992,5670,7929,2203,4957,3680,5676,8651,13831,13156,10674,5446,10169,10617,10176,1397,10195,10171,868],"tags":[3648,1690,167,1697,47,4907,2911,151,160,3310,10243,1436,4512,430,2908,3314,1844,1268,1782,1020,2665,660,149,1371,546,3599,15706,15705,6559,3522,15710,15709,1435,2443,4747,3403,5082,889,15712,412,14908,4888,515,2169,15708,1899,15711,2451,7408,2160,1993,3181,15707,1149,1691,1658,2944],"class_list":["post-12210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aerospace","category-aerospace-news","category-airbus-news","category-asia-news","category-aviation-news","category-avionics","category-business-news","category-communications-news","category-consumer-news","category-defense-news","category-economic-news","category-economy-news","category-european-news","category-finance-news","category-global-politics","category-helicopter-news","category-international-news","category-joint-venture-news","category-manufacturing-assembly-news","category-maritime","category-military","category-military-news","category-news","category-pacifica","category-stock-news-2","category-stock-news","category-transport","category-transportation","category-transportation-news","tag-acquisition","tag-administration","tag-aerospace","tag-agreement","tag-airbus","tag-armed","tag-army","tag-attack","tag-aviation","tag-awarded","tag-batch","tag-civil","tag-communications","tag-contract","tag-control","tag-counter","tag-defence","tag-defense","tag-delivery","tag-eadsy","tag-facility","tag-flight","tag-helicopter","tag-helicopters","tag-industries","tag-initial","tag-initiate","tag-kai","tag-kits","tag-korea","tag-kuh","tag-lah","tag-light","tag-marine","tag-markets","tag-mass","tag-measure","tag-military","tag-mine","tag-news","tag-otc","tag-phase","tag-production","tag-program","tag-ramping","tag-republic","tag-sacheon","tag-seoul","tag-serial","tag-sign","tag-south","tag-supply","tag-surion","tag-systems","tag-transport","tag-transportation","tag-up"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12213,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12210\/revisions\/12213"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}