S. Korea’s ‘Bigung’ Guided Rocket System Successfully Passes US Foreign Weapons Test ahead of Export l KBS WORLD

South Korea’s Bigung guided rocket system, which the nation is in search of to export to the US, has handed the Pentagon’s closing spherical of overseas comparative testing(FCT) carried out in Hawaii.

In keeping with home protection contractor LIG Nex1 on Monday, all six of the two-point-75-inch Bigung guided rockets, loaded onto the South Korean Navy’s Cheonjabong touchdown vessel in waters off Hawaii, efficiently hit the goal final Friday.

The FCT program is aimed toward evaluating excellent applied sciences developed by protection firms from U.S.-allied nations, earlier than linking them because the U.S. navy’s improvement and acquisition tasks.

The Bigung guided missile system, developed to strike North Korea’s touchdown craft air cushions(LCACs) whereas being loaded onto a automobile, was first deployed by the South Korean Marines in 2016.

LIG Nex1 has since developed the two-point-75-inch rocket launcher able to being loaded onto small-sized unmanned floor automobiles(USVs) to be exported.