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===Performance=== | ===Performance=== | ||
* Maximum speed: | * Maximum speed: 2,925 km/h at altitude of 40,000 ft (12,000 m); 2,476 km/h at 200–500 ft (61–152 m) | ||
* Maximum speed: Mach | * Maximum speed: Mach 2.36 | ||
* Range: 9,300 km with weapon load of 37,000 lb (16,800 kg). Max range is 11,500 km. | * Range: 9,300 km with weapon load of 37,000 lb (16,800 kg). Max range is 11,500 km. | ||
* Combat range: 5,342 km | * Combat range: 5,342 km |
Revision as of 06:08, 7 April 2024
KB-1 Gamauji | |
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A KB-1 bomber is flying over the South Sea near Jeju Island. | |
Role | Supersonic Stealth strategic heavy bomber |
National origin | |
Manufacturer | Korea Aerospace Industries |
First flight | 21 August 2022 |
Introduction | 1 January 2023 |
Status | In service |
Primary user | Royal Joseon Air Forces |
Produced | 2022- |
Number built | 45 (120 aircraft planned) |
Development
Origins
Full-scale development
Design
Operators
Specifications
General characteristics
- Crew: 4 (Aircraft Commander, Pilot, Offensive Systems Officer, and Defensive Systems Officer)
- Length: 45 m
- Wingspan: 30 m
- Empty weight: 192,000 lb (87,090 kg)
- Gross weight: 326,000 lb (147,871 kg)
- Max takeoff weight: 477,000 lb (216,364 kg)
- Powerplant: 2 × Hanwha Aerospace JT-701 afterburning turbofan engines, 35,020 lbf thrust each dry, 45,780 lbf with afterburner
Performance
- Maximum speed: 2,925 km/h at altitude of 40,000 ft (12,000 m); 2,476 km/h at 200–500 ft (61–152 m)
- Maximum speed: Mach 2.36
- Range: 9,300 km with weapon load of 37,000 lb (16,800 kg). Max range is 11,500 km.
- Combat range: 5,342 km
- Service ceiling: 20,000 m
- Rate of climb: 5,678 ft/min (28.84 m/s)
- Wing loading: 167 lb/sq ft (820 kg/m2)
- Thrust/weight: 0.38 at gross weight
Armament
3 internal bomb bays for 75,000 pounds (34,000 kg) of ordnance. Can carry one of the following combinations.
- Missiles
- 24 x AGM-158 Joint Air to Surface Standoff Missile (JASSM)
- 24 x AGM-158C Long Range Anti-Ship Missile (LRASM)
- 24 x KEPD 350 Taurus Air-launched cruise missile
- 24 x Cheonryong Air-launched cruise missile
- 64 x NMM-100 Anti-Ship cruise missile
- 24 x Hyeon Mu-3E supersonic cruise missile
- 24 x ASM-800K Anti-ship supersonic cruise missile
- 12 x Hyeon Mu-6 Hypersonic cruise missile
- 24 x Hyeon Mu-6B Air-to-Ground hypersonic cruise missile
- 12 x ASM-900K Hypersonic anti-ship cruise missile
- 24 x ASM-1100K Hypersonic anti-ship cruise missile
- 24 x ADM-160 MALD Air-launched Active Radar Decoy
- 24 x AIM-120C/D AMRAAM
- 24 x KAIM-3 Cheonjeon 3
- Bombs
- 28 x Mk-82 air inflatable retarder (AIR) general purpose (GP) bombs
- 28 x Mk-82 low drag general purpose (LDGP) bombs
- 28 x Mk-62 Quickstrike sea mines
- 28 x Mk-84 general-purpose bombs
- 28 x Mk-65 naval mines
- 28 x CBU-87/89/CBU-97 Cluster Bomb Units (CBU)
- 12 x CBU-103/104/105 Wind Corrected Munitions Dispenser (WCMD) CBUs
- 24 x GBU-31 JDAM GPS guided bombs (Mk-84 GP or BLU-109 warhead)
- 16 x GBU-38 JDAM GPS guided bombs (Mk-82 GP warhead)
- 28 x GBU-54 LaserJDAM (using rotary launcher mounted multiple ejector racks)
- 192 x GBU-39 Small Diameter Bomb GPS guided bombs
- 8 x N23 1.2 megatonnes of TNT nuclear bombs or N24 150 kilotons of TNT tactical nuclear bombs
Avionics
- AN/APG-02-B AESA radar
- AN/ALQ-161 radar warning receiver and defensive jamming equipment
- AN/ASQ-02 defensive management system
- AN/AAQ-04 EOTS (Electro-Optical Targeting System)