Made in Korea: Counterinsurgency Trainers for Peru

Nov 07, 2012 19:13 EST

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In November 2012, Peru signed a $200 million contract with South Korea for turboprop trainers and light attack aircraft. The deal involves 10 of its KT-1 trainers, which have also been exported to Turkey and Indonesia, and 10 KA-1 armed counterinsurgency variants. An ROK official is quoted as saying that KAI plane won on both price and operational efficiency, while acknowledging that convincing a Latin American country not to buy from Brazil was challenging. Korea Aerospace Industries will ship 4 of the planes from South Korea, with the rest being assembled from KAI kits in Peru.

KAI’s KT-1 reportedly beat Beechcraft’s A/T-6B (Mexico), Pilatus’ PC-9M, and Brazil’s popular EMB-134 Super Tucano (many Latin American countries). The same “value positioning” model, which made items like Korea’s Hyundai cars a success, is also at work for Korean offerings in the global defense sector. It’s time for competitors to take note, because that model is starting to rack up steady wins. Chosun Ilbo | YTN [in Korean].

http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/...or-Peru-07599/




kenapa nggak beli super tucano aja yang sudah ada senapan mesin internal buat coin ketimbang kt-1 yang masih pake pod. tni-au aja juga beli super tucano meski sudah punya kt-1. yang jadi pertanyaan, kenapa ab peru suka sekali belanja senjata produk asia seperti singapura, korea, & rrc. nggak seperti negara tetangganya yang lebih suka produk eropa, amerika & russia