S. Korea Unveils New Military Transport Chopper

I choose this news because they was very interesting. recently, in Thailand also has the news about the helicopter but in it about the helicopter crashed with the mountain and it fell down into the forest. However, this news was different from the news in Thailand. You can read the news in the next part.

According to the news, South Korea announced that they published their a new military transport helicopter developed with the chopper division of Europe's EADS to replace its ageing fleet of U.S. on Friday. At first, this helicopter was showed by president Lee in the south of Sacheon. They spend a lot of money for this project about 1.3 trillion won ($1.05 billion) and this project was published in 2006 and it will be full option in 2012. This helicopter can fly about 260 km per hour and it carrying two gunners and a patrol of troops. However, Korea has planned to build the helicopter more than 200 to substitute all of old helicopter that they used for long time. Moreover, they has planned to build civilian variants of the chopper. The reporter said this project will help them its heavy dependence on US helicopter and they will make it into the global market.

In my opinion, I think it is neccessary for Korean army to have new helicopters. The old helicopters will give a lot of trouble if an engine in each helicopter is too old. For example, the engine may shut down automatically or cause a plane clash during the operation. To substitute the old helicopters with the new helicopters, it will be able to gain a lot of adventage.