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Saviour or stop gap? Malaysia’s South Korean jets arrive to relieve ageing fighters
Saviour or stop gap? Malaysia’s South Korean jets arrive to relieve ageing fighters
Malaysia received its first South Korean-made light combat jet on Friday under a nearly 4 billion ringgit (US$990 million) procurement, in what analysts describe as welcome relief for an ageing air force still years away from replacing its frontline fighters. The FA-50M Block 20 jet arrived at the air force base in Labuan, off Borneo, with a second expected in Kuantan on the peninsula’s east…