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Home» Event News» MADEX 2019»MADEX 2019: KAI’ Surion gets claws with Marine Attack variant
KAI MAH helicopter scale-model showcased at MADEX 2019

MADEX 2019: KAI’ Surion gets claws with Marine Attack variant

The Korean Aerospace Industries (KAI) KUH-1 Surion helicopter is now declined in a Marine Attack Helicopter (MAH) designed for amphibious assault close air support - Naval News.

Nathan Gain 23 Oct 2019

The Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) KUH-1 Surion helicopter is now declined in a Marine Attack Helicopter (MAH) designed for amphibious assault close air support. 

When the Korean Marine Corps got its two first MUH-1 « Marineon » in 2018, they became the first major aircraft the 29,000-strong force received since its integration in the ROK Navy in the early 1970s. By introducing new variants, KAI is proposing locally made solutions as the ROK Marine Corps is moving forward towards creating an independent air unit by 2021. Besides the Marineon, the future air component of the « Korea Marine Air-Ground Task Force » will also operate attack choppers. The two others contenders are the Bell AH-1Z Viper and a naval version of the Boeing AH-64E Apache helicopter.

The MAH proposed by KAI globally kept the design of the Surion family: a twin-engine 1,800 shp , a 8,7 t MTOW and a useful load of 5,9 t, an operational range of 646 km and an endurance of 3h40. KAI added a suite of weapons allowing the chopper to perform two main missions, including from the ROK Navy Dokdo-class LPHs: air assault support and anti-tank attack. 

The weapons package includes a 20 mm Gatling gun with 1,400 rounds, 2.75 inch rocket pods, two quad-launchers for antitank guided missile and two dual-launchers for the MBDA’s Mistral ATAM air-to-air missile. South Korea has been using the ground-based Mistral variant for a while. 

The MAH uses the same nose-mounted EO/IR Targeting and Designation System (TADS) gimbal primarily developed by Hanwha Systems for the ROK Army future Light Attack Helicopter. The crew receives Head Mounted Display and Night Vision Goggles. 

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Posted by : Nathan Gain
Nathan is based in Namur, Belgium. He holds an MA in modern history with a minor in international relations from the Catholic University of Louvain (UCL – Belgium). Fascinated by military history he naturally turned to the defense sector after graduating and is particularly interested in Northern European and Belgian defense issues as well as in anything related to naval aviation.

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