Ref.>"韓国製軍用機が日本に？ 韓国、T50練習機を「空自に売り込み」狙う"
>"Why South Korea and Japan Should Overcome the Nuclear Weapons Taboo"
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> South Korea wants to become one of the world's biggest arms dealers
↓(See detail of this article)、産経新聞の記事の翻訳（Translation of an article of The Sankei Shimbun)
Translation; [Hello from Seoul]. S. Korean military aircraft will be sold to Japan? = S. Korea aims to sell T-50 Trainer jet aircraft to "the Air SDF"
>"[ソウルからヨボセヨ]. 韓国製軍用機が日本に？ 韓国、T50練習機を「空自に売り込み」狙う"
> 日本では英国、イタリアと共同開発する次期戦闘機の第三国輸出がやっと閣議で OKが出たようだが、依然として武器輸出には批判や懸念の声が強い。
> ところがお隣、韓国では武器輸出は重要な成長産業として官民挙げて大々的に進められており現在、世界９位の輸出額を数年内には世界４位にするという。
In Japan, it seems that the cabinet has finally approved the export of the next generation fighter jet jointly developed with the U.K. and Italy to a 3rd party country. Howver, there are still strong voices of criticism and concern about arms exports.
However, in neighboring S. Korea, arms export is an important growth industry, and the public and private sectors are enormously promoting it. It's explained to make the export amount, which is currently ranked 9th in the world, the 4th place in the world within a few years.
> その市場はすでに東南アジア、中東からヨーロッパに広がり、品目も戦車や大砲から軍用機、潜水艦まで多岐にわたっているが、聞くところによると今後、輸出先の一つに日本も視野に入っているとか。
> とくに各国に輸出実績のある T50練習機を航空自衛隊の T4練習機の後継機として売り込みたがっているという。
Its market has already expanded from Southeast Asia and the Middle East to Europe, and the products range is broadly available from tank and cannon to military aircraft and submarine, and I heard that Japan is also being considered as one of the export destinations in the future.
In particular, it allegedly wants to promote to sell the T-50 Trainer Jet, which has been exported to many countries, as a successor to the Air SDF Kawasaki T-4 jet trainer aircraft.
> T50は韓国空軍の曲芸飛行隊「ブラックイーグルス」に使用され世界各国のエアショーで評価が高い。
> 軽攻撃機としても輸出されている。
> 日本の国産機 T4も航空自衛隊で「ブルーインパルス」として曲芸飛行に使われ人気だが将来、その代わりに韓国製の軍用機が使われるかも？
T-50 is used by the S. Korean Air Force's aerobatic squadron the "Black Eagles" and is highly appreciated at air shows around the world.
It's also exported as a light attack aircraft.
Japan's domestically produced aircraft Kawasaki T-4 is also popular as it's used by the Japan Air Self-Defense Force for aerobatics as the "Blue Impulse," and in the future, S. Korean-made military aircraft may be used instead of that?
> まさかという感じではあるが、ただ日本を取り巻く国際情勢や軍事・防衛環境は激変しつつある。
> 日本で憲法を理由に武器輸出アレルギーが今なお強いことを横目に、逆に韓国は大胆に対日武器セールスをしようというのだ。
> これが時代の流れである。
It feels like no way. However, the "international situation" and "military & defense environment" surrounding Japan are undergoing drastic changes.
Having no empathy to the fact that Japan still has a strong allergy to arms exports due to its Constitution, S. Korea intends to boldly attempt to sell arms to Japan.
This is the trend of the times.
