Role & capabilities
- Corps-level reconnaissance programme
- Persistent observation design
- Ground-system integration
- Primary domain
- Air
- System type
- Reconnaissance aircraft
- Developer / manufacturer
- Korea Aerospace Industries
- Origin / production countries
- South Korea
- Other names
- No additional names recorded
- Variants / configurations
- Not distinguished in reviewed sources
- Operators / programme customers
- Not identified in reviewed sources
Evidence & current status
Zero/placeholder performance fields are excluded. A current operator acceptance record remains to be verified.
The Next Corps UAV is KAI's successor-generation corps-level surveillance aircraft. It belongs to a different programme from Korean Air's medium-altitude KUS-FS and should also be distinguished from the older RQ-101 Songolmae. The manufacturer presents it as a larger reconnaissance system with a conventional fixed-wing layout.
KAI's public page supplies the aircraft's dimensions and maximum take-off mass, but several performance entries render as zeros or placeholder strings. Those are missing data, not meaningful range or endurance values. This record therefore retains the supported geometric baseline while leaving the affected performance fields unknown.
A manufacturer programme page does not, by itself, establish how many aircraft have been accepted into service or whether every production configuration shares the displayed figures. The present entry uses a development classification pending a directly attributable procurement or acceptance record. Readers comparing South Korean systems should keep the developer, programme generation and documented configuration together rather than merging all corps-level or medium-altitude projects.
Sourced specifications
Figures apply to the named configuration. Maximum values are not guaranteed operating performance.
| Specification | Reported value | Context & source |
|---|---|---|
| Airframe | Not established in the reviewed public sources. | Public evidence gap. No estimate or neighbouring variant value has been substituted. Source ↗ |
| Launch / recovery | Not established in the reviewed public sources. | Public evidence gap. No estimate or neighbouring variant value has been substituted. Source ↗ |
| Propulsion | Not established in the reviewed public sources. | Public evidence gap. No estimate or neighbouring variant value has been substituted. Source ↗ |
| Dimensions | 17 m wingspan; 9 m length; 3 m height | Supplier specification; no independent performance validation established. Source ↗ |
| Mass | 1,700 kg maximum take-off weight | Supplier specification; no independent performance validation established. Source ↗ |
| Endurance | Not established in the reviewed public sources. | Public evidence gap. No estimate or neighbouring variant value has been substituted. Source ↗ |
| Range | Not established in the reviewed public sources. | Public evidence gap. No estimate or neighbouring variant value has been substituted. Source ↗ |
| Speed | Not established in the reviewed public sources. | Public evidence gap. No estimate or neighbouring variant value has been substituted. Source ↗ |
| Altitude | Not established in the reviewed public sources. | Public evidence gap. No estimate or neighbouring variant value has been substituted. Source ↗ |
| Payload | Not established in the reviewed public sources. | Public evidence gap. No estimate or neighbouring variant value has been substituted. Source ↗ |
| Sensors | Not established in the reviewed public sources. | Public evidence gap. No estimate or neighbouring variant value has been substituted. Source ↗ |
| Communications / navigation | Not established in the reviewed public sources. | Public evidence gap. No estimate or neighbouring variant value has been substituted. Source ↗ |
Publication history
- — Added in the September 2026 global coverage review, with sources, configuration limits and explicit data gaps.
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Follow the evidence
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