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Republic of Korea National Military), also known as the ROK Armed Forces, are the armed forces of South Korea. The ROK Armed Forces is one of the largest and most powerful standing armed forces in the world with a reported personnel strength of 3,600,000 in 2022 (500,000 active and 3,100,000 reserve). [ 2][ 5]
The Republic of Korea Army Special Warfare Command (ROK-SWC; Korean: 대한민국 육군 특수전사령부 or 특전사; Hanja: 大韓民國陸軍 特殊戰司令部), also known as the Republic of Korea Army Special Forces "Black Berets" (ROK Special Forces), is a strategic-level military command of the Republic of Korea Army responsible for their special operations forces.
The KM-SAM is the middle-tier of South Korea's three-tier aerial and missile defense system. Though it was developed in Russia by the Almaz Design Bureau in association with Samsung Thales, LIG Nex1, and Doosan DST, localization and industrialization were done in South Korea enough to consider it an indigenous system.
The annual summertime exercise comes amid heightened tensions on the Korean Peninsula as the pace of both North Korea’s weapons demonstrations and the U.S.-South Korea combined military ...
977 (1955) v. t. e. Headquarters of the United Nations Command and ROK-US Combined Forces Command in 2009. United Nations Command ( UNC or UN Command) [ 1] is the multinational military force established to support the Republic of Korea (South Korea) during and after the Korean War. It was the first international unified command in history, and ...
Flag. The Republic of Korea Army ( ROKA; Korean : 대한민국 육군; Hanja : 大韓民國陸軍; RR : Daehanminguk Yukgun ), also known as the ROK Army or South Korean Army, is the army of South Korea, responsible for ground-based warfare. It is the largest of the military branches of the Republic of Korea Armed Forces with 365,000 members as ...
The defense industry of South Korea is the main supplier of armaments to the Republic of Korea's Armed Forces. Originally heavily reliant on the United States to supply weapons to its armed forces, South Korea began manufacturing its own weapons through the country's industrialization and military modernization efforts. [ 1]
Rifles & SMG. Daewoo K1A Assault Carbine. Daewoo K2 Assault Rifle. Daewoo K7 Silencer-Mounted SMG. Daewoo K11 Advanced Assault Rifle and Air-Burst Smart Grenade Launcher. Heckler & Koch MP5. Heckler & Koch HK416. Colt M4A1. Colt M16A1 (in use with reserve forces)