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The article reports on the refusal by the U.S. government to allow South Korea to fit an advanced Selex radar to its FA-50 light fighter aircraft. The South Korean air force will probably have to rethink the role of FA-50 in its future force structure if lack of an adequate radar robs the aircraft of the ability to fight North Korean MiG-29 aircraft. The Korea Aerospace Industries FA-50 may have to be restricted to ground attack, and even then it will suffer from not having a modern radar with a synthetic aperture mode for high resolution.