South Korea has developed a new air-to-ground missile system called “Cheongeom” for use in armed helicopters.
The Cheongeom is equipped with artificial intelligence and can identify and target fixed objects without operator intervention in emergency situations. The performance of the missile is said to be comparable with the American AGM-114 Hellfire.
According to the Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA), a state arms procurement agency in South Korea, the Cheongeom’s deep learning algorithm was trained on more than 800,000 frames of target images. Deep learning is a type of machine learning that involves training artificial neural networks on large amounts of data.
TAipers (Tank Snipers) is the english name for the Cheongeom missile system. Cheongeom means heavenly sword in Korean.
One of the key features of the Cheongeom is its “double-mode” seeker, which uses both daylight and infrared images to improve detection performance during both day and night. It also has fire-and-forget and fire-and-update capabilities, allowing it to track and re-designate targets through a wired data link.
The Cheongeom project was led by the Agency for Defense Development, with participation from the Hanwha Corporation and Korea Aerospace Industries.
The new missile is intended to be a main weapon for the KAI LAH (Light Armed Helicopter) that is being produced by Korea Aerospace Industries.
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