
The State Department on Thursday said it has approved a combined $308.6 million in foreign military sales (FMS) to South Korea for aerial targets, and Canada for satellite communications. For South Korea, the proposed $170.6 million FMS includes five BQM-177A subsonic sea-skimming aerial targets that will be used to perform combat system ship qualification trials by the country’s new KDX-III Batch-II AEGIS-class destroyers. The sea skimming aerial targets, which will be supplied by Kratos Defense & Security Solutions [KTOS], will…