South Korea Begins Development of New Anti-ship Missile

South Korea's Defense Acquisition Program Administration approved the acquisition strategy for Ship-to-Ship Missile II, starting development of a longer-range successor to the SSM-700K Haeseong anti-ship missile. The stealth-shaped, turbofan-powered weapon is intended to approximately double the navy's surface-strike reach while improving target detection and tracking against increasingly capable ships and defenses. The program has a reported budget of about 1.63 trillion won, aims to complete development in 2033 and begin mass production in 2034, with the future KDDX destroyer identified as a planned launch platform.