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| Taurus missiles on a Korean F-15K |
South Korea's Air Force on Thursday deployed air-to-ground Taurus-class missiles for the first time for combat use, which are capable of targeting and destroying North Korea's nuclear and missile facilities at a long distance, officials said. The Taurus missile mounted on F-15K fighter planes can hit key facilities in Pyongyang from the sky over Daejeon, 164 kilometers south of Seoul, they said. The missile has a range of 500 kilometers.
The Republic of Korea Air Force (ROKAF) received the first shipment of the missiles from Germany's Taurus Systems GmbH in October with plans to sequentially take a total of 170 Taurus missiles by 2018.
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