ROKS Eulji Mundeok (DDH-972) rafted next to ROKS Chungmugong Yi Sun-sin (DDH-975) in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii during RIMPAC 2004 Weapon systems It was the first phase of ROKN's KDX program, in moving the ROK Navy from a coastal defence force to a blue-water navy. The Gwanggaeto the Great-class destroyers ( Hangul: 광개토대왕급 구축함, Hanja: 廣開土大王級 驅逐艦), often called KDX-I, are destroyers, but are classified by some as frigates, operated by the Republic of Korea Navy.
2 × triple torpedo tubes for Mark 46 torpedo.1 × Mk 48 Mod 2 VLS with 16 RIM-7P Sea Sparrow missiles.2 × Signaal STIR 180 Fire control radars.2 × General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines.Navy during which an decommissioned cruiser USS Oklahoma City (CG-5) was sunk by Yi Cheon.ROKS Gwanggaeto the Great underway at sea in 2009ģ,885–3,900 tonnes (3,824–3,838 long tons) full load She participated in HARPOONEX, part of a live-fire, multinational naval exercise with the U.S. She was acquired by the navy on 30 April 1994 and be commissioned on 20 June 1994. ROKS Yi Cheon was built and launched on 12 September 1991 by Daewoo Shipbuilding. The older boats were upgraded, it is believed that the modernization included a hull stretch to the Type 1400 length, provision for tube-launched Harpoon missiles and the addition of a towed-array sonar. The boats were commissioned from 1993 to 2001. There followed by two additional three-boat orders placed in October 1989 and January 1994 for boats of South Korean construction. The first order placed late in 1987 covered three boats, one to be completed in Germany and the other two in South Korea from German-supplied kits. These boats are generally similar to Turkey's six Atilay-class submarines, with German sensors and weapons. South Korea purchased its first submarines, German U-209 class in its Type 1200 subvariant, ordered as the Jang Bogo class. She is one of Jang Bogo-class submarines to be built in South Korea.Īt the end of the 1980s the South Korean navy started to improve its overall capability and began to operate more advanced vessels. ROKS Yi Cheon (SS-062) is the second ship of the Jang Bogo-class submarine of the Republic of Korea Navy, and was the second submarine to serve with the navy. 4 MTU Type 12V493 AZ80 GA31L diesel engines.
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