SKorea launches new missile boat class

well of what I have understood of the canadian requirments, they are for general european ~1,000 OPV (small frigate/large corvette desing-layout fitted for secondary duty patrol). The korean boats are coastal patrol crafts with relatively shallow draugth and have small dimenssions for needed endurance in canadian long coastline.
Also, the norther waters are hars and rough, so any ship operating in ther needs to have lot more freeboard (like all Canadian ship usually have)

As for the AAA, the desing certainly has strech enough for CIWS or small BARAK/Umokhoto/Mistral level SAM for export markets, but in SK own requirments doesent need them nesserically, but then again, its never bad decission to anticipate future and sudden changes in the thread scenarios. Succesfull ship classes are always known from flexibility to have their capacities severally upgraded by installing new weapons or replacing some of the old.

Hmm, any clue of how big is this new SKorea missile boat?
Seems pretty large to me.

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FuManChu said:

HMS Clyde is easily smaller.
What is faster?
What is "real teeth" and why do they need it?
Do you want something that is only good for local patrolling, or something that has a high range?

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1. The request for a smaller ship than the Halifax class frigates stems from the issue that the Halifax class frigates are too man intensive and too expensive to be put on patrol duties.
2. Faster than the 15kts of the Kingston's, which are the primary patrol boats. It's a result of the specifications, which never made sense anyways (who makes a minesweeper out of steel?).
3. The CF is asking for more firepower. The 40mm Bofors on the Kingston is antiquated (the gun dates back from 1944), and have a low rate of fire (90rpm). It's too antiquated for patrol duties. A new replacement has to have a gun that uses an existing CF caliber, as the CF isn't interested in introducing a new caliber.
4. Both. It's the reason why the OPV project is so ambiguous and has stalled (like some other projects). The Navy wants something large, like a frigate or a corvette, but realistically, the requirements has to be broken down into two separate projects. One for closer in patrols exclusively based on the West Coast for patrolling the British Columbian coast, due to the small islands on the West Coast, and one for more open seas patrolling. A requirement for 4-5 of the smaller of the two for West Coast patrolling and 5-6 for both coast patrolling would make sense.

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HMS Clyde has:

1. Top speed of 21 knots
2. Complement of 36
3. 30mm gun & 2 MPG
4. 5500 nm range
5. Landing deck for a helo

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FuManChu said:

HMS Clyde has:

1. Top speed of 21 knots
2. Complement of 36
3. 30mm gun & 2 MPG
4. 5500 nm range
5. Landing deck for a helo

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The designs that has been bounced around is the German MEKO 100 (armed with a OTO-Melara 76mm gun, and capable of handling a 16-ton helicopter) or the Swedish Visby class corvette (armed with a Bofors 57mm gun and capable of handling a 6 ton helo). Apparently, the design being favoured is the MEKO 100. However, this ship may be too much, and too few may be purchased. According to the recommended design written by October 2003 Senate report, the specifications are as follows:

· The ability to operate in high sea states
· A high maximum speed for positioning and pursuit
· High endurance to maximize deployment time
· The ability to operate a large helicopter (e.g. CH124)
· The ability to transport and deploy boarding parties
· Ice tolerance (first year ice)
· Sophisticated sensors (e.g., radar, ESM, electro-optic, sonar)
· The ability to participate in network-centric command and control regimes
· Sophisticated communications capability
· Armament commensurate with enforcement functions (e.g., small arms,
machine guns (e.g., 50 Cal), medium calibre weapon (e.g., 57mm or 76mm) and close-in self-defence weapon system (e.g., Phalanx)

Dewar recommends that the vessel have these specifications:

· Length (waterline): minimum 75m
· Beam: minimum 12m
· Displacement: minimum 1600T, desirable 2000T
· Propulsion: Twin Shaft, 2 x Medium Speed Diesel
· Maximum Speed: minimum 25 knots
· Time on Station: 30 Days
· Complement: maximum 40 (mixed gender)
· Accommodation: or 40 more personnel (boarding teams, etc.)
· Helicopter: Large helicopter (e.g., CH124) - minimum landing deck, hangar desirable
·Estimate cost: $55M - $100M per unit (ROM)

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Pointblank said:

The designs that has been bounced around is the German MEKO 100 (armed with a OTO-Melara 76mm gun, and capable of handling a 16-ton helicopter) or the Swedish Visby class corvette (armed with a Bofors 57mm gun and capable of handling a 6 ton helo). Apparently, the design being favoured is the MEKO 100. However, this ship may be too much, and too few may be purchased. According to the recommended design written by October 2003 Senate report, the specifications are as follows:

· The ability to operate in high sea states
· A high maximum speed for positioning and pursuit
· High endurance to maximize deployment time
· The ability to operate a large helicopter (e.g. CH124)
· The ability to transport and deploy boarding parties
· Ice tolerance (first year ice)
· Sophisticated sensors (e.g., radar, ESM, electro-optic, sonar)
· The ability to participate in network-centric command and control regimes
· Sophisticated communications capability
· Armament commensurate with enforcement functions (e.g., small arms,
machine guns (e.g., 50 Cal), medium calibre weapon (e.g., 57mm or 76mm) and close-in self-defence weapon system (e.g., Phalanx)

Dewar recommends that the vessel have these specifications:

· Length (waterline): minimum 75m
· Beam: minimum 12m
· Displacement: minimum 1600T, desirable 2000T
· Propulsion: Twin Shaft, 2 x Medium Speed Diesel
· Maximum Speed: minimum 25 knots
· Time on Station: 30 Days
· Complement: maximum 40 (mixed gender)
· Accommodation: or 40 more personnel (boarding teams, etc.)
· Helicopter: Large helicopter (e.g., CH124) - minimum landing deck, hangar desirable
·Estimate cost: $55M - $100M per unit (ROM)

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That ship seams very simaler to the Littoral Combat Ship being built by the U.S. Navy.

New ROK Fast Patrol Boat..PKX

The ROK has now finally launched it's new Fast Patrol Boat Know as the PKX;

A new South Korean high-speed navy patrol boat is ready to be launched at the shipyard of Hanjin Heavy Industries and Construction Co. in Busan 28 June 2007. The 440-ton vessel with a crew of 40 can sail at a maximum speed of 74 km per hour(45mph). The ship is named after Yoon Young-ha, a South Korean solider killed in a bloody 2002 naval clash with North Korea near the disputed border in the Yellow Sea. EPA/STF

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Armament
1x Wia 76mm gun

1 x double 40mm Nobong gun

4 x SSM-700K Haesung (sea to sea missle)

The ROK is moving very fast in modernizing it's navy.

In 20 March 2001 ROK President Kim Dae-jung said that South Korea would create a new "strategic mobile fleet" consisting of destroyers, submarines and anti-submarine aircraft. In a speech before graduating midshipmen at the Korea Naval Academy in the southeastern port city of Chinhae, President Kim said, ``We will soon have a strategic mobile fleet that protects state interests in the five big oceans and play a role of keeping peace in the world.''

Korea's Strategic Mobile Fleet could be sent to secure a sea lane in East Asia in the event of a maritime dispute. Currently, the Korean Navy is divided into three sectors -- one each assigned to East, West and South Seas surrounding the southern half of the Korean peninsula. The Strategic Mobile Fleet will take a form of an integrated fleet that can be rapidly deployed into the area of trouble. In this respect, the Stratgic Mobile Fleet is a transition from the current coastal navy to the blue water navy.

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Well it appears that some of the pictures were to large to upload as thumbnails..so I will do a little internet magic!

If you can't see the pics right click on the little red x. A box will appear . Click on properties. the URL will be there. Copy and paste that in your browser. Enjoy.

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Modernisation of the SK navy happens at a fast pace currently. With I think 40 of those vessels planned, they will be good assets to controll and guard the cost and patrol near to NK waters.
Somehow, SK also seems to have a very big span. Building huge destroyers and helo carriers, and also these tiny patrol boats.
Well, understandable in their case of course.

Edit: Popeye, you're just driving me crazy! I first thought there already is a topic about that ship. So I posted a hint here. Then I saw so many post in your new thread that I thought I posted in the wrong thread. Only to find out that your new post also appeared in the new one.
Don't move threads around when I'm posting, I was already doubting my intellectual capabilities

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bd popeye said:

Well it appears that some of the pictures were to large to upload as thumbnails..so I will do a little internet magic!

If you can't see the pics right click on the little red x. A box will appear . Click on properties. the URL will be there. Copy and paste that in your browser. Enjoy.

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Nice...very nice. The ROKN is developing some very nice and VERY capable vessels. Cutting edge stuff as strong and capable as any other nation's IMHO.

Now these new missile/gun boats. It is clear that they intend to not give an inch to the NKoreans regarding the territorial disputes and are building vessels to ensure that they never have to.

I particularly like this pic: