South Korean Military News, Reports, Data, etc.
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Jura The idiot
General
Good-for-nothing (aside from Norks) warship. Batch II looks much better and batch III is the point from which Japanese MSDF started their works on the new 3000 tons 'destroyer'. And ASW suite for them is, well, laughable. Not to mention the radars.
But 3 of them lined up in a naval port surely looks good.
But 3 of them lined up in a naval port surely looks good.
Taiwan have one extremely close for size do 21000 t this one do normaly about 20000 t full they have 3 small Cheon Ji do 8000 t capable of carrying 4600 t, a ramp up for this Blue Water Navy which have now 15 DDG, FFGs.
South Korea launches 10,000-ton combat support ship
South Korea launches 10,000-ton combat support ship
Pretty cool design with three stations (two for liquids and one for dry cargo). Too bad that it will be used once in a blue moon. The only times it will be useful will be going to Hawai for training with US Navy, when US Navy will come to the Japanese Sea/Yellow Sea for training with Korean navy and maybe a tour around East Asian ports with Naval Academy cadets (with new training ship instead of regular destroyer put out of line for that purpose which reduces the number of usable destroyers to two knowing that one is usally in the Gulf of Aden).
Lethe
Captain
Good for nothing? With a hanger, gas turbine propulsion, larger gun and double the number of anti-ship missiles, it is far more capable than the Chinese Type 056, which I'm sure is good for "something". Indeed, it seems pretty comparable to what I would like to see in a future Chinese light warship displacing 2500-3000 tons.
Jura The idiot
General
now I read in Russian Internet
the third submarine of
is to be armed with Hyunmoo-2 (six silos)
(using google, I quickly found June 02, 2016
South Korea to Develop Submarine-Launched Ballistic Missile
); the Russian source I quoted also says the work on said submarine has begun; its cost: $540m etc.
the third submarine of
is to be armed with Hyunmoo-2 (six silos)
(using google, I quickly found June 02, 2016
South Korea to Develop Submarine-Launched Ballistic Missile
); the Russian source I quoted also says the work on said submarine has begun; its cost: $540m etc.
SinoSoldier
Colonel
It's possible that the ROK Navy is considering something akin to the Virginia Payload Module that could be quickly reconfigured to accommodate either SLCMs or SLBMs. However, a 3600-ton-class SSK would be quite a small platform for such a significant payload.