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Guided missile frigate ROKS Gyeongbuk (FF-956)

Guided missile frigate ROKS Gyeongbuk (FF-956) 0Guided missile frigate ROKS Gyeongbuk (FF-956) 1

Classification

Ship class:
Ulsan-class frigate
Type:
Frigate

Basic information

Namesake:
North Gyeongsang Province is a province in eastern South Korea
Operator:
Republic of Korea NavyRepublic of Korea Navy
Country of build:
Builder:
Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co., Ltd. (DSME)Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co., Ltd. (DSME)
Launched:
Commissioned (service):
Decommissioned (out):
Status:
Decommissioned
Fate:
Used by the Naval Battle Training Group Eight as reserve & training ship

Ship measurements

Displacement:
1,500 t
Length:
103.7 m
Beam:
12.5 m
Draft:
3.8 m

Machine

Propulsion system:
CODOG
Propulsion:
  • 2 * General Electric LM-2500
  • 2 * MTU 12V 956 TB82
Speed:
34 knots
Range:
8,000 nmi (15,000 km; 9,200 mi) at 16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph)

Personnel

Complement:
186
Command and control:
16

Combat assets

Electronics:
  • Signaal DA-08 air surveillance radar
  • AN/SPS-10C navigation radar
  • ST-1802 fire control radar
  • Signaal PHS-32 hull-mounted sonar
  • TB-261K towed sonar
  • ULQ-11K ESM/ECM suite
  • 2 * Mark 36 SRBOC 6-tubed chaff/flare launcher
  • 2 * 15-tube SLQ-261 torpedo acoustic countermeasures
Armament:
  • 8 * Harpoon (2 quadruple launchers) anti-ship missile
  • 6 * 324 mm (12.8 in) Blue Shark torpedo (2 triple tubes)
  • 2 * Otobreda 76 mm (3 in)/62 cal. gun
  • 3 * Otobreda 40 mm (1.6 in)/70 cal. (2 twin) compact CIWS

ROKS Gyeongbuk (FF-956) is the fifth ship of the Ulsan-class frigate in the Republic of Korea Navy. She is named after the province, Gyeongbuk. In the early 1990s, the Korean government plan for the construction of next generation coastal ships named Frigate 2000 was scrapped due to the 1997 Asian financial crisis. But the decommissioning of the Gearing-class destroyers and the aging fleet of Ulsan-class frigates, the plan was revived as the Future Frigate eXperimental, also known as FFX in the early 2000s. ROKS Gyeongbuk (FF-956) is an Ulsan-class (Flight II) guided missile frigate built by Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering. She was decommissioned on 24 December 2019 and expected to be used as in training exercises.

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