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Guided missile frigate ROKS Cheongju (FF-961)

Guided missile frigate ROKS Cheongju (FF-961) 0Guided missile frigate ROKS Cheongju (FF-961) 1Guided missile frigate ROKS Cheongju (FF-961) 2

Classification

Ship class:
Ulsan-class frigate
Type:
Frigate

Basic information

Namesake:
Cheongju is the capital and largest city of North Chungcheong Province in 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):
Status:
Active

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 Cheongju (FF-961) is the ninth ship of the Ulsan-class frigate in the Republic of Korea Navy. She is named after the city, Cheongju. 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 Cheongju (FF-961) is an Ulsan-class (Flight III) guided missile frigate built by Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering.

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