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Home» Event News» MADEX 2019»MADEX 2019: HHI wins Conceptual Design Contract for ROK Navy LPX-II Amphibious Ship
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ROK Navy's International Fleet Review in Jeju Island in October 2018. The event celebrated the 60th anniversary of the ROK Navy. ROK Navy picture.

MADEX 2019: HHI wins Conceptual Design Contract for ROK Navy LPX-II Amphibious Ship

South Korean shipyard Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) was awarded a contract this week for the conceptual design of a next-generation amphibious assault ship known as LPX-II and intended for the Republic of Korea Navy (ROK Navy).

Xavier Vavasseur 17 Oct 2019

According to local news agency Yonhap, the LPX-II project aims to build a new versatile large-deck landing ship for short take-off and vertical landing fighter jets.

CGI from a recent report from the Ministry of National Defense in Korea showing the early concept design of LPX-II

F-35B STOVL fighter capability

HHI is expected to finish the conceptual design by the second half of 2020, with commissioning with Republic of Korea Navy planned for the early 2030s. The vessel, displacing around 30,000 tons would be based on the existing Dokdo-class amphibious assault ship (LPX-I project) and would be able to accommodate around 20 F-35B STOVL fighters.

The LPX-II vessel will also deploy future Marine Attack Helicopters of the ROK Marine Corps, for which there is an upcoming competition between local company KAI (with the Surion MAH), Bell Helicopters (with the AH-1Z) and Boeing (with the AH-64 Apache). All three companies were showcasing their solutions at ADEX 2019. As ship to shore connectors it will likely deploy the future KAAV-II as well, for the which the design was unveiled at the air show.

Earlier this month, HHI won an initial production contract for the KDX III Batch II, the next generation of AEGIS destroyer for the ROK Navy.

Talking to Naval News during the Seoul Airshow (ADEX 2019), Lockheed Martin representatives said they could not comment about potential F-35B procurement by South Korea.

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Posted by : Xavier Vavasseur
Xavier is based in Paris, France. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Management Information Systems and a Master of Business Administration from Florida Institute of Technology (FIT). Xavier has been covering naval defense topics for nearly a decade.

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