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Home» News»Video: HHI Delivers BRP Jose Rizal Guided Missile Frigate to Philippine Navy
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Video: HHI Delivers BRP Jose Rizal Guided Missile Frigate to Philippine Navy

Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) announced that it has delivered the Philippine Navy’s latest frigate, BRP Jose Rizal. The ship set sail to Subic port in the Philippines on May 18 for its official commissioning.

Xavier Vavasseur 22 May 2020

The 2,600 tons vessel with a maximum speed of 25 knots is the Philippine Navy’s first ever guided missiles frigate.

HHI shipped anti-COVID-19 supplies such as 20,000 masks, 180 bottles of disinfectants, 2,000 bottles of hand sanitizers and 300 packs of sanitizing wipes in the vessel as a token of returning gratitude for Philippines’ participation in the Korean War.

HHI Delivers the Latest Frigate with Quarantine Masks to the Philippine Navy
The latest Philippine Navy frigate built by Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI), BRP Jose Rizal. HHI Picture

Also, HHI succeeded in delivering the vessel four months early despite the severe restrictions due to the pandemic.

Since the delivery of the first Korean-built frigate ROKS Ulsan in 1980, HHI has played a pivotal role in the modernization of ROK Navy designing major warships. And evidently it now expands its service to worldwide navies with advanced, affordable warships.

HHI Delivers the Latest Frigate with Quarantine Masks to the Philippine Navy
The frigate with maximum speed of 25 knots features the Philippine Navy’s first operation of guided missiles and torpedoes.

HHI is expected to deliver HMNZS Aotearoa, a 26,000-ton logistics support vessel of the Royal New Zealand Navy, in June 2020. You can see the vessel sailing alongside BRP Jose Rizal in this footage.

The South Korean Shipbuilder told Naval News that they are now pursuing a Corvette Acquisition Project of the Philippine Navy as well as the KDDX program for the ROK Navy.

KDDX is a next generation destroyer program for the ROK Navy. Korea’s two main shipbuilders, HHI and DSME, are competing, each with their own design.

The KDDX design by HHI features an inverted bow as well as an advanced integrated mast or I-Mast designed by South Korean defense electronics company Hanwha. HHI’s KDDX is 156 meters in length with a beam of 19 meters and a displacement of 6,500 tons.

South Korea’s Defense Acquisition Program Administration is expected to award the basic design contract this year.

BRP Jose Rizal Frigate HMNZS Aotearoa Hyundai Heavy Industries KDDX Philippine Navy South Korea 2020-05-22
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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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