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HJSC Launches 4 New PKMR Boats for the ROK Navy
The Republic of Korea Navy (ROKN) and DAPA announced that four 230-ton Patrol Killer Medium Rocket (PKMR) patrol ships were launched on May 12th…
13 May 2022
The Republic of Korea Navy (ROKN) and DAPA announced that four 230-ton Patrol Killer Medium Rocket (PKMR) patrol ships were launched on May 12th…
The South Korean Navy awards ECA Group a fifth consecutive contract for the supply of a Steering and Diving Console (SNDC) in the framework of its South Korean submarine program.
South Korea’s next Minister of National Defense expressed reservations about the CVX aircraft carrier program…
The Republic of Korea (ROK) will acquire Raytheon’s Standard Missile (SM)-6 for its upcoming KDX III Batch II destroyers. Also known as RIM-174 Standard Extended Range Active Missile (ERAM), the SM-6 can perform AAW, BMD and ASuW missions…
South Korea’s Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) announced that it held the keel laying ceremony for the first ship of the new Ulsan-class of frigates.
The Republic of Korea Navy (ROKN) conducted a second successful test-firing of South Korea’s domestically designed submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) from the KSS-III submarine ROKS Dosan Ahn Changho (SS-083)
South Korea’s Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) officially approved the “Ship-to-air Guided Missile-II” program for KDDX destroyers…
The Republic of Korea (ROK) Navy test-fired a Haeseong II ship-launched supersonic land-attack cruise missile following the ICBM (intercontinental ballistic missile) launch by North Korea on March 24.
Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) launched the eighth FFX Batch-II (Daegu-class) frigate, the ROKS Chuncheon, on March 22, local time, in its Ulsan shipyard.
A day before the Korean presidential election, the ROK Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) told the press that at 9:30 a.m. on March 8, the ROK Navy seized and investigated a North Korea vessel that had crossed the Northern Limit Line (NLL) in the West Sea 10 kilometers east of Baekryung Island.
