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KDDX-class destroyer

Summary

The Korean Next-Generation Destroyer (KDDX) is a next generation stealth guided-missile destroyer under development by Hyundai Heavy Industries for ROK Navy, to be launched after 2025. Displacement of the class is set to be about 8,000 tons, length 155 meters, breadth 18.8 meters and draft 9.5 meters. Will feature KVLS to launch Hyunmoo-3C land-attack cruise missiles and SSM-700K anti-ship missiles. At 8000 tons displacement, it will be lighter than Sejong the Great-class destroyers, but with more advanced sensors and stealth characteristics and lower operating costs.[1][2][3] The ships will have advanced missile defense.[4][5] The size of this new destroyer would be between that of the currently operating 4,200-ton KDX-II and the Aegis Destroyer KDX-III, and would be assigned to a naval task force.[6] The total cost of developing and producing the six vessels is expected to top $6.2 billion.[7]

History edit

The project was unveiled back in 2009 next-generation during the 2009 Navy Audit and was supposed to be equipped with SM-2 surface-to-air missiles and SPY-based radars that would slot in between the Chungmugong Yi Sun-sin-class destroyer (KDX-II) and Sejong the Great-class destroyer (KDX-III). [8]

In 2012, it was again confirmed that the Republic of Korea Navy would procure six next-generation destroyers and the project being renamed from KDX-IIA to KDDX in the Basic Plans for Defense Reform (2012-2030) and that it would be built after 2020.[9] But by 2013, it was decided to procure three more destroyers under a new subclass of the Sejong the Great-class destroyer named KDX-III Batch II (Jeongjo the Great) and the funding and priority allotted for the KDDX was shifted to the new batch of AEGIS-equipped destroyers.[10] [11]

In 2018, the 118th Defense Program Promotion Committee approved the Basic Strategy for the Promotion of the Korean Next Destroyer (KDDX) Project [12] and by 2019, work began on its initial basic design and its development. [13]

During MADEX 2019, both HD Hyundai Heavy Industries and Hanwha Ocean (then known as Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering) displayed their proposal for the KDDX program.

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ "DSME showcasing its next generation KDDX Destroyer for ROK Navy at Indo Defence 2014". navyrecognition.com. Retrieved 5 November 2017.
  2. ^ Pike, John. "KDX-III Destroyer". globalsecurity.org. Retrieved 5 November 2017.
  3. ^ Cordesman, Anthony H.; Lin, Aaron (7 July 2015). The Changing Military Balance in the Koreas and Northeast Asia. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 9781442241114. Retrieved 5 November 2017 – via Google Books.
  4. ^ "Korea Herald". The Korea Herald. Retrieved 5 November 2017.
  5. ^ "Korea to Boost Naval Capacity Amid Regional Arms Race". The Chosun Ilbo. Retrieved 5 November 2017.
  6. ^ Korean peninsula modernization espas.eu [dead link]
  7. ^ "Can South Korea's New Aegis Destroyers Shoot Down North Korean Missiles?". The National Interest. January 2019. Retrieved 14 January 2020.
  8. ^ "S. Korean Navy to Build 6 Mini-Aegis Destroyers". The Korea Times. 2009-10-13. Retrieved 2024-01-27.
  9. ^ 김, 귀근 (2012-08-29). "軍, 사이버전 무기ㆍ전문인력 대폭 확충(종합)". Yonhap News Agency (in Korean). Retrieved 2024-01-27.
  10. ^ "난개발식 전력증강으로 국방예산 위기". 내일신문. Retrieved 2024-01-27.
  11. ^ "軍, 이지스함 3척 추가도입 확정". The Dong-a Ilbo (in Korean). 2013-12-11. Retrieved 2024-01-27.
  12. ^ "제118회 방위사업추진위원회 개최 결과". www.korea.kr (in Korean). Retrieved 2024-01-27.
  13. ^ 권, 혁주. "해군 "6천톤급 미니 이지스함 올해 기본설계 착수"". Naver News (in Korean). Retrieved 2024-01-27.