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BRP Diego Silang (FF-07)

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Career (Philippines)
Name: BRP Diego Silang
Namesake: Diego Silang y Andaya, Filipino revolutionary leader
Ordered: 28 December 2021[1]
Builder: HD Hyundai Heavy Industries
Cost: PH₱12.5 billion (~US$250M)
Yard number: P171
Laid down: 14 June 2024
Launched: 27 March 2025
Commissioned: 2026
Status: Launched
General characteristics
Class & type: Template:Class
Displacement: 3,200 tonnes
Length: 118.4 m (388 ft 5 in)
Beam: 14.9 m (48 ft 11 in)
Height: 118.4m
Draft: 3.7 m (12 ft 2 in)
Depth: 7.2 m (23 ft 7 in)
Installed power: 4 × MTU-STX diesel generators
Propulsion:
  • Combined diesel and diesel (CODAD) arrangement:
  • 4 × MTU-STX diesel engines
  • Ship Depth - 7.2m
Speed: 25 knots (46 km/h; 29 mph)
Range: 4,500 nmi (8,300 km; 5,200 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)
Endurance: 20 days
Boats & landing
craft carried:		 2 × RHIB
Complement: TBC
Sensors and
processing systems:
  • Hanwha Combat system:
  • Hanwha Systems Naval Shield Baseline 4 Integrated Combat Management System[1]
  • Search radar:
  • EL/M-2258 ALPHA S-band 3D AESA multifunction radar[1][2]
  • Navigation radar:
  • Kelvin Hughes SharpEye I-band & E/F-band radars[1][3]
  • Fire control radar:
  • Selex ES NA-25X fire control radar
  • Electro-Optical Tracking System:
  • Safran PASEO XLR electro-optical[1][4]
  • Tactical Data Link:
  • Hanwha Systems Link P (Link K Derivative)
  • Sonar:
  • ELAC Sonar Hunter 2.0 medium frequency active/passive hull mounted sonar
Electronic warfare
& decoys:
  • RESM:
    Elbit Systems Elisra Aquamarine R-ESM and C-ESM suite
  • Countermeasures:
    2 × Terma C-Guard DL-12T decoy launchers
    • Armament:
  • Missiles
  • 8 × C-Star SSM-710K antiship cruise missiles in two twin-round inclined canisters
  • 16-cell Vertical Launching System for 16 x MBDA VL MICA ship-to-air missiles
  • Torpedoes
  • 2 × SEA triple-tube 324mm torpedo launching systems for K745 Blue Shark torpedoes[1][5]
  • Guns
  • 1 × OTO-Melara 76/62SR dual-purpose rapid-fire autocannon
  • 1 × Aselsan GOKDENIZ 100/35 CIWS
  • 4 × K6 (12.7mm) 50cal heavy machine guns
    • Aircraft carried: 1 × ASW Anti Submarine Helicopter
    Aviation facilities:
    • flight deck for a 12t helicopter
    • enclosed hangar (starboard side) for 10t helicopter

    BRP Diego Silang (FFG-07) is the second ship of her class of guided missile frigates of the Philippine Navy. She is the second ship to be named after Diego Silang y Andaya, a Filipino revolutionary leader who fought against Spanish colonial rule.

    The ship is currently under construction HD Hyundai's shipyard in Ulsan, South Korea, and is scheduled for delivery to the Philippine Navy by 2025.[6] The ship is expected to be commissioned with the Philippine Navy's Offshore Combat Force by late 2025 or early 2026.

    Construction and design[]

    The BRP Diego Silang was designed and built by HD Hyundai Heavy Industries (HD HHI) of South Korea, and is based on the shipbuilder's HDC/HDF-3200 design, which in turn was a re-designed and enlarged HDF-2600 design used for the Jose Rizal-class frigate already in service with the Philippine Navy. The design was heavily influenced by the base design of the Incheon-class frigate built for the Republic of Korea Navy, but with heavy design developments and features found on newer newer frigates of the R.O.K. Navy, considering reduced radar cross-section by having cleaner lines, smooth surface design, reduced overhangs and a low free-board.

    The ship held its First Steel Cutting Ceremony on 22 November 2023 at HD HHI's facility in Ulsan, South Korea.[1]

    The Keel Laying ceremony on 14 June 2024, which was held a few days before the launching of its sistership, the future BRP Miguel Malvar (FF-06).[1]

    The ship was launched by December 2024.[7]

    See also[]

    References[]

    1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 "Corvette Acquisition Project (Lots 1 and 2) of the Philippine Navy". Philippine Defense Resource. 17 August 2019. https://www.phdefresource.com/2019/11/corvette-acquisition-project-lots-1-and.html. 
    2. ↑ "IAI And HHI To Supply Philippine Navy With ALPHA 3D Radar Systems". France: Naval News. 28 April 2022. https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2022/04/iai-and-hhi-to-supply-philippine-navy-with-alpha-3d-radar-systems/. 
    3. ↑ "HENSOLDT UK awarded contracts for the Philippine Navy". 17 March 2023. https://www.hensoldt.net/news/hensoldt-uk-awarded-contracts-for-the-philippine-navy/. 
    4. ↑ "Safran at MADEX 2023: Optronic, navigation and decoy launching systems for ROK Navy". Naval News. 1 July 2023. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dcLUNkbiFM. 
    5. ↑ "SEA to supply Torpedo Launcher to HHI for new Philippine Navy corvettes". Naval News. 23 February 2022. https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2022/02/sea-to-supply-torpedo-launcher-to-hhi-for-new-philippine-navy-corvettes/. 
    6. ↑ https://www.deagel.com/Navies/Miguel%20Malvar/a004504
    7. ↑ Park, Jae-hyuk (18 June 2024). "HD Hyundai launches first corvette for Philippine Navy". https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/tech/2024/06/129_376885.html. 
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