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ROKS Gwanggaeto the Great (DDH-971)
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ROKS Gwanggaeto the Great during a live firing exercise on 1 January 2012.
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Name:
  • ROKS Gwanggaeto the Great
  • (광개토대왕)
Namesake: Gang Gam-chan
Builder: Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering, South Korea
Launched: 23 October 1996
Commissioned: 24 July 2008
Identification: DDH-971
Status: Active
General characteristics
Class & type: Gwanggaeto the Great-class destroyer
Displacement:
  • 3,885–3,900 tonnes (3,824–3,838 long tons) full load
Length: 135.5 m (444 ft 7 in)
Beam: 14.2 m (46 ft 7 in)
Propulsion:
  • 2 × General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines
  • 2 × SsangYong Motor Company 20V 956 TB 82 diesel engines
  • 2 shafts
Speed: 30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph)
Complement: 286
Sensors and
processing systems:
  • AN/SPS-49(V) 2D air search radar
  • Signaal MW 08 surface search radar
  • Daewoo SPS-95k navigation radar
  • 2 × Signaal STIR 180 Fire control radars
  • ATLAS DSQS-21BZ Hull mounted sonar
Electronic warfare
& decoys:
  • SLQ-25 Nixie towed torpedo decoy
  • ARGOSystems AR 700 and APECS 2 ECM
  • 4 × CSEE DAGAIE MK 2 Chaff Launchers
  • Armament:
  • 1 × OTO Melara 127 mm (5 inch)/54 gun
  • 2 × Signaal 30 mm Goalkeeper CIWS
  • 8 × Harpoon missile in quad canisters
  • 1 × Mk 48 Mod 2 VLS with 16 RIM-7P Sea Sparrow missiles
  • 2 × triple torpedo tubes for Mark 46 torpedo
  • ROKS Gwanggaeto the Great (DDH-971) is the lead ship of the Gwangaetto the Great-class in the Republic of Korea Navy. She is named after Gwanggaeto the Great.[1]

    Development[]

    The KDX-I was designed to replace the old destroyers in the ROKN that were transferred from the US Navy in the 1950s and 1960s. It was thought to be a major turning point for the ROKN in that the launching of the first KDX-I meant that ROKN finally had a capability to project power far from its shores. After the launching of the ship, there was a massive boom in South Korean international participation against piracy and military operations other than war.[2]

    Construction and career[]

    ROKS Gwanggaeto the Great was launched on 28 October 1996 by Daewoo Shipbuilding and commissioned on 24 July 1998.[3]

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