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ROKS Jecheon (PCC-776)
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ROKS Jecheon on 15 January 2016
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Name:
  • Jecheon
  • (제천)
Namesake: Jecheon
Builder: Hanjin
Launched: 8 December 1987
Commissioned: 3 May 1989
Identification:
Status: Active
General characteristics
Class & type: Pohang-class corvette
Displacement: 1,220 tons
Length: 289.7 ft (88 m)
Beam: 33 ft (10 m)
Draft: 2.9 ft (0.88 m)
Installed power: 2 × MTU 6V396 TC52 diesel generators
Propulsion:
  • Combined diesel or gas (CODOG) arrangement:
  • 2 × MTU 12V956 TB82 diesel engines producing combined total of 6,260 shp (4,670 kW)
  • 1 × General Electric LM2500 PB gas turbines generating 27,820 shp (20,700 kW)
Speed: 32 knots (59 km/h; 37 mph) maximum
Range: 4,000 nmi (7,400 km; 4,600 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) using diesel engines
Endurance: 20 days
Boats & landing
craft carried:
2 × RHIB
Crew: 118
Sensors and
processing systems:
Electronic warfare
& decoys:
2 × Loral Hycor Mk 34 RBOC Chaff and Decoy Launching System
Armament:

ROKS Jecheon (PCC-776) is a Pohang-class corvette of the Republic of Korea Navy.

Development and design[]

The Pohang class is a series of corvettes built by different Korean shipbuilding companies. The class consists of 24 ships and some after decommissioning were sold or given to other countries. There are five different types of designs in the class from Flight II to Flight VI.[1]

Construction and career[]

Jecheon was launched on 8 December 1987 by Hanjin Heavy Industries. The vessel was commissioned on 3 May 1989.

While being moored in her namesake city, Jecheon on 18 August 2018, Deputy Geum Han-ju and 35 other people, including members of the Integrated Defense Council, members of security and local organizations, and citizens from all walks of life, visited the ship.[2]

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