ROKS Gyeongbuk (FF-956)

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ROKS Gyeongbuk in San Diego on 1 June 1992
History
Flag of South Korea.svgSouth Korea
Name
  • Gyeongbuk
  • (경북)
Namesake Gyeongbuk
Builder Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering
Launched15 January 1986
Commissioned30 May 1986
Recommissioned24 December 2019
Identification Hull number: FF-956
StatusDecommissioned
General characteristics
Class and type Ulsan-class frigate
Displacement
  • 1,500 tonnes (1,476 long tons) light
  • 2,215 tonnes (2,180 long tons) full load
Length103.7 m (340 ft 3 in)
Beam12.5 m (41 ft 0 in)
Draught3.8 m (12 ft 6 in)
Propulsion
  • CODOG
  • 2 x General Electric LM-2500
  • 2 x MTU 12V 956 TB82
Speed34 knots (63 km/h; 39 mph)
Range8,000  nmi (15,000 km; 9,200 mi) at 16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph)
Complement186 (16 officers)
Sensors and
processing systems
  • Signaal DA-08 air surveillance radar
  • AN/SPS-10C navigation radar
  • ST-1802 fire control radar
  • Signaal PHS-32 hull-mounted sonar
  • TB-261K towed sonar
Electronic warfare
& decoys
  • ULQ-11K ESM/ECM suite
  • 2 x Mark 36 SRBOC 6-tubed chaff/flare launcher
  • 2 x 15-tube SLQ-261 torpedo acoustic countermeasures
Armament

ROKS Gyeongbuk (FF-956) is the fifth ship of the Ulsan-class frigate in the Republic of Korea Navy. She is named after the province, Gyeongbuk.

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Development

In the early 1990s, the Korean government plan for the construction of next generation coastal ships named Frigate 2000 was scrapped due to the 1997 Asian financial crisis. But the decommissioning of the Gearing-class destroyers and the aging fleet of Ulsan-class frigates, the plan was revived as the Future Frigate eXperimental, also known as FFX in the early 2000s.

10 ships were launched and commissioned from 1980 to 1993. They have 3 different variants which consists of Flight I, Flight II and Flight III. [1]

Construction and career

ROKS Gyeongbuk was launched on 15 January 1986 by Daewoo Shipbuilding and commissioned on 30 May 1986.

She was decommissioned on 24 December 2019 and expected to be used as in training exercises. [2]

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References

  1. ↑ "FFK Ulsan class Frigate Korea (FFK)". www.globalsecurity.org. Retrieved 2021-07-08.
  2. ↑ "Republic of Korea Navy decommissions two frigates, one corvette". Naval Today. 2020-01-09. Retrieved 2021-07-08.

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