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Friday 26 June 2020

South Korean destroyer Gang Gam-chan (979) 2006-






Rotterdam, Netherlands 31 October 2015

Of the Chungmugong Yi Sun-sin class. Launched by Daewoo Shipbuilding&Marine Engineering on 16 March 2007 and commissioned on 1 October 2007. Specifications of this class destroyers, with a displacement of 4.500 tonnes/4.429 tons (standard)-5.520 long tonnes/5.433 tons (full load) are the dimensions 150 x 17,4 x 9,5 metres or 492.2 x 57.1 x 31.2 feet. Speed 29 knots. Her crew numbers 300 men. Fitted out with2 Super Lynx helicopters. Armament consists of 32-cell Mk 41 VLS for SM-2 Block IIIA area-air defence missiles, 121-round RAM inner-layer defence missile launcher, 1-3cm Goalkeeper, 1-12,7cm , 8 Harpoon ant-ship missiles and 2x3-32,4cm anti-submarine torpedo tubes.