Hanwha Ocean FFX Batch II Frigate at IODS 2024 in Australia

South Korea's Hanwha Ocean at the Indian Ocean Defence & Security Conference 2024 in Perth, Western Australia, was showcasing the Daegu-class / FFX Batch II frigate. It is one of the candidates for Australia's SEA 3000 program / "Tier 2"-requirement intended to supplement "Tier 1"-combatants such as the Hobart-class AAW destroyer and the "Hunter"-class ASW-frigate.

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Hanwha Ocean was also showcasing two more ship designs: The Thai frigate Bhumibol Adulyadej and the new Ocean 4300.

Hanwha Ocean was in charge of the detailed design and construction of the lead ship for the FFX Batch II program. The ROKN has introduced eight Batch II as Daegu-class between 2018 and 2023, of which half were built by Hanwha and the other half by HHI. Together with the HHI-developed FFX Batch 3 the Daegu-class is one of the "exemplars" for SEA 3000.

The Thai ship shown at IODS 2024 illustrates the flexibility of the baseline design also accommodating considerable adaptions in armament and propulsion.

As Hanwha Ocean offical Scott Koh explained to Naval News, Ocean 4300 is a modified FFX Batch II integrating the Thai frigate armament. The stated aim of the new proposal is "to improve interoperability with the Royal Australian Navy". As a result the concept drops K-VLS and instead features a 32 cell Mk 41. Propulsion and other basic features are similar to FFX Batch II.

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