HD HHI FFX Batch III Frigate at IODS 2024 in Australia

South Korea's HD Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) at the Indian Ocean Defence & Security Conference 2024 in Perth, Western Australia, was showcasing the Chungnam-class / FFX Batch III 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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The basic specifications for Chungnam are a length of 129 metres, a beam of 14.8 metres, a standard displacement of 3,500 tons and full load displacement of 4,300 tons. The ship has a reported crew of 120, compared to 140 on the preceding Incheon- and Daegu-variants. In this context it is worth noting that the Philippine Navy's Jose Rizal-class, a modified Incheon-design, features a complement of up to 110 personnel. The various figures illustrate a certain amount of slack in the baseline design depending on exact customer requirements.

Armament on Chungnam caters to Korean Navy requirements for maximum use of indigenously developed technologies. The frigate carries a 16 cell-missile VLS of the K-VLS type. The primary air defence missile is K-SAAM, a short-range missile developed primarily to replace RIM-116 RAM on Korean Navy vessels. K-SAAM supports quad-packing for the K-VLS. The antiship missile system is the Korean SSM-700 C-Star, effectively an indigenous Harpoon-equivalent. Chungnam carries AShM in two quadruple box launchers ahead of the hangar. Guns carried include an American Mk 45 5 inch gun on the bow and the indigenously developed seven barreled 30 mm CIWS-II on the hangar.

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