Gwanggaeto the Great class destroyer

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Gwanggaeto the Great class destroyer

General characteristics
Displacement:	3,885-3,900 tons full load
Length:	135.5 m (444 ft)
Beam:	14.2 m (46.5 ft)
Draft:	4.2 m (14 ft)
Propulsion:	2 General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines and 2 Sangyong 20V 956 TB 82 diesel engines; two shafts
Speed:	30 knots (56 km/h)
Range:	4,500 nautical miles at 18 knots
Crew Complement:	286
Armament:	1 x OTO Melara 127 mm(5 inch)/54 gun, 2 x Signaal 30 mm Goalkeeper CIWS, 2 x quadruple Harpoon missile canisters, 1 x Mk.48 mod2 VLS with 16 RIM-7P Sea Sparrow missiles, 2 x triple 12.75 in (324 mm) torpedo tubes (Mk46 torpedoes).
Aircraft:	2 x Super Lynx helicopters.
Radars:	AN/SPS-49(V) 2D air search radar, Signaal MW 08 surface search radar, Daewoo SPS-95k navigation radar, 2 x Signaal STIR 180 Fire control radars.
Sonars:	ATLAS DSQS-21BZ Hull mounted Sonar
EW:	SLQ-25 Nixie towed torpedo decoy, ARGOSystems AR 700 and APECS 2 ECM, 4 x CSEE DAGAIE MK.2 Chaff Launchers

The Gwanggaeto the Great class destroyers (Hangul 광개토대왕급 구축함), often called KDX-I class, are destroyers operated by the Republic of Korea Navy. It was the first phase of ROKN's KDX program, in moving the ROK Navy from a coastal defence force to a blue-water navy.

1 Weapon Systems
2 Construction
3 Ships in the class
4 See also
5 External links

[edit] Weapon Systems

It is armed with an OTO 127 mm/54 caliber gun, two 30 mm Goalkeepers, 16 MK 48 Mod 2 Raytheon RIM-7P Sea Sparrow SAM missiles, RGM-84 Harpoon anti-ship cruise missile and two torpedo mounts in a triple tube configuration. Its vertical launch system can hold up to 16 missiles.

[edit] Construction

All Gwanggaeto the Great class destroyers were built by the Daewoo Heavy Industries Co., Inc. at Geoje, South Korea. In 1989, Daewoo Heavy Industries began working on the 4,000-ton destroyer which is now secondary destroyer of the Korean navy, and the achievement was made through DSME's 100% design engineering for the first time in Korea.