 ROKS Jang Bogo underway.
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| History | |
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| Name |
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| Namesake | Jang Bogo |
| Ordered | 12 August 1976 |
| Builder | Howaldtswerke Deutsche Werft AG |
| Laid down | 1987 |
| Launched | September 1991 |
| Commissioned | October 1992 |
| Identification | SS-061 |
| Status | Active |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Jang Bogo-class submarine |
| Displacement |
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| Length | 55.9 m (183 ft 5 in) |
| Beam | 6.4 m (21 ft 0 in) |
| Draft | 5.9 m (19 ft 4 in) |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed |
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| Range | 11,300 nmi (20,900 km) surfaced at 4 knots (7.4 km/h) |
| Endurance | 50 days |
| Complement | 5 officers, 26 enlisted |
| Armament |
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ROKS Jang Bogo (SS-061) is the lead ship of the Jang Bogo-class submarine of the Republic of Korea Navy, and was the first submarine to serve with the navy. It is one of the Type 209 submarines built for export by Germany.
Development
At the end of the 1980s the South Korean navy started to improve its overall capability and began to operate more advanced vessels. South Korea purchased its first submarines, the German U-209 class in its Type 1200 subvariant, ordered as the Jang Bogo class. These boats are generally similar to Turkey's six Atilay-class submarines, with German sensors and weapons.
The first order placed late in 1987 covered three boats, one to be completed in Germany and the other two in South Korea from German-supplied kits. There followed by two additional three-boat orders placed in October 1989 and January 1994 for boats of South Korean construction. The boats were commissioned from 1993 to 2001.
The older boats were upgraded, it is believed that the modernization included a hull stretch to the Type 1400 length, provision for tube-launched Harpoon missiles and the addition of a towed-array sonar.
See also
References
- "Republic of Korea Navy". www.facebook.com.
- "ROKN Chang Bogo Class Submarines". Naval Technology. Retrieved 2020-08-15.
- "South Korea Submarine Capabilities | NTI". www.nti.org. Retrieved 2020-08-15.
