ROKS Busan (FF-959)
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.jpg) ROKS Busan underway on 15 May 2009 | |
| History | |
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 South Korea | |
| Name |
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| Namesake | Busan |
| Builder | Hyundai Heavy Industries |
| Launched | 20 February 1992 |
| Commissioned | 1 January 1993 |
| Identification |
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| Status | Active |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Ulsan-class frigate |
| Displacement |
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| Length | 103.7 m (340 ft 3 in) |
| Beam | 12.5 m (41 ft 0 in) |
| Draught | 3.8 m (12 ft 6 in) |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 34 knots (63 km/h; 39 mph) |
| Range | 8,000 nmi (15,000 km; 9,200 mi) at 16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph) |
| Complement | 186 (16 officers) |
| Sensors & processing systems | |
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| Armament |
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ROKS Busan (FF-959) is the eighth ship of the Ulsan-class frigate in the Republic of Korea Navy. She is named after the city, Busan.
In the early 1990s, the Korean government plan for the construction of next generation coastal ships named Frigate 2000 was scrapped due to the 1997 Asian financial crisis. But the decommissioning of the Gearing-class destroyers and the aging fleet of Ulsan-class frigates, the plan was revived as the Future Frigate eXperimental, also known as FFX in the early 2000s.
10 ships were launched and commissioned from 1980 to 1993. They have 3 different variants which consists of Flight I, Flight II and Flight III.[1]
