On October 30 (Wed), the Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) held a groundbreaking ceremony for the Jangbogo-III. Batch-II.* 3rd ship, which is being designed and built with Korea’s own technology, in the presence of business officials from the Defense Acquisition Program Administration, the Navy, the Defense Agency for Technology and Quality, the Defense Rapid Acquisition Technology Research Institute, and shipbuilding companies at Hanwha Ocean Co., Ltd., Geoje-si, Gyeongsangnam-do.
* In a ship project where the speed of technological development is fast or the ship is carried out for a long time, the performance of the same ship improves according to the time of electrification. Classification such as
Batch-I. and Batch-II. The groundbreaking ceremony is an event to cut the first steel to be used in the construction of submarines and to pray for the successful construction of the ship, which means that the process has begun in earnest. The groundbreaking ceremony was held in the order of the reading of the safety prayer at the construction site and the steel cutting. Jangbogo-III. Batch-II. We prayed that the third ship would be successfully built and become a key force to protect national security.
The Jangbogo-III. Batch-II. submarine is a 3,600-ton submarine, making it the heaviest and largest submarine in service with the ROK military. Batch-II submarines are better than Batch-I. submarine detection? It is the world’s latest and most advanced submarine that can stay underwater for a long time and operate with a lithium battery system along with a combat sonar system with improved target processing capability.
In particular, the Jangbogo-III. Batch-II. submarine will be equipped with more than 70 types of localized equipment by discovering equipment that has the potential to be localized during the project and applying more localized equipment than planned from the project initiation stage.
With the expansion of such localized equipment, the ROK military will not only be able to operate submarines more stably, but it is also expected to contribute to the revitalization of the domestic economy in the submarine construction process and overseas submarine construction projects.
The groundbreaking ceremony was held today, and the third ship will be completed by ’29 and will be delivered to the Navy in ’31 after commissioning, while the first ship will be launched in ’25 and the second in ’26 for test evaluation and commissioning for electrification.
Lee Sang-woo, head of the Korea Submarine Project Division of the Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA), said, “As the construction process of Jangbogo-III. Batch-II. Ship No. 3 has begun in earnest, we will do our best to acquire submarines, which are the core power of our military, in a timely manner through continuous strengthening of cooperation and organic communication between the public, private sector, and the military so that a stable construction system can be maintained.”