📍#Peru / #SouthKorea (🇵🇪/🇰🇷)
The HDS-15000MGP submarine developed for the @naval_peru by HD Hyundai Heavy Industries has received its Approval in Principle (AiP) for basic qualification of design.
The 1,500-ton submarine is set to replace the aging Type 209s in service.
Hyundai & LIG Nex1 supremacy.
As expected, Peru will have the most powerful frigate in South America. Congratulations to Hyundai Heavy Industries, LIG Nex1, and Peruvian Navy. You can think of it as an enhanced version of the frigate model that the Philippines recently received. In particular, the radar is not the large, state-of-the-art next generation digital AESA from Hanwha Systems FFG-III, but the medium-sized AESA multi-function radar from LIG Nex1.
Both Hanwha Systems and LIG Nex1 have the best next-generation AESA technology.
This ship, like the Philippine one, has a shortened VLS. It can not operate large attack missiles like the KVLS-I or MK41, but there is no reason for it to do so.
The rest of the details are ordinary, modern general-purpose frigates.
I wonder if Peru will have upgraded C-Star anti ship cruise missiles. Although there's little information.
And well done, Naval News.
The FFG-III frigate has a very large and powerful radar, but this is the exception, and this is the average.
[VIDEO] Overview of the HD HHI booth at SITDEF 2025 in Lima, Peru. The South Korean shipbuilder was showcasing the four future platforms it is currently working on with local shipyard SIMA Peru for the Peruvian Navy:
- Frigate
- OPV
- LCU
- Submarine
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