๐ฐ๐ท ROKS Gyeongbuk (FFG-829), the second Ulsan-class Batch-III frigate of the Republic of Korea Navy, was delivered to the Navy during a ceremony held on June 19, 2026, at SK Oceanplant in Goseong, South Gyeongsang Province. The ship will undergo approximately six months of operational training before being assigned to an operational fleet.
The 5th Marine Corps Commandantโs Cup Sniper Competition was held in South Korea.
A total of 38 teams participated in the competition, including teams from the United States, the Philippines, and Thailand. This yearโs event also introduced an anti-materiel sniper rifle category for the first time.
Source: Yoo Yong won TV (์ ์ฉ์TV)
Today's news. It is reported that the UAE dispatched eight C-17 to take the entire third M-SAM-II ballistic missile interceptor battery from South Korea. The decision to transport it by air was made because the Strait of Hormuz has been blockaded since the US-Iran war, and the delivery of the third battery was reportedly completed a full six months ahead of the schedule.
The two export-type M-SAM-II batteries already deployed in the UAE were used to intercept Iranian missiles and drones in the recent conflict.
It was reported that over 60 interceptor rounds were fired, with a success rate of 96%.
UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Iraq have placed large orders for 10 and 8 M-SAM-II batteries and that Kuwait and Qatar are expected to purchase the M-SAM-II soon, according to inndustry sources.
LIG D&A is currently in contact with countries in Southeast Asia, Europe, and Latin America regarding M-SAM-II and L-SAM, and it was confirmed a few days ago that Indonesia wants two M-SAM-II batteries.
However, questions are being raised as to why Indonesia is purchasing only two M-SAM-II batteries, rather than M-SAM-III, L-SAM-I, or L-SAM-II. Assuming Indonesia has secured two medium-range SAM batteries, where does it plan to deploy them? Will it be military bases or the capital city facing threats from CRBM, SRBM, MRBM, or HGV?
Of course, there is a possibility that the quantity or items may change as the letter of intent is modified.
While some argue that they will place additional orders after operating two batteries, there are many reasons why purchasing nations are eager to sign contracts quickly. To give just two examples for easier understanding, the primary reason is to avoid falling behind in the supplier's production line, and the other is inflation.
It would appear that LIG's M-SAM-II is the second most popular ballistic missile interceptor system after the PAC since the 2020s.
However, even though it is relatively cheaper than the PAC, unlike the M-SAM-I, the II uses high-cost interceptor missiles with a completely different design.
Furthermore, the export-type includes a much more powerful radar incorporating whole new technologies.
This means that the cost of the batteries and the speed of production have increased.
Although LIG D&A and Hanwha's missile factories have expanded and Hanwha Systems is increasing its radar production capacity by securing a new factory, industry sources indicate that production lines are already fully booked through 2030 with orders from the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Iraq.
The good news is that faster deliveries are now possible due to the expansion of missile and sensor production lines.
โThe export type uses Czech Tatra vehicles, and the battery consists of one C2 center, one radar, and four launch vehicles.
โThe M-SAM-II radar of the export type is designed to counter from drone, TBM, SRBM, and some MRBM, HGV.
๐ฐ๐ท๐ณ๐ฑ Royal Netherlands Navy frigate HNLMS De Ruyter (F804) made a port call at Incheon, South Korea.
The De Zeven Provinciรซn class air defence and command frigate is currently deployed to the Indo Pacific as part of the Netherlandsโ Pacific Archer mission, aimed at strengthening maritime security cooperation and ties with partner nations in the region.
Photo: @VlietSeoul
๐ฐ๐ท๐ฎ๐ณ Republic of Korea Navy destroyers ROKS Dae Jo Yeong and ROKS Wang Geon made a goodwill visit to Goa, India, from June 5 to 8, 2026.
During the port call, ROK Navy officers met with Rear Admiral Ajay D. Theophilus, VSM, Flag Officer Commanding Goa Area.
The professional exchanges between the two navies reflected strong mutual understanding and trust. The visit is expected to further strengthen the partnership between the Republic of Korea Navy and the Indian Navy and support deeper bilateral maritime cooperation.
Republic of Korea Ships Dae Jo Yeong and Wang Geon were on a goodwill visit to #Goa from 05 Jun - 08 Jun 26. As part of the visit, Capt Woo Jin An, Commanding Officer, ROKS Wang Geon along with officers interacted with Rear Admiral Ajay D Theophilus, VSM, Flag Officer Commanding Goa Area.
The professional interactions between the two navies during the port call reflect strong mutual understanding and trust.
The engagements are expected to reinforce the strong partnership between the two navies and foster greater bilateral cooperation.
#BridgesofFriendship
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๐ต๐ญ The official commissioning ceremony for the Philippine Navyโs second Rajah Sulayman class offshore patrol vessel, BRP Rajah Lakandula (PS-21), was held.
The vessel was built by HD Hyundai Heavy Industries and is based on the HDP-2200+ offshore patrol vessel design.
The ceremony was attended by President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and took place about three months after the commissioning of the lead ship, BRP Rajah Sulayman (PS-20).
The event was also held in conjunction with the 128th founding anniversary of the Philippine Navy.
The @Philippine_Navy ๐ต๐ญ has officially commissioned the second ship of the six ordered HDP-2200 Offshore Patrol Vessels (OPV), the BRP Rajah Lakandula (PS-21) on Tuesday, at the Headquarters Philippine Navy in Manila. Pres. @bongbongmarcos has witnessed the commissioning event.
๐ฐ๐ท๐ฏ๐ต The ROKN and the JMSDF conducted a joint search and rescue exercise for the first time in nine years, marking the first such exercise since 2017.
Participating assets included ROKS Cheonjabong, JS Kongo, and a JMSDF SH-60K maritime operations helicopter.
๐ฐ๐ท๐จ๐ฆ The Republic of Korea Navy and the Royal Canadian Navy conducted a combined cooperative exercise off the western coast of Canada to strengthen maritime security cooperation.
The exercise involved the ROK Navyโs KSS III class submarine ROKS Dosan Ahn Chang ho (SS-083), frigate ROKS Daejeon (FFG-823), and AW-159 maritime helicopter, as well as the Royal Canadian Navyโs submarine HMCS Corner Brook (SSK-878) and frigate HMCS Ottawa (FFH-341).
In addition, six Royal Canadian Navy submarine crew members, including Lieutenant Benjamin Hong, embarked aboard ROKS Dosan Ahn Chang ho (SS-083) and participated in the training.
After the exercise, the ROK Navy will depart Canada for Hawaii to take part in RIMPAC.
โ๏ธ ํ๊ตญ ์บ๋๋ค ํด๊ตฐ ์ฐํฉํ๋ ฅํ๋ จ ์ค์
โ๏ธ ํ๊ตญ๊ณผ ์บ๋๋ค ํด๊ตฐ์ด 6์ 3์ผ๋ถํฐ 4์ผ(์บ๋๋ค ํ์ง์๊ฐ)๊น์ง ์บ๋๋ค ์๋ถ ํด์์์ ํด์์๋ณดํ๋ ฅ ๊ฐํ๋ฅผ ์ํ ์ฐํฉํ๋ ฅํ๋ จ์ ์ค์ํ์ต๋๋ค. ์ด๋ฒ ํ๋ จ์๋ ํ๊ตญ ํด๊ตฐ์ 3,000ํค๊ธ ์ ์ํจ ๋์ฐ์์ฐฝํธํจ, ํธ์ํจ ๋์ ํจ, AW-159 ํด์์์ ํฌ๊ธฐ์ ์บ๋๋ค ํด๊ตฐ์ ์ ์ํจ ์ฝ๋๋ธ๋ฃฉํจ, ํธ์ํจ ์คํ์ํจ ๋ฑ ํจ์ 4์ฒ๊ณผ ํญ๊ณต๊ธฐ 3๋๊ฐ ์ฐธ๊ฐํ์ต๋๋ค.
โ๏ธ ์๊ตญ ํด๊ตฐ์ ๋ํจ์ฌ๊ฒฉ, ๋์ ์ , ํฌ๊ธฐ ์ดยท์ฐฉ๋ฅ ๋ฑ ์ค์ ์ ์ธ ํด์ํ๋ จ์ ํตํด ์ฐํฉ์์ ์ํ๋ฅ๋ ฅ์ ํ์ธต ๋ ๊ฐํํ์ต๋๋ค. ํนํ ํ๊ตญ ํด๊ตฐ์ ์ด๋ฒ ํ๋ จ์ ํตํด ์ฒจ๋จ๊ณผํ๊ธฐ์ ์ด ์ง์ฝ๏ฟฝ๏ฟฝ๏ฟฝ ๋์ฐ์์ฐฝํธํจ์ ์ฐ์ํ ์์ ์ํ ๋ฅ๋ ฅ์ ๋ณด์ฌ์ฃผ์์ต๋๋ค.
โ๏ธ ์์ธ๋ฌ ๋ฒค์๋ฏผ ํ ๋์ ๋ฑ ์บ๋๋ค ํด๊ตฐ ์ ์ํจ ์น์กฐ์ 6๋ช ์ด ๋์ฐ์์ฐฝํธํจ์ ์ง์ ํธ์นํด ํ๋ จ์ ํจ๊ปํ์ต๋๋ค. ์ด๋ ํ๊ตญ ์ ์ํจ์ ์ฒจ๋จ ์์คํ ๊ณผ ์ํธ์ด์ฉ์ฑ์ ์์ ํ์ฅ์์ ํ์ธํ๋ ๊ณ๊ธฐ๊ฐ ๋์์ผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋ค์ ํ๋ จ ์ข ๋ฃ ํ์๋ ํ์์ด๊น์ง ํจ๊ป ํญํดํ๋ฉฐ ํํธ๋์ญ์ ์ด์ด๊ฐ ์์ ์ ๋๋ค.
โ๏ธ ํํธ, ์ฐํฉํ๋ ฅํ๋ จ์ ์ฑ๊ณต์ ์ผ๋ก ๋ง์น ๋์ฐ์์ฐฝํธํจ๊ณผ ๋์ ํจ์ ์ค๋ 6์ 24์ผ๋ถํฐ ํ์์ด์์ ์ด๋ฆฌ๋ ํํํ์ํ๋ จ(RIMPAC)์ ์ฐธ๊ฐํ ์์ ์ ๋๋ค.
โ๏ธ The Republic of Korea Navy and the Royal Canadian Navy conducted combined training to strengthen maritime security cooperation in the waters off the west coast of Canada from June 3 to 4, local time. The training involved four naval vessels and three aircraft, including the ROK Navyโs 3,000-ton class submarine ROKS Dosan Ahn Changho, frigate ROKS Daejeon, and AW-159 maritime operations helicopter, as well as the Royal Canadian Navyโs submarine HMCS Corner Brook and frigate HMCS Ottawa.
โ๏ธ Through realistic maritime training, including anti-surface firing, anti-submarine warfare, and helicopter deck landing operations, the two navies further enhanced their combined operational capabilities. In particular, the ROK Navy demonstrated the outstanding operational capabilities of ROKS Dosan Ahn Changho, which embodies the Republic of Koreaโs advanced science and technology.
โ๏ธ In addition, six Royal Canadian Navy submarine crew members, including Lieutenant Benjamin Hong, embarked aboard ROKS Dosan Ahn Changho and took part in the training. This provided an opportunity to verify the Korean submarineโs advanced systems and interoperability in an operational environment, and they will continue sailing with ROKS Dosan Ahn Changho to Hawaii after the training.
โ๏ธ Following the successful completion of the combined training, ROKS Dosan Ahn Changho and ROKS Daejeon are scheduled to participate in the Rim of the Pacific Exercise, or RIMPAC, which will begin in Hawaii on June 24.
On the eve of ROK Memorial Day, we welcomed home 13 herosโ3 Americans and 10 Republic of Korea service members.
More than 70 years have passed, yet Korea has never forgotten.
To our heros: Your watch is over. Rest in peace.
I look forward to welcoming President @Jaemyung_Lee to Brussels next Wednesday 10 June for the 11th ๐ช๐บ ๐ฐ๐ท Summit.
As likeminded partners, the EU and the Republic of Korea are working together to deliver concrete benefits for our citizens and contribute to a more secure and prosperous future.
ROKS Dosan Ahn Changho and HMCS Corner Brook Leaving Esquimalt to go and exercise together.
I hope they brought the TKMS model of the 212CD as that is as close to sailing as the 212CD is.
This ability of RCN to exercise w/ KSSlll is beyond massive, sadly won't inform purchase
๐ฐ๐ท ๐จ๐ฆ The Republic of Korea Navy submarine ROKS Dosan Ahn Changho (SS-083) departed CFB Esquimalt with six Royal Canadian Navy sailors embarked to conduct joint submarine training with the Royal Canadian Navy submarine HMCS Corner Brook (SSK 878).
๋์ฐ์์ฐฝํธํจ, ํ๊ตญ-์บ๋๋ค ์ฐํฉํ๋ ฅํ๋ จ ์ฐธ๊ฐ์ฐจ ์บ๋๋ค ์ถํญ
ROKS Dosan Ahn Changho Departs Canada to Participate in ROK-Canada Combined Naval Training
โ๏ธ ํ๊ตญ-์บ๋๋ค ์ฐํฉํ๋ ฅํ๋ จ ์ฐธ๊ฐ๋ฅผ ์ํด ํ๊ตญ ํด๊ตฐ 3,000ํค๊ธ ์ ์ํจ ๋์ฐ์์ฐฝํธํจ(SS-III)์ด ํ๊ตญ ์๊ฐ์ผ๋ก 6์ 3์ผ(์บ๋๋ค ํ์ง ์๊ฐ 6์ 2์ผ) ์บ๋๋ค ์๋ถ ๋น ํ ๋ฆฌ์ ์์คํด๋ชฐํธ ๊ธฐ์ง์์ ์ถํญํ์ต๋๋ค.
โ๏ธ ์๊ตญ ํด๊ตฐ ๊ฐ ํด์์๋ณดํ๋ ฅ์ ๊ฐํํ๊ธฐ ์ํด ์ค์ํ๋ ์ด๋ฒ ํ๋ จ ๊ฐ์๋ ๋ฒค์๋ฏผ ํ(Benjamin Hong) ๋์, ๋์ค๋ฏธ ๋ฏธํ ์ฒ(Naomi Mihalcheon) ์์ฌ ๋ฑ ์บ๋๋ค ํด๊ตฐ ์ ์ํจ ์น์กฐ์ 6๋ช ์ด ๋์ฐ์์ฐฝํธํจ์ ํธ์นํด ํ๊ตญ ์ ์ํจ ์น์กฐ์๋ค๊ณผ ํ๋ จ์ ํจ๊ปํ ์์ ์ ๋๋ค.
โ๏ธ ๋์ฐ์์ฐฝํธํจ์ ์ด๋ฒ ํ๋ จ ์ฐธ๊ฐ๋ฅผ ํตํด ๊ตญ๋ด ์ต์ด ๋ ์ ์ค๊ณ ๊ฑด์กฐํ 3,000ํค๊ธ ์ ์ํจ์ ์ฐ์ํ ์์ ์ฑ๋ฅ์ ์ฆ๋ช ํ๊ณ ์๊ตญ ํด์์๋ณด์ ๋ฐฉ์ฐํ๋ ฅ ๊ฐํ์ ๊ธฐ์ฌํ ์์ ์ ๋๋ค.
โ๏ธ ๋๋์ ํํ์์ ๋๋น๋ฉฐ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ ํด๊ตฐ์ ์์์ ๋จ์น๊ณ ์๋ ๋์ฐ์์ฐฝํธํจ ์น์กฐ์๋ค์๊ฒ ๋จ๊ฑฐ์ด ์์์ ๋ณด๋ด์ฃผ์ธ์!
โ๏ธ ROKS Dosan Ahn Changho (SS-III), the ROK Navyโs 3,000-ton-class submarine, departed from CFB Esquimalt in Victoria, Canada, on June 3 Korean Standard Time (June 2 local time in Canada) to participate in ROK-Canada combined naval training.
โ๏ธ During the training, conducted to strengthen maritime security cooperation between the two navies, six Royal Canadian Navy submariners, including Lieutenant Benjamin Hong and Senior Chief Petty Officer Naomi Mihalcheon, will embark on ROKS Dosan Ahn Changho and train alongside ROK Navy submariners.
โ๏ธ Through this training, ROKS Dosan Ahn Changho will demonstrate the outstanding operational capabilities of Koreaโs first independently designed and built 3,000-ton-class submarine, while contributing to stronger maritime security and defense industry cooperation between Korea and Canada.
โ๏ธ Please send your warm support and encouragement to the crew of ROKS Dosan Ahn Changho as they sail across the vast Pacific Ocean and proudly represent the ROK Navy! ๐ซก
South Korea has successfully localized the laser oscillator, a key component of the Cheongwang Block I laser air defense weapon system.
Compared with the previously imported component, the domestically developed laser oscillator improves key performance, including output, by more than 50%. It also reduces the time required to neutralize rotary wing drones and fixed wing UAVs by more than half, while increasing the systemโs localization rate from 76% to 90%.
With the new laser oscillator, rotary wing drones can be neutralized within 1 to 2 seconds, compared with the previous 2 to 4 seconds. Fixed wing UAVs, which previously required more than 10 seconds, can now be neutralized within just a few seconds. Based on this achievement, South Korea plans to further advance the system through the development of the Block II laser air defense weapon, focusing on higher output, improved precision, and a smaller, lighter design.
Source: Yoo Yong-won, member of South Koreaโs 22nd National Assembly and the National Defense Committee.