tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-157560302012-01-22T22:23:40.270ZMingi Hyunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11350758129365729882noreply@blogger.comBlogger121100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15756030.post-48631259154030798432011-12-14T04:33:00.000Z2011-12-14T10:13:02.307Z

The ROKN's Sejong the Great class (KDX-3) destroyer (left) and the RAN's Hobart class destroyer (right) are both AEGIS-equipped, making the two ship types highly interoperable. The governments of the Republic of Korea and Australia recently agreed to increase bilateral military exchanges, including a bilateral naval exercise set to begin next year. The announcement was made on December

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A Republic of Korea Navy 1st Fleet Command posterwhich reads, "Identify & Annihilate Enemy Submarines." Republic of Korea media outlets reported the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) has been building a new submarine at a shipyard in Cheongjin, North Hamgyeong Province. The 33m-long submarine was initially scheduled to be launched on February 16 to mark Kim Jong-Il's birthday. However,

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CAPT Cho Young-Joo, the commander of the ROKN'sCheonghae Unit and commanding officer of ROKS Choi Young.The British-educated CAPT Cho is widely reputed as one ofthe ROKN's elite officers. The Republic of Korea Navy's (ROKN) recent success in the Gulf of Aden is to be made into a movie by one of the Republic of Korea's major film companies, Christmas Entertainment, whose major productions have

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First of class ROKS Sejong the Great departs Pearl Harbor sometime duringsummer 2010 to participate in the multinational RIMPAC exercise. The Republic of Korea Navy's (ROKN) third AEGIS-equipped Sejong the Great class (KDX-3) destroyer, ROKS Seoae Yu Seong-Ryeong (DDG-993), is expected to be launched in March or April of this year. The ship is scheduled to be commissioned in March 2012. Combined

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This video is of the French land attack cruise missile,SCALP Naval, which is known to be similar in capability with the Sky Dragon. Following years of development, as well as ongoing difficulties with North Korea and a major concern brewing across the West Sea, the South Korean media has reported the Republic of Korea Navy (ROKN) is close to deploying its first-ever land attack cruise missile,

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Several South Korean media reports have claimed the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), or North Korea, has been developing nuclear-tipped torpedoes and sea mines. If true, this would constitute a new type of DPRK's anti-access capability which has so far relied heavily upon midget submarines and conventional sea mines, as well as two types of weapons that can keep the Republic of

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My latest article on the Republic of Korea Navy's (ROKN) blue-water development was published in The Diplomat. The following is the article's main point:"The impressive advances the South Korean Navy has made are already giving it some of the greater recognition it has been seeking. In September, A.K. Antony became the first Indian defence minister to visit South Korea. A major motivation for

Mingi Hyunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11350758129365729882noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15756030.post-52267393126821066062010-09-15T14:15:00.020+01:002010-12-05T16:23:21.951Z

ROKS Gang Gam-Chan deploys its tip of the sword, two RHIB's and a Super Lynx helicopter. The Republic of Korea Navy's (ROKN) ROKS Gang Gam-Chan recently completed its anti-piracy operations in the Gulf of Aden and Indian Ocean as a member of Combined Task Force-151 (CTF-151). The ship was the fourth ROKN Cheonghae Unit ship to be deployed to CTF-151. The ROKN has been operating continuously in

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The Royal Malaysian Navy's (RMN) second Scorpene, KD Tun Razak, is scheduled to be transferred to the RMN in two months, as the submarine recently left Toulon, France for Malaysia. The two Scorpene units ordered by the RMN were built by DCNS. The first unit, KD Tunku Abdul Rahman, was transferred to the RMN last year. The RMN is one of several South-East Asian navies currently pursuing a

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Following a series of land-based tests, the latest in the Standard Missile series, the SM-6, is now being prepared for seaborne tests. Developed by Raytheon, the SM-6 anti-air missile (AAM) is expected to be the successor of the SM-2 which is currently used by several navies worldwide aboard their area air-defense destroyers and frigates. In Asia, the likely customers of the SM-6 are the

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I was quoted in today's Christian Science Monitor. The article concerned the ROKS Cheonan tragedy. Below is the quote:"At the moment, there is not enough hard evidence to indicate the cause behind the Cheonan's sinking," says Mingi Hyun, a Korean-American research fellow at the Korea Institute for Maritime Strategy. Mr. Hyun says the public will have to be patient until the Navy can examine the

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A Kilo class submarine undergoing repair. Russia will build a submarine base and a dry dock for the Vietnamese People's Navy's (VPN). The announcement comes following the VPN's purchase of six Russian Kilo class submarines and other naval platforms and weapons systems, including two 2,000-ton Gepard class frigates and an unspecified number of fast attack craft (FAC). Including naval hardware,

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