South Korean Company Wins Contract to Supply Philippines Navy with Command and Control System
Another win for South Korea’s defense industry:
This photo, provided by Hanwha Systems Co. on May 12, 2023, shows a Jose Rizal-class frigate of the Philippine Navy.
Hanwha Systems Co., the defense and ICT unit of South Korea’s Hanwha Group, said Friday it has won a US$34.5 million contract to supply its combat management system (CMS) to the Philippine Navy.
Hanwha’s indigenous combat system will be installed in six 2,400-ton offshore patrol vessels, in a deal valued at $29.5 million, the Seoul-based company said in a release.
The contract also includes the export of the standard digital communications system, known as the tactical data link, worth $5 million.
A CMS works as the brain of a vessel and is designed to integrate all equipment, like sensors, weapons and communications systems, into one single system to help counter threats more efficiently during combat.
Yonhap
You can read more at the link.
Here’s the explanation of South Korea’s naval carrier project which has been pooped on here on this site in the past.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jy-nN-7TCkM&ab_channel=Megaprojects
Well done, Hanwha!
Wow! Someone disliked my praising a South Korean company for making South Korea look strong.
Must be jealous because no one is buying Chinese parts…
Is a carrier right for Korea?
Carriers are not the future of warfare.
Hypersonic missiles, controlled from all-seeing space platforms, that sink carriers 1000km away are the future of warfare.
Power projection will not be done with ships full of planes lurking off the coast. They will be done by very fast unmanned aircraft flying across the world, unleashing the pain, and flying back home in time for tea.
Korea is better off becoming experts in space, hypersonics, and sensors than poking around at 1900s technology.
Only reason Korea wanted a mini carrier is Japan is building one. Sad being trapped by your past like Korea is.
It’s not all of South Korea trapped by the past. It’s just the politicians and bureaucrats on Xi’s payroll.
Room for South Korea to expand their sales:
Wow! Someone disliked my praising a South Korean company for making South Korea look strong.
setnaffa’s comment is +1 and yet he claims that someone is disliking his comment.
We can conclude that setnaffa is engaging in deception and projection.
Which makes setnaffa, according to his own description, a Chinabot.
Depleted Uranium:
Not sure. I trust NOBODY.
Government tells me it is less dangerous than freshly baked cinnamon buns and can back that up with all sorts of government-funded studies.
The Greenies say that you get cancer just by reading the news about depleted uranium.
Best I can tell, it isn’t very dangerous compared to a lot of other stuff. But it isn’t harmless either.
Whatever the case, I support Ukraine. Money needs to go somewhere and Americans don’t deserve affordable healthcare.
We do know that military pilots are more likely to get cancer (from radiation).
But military pilots who fly with DU shell casings under their nut sacks are not more likely to have cancer than those who fly without them.
Nor are their children more likely to have birth defects.
A lot of the DU hysteria comes from “data” in Iraq…which had massive birth defects in exactly the location you’d expect.
Where the sarin gas (a known teratogen) was used.
DU seems to be harmless when sitting there as a clump of DU… primarily becasue all the good uranium has been taken out to make fuels and bombs… so DU is less radioactive than normal uranium you find on indian reservations and such.
I am less sure what happens when you punch a DU penetrator through DU armor and make a cloud of DU dust that enters the environment and the food chain in concentrations far exceeding normal.
It appears to be an alpha emitter in your body which is probably never a good thing… but, like lead, the chemistry is more dangerous than the nukes.
I have read a few convincing papers that it isn’t a big deal…
…but then you get to the fine print and “with funds made available by the Department of Defense”.
The government is so reked these days, I can’t trust the dog catcher has ever even seen a dog.
If that great big explosion(s) in Ukraine that looked like a nuke(s) in an 80s film was really a warehouse filled with the DU shells from the UK, I would probably not want to start a mushroom farm there for a couple million years no matter how safe they say it is.
My personal policy is stay away from heavy metals… don’t play with the mercury, don’t eat the paint chips, don’t huff the DU dust.
Not everyone has the same policy…
…clearly.
Agreed, I wouldn’t want to inhale any heavy metal dust or spread it on my toast and eat it. Just like I won’t drink the tap water in Alamogordo, NM.
Side note:
At Tydall there was a shooting range next to where they decided to build an elementary school, back in the 70s. No fanfare, the kids used to collect the shell casings during recess. It was great fun until they cleaned up the area years later. Then they cleaned it up again. Three different times. Now…I wouldn’t want to eat the dirt at Tyndall elementary school, but I’d say they did what they could.
Fast forward some decades and there is newly generated mass hysteria from some youtube guy pretending “Tyndall doesn’t care about the EPA!”…exactly at the time the EPA was at Tyndall AFB, cleaning up.
Who was most outraged? The people living at Tyndall who could not be bothered to drive down to the area and check it out themselves, but they could resend the video over and over.
Any war zone is going to be toxic for a long, long while. Generations.
My Italian relatives have pretty much all had cancer. Mom didn’t because she came to live in the states.
No DU in WWII Italy but a lot of other toxic garbage.
The point? There is a limitless amount of information out there intended to inspire outrage. In that context, DU needs to be put in proper perspective. It is used as a radiation screen (for actual radioactive material). Brazil nuts have a higher concentration of radioactivity. It is far better to travel inside a DU enclosed tank than a non-DU enclosed tank, because war is dangerous and people are shooting. Explosive ordinance of all varieties are toxic. Heavy metals are toxic when aerosol. Chemicals used in war are very toxic.
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So long as there’s a need to import stuff like oil, there will be a need for navies. Their utility for power projection is declining, but small aircraft carrier for anti piracy operations and search and rescue is still a good idea even in a coming age of hypersonics and total surveillance.
I’m hesitant to proclaim the end of the carrier. Putting shit in orbit is getting cheap, Starlink alone accounts for more satellites than all the others. Conversely that means knocking stuff out of orbit is getting cheap as well. China and others are busy copying. Possible that in a major conflict most of what’s up there gets shot down with haste. That isn’t even getting into some of the work on using high powered lasers to blind satellites.
Which means power projection will still involve ships full of planes. The ships will likely be a bit further from the coasts and the planes more autonomous.