HDC-3100 Future Corvette

The Philippine Navy is expecting the delivery of two new corvettes acquired under its Corvette Acquisition Project under the Revised AFP Modernization Program's Horizon 2 phase covering years 2018 to 2022.

The Philippines' Department of National Defense (DND) signed a contract with South Korean shipbuilder Hyundai Heavy Industries on December 28th 2021, with the shipbuilder delivering a variant of their HDC-3100/HDF-3100 corvette/frigate design.

The ships are not yet named, and construction started during a steel cutting ceremony on May 11th 2023, with the one involving the second corvette will take place on November 2023.

Specifications

 * Type: Corvette
 * Service Period: 2025-
 * Characteristics:
 * Length: 380 feet 7 inches (116 meters)
 * Beam: 48 feet 11 inches (14.91 meters)
 * Draft: 12 feet 2 inches (3.71 meters)
 * Displacement: 3,100 tons
 * Crew:
 * Installed Power: 4 x MTU-STX diesel generators
 * Propulsion: CODAD, 4 x MTU-STX diesel engines
 * Range: 4,500 nautical miles (8,334 kilometers) at 15 knots (27.78 km/h)
 * Speed: 25 knots (46.3 km/h)
 * Sensor Suite:
 * Hanwha Systems Naval Shield Baseline 4 Integrated Combat Management System
 * EL/M-2258 ALPHA S-band 3D AESA Multifunction Radar
 * Hensoldt SharpEye Mk11 Navigation/Surface Search Radar
 * Countermeasures:
 * Armament:
 * 1 x OTO Melara 76mm/62-caliber Super Rapid naval gun
 * 2 x 16-cell VLS
 * 8 x Anti-ship missiles
 * 2 x 12.75" triple torpedo tubes
 * 1 x 35mm CIWS
 * 4 x 12.7mm machine guns
 * Aircraft Carried: 1 x maritime helicopter
 * Aviation Facilities: Flight deck and hangar

Unit Run

 * BRP Unnamed - under construction
 * BRP Unnamed - planned for construction