HDC-3100 Future Corvette
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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[edit | edit source]
- 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[edit | edit source]
- BRP Unnamed - under construction
- BRP Unnamed - planned for construction