ROKS Hansado - South Korea's new training ship

Haijun watcher · Post by **Haijun watcher** » Sun Oct 25, 2020 9:51 am

South Korea�s first training ship enters naval service
By: Brian Kim ? 2 days ago
SEOUL � South Korea�s Navy has received its first training ship, built with a reduced radar signature, the Defense Acquisition Program Administration announced Oct. 20.
The delivery came two years after the ship was launched in 2018 at a dockyard of Hyundai Heavy Industries in the South Korean coastal city of Ulsan.
Named after an island south of the Korean Peninsula near where Adm. Yi Sun-sin had won a battle against a Japanese fleet in 1592, the Hansando auxiliary training ship helicopter is expected to help improve effectiveness of naval trainings, DAPA said in its news release.
�This is the first time that the Republic of Korean Navy has secured a ship only for crew training,� said Rear Adm. Jeong Sam, head of DAPA�s combat ship acquisition department. �The deployment of the training vessel will boost the naval power to a greater extent with the utilization of advanced naval training systems onboard.�
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