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The Sejong the Great class is the third phase of the ROKN's Korean Destroyer eXperimental (KDX) program, a substantial shipbuilding program, which is geared toward enhancing ROKN's ability to successfully defend the maritime areas around South Korea from various modes of threats, as well as becoming a blue-water navy. [2]
The ships have a 32-cell strike-length Mk 41 VLS for SM-2 Block IIIA area-air defence missiles, one 21-round RAM inner-layer defence missile launcher, one 30 mm Goalkeeper close-in weapon system, one Mk 45 Mod 4 127 mm gun, eight Harpoon anti-ship missiles and two triple 324 mm anti-submarine torpedo tubes.
The ship features the Aegis Combat System (Baseline 7 Phase 1) combined with AN/SPY-1D multi-function radar antennae. [1]The Sejong the Great class is the third phase of the South Korean navy's Korean Destroyer eXperimental (KDX) program, a substantial shipbuilding program, which is geared toward enhancing ROKN's ability to successfully defend the maritime areas around South Korea from various ...
HMS Lightning was an L-class destroyer of the Royal Navy.She was launched on 22 April 1940 and sunk on 12 March 1943 by German Motor Torpedo Boat S-55. [1]Ordered under the 1937 Programme and laid down as Job No J4502, Hawthorn Leslie & Co of Newcastle Upon Tyne were awarded the contract to build her with machinery supplied by Parsons.
The Ragnar class was a class of three destroyers built for the Royal Swedish Navy before World War I.The class consisted of HSwMS Ragnar, HSwMS Sigurd, and HSwMS Vidar.The lead ship, Ragnar, was launched May 30, 1908.
The Type 5 Na-To (五式砲戦車, Go-shiki hōsensha), officially known as the Experimental 7.5cm self-propelled anti-tank gun Na-To (試製七糎半対戦車自走砲 ナト, Shisei nana-senchimētoru hantaisensha jisōhō Na-To) was the penultimate self-propelled anti-tank gun developed by the Imperial Japanese Army in 1945, [1] during the closing stages of World War II.
Ro-104, Ro-105, Ro-106, Ro-108, Ro-109, Ro-112, and Ro-116 of the Japanese Seventh Submarine Squadron formed a patrol line across a route Admiral Halsey had used twice before. George detected Ro-106 on radar at 03:50 on 22 May, saw the submarine dive when located by searchlight, and missed with a Hedgehog attack at 04:15. [3]
HMS Greyhound was a G-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy in the 1930s. Greyhound participated in the Norwegian Campaign in April 1940, the Dunkirk evacuation in May and the Battle of Dakar in September before being transferred to the Mediterranean Fleet in November.