Philippines Studied Vietnam to Mount Rocket for Pohang Ship

18 November 2019

The Philippine Navy chose to install the 12.7 mm M2HB machine gun for the Pohang-class battleship (photo : BaoDatViet)

The Max Defense Philippines Forum said that the configuration to upgrade the Pohang missile defense boat of Vietnam is well worth the learning of the country's navy.

The Philippine Navy now has a Pohang-class submarine guard ship, handed over by South Korea under the name BRP Conrado Yap (PS-39), due to the delay in the overhaul payment process. This is the new ship docked in Manila.

It was previously reported that the Philippine Navy would integrate Israeli Spike-ER anti-tank missiles on its Pohang ship similar to the MPAC class patrol boats, but then the plan was not implemented.

In the newly released photo, we can see that the Philippines has integrated 4 more 12.7 mm M2HB machine guns behind the stern and next to the radar tower, this improvement is obviously too simple, making the power of the child The ship was not improved much.

The Max Defense Philippines page, after observing the configuration of its own Pohang ship and looking at the way that Vietnam is doing on the same battleship, was surprised and said that this is the way they should learn.

South Korean SSM-700K Haeseong (C-Star) anti-ship cruise missile (photo : red october)

Specifically, on Ship 18, a pilot installation of Igla shoulder-mounted air defense missile launch system was being carried out, while Ship 20 was upgraded much more strongly with two KT-184 launch tube clusters of anti-ship cruise missiles Kh-35 Uran.

After modernization, the Pohang submarine hunting guard ship of Vietnam has "transformed" into a quite powerful and comprehensive multi-purpose missile guard ship, the features of our Pohang Flight III are evaluated similarly is equivalent to Korea's Flight IV.

The Philippine military forum said that the country's navy will be in the first modern missile defense ship, the Jose Rizal-class HDF-2600s, manufactured by South Korea's Hyundai Heavy Industry Group create.

The Philippine Navy's Jose Rizal is expected to integrate South Korea's SSM-700 Haeseong anti-ship cruise missile, which is considered a variant from the US RGM-84 Harpoon with a weight of 718 kg, range. over 150 km and a speed of Mach 0.85.

The Philippines said that to facilitate the assurance of technical logistics as well as after reviewing the experience of Vietnam, their defense ship BRP Conrado Yap can fully mount with SSM-700K missiles into position similar to Kh-35 Uran-E of Vietnam.

However, if the intention is to implement this project, the Philippines will certainly need to hire a Korean partner to implement because they lack experience and capacity to conduct themselves.

(BaoDatViet)