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Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Po Hang Retires To The Tropics

Pohang class corvette (Kyong Ju)South Korea is donating one of its recently retired Po Hang class corvettes to the Philippines Navy.

The Po Hangs are 1,200 ton warships that first entered service in 1984. Since then 24 have been built.

Each is armed with four Harpoon anti-ship missiles, one 76mm cannon; two twin 40mm automatic cannon, six torpedo tubes and twelve depth charges. The crew of 95 also operates radar and sonar.

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