DSME secures contract to upgrade three more Chang Bogo-class submarines for RoKN
16 December 2020
by Gabriel Dominguez & Dae Young Kim
South Korea’s Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) has secured a KRW165 billion (USD151 million) contract to upgrade three more Chang Bogo (Type 209/1200)-class diesel-electric attack submarines operated by the Republic of Korea Navy (RoKN).
The Ministry of National Defense’s (MND’s)
Kookbang Ilbo
newspaper reported on 11 December that the contract award, which was announced by the country’s Defense Acquisition Program Administration, comes after DSME completed in 2019 the upgrade of three of the nine submarines of the class –
Lee Eok Gi