Korea to deploy sub-killer torpedoes

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Korea to deploy sub-killer torpedoes

'잠수함 킬러' 홍상어 세종대왕함에 실전 탑재

Posted : 2011-08-17 15:56

Updated : 2011-08-17 15:56

Korea is likely to deploy Hongsangeo (Red Shark) submarine-killing torpedoes to the Navy’s King Sejong the Great-class Aegis destroyer late this month.

"The Navy installed a torpedo launch system on the King Sejong late last month and began the final sea acceptance test from Aug. 8," said a press release by Song Young-sun of Alliance of Future Hope at the National Assembly’s National Defense Committee.

"It'll be possible to deploy the torpedoes on the destroyer sometime late this month if there is nothing strange in the test outcome."

The Red Shark has been in development since 2000 as a submarine killer by the Agency for Defense Development (ADD) and will be deployed on another Aegis destroyer, the Yulgok, late this year, following the deployment on the King Sejong, according to military sources.

The missile is launched vertically to avoid detection by enemy submarines and to increase its range. It is dropped by parachute near the intended target. After release, the torpedo falls into the water and independently searches for the target.

“It is very meaningful that Korea will deploy the submarine killer on the destroyers as it covers about 30 kilometers and it can attack enemy submarines pre-emptively,” said lawmaker Song.

'잠수함 킬러' 홍상어 세종대왕함에 실전 탑재
국산 대잠(對潛) 미사일인 홍상어가 이달 말 해군이 운용하는 최신예 이지스함에 실전 배치될 것으로 15일 알려졌다. 국회 국방위원회 송영선(미래희망연대) 의원은 보도자료를 통해 "해군은 지난달 말 세종대왕함에 홍상어 수직발사대 모듈과 통제•감시장비 등의 발사체계 설치를 완료하고 지난 8일부터 최종 수락(受諾)시험에 들어갔다"며 "시험 결과 이상이 없으면 이달 말 실전에 배치될 예정"이라고 밝혔다. `잠수함 킬러'로 알려진 홍상어는 2000년부터 9년간 국방과학연구소가 개발했으며, 이달 말 세종대왕함에 이어 올 연말쯤 이지스함인 율곡이이함에도 배치될 것으로 전해졌다. 송 의원은 "사거리가 30km나 되고 적 잠수함을 선제 공격할 수 있는 홍상어를 실전 배치하는 것은 큰 의미가 있다"고 밝혔다.

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