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KOREAN PEOPLE'S ARMY NAVAL FORCE (NORTH KOREA)

ESCORTS

'SARIWON' corvettes (1966-1969)

2010

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
i 725, later- 611   North Korea     1966 in service (2019)
ii 726, later- 612   North Korea     1966 in service (2019)
iii 727, later- 613   North Korea     1967 in service (2019)
iv 728, later- 614   North Korea     1969 in service (2019)
  

 

Displacement standard, t

475

Displacement full, t

600

Length, m

62.1

Breadth, m

7.30

Draught, m

2.40

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 diesels

Power, h. p.

3000

Max speed, kts

21

Fuel, t

diesel oil

Endurance, nm(kts)

2700(18)

Armament

1 x 1 - 100/56 B-24-BM, 1 x 2 - 37/63 V-11M, 4 x 4 - 14.5/89 ZPU-4, 2 DCR, 30 mines

Electronic equipment Zarnitsa, Don-2 radars, Tamir-10 sonar

Complement

65

Project history: Large patrol craft escort ships built in Korea in the mid-1960s and closely modelled on the ex-Soviet Tral class minesweepers. They had the same silhouette. Some sources reports about four or five ships built in class (614 and 571, 571 also may be former old Soviet minesweeper)

Modernizations: 1990s, all: - 1 x 1 - 100/56, 2 DCR, Zarnitsa radar; + 2 x 2 - 57/70 type 66, 1 x 2 - 37/63 V-11M, 2 x 5 RBU-1200 ASWRL, type 351 radar, 4 6-round decoy RL

Naval service: No significant events.

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