ROKS Chungnam (FF-953)
ROKS Chungnam (FF-953) is the third ship of the Ulsan-class frigate in the Republic of Korea Navy.In the early 1990s, the Korean government plan for the construction of next generation coastal ships named Frigate 2000 was scrapped due to the 1997 Asian financial crisis.But the decommissioning of the Gearing-class destroyers and the aging fleet of Ulsan-class frigates, the plan was revived as the Future Frigate eXperimental, also known as FFX in the early 2000s.[1] ROKS Chungnam was launched on 26 October 1984 by Hanjin Heavy Industries and commissioned on 1 June 1986.[2] Media related to ROKS Chungnam (FF-953) at Wikimedia Commons