ROKS Gang Gam-chan (DDH-979)
ROKS Gang Gam-chan (DDH-979) is a Chungmugong Yi Sun-sin-class destroyer in the Republic of Korea Navy.[1][2] The KDX-II is part of a much larger build up program aimed at turning the ROKN into a blue-water navy.[3] ROKS Gang Gam-chan was launched on 16 March 2006 by Daewoo Shipbuilding and commissioned on 1 October 2007.[4] Gang Gam-chan participated in the anti-piracy operations off Somalia alongside European Union Naval Force (EU NAVFOR) on March 26, 2014.[5] ROKS Gang Gam-chan has been sent on patrol duty to Gulf of Aden on 13 August 2019.