Chungmugong Yi Sun-sin-class destroyer

	ROKS Yi SunSin (DDH-975)
Class overview
Builders	Hyundai Heavy Industries; Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering;
Operators	Republic of Korea Navy
Preceded by	Gwanggaeto the Great class
Succeeded by	Sejong the Great class
Built	2002-2006
In commission	2003–
Active	6
General characteristics
Type	Destroyer
Displacement	5,500 tonnes (5,413 long tons) standard; 6,520 tonnes (6,417 long tons) full load;
Length	150 m (492 ft 2 in)
Beam	17.4 m (57 ft 1 in)
Draft	9.5 m (31 ft 2 in)
Propulsion	Hanhwa GE LM2500 , Doosan MTU 956 Combined diesel or gas
Speed	30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph)
Complement	300
Armament	1 × 5 inch (127 mm)/L62 caliber Mk 45 Mod 4 naval gun; 1 × 30 mm Goalkeeper CIWS; 1 × RAM Block 1 CIWS; 8 × SSM-700K Haeseong Anti-ship Missiles; 32-cell Mk 41 VLS for SM-2 Block IIIA; 24-cell K-VLS for:; K-ASROC Red Shark; Hyunmoo III land attack cruise missiles;
Aircraft carried	2 × Super Lynx helicopters
Notes	Wang Geon is currently (April 2015) acting in a NEO/Temporary diplomatic mission role on station off the coast of Yemen. She was originally in the area as part of the Cheonghae Unit rotation.

Chungmugong Yi Sun-sin class destroyers (Korean: 충무공 이순신급 구축함, Hanja: 忠武公李舜臣級驅逐艦) are multipurpose destroyers of the Republic of Korea Navy. The lead ship of this class, ROKS Chungmugong Yi Sunsin, was launched in May 2002 and commissioned in December 2003. Chungmugong Yi Sun-sin-class destroyers were the second class of ships to be produced in the Republic of Korea Navy's destroyer mass-production program named Korean Destroyer eXperimental, which paved the way for the navy to become a blue-water navy. Six ships were launched by Hyundai Heavy Industries and Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering in four years.

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