MarineForum, 23 July, is reporting
“The Colombian navy will be given a decommissioned (in service 1983, out of service 2011) South Korean corvette …for anti-drug operations … part of South Korean plans to boost arms exports to Latin America) (rmks: dates given seem to indicate DONG HAE class 755 AN YANG)
Coast Guard units may have an opportunity to work with this vessel. Here are the specs for the ship found in Wikipedia. No helicopter deck, but perhaps that might be changed, otherwise looks like a good addition for drug enforcement.
| Displacement: | 1,076 tonnes (1,059 long tons; 1,186 short tons) |
| Length: | 78.1 m (256 ft 3 in) |
| Beam: | 9.6 m (31 ft 6 in) |
| Draft: | 2.6 m (8 ft 6 in) |
| Propulsion: | CODOG unit |
| Speed: | Maximum: 31 knots (57 km/h) Cruising: 15 knots (28 km/h) |
| Range: | 4,000 nautical miles (7,400 km) |
| Crew: | 95 |
| Sensors and processing systems: |
EDO 786 hull mounted sonar |
| Armament: | • 1 × OTO Melara 76 mm/62 compact cannon • 2× Emerson 30mm twin guns • 1× Bofors 40mm/56 twin guns • 2× Mark 32 triple torpedo tubes (with 6× Mark 46 torpedoes) • 12× Mark 9 depth charges |
