Makes you wonder why the Koreans don’t make their own steel… First you need a ship to import the iron ore to Japan, then you need a ship to transport the plates to Korea and all that to just build another ship to transport the iron ore to Japan 😉 guess the cirlce keeps itself running this way. (I’m kidding, the tankers etc. have to get built too of course), but still I guess it would be smarter of Korea to start making its own steel!

And China:

Seller’s Market means that whatever you build, someone will buy it.
They do however mentiont that China does build its own steel plates… I guess Korea has forgotten something during its growing process, might cost them a lot in the future!

Top-30 producers by International Iron & Steel Institute

63.0 Mton Mittal Steel Company NV (Global) [2]
46.7 Mton Arcelor (Europe) [3]
32.0 Mton Nippon Steel (Japan) [4]
30.5 Mton POSCO (South Korea) [5]
29.9 Mton JFE (Japan) [6]
23.8 Mton Shanghai Baosteel Group Corporation (China)
source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steel_producers

POSCO produces HY100 steel for our U214 submarine and HY130 steel also can be produced if there are a order.

POSCO developed innovative, next generation iron making technology, FINEX process
source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FINEX

and our Big3 ship builder i.e. world’s Big3 ship builder: Hyundai Heavy Industries, Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering, Samsung Heavy Industries, each company has more than 10 billion USD contract this year FYI.

FA-50 is not F-50 but A-50 :rolleyes:
I and most of military forum members in SK and AF too, hate F-50. It’s waste of money 😡

….the Koreans in another thread are starting to already bash it with a bunch of “KDXIII” is the superior vessel, etc., etc., etc, mickey mouse.

Is she going to carry a towed array? I saw the Nixie ports, but not a towed array “a**hole”.

even KD-1 destroyer has TASS. and did you say Nixie?

Well, South Korea has the Ship Yard and has express interest in the JSF. With close ties to both Europe and the United States. It could only be a matter of time……………. 😀

Matter of time and MONEY 😡