The original was taken from a colleague of imp_navigator in the lead destroyer of the Choi Hyun type, which was officially commissioned into the KPA Navy
On June 23, the official commissioning ceremony of the destroyer Choe Hyon (tail number 51), the lead ship of its type, took place in the port of Nampho in the presence of the Secretary General of the Workers' Party of Korea, Chairman of the State Affairs of the DPRK Kim Jong Un.
A destroyer with a claimed displacement of 5,000 tons and an unknown radar system with four fixed antennas with phased arrays.It was launched at the end of April 2025 in a high degree of readiness, after which tests began almost immediately, which lasted 14 months. During the tests, changes and improvements to the ship itself continued. Among them, the configuration and number of vertical launch installations were changed, the launchers of light multipurpose missiles were removed, machine-gun installations were added, etc. In total, the ship has 88 vertical launch launchers for cruise and anti-aircraft guided missiles of various types, one 127-mm artillery mount, two, apparently, six-barreled 30-mm artillery mounts of a new type, the Pantsir-ME anti-aircraft missile and artillery complex or its copy. The superstructure in the middle of the destroyer appears to contain inclined launchers for eight North Korean anti-ship missiles. The destroyer is also equipped with two twin-tube 533-mm torpedo tubes, at least eight paired 14.5-mm machine-gun launchers, four launchers for a complex of fired jamming and presumably two rocket-propelled bombs.
The ship is named after General Choi Hyun, an associate and close friend of the first leader of the DPRK, Kim Il Sung, who participated in the guerrilla war with Japan, the Korean War and then served for many years in the supreme command of the KPA and the leadership of the DPRK.
By order of the Central Military Commission of the Workers' Party of Korea, the Choe Hyun destroyer was transferred to the Western Sea Fleet of the KPA Navy (the Western Sea in Korea is the Yellow Sea). Currently, the second ship of this type, the Kang Gon, is being tested and two more destroyers of the same type are being built at North Korean shipyards.
