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By ANDREW CHUTER
LONDON — The South Korean Navy will use a Rolls-Royce engine to power a new batch of frigates being built by Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering.
The British-based engine supplier said June 26 it had secured an order for its MT30 gas-turbine power plant for the first of what is expected to be an eight-strong fleet of frigates known as the FFX Batch II program. A company spokesman declined to put a value on the contract win as final negotiations are still underway ahead of an expected signing of the deal by the end of July.
It’s the first time Rolls-Royce has secured an order for the MT30 in Asia and the first time the power plant has been ordered for a warship in a single engine installation rather than a pair.
The Batch I frigates ordered by the South Koreans used twin LM2500 engines provided by General Electric.
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