๐ฐ๐ท๐ต๐ญ | HD Hyundai Heavy Industries has begun construction of the Philippine Navy's third Miguel Malvar-class frigate. HD Hyundai Heavy Industries plans to deliver it to the Philippines ahead of the contract schedule.
๐ฐ๐ท๐ต๐ญ | HD Hyundai Heavy Industries Moves Into Full-Scale Construction of the Philippine Navy's New HDF-3200 Guided-Missile Frigates
(According to an HD Hyundai press release)
โถ On the 4th, the Philippine Navy held a steel-cutting ceremony for the first of the new 3,200-ton frigates ordered last year.
โถ The two frigates ordered last year will be delivered in sequence starting in 2029.
โถ Drawing on its accumulated technology and expanded production capacity, the company is pursuing early delivery.
On the 4th, HD Hyundai Heavy Industries held a steel-cutting ceremony for the Philippine Navy's third Miguel Malvar-class frigate. This is the first of the two next-generation 3,200-ton guided-missile frigates that the Philippines purchased additionally from HD Hyundai Heavy Industries in December 2025. With this, construction of the Philippine Navy's first new 3,200-ton frigate has officially begun.
HD Hyundai Heavy Industries expects to deliver the Philippine Navy's new frigates early, and is aiming to deliver both ships by 2029. The first ship that entered construction today is the lead ship of the two 3,200-ton guided-missile frigates ordered by the Philippine Navy. It is based on the same design and specifications as the Miguel Malvar-class frigates, and will be equipped with an AESA radar, a 76mm main gun, the latest vertical launching system (VLS), eight SSM-710K C-Star anti-ship missile launchers, triple torpedo tubes, and the Gokdeniz close-in weapon system (CIWS). As an alternative to European models, South Korea is putting forward the K-VLS and K-SAAM (Haegung) in hopes of winning the VLS system order for these new frigates.
HD Hyundai Heavy Industries is pursuing a plan to deliver ahead of the contract schedule, leveraging its existing experience building frigates and the production capacity expanded through last year's merger.
This project is the fourth K-Warship construction project that HD Hyundai Heavy Industries and the Philippine Navy are carrying out together. Starting with two frigates ordered in 2016, HD Hyundai Heavy Industries has won orders for a total of 12 ships from the Philippine Navy: two Jose Rizal-class frigates, two Miguel Malvar-class frigates, six Sulayman-class offshore patrol vessels (OPVs), and two new HDF-3200 frigates.
An HD Hyundai Heavy Industries official said, "Based on the experience we have accumulated and our expanded production capacity, we will do our best to successfully build and deliver the new frigates, and to guarantee early delivery as well," adding, "We will continue to support the modernization of the Philippine Navy's fleet and strengthen our competitiveness in the global shipbuilding market."
โ Steel-cutting ceremony: An event in which the first steel plate needed for building a ship is cut, marking the official start of the construction process.
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Now that we've proven ourselves a reliable partner and customer of HD Hyundai, maybe we can negotiate to have at least one or two of our ships built here in the Philippines (Subic would be the most likely). It feels like it's time to benefit from that kind of relationship.
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