RAM for KDX-3 Destroyer

Seoul placed an order with Ray theori Missile Systems in early October 2004 to equip the Republic of Korea Navy's (ROKN's) three new KDX-3 AEGIS equipped destroyers with RAM close in self defence weapon. Valued at US $ 25 million, the contract is the fourth RAM procurement awarded by the ROKN, which already mounts the system on its KDX-2 destroyers, and plans to fit it on board a new LPD due to be launched next year.