A total of 24 ships of this class were built and commissioned by the Republic of Korea Navy (RoKN) in four batches between 1984 and 1993. Of these, 10 are still in service with the RoKN, while several others have been transferred to countrie.
Washington, London, and Canberra have signed an agreement on the sharing of sensitive, classified submarine data as part of the AUKUS pact to arm Australia
Chinese leader Xi Jinping has taken a swipe at Australia s plan to acquire nuclear submarines as Defence Minister Peter Dutton took the next step in formalising the deal.