Concept Design The
Philippine Navy included plans to procure six new next-generation offshore patrol vessels as part of its Horizon 2 modernization phase, with a proposed budget of PHP 30 billion (US $555 million) among those approved in principle by Philippine President
Rodrigo Duterte in June 2018. During the pre-procurement development phase, the Technical Working Group (TWG) assigned to the project used the Philippine Navy's experience in specifying and building its latest warship, the , as there were numerous lessons learned from the project's development and construction from 2016 to 2020. Based on open source information, • an improved combat management system (CMS) compared to the one installed on the
Jose Rizal-class frigate; • a 2D air/surface search radar system; • a secondary surface search/navigation radar system; • a fire control radar (FCR); • an electro-optical tracking system (EOTS); • a radar electronic support measures (R-ESM) system; • a radio detection finder (RDF); • no sonar system Weapon systems required by the specifications are the following: These vessels would be constructed at Austal's facilities in the Philippines. At the time Austal was favored to win the contract. However, rising costs of construction led to an estimated cost overrun of 40% (Php 12 billion) over the project budget of Php 30 billion, leading the Philippine government to decline Austal's offer and end negotiations. This subsequently led the Philippine Navy to opt to pursue sole-source foreign-built OPVs. Several offers were made to the Philippine Navy to meet the requirements for new OPVs, including proposals coming from South Korea's
Hyundai Heavy Industries, Turkey's
ASFAT,
Israel Shipyards, Thailand's
Bangkok Dock Company, France's
Naval Group, Dutch shipbuilder
Damen Group, and India's
Goa Shipyard. On the other hand, ASFAT offered a revised version of their VARD-7 86-meter patrol vessel design. Ultimately, Hyundai Heavy Industries was selected as the winning contractor for the project, with a Notice of Award released by the DND around May or June 2022, and a contract signed on 27 June 2022. This was an enlarged and improved version of the HDP-1500 Neo OPV design which was believed to be the benchmark of HHI's offer to the Philippines with an enlarged hull and other improvements to fit the requirements of the Philippine Navy. As Critical Design Review was conducted, HHI's designation on the OPV offered to the Philippine Navy was later changed to the HDP-2200+ OPV design, as confirmed by HHI during Euronaval 2022 defense exhibition in Paris, France in October 2022. The HDP-2200+ scale model shown at Euronaval 2022 shows that the patrol vessel will have a 76mm primary naval gun in A-position, and can potentially mix and match different weapon systems like medium caliber 30mm guns in remote controlled stations, close-in weapon stations, short range
surface-to-air missile launchers, and anti-ship missiles. Aside from helicopter landing deck, the ship would also have a space to operate two (2) Unmanned Aerial System, a stern launching and recovery system for Rigid Hull Inflatable Boats (RHIB), and spaces for Inter Containerized Mission Modules to allow the ships to conduct other roles. International accredited registrar
DNV awarded Hyundai Heavy Industries an approval in principle (AiP) for the new HDP-2200 Offshore Patrol Vessel design, certifying its compliance to regulatory requirements.
Confirmed Subsystems Kongsberg Maritime has confirmed that they will be supplying
Kamewa 86 A/5 D-B Controllable Pitch Propeller systems to HHI, which will installed on the new offshore patrol vessels being built for the Philippine Navy, with deliveries starting in August 2024.
Hensoldt UK was awarded a contract to supply Mk11 SharpEye navigation radars for HHI's Philippine Navy ship projects. The radars will be fitted on both the 3,200-ton corvettes and the 2,400-ton offshore patrol vessels currently being developed and constructed by HHI for the Philippine Navy. These radars will provide navigation and surface search capabilities for the vessels.
Anschütz Singapore announced that it had secured the contract to provide its
Synapsis NX integrated navigation system for Hyundai Heavy Industry's Philippine Navy OPV project. In 2023 May 12,
Hanwha Systems announced they won a contract to supply CMS and TDL (tactical data link) for the six Philippine Navy HDP-2400 OPVs.The CMS deal totaled $29.5M or ~$5M per package, while the TDL deal totaled $5M or ~$830K per package. This is Hanwha's 4th export contract to the Philippine Navy, bringing it from 7 to 13 CMS units. In an interview with Naval News,
Safran has confirmed that their PASEO XLR extra long range optronic identification & fire control system will be installed on the 2 HDC-3100 corvettes and 6 HDP-2200 offshore patrol vessels being built by HD Hyundai for the Philippine Navy. ==Construction==