List of frigate classes in service

The list of frigate classes in service includes all those currently with navies or armed forces and auxiliaries in the world. Ships are grouped by type, and listed alphabetically within.

Beihai
Type 053H, 053H1, 053H2, 053H1Q, 053H1G frigate (NATO codename Jianghu I, II, III, IV, V)
Xiangfan
Type 053H3 frigate (NATO codename Jiangwei II)
  • Builders:  China (Hudong Shipyard in Shanghai and Huangpo Shipyard in Guangzhou)
  • Type: Multi-role guided-missile frigate
  • Displacement: 2,250–2,393 tons
  • Aircraft: 1 Harbin Z-9 helicopter
  • Armament: 8 × YJ-83 SSM; 8 × HQ-7 SAM; 4 × dual-37 mm guns; 1 × dual-100 mm gun; 2 × 6-tube ASW rocket launchers; 6 × torpedo launchers; 2 × 15-barrel decoy rocket launchers; 2 × DC racks & launcher
  • Powerplant: 4 diesel engines; 2 shafts; 22,840 bhp total power
  • Speed: 28 knots
  • Range: 4,000 nmi at 18 knots
  • Ships in class: 14
  • Operator:  People's Liberation Army Navy,  Bangladesh Navy,  Pakistan Navy (F-22P Zulfiquar class)
  • Commissioned: 1999
  • Status: In active service
    Zulfiqaur
Type 054 frigate (NATO codename Jiangkai I)
  • Builders:  China (Hudong Shipyard in Shanghai and Huangpu Shipyard in Guangzhou)
  • Type: Multi-role guided-missile frigate
  • Displacement: 3,000–4,300 tons (estimated)
  • Aircraft: 1 Z-9 or Kamov Ka-28 helicopter
  • Armament: 2 × 4 YJ-83 (C-803) SSM; 1 × HQ-7 8-cell SAM; 1 × 100 mm gun; 4 × AK-630 37 mm CIWS; 2 × triple 324mm YU-7 ASW torpedoes; 2 × rocket launchers, possibly ASW rockets or decoy rockets
  • Powerplant: 2 French SEMT Pielstick diesels, 21,000 hp, 2 MTU Friedrichshafen 20V 956TB92, 8,840 hp
  • Speed: 25–30 knots
  • Ships in class: 2: Ma'anshan (525), Wenzhou (526)
  • Operator:  People's Liberation Army Navy
  • Commissioned: February 2005
  • Status: In active service
Yiyang
Type 054A frigate (NATO codename Jiangkai II)
  • Builders:  China (Hudong Shipyard in Shanghai and Huangpu Shipyard in Guangzhou)
  • Type: Multi-role guided-missile frigate
  • Displacement: 3,600–4,053 tons (estimated)
  • Aircraft: 1 Z-9 or Kamov Ka-28 helicopter
  • Armament: 2 × 4 YJ-83 (C-803) SSM; 1 × HQ-16 32-cell VLS SAM; 1 × 76 mm dual-purpose gun; 2 × Type 730 7-barrel 30 mm CIWS; 2 × triple 324mm YU-7 ASW torpedoes; 2 × 6 Type 87 240mm anti-submarine rocket launcher (36 rockets carried); 2 × Type 726-4 18-tube decoy rocket launchers
  • Powerplant: 4 Shaanxi/SEMT Pielstick diesels
  • Speed: 27 knots (estimated)
  • Ships in class: 31
  • Operator:  People's Liberation Army Navy
  • Commissioned: January 2008
  • Status: In active service
Absalon at sea 2019
Absalon-class frigate
JS Abukuma
Abukuma-class destroyer escort
ARC Caldas
Almirante Padilla-class Frigate
Álvaro de Bazán (F-101)
Álvaro de Bazán (F100)-class frigate
Te Mana (Royal New Zealand Navy)
Anzac-class frigate
  • Type: Frigate
  • Builder: Tenix for  Australia,  New Zealand
  • Displacement: 3,600 tons
  • Armament: 1 × 8-cell Mk 41 VLS, 8 × canister launched Harpoon missiles (Australian ships only), 1 × 5 in/54 (127 mm) Mk 45 Mod 2 gun, 6 × 324 mm (2 triple) Mk 32 Mod 5 torpedo tubes, 1 × Phalanx CIWS (NZ ships only), 6 × 50 calibre machine guns.
  • Propulsion: 1 × General Electric LM2500+ gas turbine and 2 × MTU 12V1163 TB83 diesel engines, 2 shafts
  • Speed: 27 knots (50 km/h)
  • Ships in class: 10
  • Operator:  Royal Australian Navy,  Royal New Zealand Navy
  • Commissioned: 18 September 1996
  • Status: In active service
Bersagliere
Artigliere-class patrol frigate
  • Type: Multi-role frigate
  • Builder:  Italy
  • Displacement: 2,400 tons
  • Armament: 8 missiles Teseo Otomat SSM, 16 Sea Sparrow SAMs, OTO Melara 127 mm/54 gun, 2 twin Breda 40 mm/70 AA
  • Propulsion: 2 gas turbines Fiat/GE LM 2500, 2 Diesel GMT Bl 230.20 M, 2 shafts
  • Speed: 35 knots (65 km/h)
  • Ships in class: 4
  • Operator:  Marina Militare
  • Commissioned: 1994
  • Status: In active service
Bhumibol Adulyadej
Bhumibol Adulyadej-class frigate
Brahmaputra
Brahmaputra-class frigate
  • Builders:  India
  • Type: Guided-missile frigate
  • Displacement: 3,850 tons
  • Armament: 16 3M-24E (SS-N-25 Switchblade) SSMs, Barak 1 system, 1 Otobreda 76 mm gun, 1 AK-630 30 mm, 2 triple torpedo tubes with Whitehead A244S torpedoes
  • Propulsion: Two Bhopal turbines, two 550 psi boilers, 2 shafts
  • Speed: 30+ knots
  • Ships in class: 3
  • Operator:  Indian Navy
  • Commissioned: 14 April 2000
  • Status: In active service
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
Brandenburg-class frigate
  • Builders:  Germany
  • Type: Anti-submarine guided-missile frigate
  • Displacement: 4,900 tons
  • Aircraft: 2 Sea Lynx Mk.88A or 2 NH90 helicopters
  • Armament: 1 VLS with 16 cells Sea Sparrow SAM; 2 RAM launchers (21 missiles each); 4 Exocet SSM; 1 Otobreda 76 mm gun; 2 MLG 27 autocannons; 4 324 mm torpedo tubes with Mk46 Mod 2 torpedoes
  • Powerplant: 2 MTU 20V 956 TB92 diesel-engines, 2 General Electric LM2500 gas turbines; 2 shafts
  • Speed: 29 knots
  • Ships in class: 4
  • Operator:  German Navy
  • Commissioned: 1994–1996
  • Status: In active service
Niedersachsen
Bremen-class frigate
  • Builders:  West Germany
  • Type: Multi purpose guided-missile frigate
  • Displacement: 3,680 tons
  • Aircraft: 2 Sea Lynx Mk.88A helicopters
  • Armament: 16 Sparrow SAM; 2 RAM launchers (21 missiles each); 2 quadruple Harpoon SSM launchers; 1 Otobreda 76 mm gun; 2 MLG 27 autocannons; 2 324 mm twin torpedo tubes with Mk46 Mod 2 torpedoes
  • Powerplant: 2 MTU 20V 956 TB92 diesel-engines, 2 General Electric LM2500 gas turbines; 2 shafts
  • Speed: 30 knots
  • Ships in class: 8
  • Operators:  German Navy
  • Commissioned: 1982–1990
  • Status: Retired
Cassard
Cassard-class frigate
  • Builders:  France
  • Type: Air defense guided-missile frigate
  • Displacement: 4,500 tons
  • Aircraft: 1 Eurocopter Panther helicopter
  • Armament: 40 Tartar SM1 SAM; 12 Sadral SAM; 8 Exocet MM38 SSM; 1 × 100 mm gun; 2 × 20 mm guns; 10 L5 torpedoes
  • Powerplant: 4 Pielstick diesel engines; 2 shafts; 42,300 bhp total power
  • Speed: 29 knots
  • Range: 8,000 nmi at 17 knots
  • Ships in class: 2
  • Operator:  Marine Nationale
  • Commissioned: 1988
  • Status: Retired
De Ruyter
De Zeven Provinciën-class frigate
  • Builders:  Netherlands (Royal Schelde)
  • Type: Air-defense and command frigate
  • Displacement: 6,050 tons
  • Armament: 5 Mk41 VLS with 8 cells each containing 32 ESSM and 32 SM-2 IIIA, 1-2 Goalkeeper CIWS, 2 quadruple Harpoon SSM, 1 Oto Breda 127 mm/54 dual-purpose gun, 2 twin MK32 Mod 9 torpedo launchers with Raytheon MK46 Mod 5 torpedoes[1]
  • Powerplant: 2 Stork Wärtsilä 16V26 diesel engines, 2 Rolls-Royce Spey SM1a gas turbines, 2shafts
  • Speed: 30 knots
  • Ships in class: 4
  • Operator:  Royal Netherlands Navy
  • Commissioned: 26 April 2002
  • Status: In active service
Vendémiaire in Papeete harbor
Floréal-class frigate
  • Builders:  France
  • Type: Patrol frigate (French designation Fregate de Surveillance)
  • Displacement: 2,750 tons
  • Aircraft: 1 Eurocopter Panther helicopter
  • Armament: 2 Exocet MM38 SSM; 1 × 100 mm gun; 2 × 20 mm guns
  • Powerplant: 4 Pielstick diesel engines; 2 shafts; 8,800 hp total power
  • Speed: 20 knots
  • Range: 10,000 nmi at 15 knots
  • Ships in class: 8
  • Operators:  Marine Nationale,  Royal Moroccan Navy
  • Commissioned: 1991
  • Status: In active service
Intrepid
Formidable-class frigate
Italian first FREMM Bergamini

FREMM multipurpose frigate (multiple classes)

Fridtjof Nansen
Fridtjof Nansen-class frigate
  • Builders:  Spain (Navantia in Ferrol)
  • Type: ASW/multirole frigate
  • Displacement: 5,121 tons
  • Aircraft: 1 NHI NH90 helicopter
  • Armament: Mk41 VLS 32 × ESSM; 8 × Naval Strike Missile SSM; 1 × 76 mm OTO Melara(SR) gun; 4 machine guns; Depth charge; 4 × 12.75-inch torpedo tubes for Sting Ray torpedoes
  • Powerplant: 2 Two BAZAN BRAVO 12V 4.5 MW diesel engines
  • Speed: 26+ knots; One GE LM2500 21.5 MW gas turbine+2 Diesel 4.5 MW each; 2 shafts
  • Ships in class: 5
  • Operator:  Royal Norwegian Navy
  • Commissioned: 5 April 2006
  • Status: In active service
Lamotte-Picquet
Georges Leygues (Type F70)-class frigate
  • Builders:  France
  • Type: Anti-submarine warfare guided-missile frigate
  • Displacement: 4,500 tons
  • Aircraft: 2 Lynx WG13 Mk.4 helicopters
  • Armament: 4 Exocet MM38 SSM; 26 Crotale SAM; 4 Mistral SAM; 1 × 100 mm gun; 2 × 20 mm guns; 4 machine guns; 10 L5 torpedoes
  • Powerplant: CODOG arrangement; 2 Pielstick diesel engines plus 2 Rolls-Royce Olympus gas turbines; 2 shafts; 52,000 hp total power
  • Speed: 30 knots
  • Range: 10,000 nmi at 15 knots
  • Ships in class: 7
  • Operator:  Marine Nationale
  • Commissioned: 1979
  • Status: 1 In active service
Regina
Halifax-class frigate
  • Builders:  Canada (Saint John Shipbuilding, Saint John, NB & MIL Davie Shipbuilding, Lauzon, QC)
  • Type: Large multi-role guided-missile frigate with helicopter (Designated multi-role patrol frigate in the CF)
  • Displacement: 4,770 tons
  • Aircraft: 1 × CH-148 Cyclone helicopter
  • Armament: 8 × MK 141 RGM-84 Harpoon SSM; 16 × Sea Sparrow SAM/SSM; 1 × Bofors SAK 57 mm; 1 × Phalanx CIWS (Block 1); 8 × M2 Machine Guns; 4 × MK 32 torpedo launchers
  • Powerplant: CODOG – 2 shafts: 2 turbines (47,500 shp), 1 diesel (8,800 shp)
  • Speed: 29+ knots
  • Ships in class: 12
  • Operator:  Royal Canadian Navy
  • Commissioned: 29 June 1992
  • Status: In active service
Chase

Hamilton–class cutter

Psara
Hydra-class frigate
  • Builders:  Germany,  Greece
  • Type: Multi-purpose frigate
  • Displacement: 3,360 tons
  • Armament: 16 ESSM SAM; 8 Harpoon AShM; 1 × Mk 42 5 inch gun; 2 Phalanx CIWS; 2 triple torpedo tubes
  • Powerplant: CODOG, 2 shafts
  • Speed: 31 knots
  • Ships in class: 4
  • Operator:  Hellenic Navy
  • Commissioned: 1992
  • Status: In active service
Incheon
Incheon-class frigate
  • Builders:  South Korea
  • Type: Coastal defense frigate
  • Displacement: 2,800 tons
  • Armament: 1 Mk 45 Mod 4 127mm gun, 1 20mm Phalanx CIWS, 1 RAM block 1, 16 SSM-700K Haeseong missiles, 2 triple torpedo tubes
  • Powerplant: CODOG 2 General Electric LM-2500 Gas turbine, 2 MTU 1163 TB83 diesel engine
  • Speed: 30 knots
  • Range: 8,000 at 18 knots
  • Ships in class: 6
  • Operator:  Republic of Korea Navy
  • Commissioned: 17 January 2013
  • Status: In active service
Istanbul-class frigate
TCG İstanbul
  • Builders:  Turkey
  • Type: Multirole frigate
  • Displacement: 3100 tons
  • Armament: Guns:1 × OTO Melara 76 mm Super Rapid or MKE National Naval Gun main gun, 1 × Aselsan GOKDENIZ 35 mm dual barreled CIWS, 2 × Aselsan STOP 25 mm RCWS Anti-ship missiles: 16 × Atmaca anti-ship missiles Vertical launching system: 16-cell MIDLAS Vertical Launching System: Up to 16 SAPAN or SIPER Surface-to-air missile Torpedoes: 2 × 324 mm (13 in) Triple Torpedo launchers with MK-46M5 or Akya Torpedo
  • Powerplant: 1 x LM2500 Gas turbine, 2 x 5.766HP MTU Diesel Machine
  • Speed: Economy: 14 kn (26 km/h; 16 mph), Maximum: 29 kn (54 km/h; 33 mph)
  • Range: 5.700 nmi (10.556 km; 6.559 mi) at 14 kn (26 km/h; 16 mph)
  • Ships in class: 4 (Planned:8, Building:3, Completed:1, Active:1)
  • Aircraft carried: Hangar and platform for: S-70B Seahawk ASW helicopter, Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV)
  • Operator:  Turkish Navy
  • Commissioned: 2024–present
  • Status: In active service
Iver Huitfeldt-class frigate
Jacob Van Heemskerck (Royal Netherlands Navy)
Jacob van Heemskerck-class frigate
  • Builders:  Netherlands
  • Type: Anti-aircraft warfare (AAW) frigate
  • Displacement: 3,750 tons
  • Armament: Goalkeeper CIWS 30 mm gun system, 2 × 20 mm guns, 4 tubes for Mark 46 torpedo's (2 quad mounts), 8 × RGM-84 Harpoon anti-ship missile launchers (2 quad mounts), 1 × RIM-66 Standard SAM from a Mk 13 Guided Missile Launch System (40 missiles total), 8 × RIM-7 Sea Sparrow SAM from a Mk 29 Guided Missile Launch System (8 missile in the launcher and 16 in the magazine)
  • Powerplant: 2 Rolls-Royce Tyne RM1C gas turbines, 4,900 shp (3,700 kW) each & 2 Rolls-Royce Olympus TM3B gas turbines, 25,700 shp (19,200 kW) each (boost)
  • Speed: 30 knots (max)
  • Ships in class: 2
  • Operators:  Chilean Navy
  • Commissioned: 15 January 1986
  • Status: In active service
Van Amstel (Royal Netherlands Navy)
Karel Doorman-class frigate
Kasturi
Kasturi-class frigate
  • Builders:  Germany (Blohm + Voss in Kiel)
  • Type: Light frigate
  • Displacement: 1,850 tons
  • Armament: 1 × Creusot Loire Compact 100 mm/55 DP gun, 1 × Bofors 57 mm/70 DP gun, 2 dual 30 mm Emerlec Mk 74 twin mountings AA gun, MANPADs SAM, 8 × MBDA Exocet MM40-Block 2, 1 × Bofors 375 mm twin barrel ASW
  • Powerplant: 4 × MTU 20V 1163 TB92 diesels, 21.460 hp, 2 shafts
  • Speed: 28 knots
  • Ships in class: 2 total:
  • Operator:  Royal Malaysian Navy
  • Commissioned: 15 August 1984
  • Status: In active service
Ning Yang (Republic of China Navy)
Knox-class frigate
Koni (Project 1159)-class frigate
Rostock (East German Navy)
Zadornyy
Talwar (Indian Navy)
Krivak (Project 1135 Burevestnik)-class frigate
  • Builders:  Soviet Union /  Russia /  Ukraine (Severnaya Verf 190 in St. Petersburg; Yantar Zavod in Kaliningrad; Zaliv Zavod in Kerch)
  • Type:
    • Project 1135 Anti-submarine frigate (Russian designation 'patrol ship')
    • Project 11351 Border Guard Service of Russia
    • Project 11356 Frigate
  • Displacement:
    • 3,575 tons (1135)
    • 3,830 tons (11351)
    • 4,035 tons (11356)
  • Armament:
    • 4 × SSM; 40 × SS-N-4 SAM; 2 × 100 mm or 4 × 76 mm gun; 2 RPU-6000; 8 × 533 mm torpedoes; 16 mines (1135)
    • 1 х 100 mm gun, 2 х 6 30mm guns, 2 × 4 533 mm torpedo tubes, 2 × RBU-6000 Anti-Submarine rockets (11351)
    • 1 × 100 mm gun, two Kashtan CIWS systems, eight-cell VLS for 3M-54E Klub and BrahMos missiles, one 3S-90 launcher for 9M317 (SA-N-12) SAMs, eight Igla-1E (SA-16) SAMs, 1 × RBU-6000 rocket launcher, two twin 533 mm torpedo tubes (11356)
  • Aircraft: 1 Kamov Ka-27 (11351 and 11356)
  • Powerplant:
    • COGAG arrangement; 2 M8K and 2 M62 gas turbines; 2 shafts; 48,000 hp total power (1135)
    • 2 × DS-71 gas turbines and 2 × DT-59 boost turbines, driving two shafts (11356)
  • Speed:
    • 30 knots (1135)
    • 32 (11356)
  • Ships in class:
    • 32 (1135)
    • 8 (11351)
    • 4 + 5 laid down (11356)
  • Operators:
  • Commissioned:
    • 1970 (1135)
    • 1984 (11351)
    • 2002 (11356)
  • Status: total 13 in service
Surcouf
La Fayette-class frigate
  • Builders:  France
  • Type: Patrol frigate
  • Displacement: 3,280 long tons (3,330 t)
  • Aircraft: 1 Eurocopter Panther helicopter
  • Armament: 8 Exocet SSM; 8 Crotale SAM; 1 × 100 mm gun; 2 × 20 mm guns
  • Powerplant: 4 diesel engines; 2 shafts; 17,600 brake horsepower (13,100 kW) total power
  • Speed: 25 knots (46 km/h)
  • Range: 9,000 nautical miles (17,000 km) at economical speed, 12 knots (22 km/h)
  • Ships in class: 14
  • Operators:  Marine Nationale,  Royal Saudi Navy,  Republic of China Navy
  • Commissioned: 1995
  • Status: In active service
Almirante Lynch (Chilean Navy)
Leander-class frigate
Bertholf
Legend–class cutter
Lekiu-class frigate
  • Builders:  United Kingdom (Yarrow Shipbuilders in Glasgow)
  • Type: Frigate
  • Displacement: 2,270 tons
  • Armament: 16 Seawolf SHORADS SAM, 8 MM40 Blk II Exocet SSM, 2 × B515 triple 12.75-inch torpedo for launching Whitehead 324 mm tubes, 1 Bofors 57 mm/70 dual-purpose guns, 2 MSI 30 mm AA guns,
  • Powerplant: 4 × diesels driving 2 shafts, 16,000 bhp
  • Speed: 28 knots
  • Ships in class: 2
  • Operator:  Royal Malaysian Navy
  • Commissioned: December 1994
  • Status: 2 in active service
Sagittario
Lupo-class frigate
  • Builders:  Italy
  • Type: Multi-role frigate
  • Displacement: 2,525 tons
  • Armament: 8 Otomat Mk 2 SSMs, • 8 Sea Sparrows SAMs, 1 OTO Melara 127/54 mm gun, 2 Breda-Bofors twin 40/70 mm guns, 2 Mark 32 triple torpedo tubes
  • Powerplant: 2 General Electric / Fiat LM2500 gas turbines,2 GMT A230-20 diesel engines,
  • Speed: 35 knots
  • Ships in class: 14
  • Operators:  Marina Militare,  Peruvian Navy,  Bolivarian Navy of Venezuela
  • Commissioned: 1978
  • Status: In active service
Maestrale
Maestrale- class frigate
  • Builders:  Italy
  • Type: Multi-role frigate
  • Displacement: 3,040 tons
  • Armament: 4 missile launchers Teseo Mk 2, 1 8-cells missile launcher Albatros/Aspide, 1 × 127 mm/54 gun, 4 × 40 mm/70 guns, 2 × 533 mm torpedo launchers, 6 × ASW 324 mm torpedo launchers
  • Powerplant: 2 × General Electric/Avio LM2500 gas turbines, 2 D Grandi Motori Trieste BL-230-20-DVM, 2 shafts
  • Speed: 32–33 knots
  • Ships in class: 8
  • Operator:  Marina Militare
  • Commissioned: 1980
  • Status: In active service
Neustrashimyy
Neustrashimy-class frigate
Constituição
Niterói-class frigate
  • Builders:  United Kingdom,  Brazil
  • Type: Multi-role frigate
  • Displacement: 3,707 tons
  • Armament: MM-40 Exocet SSM; ASPIDE SAM; 1 Vickers gun 4.5-inch Mk 8, 2 Bofors SAK 40 mm/70 AA; 2 x3 torpedo tubes for Mk 46 torpedoes; anti-submarine rocket launcher
  • Powerplant: 2 Rolls-Royce Olympus gas turbines, 4 MTU Diesels
  • Speed: 30 knots
  • Ships in class: 6
  • Operator:  Brazilian Navy
  • Commissioned: 20 November 1976
  • Status: In active service
Oliver Hazard Perry
Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate
Hessen
Sachsen-class frigate
  • Builders:  Germany
  • Type: Air defense guided-missile frigate
  • Displacement: 5,690 tons
  • Aircraft: 2 Sea Lynx Mk 88A or 2 NH90 helicopters
  • Armament: 1 VLS 32 ESSM and 24 SM-2 IIIA SAM, 2 RAM launchers with 21 SAM/CIWS-missiles each, 2 quadruple Harpoon SSM launcher, 1 Otobreda 76 mm dual-purpose gun, 2 Mauser MLG 27 27 mm autocannons, 2 triple torpedo launchers with EuroTorp MU90 Impact torpedoes
  • Powerplant: 2 MTU V20 diesel engines, 1 General Electric LM2500 gas turbine, 2 shafts
  • Speed: 29 knots
  • Ships in class: 3
  • Operator:  German Navy
  • Commissioned: 2004–2006
  • Status: In active service
Sahyadri
Shivalik-class frigate
  • Builders:  India (Mazagon Dock Limited)
  • Type: Guided-missile stealth frigate
  • Displacement: 6,200 tons
  • Aircraft: 2 × HAL Dhruv or Sea King Mk 42B helicopters.
  • Armament: 1 × 3.0-inch Otobreda naval gun; 8 × VLS launched Klub anti-ship cruise missiles or 8 × VLS launched BrahMos anti-ship cruise missiles; 2 × 2 DTA-53-956 torpedo launchers; 2 × RBU-6000 (RPK-8) rocket launchers; Shtil-1 missile system with 24 short to medium range (30 km) missiles; Barak SAM-launcher CIWS; 2 × AK-630 CIWS
  • Powerplant: 2 × Pielstick 16 PA6 STC Diesel engines 2 × GE LM2500+ boost turbines in CODOG configuration
  • Speed: 32 knots (22 in diesel)
  • Ships in class: 3
  • Operator:  Indian Navy
  • Commissioned: 2010
  • Status: In active service
Vædderen
Thetis-class ocean patrol vessels
  • Builders:  Denmark (StanFlex)
  • Type: Multi-role ocean patrol vessel
  • Displacement: 3,500 tons
  • Aircraft: 1 Lynx helicopter
  • Armament: 1 × 76 mm gun; 1 × 20 mm gun; 2 depth charge racks; modular additional weapon options
  • Powerplant: 3 diesel engines; 1 shaft; 6,366 hp total power
  • Speed: 21 knots
  • Ships in class: 4
  • Operator:  Royal Danish Navy
  • Commissioned: 1991
  • Status: In active service
  • Note: Also known as StanFlex 3000 or IS86 class
Shahjahan (Pakistani Navy)
Type 21 frigate
  • Builders:  United Kingdom
  • Type: General-purpose frigate
  • Displacement: 2,860 tons
  • Armament: (Pakistani modifications) 1 × 4.5 in Vickers Mark 8 gun; 4 × 20 mm Oerlikon; Harpoon SSM; LY-60N SAM; 2 × 12.75" 3-tube STWS-1 torpedo tubes
  • Powerplant: 2 Tyne cruise turbines, 2 Olympus boost turbines, 2 shafts
  • Speed: 30 knots
  • Ships in class: 8
  • Operators:  Pakistan Navy
  • Commissioned: 11 May 1974
  • Status: 6 In active service, 2 sunk
Chatham
Type 22 frigate
  • Builders:  United Kingdom
  • Type: Anti-submarine frigate
  • Displacement: Batch 1: 4,400 tons; Batch 2: 4,800 tons; Batch 3: 4,900 tons
  • Armament: (Batch 3) 2 quadruple Harpoon launchers, 2 GWS 25 Mod 3 Seawolf anti-missile missile systems, 4.5 in (110 mm) gun, 2 20 mm guns (after refit), Goalkeeper CIWS, 2 triple torpedo tubes
  • Powerplant: 2 Rolls-Royce Olympus TM3B high-speed gas turbines and 2 Rolls-Royce Tyne RM1A cruise gas turbines
  • Speed: 30 knots (56 km/h)
  • Ships in class: 14 total: 4 Batch I, 6 Batch II, 4 Batch 3
  • Operators:  Brazilian Navy,  Chilean Navy,  Romanian Naval Forces
  • Commissioned: 2 May 1979
  • Status: 6 in active service, 8 disposed (2 sunk as targets, 6 scrapped)
Somerset
Type 23 frigate
  • Builders:  United Kingdom
  • Type: Multi-role frigate
  • Displacement: 4,900 tons
  • Armament: 2 × quadruple Harpoon, 32 × Sea Wolf SAM, 1 × 114 mm Vickers Mark 8 gun, 2 × Oerlikon 30 mm guns, 4 × fixed torpedo tubes, Marconi Sting Ray NATO Seagnat, Type 182 and DLF3 countermeasures launchers
  • Propulsion: CODLAG, 2 × Rolls-Royce gas turbines, 4 × diesel engines, 2 × GEC electric motors
  • Speed: 28 knots
  • Ships in class: 16
  • Operators:  Royal Navy,  Chilean Navy
  • Commissioned: 1 June 1990
  • Status: In active service – 13  Royal Navy, 3  Chilean Navy
Kyongbuk
Ulsan-class frigate
  • Builders:  South Korea
  • Type: Multi-purpose frigate
  • Displacement: 2,350 tons
  • Armament: 2 OTO Mellara (76mm)/62 compact, 4 Emerson Electric 30 mm (951–955), 3 Breda 40 mm/70(956–961), 8 RGM-84D Harpoon SSM, 1 Raytheon VLS – Mk 48 Mod 2, 5 triple torpedo tubes
  • Powerplant: CODOG 2 General Electric LM-2500 Diesel Engine, 2 MTU 538 TB 82
  • Speed: 34 knots
  • Range: 8,000 at 16 knots
  • Ships in class: 9 (3 in final weapons fitment)
  • Operators:  Republic of Korea Navy,  Bangladesh Navy
  • Commissioned: 1 January 1984
  • Status: In active service
Mendi
Valour (MEKO A-200)-class frigate
  • Builders:  Germany (Blohm + Voss in Hamburg)
  • Type: Air defense frigate
  • Displacement: 3,700 tons
  • Aircraft: 1 SuperLynx helicopter
  • Armament: 8 Exocet MM40 SSM; 16 Umkhonto SAM; 1 × 76 mm gun; 2 × 35 mm guns; 2 × 20 mm guns; 4 torpedo tubes
  • Powerplant: CODAG WARP arrangement; 1 LM2500 gas turbine, 2 MTU 16V 1163 TB93 diesels, 1 LIPS LJ210E waterjet; 42,922 hp total power
  • Speed: 27 knots
  • Range: 8,000 at 16 knots
  • Ships in class: 4
  • Operator:  South African Navy
  • Commissioned: 2006
  • Status: In active service
Álvares Cabral
Vasco da Gama-class frigate
Westdiep
Wielingen-class frigate
  • Builders:  Belgium (Boel in Temse and Cockerill in Antwerp)
  • Type: Anti-submarine warfare and escort frigate
  • Displacement: 2,200 tons
  • Armament: 4 Exocet SSM; 8 Sea Sparrow SAM; 1 × 100 mm gun; 6 anti-submarine rockets; 2 L5 torpedo tubes
  • Powerplant: CODOG arrangement; 2 Cockerill diesel engines; 1 Rolls-Royce Olympus gas turbine
  • Speed: 28 knots (52 km/h)
  • Range: 6,000 nautical miles (11,000 km) at 16 knots (30 km/h)
  • Ships in class: 4
  • Operators:  Bulgarian Navy
  • Commissioned: 1978
  • Status: 1 stricken in 1993, 3 sold to Bulgaria in 2005 and in active Bulgarian service
Zagreb/Kotor-class frigate
Sigma 10514-class frigate (KRI Martadinata)
Sigma-class frigate

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Defensie, Ministerie van (2016-09-20). "Luchtverdedigings- en commandofregat (LCF)". www.defensie.nl.
  2. ^ Defensie, Ministerie van (2018-05-03). "Multipurposefregat (M-fregat)". www.defensie.nl.
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