List of frigate classes in service explained

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.

Type 053H, 053H1, 053H2, 053H1Q, 053H1G frigate (NATO codename Jianghu I, II, III, IV, V)

• Builders: (Jiangnan Shipyard and Hudong Shipyard in Shanghai)
• Type: Patrol frigate
• Displacement: 1,800 tons
• Armament: 2–8 × C-201 or C-801 SSM; 2 × 100 mm guns; 4–8 × 37 mm guns
• Powerplant: 4 MTU diesel engines; 2 shafts; 26,500 hp total power
• Speed: 28 knots
• Range: 3,500 nmi at 18 knots
• Ships in class: 39 total: 14 Jianghu I, 9 Jianghu II, 3 Jianghu III, 1 Jianghu IV, 6 Jianghu V, 6 export version
• Operators:,,,,
• Commissioned: 1976
• Status: Most in active service, 7 retired

Type 053H3 frigate (NATO codename Jiangwei II)

• Builders: (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:,, (F-22P Zulfiquar class)
• Commissioned: 1999
• Status: In active service

Type 054 frigate (NATO codename Jiangkai I)

• Builders: (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:
• Commissioned: February 2005
• Status: In active service

Type 054A frigate (NATO codename Jiangkai II)

• Builders: (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:
• Commissioned: January 2008
• Status: In active service

-class frigate

• Type: Frigate
• Builder:
• Displacement: 4,500 tons
• Aircraft: 2 × EH-101 or 2 MH-60R helicopters
• Armament: 36 × RIM-162 ESSM SAM, 16 × Harpoon block II SSM, 1 × 5"/54 caliber Mark 45 gun, 4 × MU90 Impact torpedoes, 2 × Millennium 35mm CIWS, 7 × 12.7mm HMG
• Propulsion: 2 × MTU 8000 M70 diesel engines, Two shafts - 22,300 bhp (16.6 MW)
• Speed: 24kn
• Ships in class: 2
• Operator:
• Commissioned: 19 October 2004
• Status: In active service

-class destroyer escort

• Type: Destroyer escort
• Builder:
• Displacement: 2,550 tons
• Armament: 8 Harpoon Missiles SSM, ASROC octuple launcher, 1 Otobreda 76 mm, 1 Phalanx CIWS, 1 375 mm ASW rocket launcher, 2 triple 324 mm Mk 32 ASW torpedo tubes
• Propulsion: 2 Spey SM1A gas turbines, 2 Mitsubishi, 2 shafts
• Speed: 27kn
• Ships in class: 6
• Operator:
• Commissioned: 12 December 1989
• Status: In active service

Almirante Padilla-class Frigate

• Type: Frigate
• Builder:
• Displacement: 2,100 tons
• Armament: 8 × SSM-700K C-Stars SSM, 2 × SIMBAD SAM 1 × OTO Melara 76 mm/62 cal Strales Compact gun 1 × twin Breda 40 mm/70 guns 6 × 324 mm torpedo tubes
• Propulsion: 2 TB92 diesel engines
• Speed: 27kn
• Ships in class: 4
• Operator:
• Commissioned: 31 October 1983
• Status: In active service

(F100)-class frigate

• Builders: (Navantia, in Ferrol)
• Type: Air defense guided-missile frigate
• Displacement: 6,250 tons
• Aviation: 1 Sikorsky SH-60B LAMPS III Seahawk helicopter
• Armament: 1 × 5-inch/54 Mk45 Mod 2 gun, 2 × CIWS FABA 20 mm/120 Meroka gun, 6 × Mk41 8-cell VLS (32 × Standard SM-2 Block IIIA, 64 × RIM-162 Evolved SeaSparrow Missile), 8 × RGM-84 Harpoon, 4 × 324 mm Mk32 Mod 9 triple Torpedo launchers with 12 Honeywell Mk46 mod 5 Torpedo
• Powerplant: 2 × General Electric LM2500 gas turbines, 2 × Caterpillar 3600 diesel engines
• Speed: 29+ knots
• Ships in class: 5 + (3 under construction)
• Operator:, (three built as destroyer)
• Commissioned: 19 September 2002
• Status: In active service

-class frigate

• Type: Frigate
• Builder: Tenix for,
• 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: 27kn
• Ships in class: 10
• Operator:,
• Commissioned: 18 September 1996
• Status: In active service

Artigliere-class patrol frigate

• Type: Multi-role frigate
• Builder:
• 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: 35kn
• Ships in class: 4
• Operator:
• Commissioned: 1994
• Status: In active service

-class frigate

• Builders:,
• Type: Guided-missile frigate
• Displacement: 3,700 tons
• Aircraft: 1 SH-60 Seahawk helicopter
• Armament: 1 OTO Melara 76/62 Super Rapid, 2 30mm DS30M Mark 2, 2 M2 Browning .50 caliber, 1 Phalanx CIWS, 8 RGM-84L Block II Harpoon anti-ship missile, 8-cell Mk. 41 VLS
• Propulsion: 2 × Diesel engine MTU 16V1163 M94, 1 × General Electric LM2500 gas turbine
• Speed: 33.3 knots
• Ships in class: 1
• Operator:
• Commissioned: 7 January 2019
• Status: In active service

-class frigate

• Builders:
• 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:
• Commissioned: 14 April 2000
• Status: In active service

-class frigate

• Builders:
• 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:
• Commissioned: 1994–1996
• Status: In active service

-class frigate

• Builders:
• 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:
• Commissioned: 1982–1990
• Status: Retired

-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:
• Commissioned: 1988
• Status: Retired

-class frigate

• Builders: (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:
• Commissioned: 26 April 2002
• Status: In active service

-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:,
• Commissioned: 1991
• Status: In active service

-class frigate

• Builders: /
• Type: Stealthy patrol frigate
• Displacement: 3200LT
• Aircraft: 1 Sikorsky S-70B helicopter
• Armament: Harpoon SSM; MBDA Aster SAM; Whitehead Alenia A.224S torpedoes; Otobreda 76 mm gun
• Powerplant: MTU 20V 8000 diesel engines x4 at 8,200 kW each, two shafts
• Speed: 27kn
• Range: 4000nmi
• Ships in class: 6
• Operator:
• Commissioned: 2004
• Status: In active service

FREMM multipurpose frigate (multiple classes)

• Builders: /
• Type: Stealth Multipurpose frigate
• Displacement: France 6000LT; Italy 6700LT
• Aircraft: 1 NH90 or 2 SH90 helicopters
• Armament: Sylver VLS; MBDA Aster AAW and ASW; Exocet (France) and Teseo/Otomat Mk-2A Anti-ship missiles; MU90 torpedoes; OTO Melara 76 mm guns
• Powerplant: CODLOG/CODLAG
• Speed: France +27kn; Italy +30kn
• Range: France 6000nmi, Italy 6800nmi
• Ships in class: 16
• Operators: :, 8 ships
  : Bergamini-class, 10 ships
  : Aquitaine-class (purchased from France), 3 ships
  : Mohammed VI (single ship class)
  :, 15 ships planned
• Commissioned: 2012–present
• Status: In active service

-class frigate

• Builders: (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:
• Commissioned: 5 April 2006
• Status: In active service

(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:
• Commissioned: 1979
• Status: 1 In active service

-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:
• Commissioned: 29 June 1992
• Status: In active service

Hamilton–class cutter

• Builders:
• Type: High Endurance Cutter
• Displacement: 3,250 metric tons
• Armament:
  • 1 × OTO Melara Mk 75 76 mm gun
  • 2 × Mk 38 25 mm Machine Gun Systems
  • 1 × Phalanx CIWS
  • 6 × .50 cal machine guns
• Speed: 29 knots
• Ships in class: 12
• Operators:,,,,,
• Commissioned: 27 September 1971
• Status: In active service

-class frigate

• Builders:,
• 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:
• Commissioned: 1992
• Status: In active service

-class frigate

• Builders:
• 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:
• Commissioned: 17 January 2013
• Status: In active service

-class frigate

• Builders:
• 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:
• Commissioned: 2024–present
• Status: In active service

-class frigate

• Builders: (Odense Staalskibsværft)
• Type: Air Defense Frigate
• Displacement: 6,645 tons
• Aircraft: 1 × Westland Lynx Mk 90B (or, from 2017, 1 × Seahawk MH-60R)
• Armament: 2 × 76 mm OTO Melara guns; 1 × 35 mm CIWS gun; 4 × Mk 41 Vertical Launch Systems (VLS) with up to 32 SM-2 IIIA SAM surface-to-air missiles;
• 2 × Mk 56 VLS with up to 24 RIM-162 ESSM SAM surface-to-air missiles; 8-16 × Harpoon Block II SSM surface-to-surface missiles; 2 × dual MU90 Impact ASW torpedo launchers for anti-submarine torpedoes
• Powerplant: MTU 8000 20V M70 diesel engines, 8,2 MW each. Two shafts, CODAD
• Speed: 300NaN0
• Range: 9300nmi at 180NaN0
• Complement: 165 officers and sailors
• Ships in class: 3 (HDMS Iver Huitfeldt (F361), HDMS Peter Willemoes (F362) and HDMS Niels Juel (F363))
• Operator:
• Commissioned: 2012
• Status: In active service

-class frigate

• Builders:
• 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:
• Commissioned: 15 January 1986
• Status: In active service

-class frigate

• Builders:
• Type: Multi-purpose frigate
• Displacement: 3,320 tons
• Armament: Oto Melara 76 mm gun, Sea Sparrow VLS; Harpoon Missile; Goalkeeper CIWS; Mk 46 Torpedoes^[2]
• Powerplant: 2 Rolls-Royce (Spey 1A) gas turbines (33.800 pk total), 2* Stork-Werkspoor diesel engines (9.790 pk total)
• Speed: 29 knots
• Ships in class: 8
• Operators:,,,
• Commissioned: 31 May 1991
• Status: In active service

-class frigate

• Builders: (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:
• Commissioned: 15 August 1984
• Status: In active service

-class frigate

• Builders:,
• Type: Anti-submarine frigate
• Displacement: 4,200 tons
• Aviation: 1 helicopter
• Armament: 8 ARSOC; 8 Harpoon SSM; 1 × Mk 42 5-inch/54 caliber gun; 1 Phalanx CIWS; 4 Mk 46 torpedo tubes
• Powerplant: 2 – 1200 psi boilers; 1 geared turbine, 1 shaft; 35,000 hp
• Speed: 27 knots
• Ships in class: 51
• Operators:,,,,,
• Commissioned: 12 April 1969
• Status: Some in active service

(Project 1159)-class frigate

• Builders: (Zelenodolsk Shipyard in Zelenodolsk, Tatarstan)
• Type: Coastal anti-submarine warfare frigate
• Displacement: 1,900 tons
• Armament: 4 Styx SSM; 20 SA-N-4 SAM; 4 × 76 mm; 4 × 30 mm
• Powerplant: CODAG arrangement; 2 diesel engines; 1 gas turbine; 35,000 shp total power
• Speed: 27 knots
• Ships in class: 14 total: 6 Koni I and 8 Koni II
• Operator:,,,,
• Commissioned: 1976
• Status: Most in active service

(Project 1135 Burevestnik)-class frigate

• Builders: / / (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:
  • : 2 (1135), 2 (11351), 3 (11356)
  • : 1 (11351), stricken
  • : 6 (11356)
• Commissioned:
  • 1970 (1135)
  • 1984 (11351)
  • 2002 (11356)
• Status: total 13 in service

-class frigate

• Builders: France
• Type: Patrol frigate
• Displacement: 3280LT
• 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; total power
• Speed: 25kn
• Range: 9000nmi at economical speed, 12kn
• Ships in class: 14
• Operators:,,
• Commissioned: 1995
• Status: In active service

-class frigate

• Builders:,,
• Type: General-purpose frigate
• Displacement: 2,860 tons (Batch 1 & 2), 3,000 tons (Batch 3)
• Armament: Various configurations
• Powerplant: 2 steam turbines, 2 shafts, 25,000 shp
• Speed: 28 knots
• Ships in class: 46
• Operators:,,,,,,,,
• Commissioned: 27 March 1963
• Status: 8 in active service, 15 sunk as reefs/targets, 16 scrapped, 7 decommissioned

Legend–class cutter

• Builders: (Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula)
• Type: National Security Cutter
• Displacement: 4,600 tons
• Armament:
  • 1 × Bofors 57 mm gun
  • 1 × 20 mm Phalanx CIWS
  • 4 × crew served .50 cal Browning M2 Machine Guns
  • 2 × crew served M240B 7.62 mm machine guns
  • Designed for, but not with:
    • • • • Rim-115 Rolling Airframe Missile SeaRAM Others
• Speed: 28 knots
• Ships in class: 8 active, 11 total planned
• Operator:
• Commissioned: 4 August 2008
• Status: In active service

-class frigate

• Builders: (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:
• Commissioned: December 1994
• Status: 2 in active service

-class frigate

• Builders:
• 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:,,
• Commissioned: 1978
• Status: In active service

- class frigate

• Builders:
• 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:
• Commissioned: 1980
• Status: In active service

-class frigate

• Builders: (Yantar Baltic Shipbuilding in Kaliningrad)
• Type: Anti-submarine warfare frigate
• Displacement: 4,000 tons
• Aircraft: 1 Kamov Ka-27 helicopter
• Armament: 8 Kh-35 Uran SSM; 32 SA-N-9 SAM; 1 × 100 mm gun; 2 CIWS; 6 torpedo tubes
• Powerplant: COGAG arrangement; 4 gas turbines; 2 shafts; 57,000 shp total power
• Speed: 30 knots
• Ships in class: 3
• Operator:
• Commissioned: 1998
• Status: 2 in active service, 1 scrapped incomplete

-class frigate

• Builders:,
• 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:
• Commissioned: 20 November 1976
• Status: In active service

-class frigate

• Builders: (Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine, Todd Pacific Shipyards in Seattle, Washington and San Pedro, California,, in Bazan, Ferrol and, AMECON Williamstown, Victoria
• Type: Multi-role guided-missile frigate
• Displacement: 4,100 tons
• Aviation: 2 SH-60 Seahawk helicopters
• Armament: 40 Harpoon SSM or SM-1MR SAM; 1 × 76 mm gun; 1 Phalanx CIWS; 6 torpedo tubes
• Powerplant: 2 LM2500 gas turbines; 1 shaft; 41,000 shp total power
• Speed: 30 knots
• Ships in class: 71
• Operators:,,,,,,,
• Commissioned: 17 December 1977
• Status: 56 retired (2021)

-class frigate

• Builders:
• 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:
• Commissioned: 2004–2006
• Status: In active service

-class frigate

• Builders: (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:
• Commissioned: 2010
• Status: In active service

-class ocean patrol vessels

• Builders: (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:
• Commissioned: 1991
• Status: In active service
• Note: Also known as StanFlex 3000 or IS86 class

Type 21 frigate

• Builders:
• 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:
• Commissioned: 11 May 1974
• Status: 6 In active service, 2 sunk

Type 22 frigate

• Builders:
• 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, 4.5inches 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: 30kn
• Ships in class: 14 total: 4 Batch I, 6 Batch II, 4 Batch 3
• Operators:,,
• Commissioned: 2 May 1979
• Status: 6 in active service, 8 disposed (2 sunk as targets, 6 scrapped)

Type 23 frigate

• Builders:
• 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:,
• Commissioned: 1 June 1990
• Status: In active service – 13, 3

-class frigate

• Builders:
• 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:,
• Commissioned: 1 January 1984
• Status: In active service

(MEKO A-200)-class frigate

• Builders: (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:
• Commissioned: 2006
• Status: In active service

-class frigate

• Builders:
• Type: Multi-role frigate
• Displacement: 3,200 tons
• Armament: 100 mm Mod68 CADAM polyvalent artillery piece, 1 Phalanx CIWS, 2 × 3 12.75-inch Mk 32 torpedo tubes, 2 Mk 141 quad-pack Launcher for RGM-84 Harpoon, 1 Mk 21 Guided Missile Launching System for 8 RIM-7 Sea Sparrow
• Powerplant: 2 General Electric LM2500 gas turbines
• Speed: 32 knots
• Ships in class: 3
• Operator:
• Commissioned: 19 January 1991
• Status: In active service

-class frigate

• Builders: (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: 28kn
• Range: 6000nmi at 16kn
• Ships in class: 4
• Operators:
• Commissioned: 1978
• Status: 1 stricken in 1993, 3 sold to Bulgaria in 2005 and in active Bulgarian service

Zagreb/Kotor-class frigate

• Builders: / (Uljanik shipyard in Pula and Tito shipyard in Kraljevica)
• Type: Light multi-role frigate (Yugoslav designation 'large patrol ship')
• Displacement: 1,850 tons
• Armament: 4 Styx SSM; 20 SA-N-4 SAM; 2 SA-N-5 SAM; 2 × 76 mm guns; 4 × 30 mm guns; 2 × 20 mm guns; 2 RBU-6000
• Powerplant: 2 diesel engines; 1 gas turbine; 28,600 shp total power
• Speed: 27 knots
• Ships in class: 2
• Operator:
• Commissioned: 1987
• Status: Withdrawn from service

-class frigate

• Builders: (Damen Schelde Naval Shipbuilding), (PT PAL)
• Types: Light multi-role frigate, guided-missile frigate, Long Range Patrol Vessel
• Displacement: 2,075 tons – 2,575 tons
• Armament: Guns: 1 × Oto Melara 76 mm (A position) and 2 × 20 mm Denel GI-2 (Licensed copy of GIAT M693/F2) (B position). Anti-air missile: 2 × quad (8) MBDA Mistral TETRAL, forward & aft. Anti-surface missile: 4 × MBDA Exocet MM40 Block II. Torpedoes: 2 × triple B515 launchers for EuroTorp 3A 244S Mode II/MU 90.
• Powerplant: 2 × SEMT Pielstick 20PA6B STC rated at 8910 kW each driving a lightweight Geislinger coupling combination BE 72/20/125N + BF 110/50/2H (steel – composite coupling combination); 4 × Caterpillar 3406C TA generator rated at 350 kW each; Caterpillar 3304B emergency generator rated at 105 kW
• Speed: 28 knots
• Ships in class: 5
• Operator:,,
• Commissioned: 2011
• Status: In active service

See also

• List of naval ship classes in service

Notes and References

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