List of naval ship classes in service

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

For other vessels, see also:

Aircraft carriers[edit]

Main article: List of aircraft carriers in service
Admiral Kuznetsov
Kuznetsov-class (Project 1143.5) aircraft carrier
Conte di Cavour
Cavour-class aircraft carrier
Chakri Naruebet
Chakri Naruebet-class aircraft carrier
Charles de Gaulle
Charles de Gaulle-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier
Gerald R. Ford
Gerald R. Ford-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Giuseppe Garibaldi-class aircraft carrier
Vikrant
Vikrant-class aircraft carrier
  • Builders:  India (Cochin Shipyard Limited)
  • Displacement: 45,000 tons
  • Aircraft: 30 × fighters and 6 × helicopters
  • Armament: Barak 8 SAM, AK-630 CIWS, 4 × Otobreda 76 mm
  • Propulsion: 4 × General Electric LM2500+ gas turbine, 2 × Elecon COGAG gearbox
  • Speed: in excess of 30 knots
  • Ships in class: 1
  • Operators:  Indian Navy
  • Commissioned: 2 September 2022
  • Status: In service
Vikramaditya
Vikramaditya (modified Kiev)-class aircraft carrier
  • Builders:  Russia (Soviet "Baku" as Kiev-class aircraft carrier /  Russia Sevmash in Severodvinsk)
  • Displacement: 45,400 tons
  • Aircraft: 30 × fighters and 6 × helicopters
  • Armament: Barak 8 SAM, AK-630 CIWS
  • Propulsion: 8 turbopressurized boilers, 4 shafts, 4 geared steam turbines, 180,000 hp
  • Speed: in excess of 30 knots
  • Ships in class: 1
  • Operators:  Indian Navy
  • Commissioned: 16 December 2013
  • Status: In service
Nimitz
Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier
Queen Elizabeth
Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carrier

Cruisers[edit]

Frunze
Kirov-class battlecruiser
Slava-class (Project 1164 Atlant) missile cruiser
Moskva (former Slava)
  • Builders:  Soviet Union /  Ukraine (61 Kommunar in Mykolaiv, Ukraine)
  • Displacement: 11,490 tons
  • Aircraft: 1 helicopter
  • Armament: 16 × SS-N-12 SSM; 64 × SA-N-6 Grumble SAM; 2 × 130 mm guns; 6 × AK-630 cannon; 10 × 533 mm torpedo tubes
  • Powerplant: COGOG gas turbines (125,000 hp)
  • Speed: 34 knots
  • Range: 9,000 nmi at 15 knots
  • Ships in class: 4 (plus 2 cancelled)
  • Operator:  Russian Navy (3 ships) /  Ukrainian Navy (1 incomplete)
  • Commissioned: 1982
  • Status: 2 in service, 1 sunk, 1 incomplete, 6 cancelled
Antietam
Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser
  • Builders:  United States
  • Displacement: 9,800 tons
  • Aircraft: 2 × Sikorsky SH-60 Seahawk
  • Armament: 2 × Mk 26 or Mk 41 launchers with up to 122 missiles (for Mk 41 VLS) or 88 (with Mk 26 twin-rail launchers) (ASROC, SM-2, Tomahawk); 2 × 127 mm DP guns; 2 × Phalanx CIWS, 8 Harpoon SSM
  • Powerplant: 4 × gas turbines (80,000 shp)
  • Speed: 32.5 knots
  • Range: 6,000 nmi at 20 knots
  • Ships in class: 27
  • Operator:  United States Navy
  • Commissioned: 22 January 1983
  • Status: 17 in service, 10 decommissioned

Destroyers[edit]

Shenzhen
Type 051B destroyer (NATO codename Luhai)
  • Builders:  China (Dalian Shipyard in Dalian)
  • Type: Multi-role guided-missile destroyer
  • Displacement: 6,100 tons
  • Aircraft: 1 × Z-9C Haitun helicopter
  • Armament: After refit: 16 × YJ-12 SSM; 32-cell H/AJK16 VLS HQ-16; 1 × dual Type 79A 100 mm naval gun; 2 × Type 1130 CIWS
  • Powerplant: 2 × steam turbines; 48,600 shp (36.2 MW) total power
  • Speed: 31 knots (57 km/h)
  • Range: 13,000 nmi (24,000 km) at 14 knots (26 km/h)
  • Ships in class: 1
  • Operator:  People's Liberation Army Navy
  • Commissioned: 1999
  • Status: In active service
Shijiazhuang
Type 051C destroyer (NATO codename Luzhou)
  • Builders:  China (Dalian Shipyard in Dalian)
  • Type: Air defense guided-missile destroyer
  • Displacement: 7,100 tons
  • Aircraft: 1 Kamov Ka-28 helicopter
  • Armament: 8 YJ-83, 48 vertically launched S-300FM (SA-N-20) SAM, 1 × 100 mm gun; 2 × 30 mm Type 730 CIWS; 4 × 18 barrel multiple rocket launcher, 2 triple 324 mm ASW torpedo tubes
  • Powerplant: 2 indigenous steam turbines
  • Speed: 30 knots
  • Ships in class: 2
  • Operator:  People's Liberation Army Navy
  • Commissioned: 2006
  • Status: In active service
Qingdao
Type 052 destroyer (NATO codename Luhu)
  • Builders:  China (Jiangnan Shipyard in Shanghai)
  • Type: Multi-role guided-missile destroyer
  • Displacement: 4,800 tons
  • Aircraft: 2 × Z-9 Haitun helicopters
  • Armament: 16 × C-802 SSM; 8 × HQ-7 SAM + reloads; 1 × dual-100 mm gun; 2 × 30mm Type 730 CIWS (after 2011 refit); 6 × 533 mm torpedo tubes
  • Powerplant: CODOG arrangement; 2 MTU diesels plus 2 LM2500 gas turbines; 2 shafts; 53,600 shp total power
  • Speed: 30 knots
  • Range: 5,000 nmi at 15 knots
  • Ships in class: 2
  • Operator:  People's Liberation Army Navy
  • Commissioned: 1993
  • Status: In active service
Guangzhou
Type 052B destroyer (NATO codename Luyang I)
  • Builders:  China (Jiangnan Shipyard in Shanghai)
  • Type: Multi-role guided-missile destroyer
  • Displacement: 6,200 tons
  • Aircraft: 1 Kamov Ka-28 helicopter
  • Armament: 16 × YJ-83 SSM, 48 × SA-N-12 SAM, 1 × 100 mm gun, 2 × 30 mm Type 730 CIWS, 2 × Triple 324 mm ASW torpedo tubes, 2 × Type 75, 12-barrel 240 mm antisubmarine rocket launchers, 4 × 18-barrel multiple rocket launcher
  • Powerplant: 2 Ukraine DN80 gas-turbines and 2 MTU Friedrichshafen 12V 1163TB83 diesels
  • Speed: 30 knots
  • Ships in class: 2
  • Operator:  People's Liberation Army Navy
  • Commissioned: July 2004
  • Status: In active service
Lanzhou
Type 052C destroyer (NATO codename Luyang II)
  • Builders:  China (Jiangnan Shipyard in Shanghai)
  • Type: Air defense guided-missile destroyer
  • Displacement: 7,000 tons
  • Aircraft: 1 -2 Kamov Ka-28 helicopter
  • Armament: 8 × large Anti-ship missile in 2 × quad cells, possibly YJ-62 (C-602), 48 × vertically launched HHQ-9 SAM, 1 × 100 mm gun; 2 × 30 mm Type 730 CIWS; 4 × 18 barrel Multiple rocket launcher, 2 × triple 324 mm ASW torpedo tubes
  • Powerplant: 2 Ukraine DN80 gas-turbines and 2 MTU Friedrichshafen 12V 1163TB83 diesels
  • Speed: 30 knots
  • Ships in class: 6
  • Operator:  People's Liberation Army Navy
  • Commissioned: July 2004
  • Status: In active service
Kunming
Type 052D destroyer (NATO codename Luyang III)
  • Builders:  China (Jiangnan Shipyard in Shanghai)
  • Type: Air defense guided-missile destroyer
  • Displacement: 7,500 tons
  • Aircraft: 1 -2 Kamov Ka-28 helicopter
  • Armament: Anti-ship missiles, 64 × vertically launched SAM, 1 × 130 mm gun; 1 × Type 730 CIWS; 2 × triple ASW torpedo tubes
  • Powerplant: 2 gas-turbines and 2 MTU diesel engines
  • Speed: 30 knots
  • Ships in class: 25 planned
  • Operator:  People's Liberation Army Navy
  • Commissioned: March 2014
  • Status: 20 in active service
Type 055 destroyer (NATO codename Renhai)
  • Builders:  China (Jiangnan Shipyard in Shanghai, Dalian Shipyard in Dalian)
  • Type: Guided-missile destroyer
  • Displacement: 12–13,000 tons
  • Aircraft: 2 medium-lift helicopters
  • Armament: 1 × H/PJ-38 130 mm gun; 1 × H/PJ-11 CIWS; 1 × HHQ-10 short-range SAM 24-cell launcher; 112 VLS cells for: HHQ-9 surface-to-air missiles, YJ-18 anti-ship cruise missiles, CJ-10 land-attack cruise missiles, Missile-launched anti-submarine torpedoes; 2 × sets of 324 mm torpedo tubes, Yu-7 torpedoes
  • Powerplant: 6 × QD-50 turbine generators (5 MW (6,700 hp) each)
  • Speed: 30 knots
  • Ships in class: 16 planned
  • Operator:  People's Liberation Army Navy
  • Commissioned: January 2020
  • Status: 8 in active service
Fuyuzuki
Akizuki-class destroyer
Almirante Brown-class destroyer (MEKO 360H2 type)
  • Builder:  Germany
  • Displacement: 2,900 tons (empty); 3,360 tons (full load)
  • Operator:  Argentine Navy: 3 in service
Barry
Arleigh Burke-class destroyer
Asagiri
Asagiri-class destroyer
  • Type: Multi-role destroyer
  • Builder:  Japan (IHI in Tokyo and others)
  • Displacement: 3,500 tons (empty); 5,200 tons (full load)
  • Armament: RGM-84 Harpoon SSM, Sea Sparrow, ASROC anti-submarine rocket, 1 × 76 mm 62cal rapid fire gun (OTO Melara 3), 2 × 20mm CIWS, 2 × Type 68 triple torpedo tubes
  • Propulsion: 4 gas turbines, two shafts (54,000 shaft horsepower)
  • Speed: 30 knots (56 km/h)
  • Ships in class: 8
  • Operator:  Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force
  • Commissioned: 17 March 1988
  • Status: In active service; 2 converted to training vessels
Atago-class destroyer
  • Builder:  Japan (MHI)
  • Type: Large guided-missile destroyer
  • Displacement: 10,000 tons
  • Armament: 1 × 5-inch (127 mm/L62) Mk 45 Mod 4 naval gun in a stealth-shaped mount. (Made by Japan Steel Works licensed from its original manufacturer); 2 × missile canister up to 8 Type 90 (SSM-1B); 2 × 20 mm Phalanx CIWS; 2 × Type 68 triple torpedo tubes (6 × Mk 46 or Type 73 torpedoes); 96-cell Mk 41 VLS: (64 at the bow / 32 cells at the stern aft) for a mix of: SM-2MR Standard missile, SM-3 anti-ballistic missile and RUM-139 vertical launch ASROC (anti-submarine)
  • Powerplant: CODOG
  • Speed: 30 knots
  • Ships in class: 2
  • Operator:  Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force
  • Commissioned: 15 March 2007
  • Status: In active service
Chungmugong Yi Sun-sin
Chungmugong Yi Sun-sin (KDX-II)-class destroyer
  • Builders:  South Korea
  • Type: Guided-missile destroyer
  • Displacement: 6,520 tons
  • Armament: 1 32-cell Mk 41 VLS for SM-2 SM-2 Block IIIA SAM, 1 21-round RAM launcher, 1 30 mm Goalkeeper CIWS, 1 Mk 45 Mod4 127 mm gun, 8 Harpoon SSM, 2 triple 324 mm torpedo tubes
  • Powerplant: CODOG 2 MTU 20V 956 TB 82 diesel, 2 LM2500 gas turbines, 2 shafts
  • Speed: 30 knots
  • Ships in class: 6
  • Operator:  Republic of Korea Navy
  • Commissioned: December 2003
  • Status: In active service
Mumbai
Delhi-class destroyer
  • Builders:  India (Mazgaon Dockyard in Mumbai)
  • Type: Guided-missile destroyer
  • Displacement: 6,200 tons
  • Aircraft: 2 Sea King helicopters
  • Armament: 16 × SS-N-25 Switchblade SSM; 2 × 3S-90 launchers fitted with Shtil SAM system; 1 × 100 mm AK-100; 4 × 30 mm AK-630; 5 × 533 mm PTA 533 quintuple torpedo tube launchers; 2 × RBU-6000 Anti-submarine rocket launchers
  • Powerplant: 2 cruise diesels and 2 AM-50 boost gas turbines, 60,000 shp total power
  • Speed: 32+ knots
  • Ships in class: 3 total
  • Operator:  Indian Navy
  • Commissioned: 15 November 1997
  • Status: All in active service
Durand de la Penne
Durand de la Penne-class destroyer
  • Builders:  Italy
  • Displacement: 5,560 tons
  • Armament: 1 Standard SAM launcher, 1 octuple Aspide SAM missile launcher, 8 Otomat SSM, 1 127 mm gun, 3 Otobreda 76 mm guns, 6 324 mm torpedo tubes
  • Powerplant: 2 LM-2500 gas turbines, 2 Diesels
  • Speed: 31.5 knots
  • Ships in class: 2
  • Operator:  Marina Militare
  • Commissioned: 1993
  • Status: In active service
Yang Manchun
Gwanggaeto the Great (KDX-1 Okpo)-class destroyer
  • Builders:  South Korea (Daewoo in Geoje)
  • Type: Destroyer
  • Displacement: 3,900 tons
  • Armament: 2 × quadruple Harpoon missile canisters, 1 × Mk 48 Mod 2 VLS with 16 Sea Sparrow missiles, 1 × OTO Melara 127 mm (5 in)/54 gun, 2 × Signaal 30 mm Goalkeeper CIWS, 2 × triple Mark 46 torpedo tubes
  • Aircraft: 2 × Super Lynx helicopters
  • Powerplant: 2 General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines and 2 SsangYong 20V 956 TB 82 diesel engines; two shafts
  • Speed: 30 knots
  • Ships in class: 3
  • Operator:  Republic of Korea Navy
  • Commissioned: 24 July 1998
  • Status: In active service
Hatakaze
Hatakaze-class destroyer
  • Builders:  Japan (Mitsubishi in Nagasaki)
  • Type: Guided-missile destroyer
  • Displacement:
    • Hatakaze: 6,096 tons
    • Shimakaze: 6,147 tons
  • Armament: RGM-84 Harpoon SSM, RIM-66B Standard SAM, ASROC anti-submarine rocket, 2 × 5-inch 54cal rapid fire gun (Mk 42), 2 × 20 mm CIWS, 2 × Type 68 triple torpedo tubes
  • Powerplant: 4 gas turbines (2 × Kawasaki Rolls-Royce Spey SM1A for cruising) (2 × Olympus TM3B x2 for high speed only); two shafts (72,000 shaft horsepower)
  • Speed: 30 knots
  • Ships in class: 2
  • Operator:  Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force
  • Commissioned: 27 March 1986
  • Status: In active service
Matsuyuki
Hatsuyuki-class destroyer
  • Builders:  Japan
  • Type: Multi-role destroyer
  • Displacement: 4,000 tons
  • Armament: Harpoon SSM, Sea Sparrow SSM, ASROC anti-submarine rocket, 1 × Otobreda 76 mm gun, 2 × 20 mm CIWS, 2 × Type 68 triple torpedo tubes
  • Powerplant: 4 gas turbines, two shafts (45,000 hp)
  • Speed: 30 knots
  • Ships in class: 12
  • Operator:  Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force
  • Commissioned: 23 March 1982
  • Status: In active service, 1 converted to training vessel
Hobart-class destroyer
Horizon-class destroyer
Caio Duilio (Italian Navy)
  • Builders:  France,  Italy
  • Type: Anti-air warfare frigate
  • Displacement: 5,290 tons (7,050 tons full load)
  • Aircraft: 1 NH90 or EH101
  • Armament: 8 × ExocetMM40 SSM (French version) or 8 × TESEO Mk 2/A SSM (Italian version), 2 × Otobreda 76 mm super rapid guns, 2 × 20 mm modèle F2 guns or 2 × KBA Oerlikon 25 mm/80, PAAMS (Principal Anti-Air Missile System): Sylver A50 vertical launchers with 32 Aster 30 and 16 Aster 15 missiles, 2 × MU90 Impact double torpedo tubes, 2 × SCLAR-H chaff, decoy and flares launchers, 2 × SLAT anti torpedo system
  • Powerplant: 2 × 31,280 hp GE/Avio General Electric LM2500 gas turbines, 2 × 5,875 hp SEMT Pielstick 12 PA6 STC diesels
  • Speed: 29 knots
  • Range: 7,000 nmi at 18 knots
  • Ships in class: 4
  • Operator:  French Navy,  Marina Militare
  • Commissioned: 2007
  • Status: In active service
Kashin
Kashin (Project 61M)-class destroyer
  • Builder:  Soviet Union
  • Type: Surface warfare guided-missile destroyer
  • Displacement: 4,390 tons
  • Armament: 32 SA-N-1 SAM; 4 × 76 mm guns; 5 × 533 mm torpedo tubes; 4 RBU-6000
  • Powerplant: COGAG arrangement; 4 M8E gas turbines; 2 shafts; 72,000 shp (54 MW) total power
  • Speed: 33 knots (61 km/h)
  • Range: 3,500 nmi (6,500 km) at 18 knots (33 km/h)
  • Ships in class: 25 total: 14 Kashin, 6 Kashin Mod, and 5 Rajput class
  • Operators:  Soviet Navy,  Indian Navy,
  • Commissioned: 1960
  • Status: 2 Rajput in active service
Kidd
Kee Lung (Kidd)-class destroyer
INS Kolkata
Kolkata-class destroyer
  • Builders:  India (Mazagaon Dockyard)
  • Type: Guided-missile destroyer
  • Displacement: 7,400 tons
  • Aircraft: 2 Sea King or Dhruv helicopters
  • Armament: 16 × BrahMos SSM; 32 × Barak-8 SAM; 1 × 76 mm SRGM; 4 × 30 mm AK-630; 4 × 533 mm PTA 533 quintuple torpedo tube launchers; 2 × RBU-6000 Anti-submarine rocket launchers
  • Powerplant: 4 × gas turbines
  • Speed: in excess of 30 knots
  • Ships in class: 3 total
  • Operator:  Indian Navy
  • Commissioned: 16 August 2014
  • Status: All in active service
Myōkō
Kongō-class destroyer
Maya-class destroyer
Ikazuchi
Murasame-class destroyer
  • Builders:  Japan (IHI in Tokyo and others)
  • Type: Multi-role destroyer
  • Displacement: 4,550 tons (6,200 tons full load)
  • Armament: SSM-1B SSM, Sea Sparrow SSM, ASROC anti-submarine rocket, 1 × 76 mm 62 cal rapid fire gun (OTO Melara 3), 2 × 20 mm CIWS, 2 × Type 68 triple torpedo tubes
  • Powerplant: 4 gas turbines, two shafts (60, 000 shaft horsepower)
  • Speed: 30 knots
  • Ships in class: 9
  • Operator:  Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force
  • Commissioned: 12 March 1996
  • Status: In active service
Sejong the Great
Sejong the Great (KDX-III)-class destroyer
Taizhou (Chinese Navy)
Sovremenny (Project 956 Sarych)-class destroyer
Ōnami
Takanami-class destroyer
Liverpool
Type 42 destroyer
Dauntless
Type 45 destroyer
Marshal Shaposhnikov
Udaloy (Project 1155 Fregat)-class destroyer
  • Builders:  Soviet Union /  Russia (Yantar Zavod 180 in Kaliningrad)
  • Type: Large anti-submarine guided-missile destroyer (Russian designation of 'large anti-submarine ship')
  • Displacement: 7,620 tons
  • Aircraft: 2 Kamov Ka-27 helicopters
  • Armament: 8 SS-N-14 or Moskit SSM; 8 SA-N-9 SAM; 2 × 100 mm guns; 4 × 30 mm guns; 2 RBU-6000
  • Powerplant: COGAG arrangement; 2 M8KF and 2 M62 gas turbines; 60,000 shp total power
  • Speed: 29 knots
  • Ships in class: 15 total: 12 Udaloy I and 3 Udaloy II
  • Operator:  Soviet Navy,  Russian Navy
  • Commissioned: 1980
  • Status: 6 Udaloy I in active service and 1 Udaloy II in refit; 2 burned; 2 stricken; 1 in overhaul; 2 Udaloy II cancelled before completion
INS Mormugao
Visakhapatnam class-class destroyer
  • Builders:  India (Mazagaon Dockyard)
  • Type: Guided-missile destroyer
  • Displacement: 7,400 tons
  • Aircraft: 2 Sea King or Dhruv helicopters
  • Armament: 16 × BrahMos SSM; 32 × Barak-8 SAM; 1 × 76 mm SRGM; 4 × 30 mm AK-630; 4 × 533 mm PTA 533 quintuple torpedo tube launchers; 2 × RBU-6000 Anti-submarine rocket launchers
  • Powerplant: 4 × gas turbines
  • Speed: in excess of 30 knots
  • Ships in class: 4 total
  • Operator:  Indian Navy
  • Commissioned: 21 November 2021
  • Status: 2 active service
Zumwalt-class destroyer

Frigates[edit]

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

Corvettes[edit]

Type 056 corvette (NATO codename Jiangdao)
Abhay-class corvette
  • Builders:  India Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers
  • Type: Corvette
  • Displacement: Full load: 485 tonnes
  • Length: 58.5 metres
  • Beam: 10.2 metres
  • Draught: 3.3 metres
  • Speed: 32 knots
  • Range: 2,400 miles at 14 knots
  • Complement: 32 including 6 officers
  • Armament:
    • 1 × AK-176 76 mm gun
    • 2 × RBU-1000
    • 4 × Strela-2M SAM MANPADS
    • 4 × 533 mm torpedo tubes
  • Ships in class: 4
  • Commissioned: 1989–1991
  • Status: In active service
Ada-class corvette
Ada-class corvette
TCG Burgazada
  • Builders:  Turkey (Istanbul Naval Shipyard)
  • Type: Corvette (Patrol and Anti-Submarine Warfare)
  • Displacement: 2400 tons
  • length: 99.56 meters
  • Beam: 14.40 meters
  • Draft: 3.90 meters
  • Propulsion: 1 gas turbine, 2 diesels, 2 shafts
  • Speed: 30 knots
  • Range: 3,500 nautical miles
  • Complement: 93 including aviation officers, with accommodation for up to 106
  • Armament: 1 × 76 mm (retractable for lower radar cross section, guidance by fire control radar and electro-optical systems), A position, 2 × 12.7 mm Aselsan STAMP Stabilized Machine Gun Platform (guidance by Laser/IR/TV and electro-optical systems, automatic and manual modes), B position, 8 Harpoon SSM, 21 × RAM (PDMS), 2 × 324 mm Mk 32 triple launchers for Mk 46 torpedoes
  • Ships in class: 10
  • Commissioned: 2011–present
  • Status: In service
  • Operators:  Turkish Navy : 5 in service,  Pakistan Navy : 1 in service(3 Launched) ,  Ukrainian Navy : (1 under construction)
Barroso
Barroso-class corvette
  • Builder:  Brazil
  • Displacement: 2,350 tons full load
  • length: 103.4 meters
  • Beam: 11.4 meters
  • Draft: 5.3 meters
  • Propulsion: CODOG arrangement: 1 gas turbine (27500shp), 2 diesels, 2 shafts
  • Speed: 27+ knots
  • Range: 4,000 nautical miles at 15 knots
  • Complement: 154
  • Armament: 1 × 4.5 in (113 mm) Vickers Mk 8 gun, 1 × 40 mm Bofors Trinity Mk 3 gun, 4 × MBDA Exocet MM40 Block 2/3, 2 × ARES SLT Mod 400 triple-tube (324 mm) launchers for Mk 46 Mod 5 ASW torpedoes
  • Ships in class: 1
  • Commissioned: 2008–present
  • Operator:  Brazilian Navy: 1 in service
Bora (Project 1239 Sivuch)-class corvette
Magdeburg
Braunschweig-class corvette
Bung Tomo-class corvette
Astrakhan
Buyan-class corvette
  • Builders:  Russia
  • Type: Corvette
  • Displacement: 550 tonnes
  • Propulsion: 2 shaft CODAD
  • Speed: 28 kn (52 km/h)
  • Range: approx. 1,500 nmi (2,800 km) at 17 kn (31 km/h)
  • Armament:
    • 1 × Arsenal A-190 100 mm
    • 2 × MTPU pedestal machine gun 14.5 mm
    • 2 × AK-630M 30 mm
    • 1 × 4 3M-47 Gibka a-a missile system of short-range
    • 1 × 40 A-215 "Grad-M" 122 mm rocket launcher
  • Countermeasures
    • Fire control radar: «Pozitiv-M1.2» flat active phased array air/surface radar
    • Sonar: «Anapa-M»
  • Ships in class: 3
  • Operator:  Russian Navy
  • Commissioned: 2006
  • Status: In active service
Durjoy-class corvette
  • Builders:  China (Wuchang Shipyard),  Bangladesh (Khulna Shipyard)
  • Type: Corvette
  • Displacement: 650 tonnes
  • Armament: 4 × C-704 AShM; 1 × H/PJ-26 76 mm main gun, forward; 2 × Type 730B 6-barrel 30 mm CIWS; 12 × Super Barricade chaff launchers; Torpedo launchers
  • Speed: 28 knots
  • Range: 2,500 nmi
  • Ships in class: 2
  • Operator:  Bangladesh Navy
  • Commissioned: 2012
  • Status: 2 in active service;
Commandant Bouan
D'Estienne d'Orves (Type A69)-class aviso
  • Builders:  France
  • Type: Aviso
  • Displacement: 1,250 tons
  • Armament: 2 Exocet MM38 SSM; 1 × 100 mm gun; 2 × 20 mm guns; 4 machineguns; 1 rocket launcher; 4 L5 torpedoes
  • Powerplant: 2 Pielstick diesel engines; 2 shafts; 12,000 shp total power
  • Speed: 24 knots
  • Range: 4,500 nmi at 15 knots
  • Ships in class: 20
  • Operator:  French Navy,  Argentine Navy,  Turkish Navy
  • Commissioned: 1979
  • Status: 18 in active service (9 with France, 6 with Turkey, and 3 with Argentina);
Diponegoro (Sigma 9113)-class corvette
  • Builders:  Netherlands
  • Type: Corvette
  • Displacement: 1,720 tonnes
  • Speed: 28 kn (52 km/h)
  • Range: approx. 4,800 nmi (8,900 km) at 14 kn (26 km/h)
  • Ships in class: 4
  • Operator:  Indonesian Navy
  • Commissioned: 2007
  • Status: In active service
Espora (MEKO 140A16)-class corvette
Fatahillah-class corvette
Freedom
Freedom-class littoral combat ship
Göteborg-class corvette
  • Builder:  Sweden Kockums
  • Displacement: 400 tons
  • Operators:  Swedish Navy: 2 active, 2 decommissioned and 2 cancelled
Independence
Independence-class littoral combat ship
Frotin
Inhaúma-class corvette
INS Kavaratti
Kamorta-class corvette
  • Builders:  India Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers
  • Type: Corvette
  • Displacement:
    • Full load: 3300 tonnes
  • Length: 109 metres
  • Beam: 13.7 metres
  • Propulsion: 4 × CODAD diesel engines
  • Speed: 25 knots
  • Range: 3,700 miles at 16 knots
  • Complement: 193 including 13 officers
  • Armament:
    • 1 × 76mm SRGM
    • 2 × AK-630M close-in weapon system
    • 2 × RBU-6000 anti-submarine rocket launcher
    • 4 × 533 mm torpedo tubes
  • Ships in class: 4
  • Operator:  Indian Navy
  • Commissioned: 2014-19
  • Status: 4 in service
Khukri-class corvette
  • Builders:  India Mazagon Dock Limited, Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers
  • Type: Corvette
  • Displacement: Full load: 1,350 tonnes
  • Length: 91.1 metres
  • Beam: 10.5 metres
  • Draught: 4.5 metres
  • Propulsion: 2 diesel engines, 14,400 hp each, 2 shafts and cp props
  • Speed: 25 knots
  • Range: 4,000 miles at 16 knots
  • Complement: 79 including 10 officers
  • Armament:
    • 1 × AK-176 76 mm gun
    • 16 × Kh-35
    • 2 × Strela-2M SAM MANPADS
    • 2 × AK-630 CIWS
  • Ships in class: 4
  • Operator:  Indian Navy (2 ships),  Vietnam People's Navy (1 ship)
  • Commissioned: 1989–1991
  • Status: 3 ships in service, 1 decommissioned
INS Karmuk
Kora-class corvette
  • Builders:  India Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers
  • Type: Corvette
  • Displacement:
    • Standard: 1350 tonnes
    • Full load: 1500 tonnes
  • Length: 91.1 metres
  • Beam: 10.5 metres
  • Draught: 4.5 metres
  • Propulsion: 2 diesel engines, 14,400 hp each, 2 shafts and cp props
  • Speed: 25 knots
  • Range: 4,000 miles at 16 knots
  • Complement: 79 including 10 officers
  • Armament:
    • 1 × AK-176 76 mm gun
    • 4 × P-20M missiles
    • 2 × Strela-2M or Igla-1E MANPADS
    • 2 × AK-630 CIWS
  • Ships in class: 4
  • Operator:  Indian Navy
  • Commissioned: 1998–2004
  • Status: In service
Urania
Minerva-class corvette
Nanuchka (Project 1234)-class corvette
Pohang
Pohang-class corvette
Parchim (Project 133)-class corvette
Peacock-class corvette
Eilat and Lahav
Sa'ar 5 (Eilat)-class corvette
  • Builders:  United States (Ingalls Shipbuilding)
  • Type: Guided-missile corvette
  • Displacement: 1227 tons
  • Armament: 8 Harpoon SSM; ; 8 Gabriel SSM; 2 Barak 1 launchers; 20 mm Phalanx CIWS; 2 × Mk 32 torpedo launchers (6 tubes)
  • Powerplant: 1 General Electric LM-2500 gas turbine; 2 MTU type 12V1163 TB82 diesels; total SHP 30,000
  • Speed: 32 knots (59 km/h)
  • Range: 3,500 nautical miles (6,480 km)
  • Ships in class: 3
  • Operator:  Israeli Navy
  • Commissioned: February 1993
  • Status: In active service
Steregushchy-class corvette
Steregushchy
  • Builders:  Russia
  • Type: Corvette
  • Displacement: 1,950 tonnes
  • Propulsion: 2 shaft CODAD, 4 16D49 diesels 24.000 hp (17.9 MW), power supply AC 380/220V, 50 Hz, 4 × 630 kW diesel genset
  • Speed: 27 kn (50 km/h)
  • Range: approx. 4,000 nmi (7,400 km) at 17 kn (31 km/h)
  • Aircraft: 1 Kamov Ka-27
  • Armament:
    • 1 × Arsenal A-190 100 mm
    • 2 × MTPU pedestal machine gun 14.5 mm
    • 2 × AK-630M 30 mm
    • 1 × Kashtan-M CADS
    • 8 × Kh-35 missiles
    • 4 × 400 mm torpedo tubes
  • Countermeasures
    • Fire control radar: Ratep 5P-10E Puma for A-190
      HOT FLASH radar
    • Air search radar: Furke-E 3D, E/F band
    • Sonar: Zarya-ME suite, bow mounted. Vinyetka low frequency active/passive towed array
  • Ships in class: 3 + 3 Laid down
  • Operator:  Russian Navy
  • Commissioned: 2007
  • Status: In active service
Veer-class corvette
  • Builders:  India Mazagon Dock Limited; Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers
  • Type: Corvette
  • Displacement: 455-477 tonnes
  • Length: 56.1 metres
  • Beam: 11.5 metres
  • Draught: 2.5 metres
  • Propulsion: 2 × COGAG gas turbines couples to two shafts
  • Speed: 36 knots
  • Range: 2,300 miles at 16 knots
  • Complement: 41 including 5 officers
  • Armament:
    • 1 × 76mm SRGM
    • 2 × AK-630M close-in weapon system
    • 2 × RBU-6000 anti-submarine rocket launcher
    • 4-16 × anti-ship missiles
    • 4 × air defense missiles
  • Ships in class: 15
  • Commissioned: 1987-2002
  • Status: 13 completed, 2 cancelled, 8 active, 4 retired and 1 lost
Visby-class corvette
Visby
  • Builders:  Sweden
  • Type: Corvette
  • Displacement: 640 tonnes
  • Propulsion: CODOG, 2 × 125SII Kamewa Waterjets, 4 × Vericor TF50A gas turbines, total rating 16 MW[2], 2 × MTU Friedrichshafen 16 V 2000 N90 diesel engines, total rating 2.6 MW, 3 × generators of 270 kW each

Large patrol vessels[edit]

Ægir
Ægir-class offshore patrol vessel
Albatros polar fisheries patrol ship
Alex Haley-class cutter
Alex Haley
BAM (Meteoro-class) Maritime Action Vessel / offshore patrol vessel
Meteoro (P-41)
  • Builder:  Spain
  • Displacement: 2,840 tons
  • Speed: 20.5 knots
  • Range: 3,500 nm
  • Armament: 1 × 76mm/62. 2 × 25mm. 2 × 12.7mm.
  • Aircraft: 1 × NH-90 or 1 × AB-212 or 1 × SH3D
  • Operator:  Spanish Navy: 6 in service
  • Status: In active service
Barentshav-class offshore patrol vessel
Cassiopea-class offshore patrol vessel
Comandante Foscari
Comandanti-class offshore patrol vessel
Deirdre/P20-class offshore patrol boat
  • Builder:  Ireland
  • Displacement: 1,020 tons
  • Armament: 1 × 40mm 2 × 20mm
  • Ships in class: 4
  • Commissioned: 1972–1980
  • Active: 2 (1 scrapped, 1 decommissioned (Ireland))
  • Speed: 17knts
  • Range: 4000 nmi at 17 knots
  • Operator:  Maritime Squadron of the Armed Forces of Malta,  Nigerian Navy
  • Previous operators: Ireland 4 (0 in commission)
Eithne-class helicopter patrol ship
  • Builder:  Ireland
  • Displacement: 1,915 tons
  • Speed: 20+ knots
  • Range: 7000 nmi at 15 knots
  • Armament: 1 × Bofers 57mm/70 Mk 1 2 × 20mm Rheinmettal. 1 SA 365F Dauphin 2
  • Ships in class: 1
  • Commissioned: 1984
  • Operator:  Irish Naval Service: 1
  • Status: In active service
Endurance Antarctic patrol ship
  • Builder:  Norway
  • Displacement 6,100 tons
  • Operator:  Royal Navy 1 in commission
Famous-class cutter
Spencer
Harstad-class offshore patrol vessel
Holland
Holland-class offshore patrol vessel
Kingston-class patrol vessel
Nordkapp-class offshore patrol vessel
Reliance-class cutter
Reliance
River-class patrol vessel
Mersey
Róisín/P50-class offshore patrol boat
  • Builder:  United Kingdom
  • Displacement: 1,500 tons
  • Speed: 23 knots
  • Armament: 1 × OTO 76mm, 2 × Rheinmettal 20mm
  • Ships in class: 2
  • Commissioned: 1999–2001
  • Operators:
  • Status: In active service
Samuel Beckett/P60-class offshore patrol boat
  • Builder:  United Kingdom
  • Displacement: 1,933 tons
  • Speed: 23 knots
  • Armament: 1 × OTO 76mm, 2 × Rheinmettal 20mm
  • Ships in class: 4, 3 in service, 1 on order
  • Commissioned: 2014–
  • Operators:
  • Status: In active service
Saryu-class offshore patrol vessel
INS Sunayna
Sirio-class offshore patrol vessel
Svalbard-class offshore patrol vessel
Viana do Castelo-class patrol vessel
Viana do Castelo in sea trials.
Þór-class offshore patrol vessel

Minor surface combatants[edit]

Missile boats[edit]

Ambassador Mk III fast attack craft
Clurit-class missile boat
  • Builders:  Indonesia
  • Type: Missile fast attack craft
  • Displacement: 250 tons
  • Armament: 1 × 30mm NG-18 CIWS; 2 × 20mm Denel Vektor GI-2; 2 × C-705 AShM
  • Powerplant: 3 × MAN V12; 1.800 hp total power
  • Speed: 30 knots (56 km/h)
  • Ships in class: 8
  • Operator:  Indonesian Navy
  • Commissioned: 2011
  • Status: In active service
Wiesel
Gepard-class fast attack craft
Hamina (Rauma 2000)-class missile boat
  • Builders:  Finland (Aker Finnyards in Turku)
  • Type: Guided-missile fast attack craft
  • Displacement: 250 tons
  • Armament: 4 RBS-15 Mk 3 SSM; 8 Umkhonto-IR SAM; 1 57 mm gun; 2 12.7 mm machineguns
  • Powerplant: 2 MTU diesel engines; 6,600 kW total power
  • Speed: 30 knots (56 km/h)
  • Range: 500 nautical miles (930 km)
  • Ships in class: 4
  • Operator:  Finnish Navy
  • Commissioned: 24 August 1998
  • Status: In active service
Helsinki-class missile boat
  • Builders:  Finland (Wärtsilä at Helsinki New Shipyard, Helsinki)
  • Type: Guided-missile fast attack craft
  • Displacement: 300 tons
  • Armament: 8 RBS-15 SSM; 2 23mm doublebarrel guns; 1 57 mm gun; 2 depth charge rails
  • Powerplant: 3 diesel engines; 3 shafts; 10,230 hp total power
  • Speed: 30 knots
  • Ships in class: 4
  • Operator:  Finnish Navy  Croatian Navy
  • Commissioned: 1 September 1981
  • Status: Two ships in Croatian service
Shunde
Houjian (Type 37-II)-class large missile boat
  • Builders:  China (Huangpu Shipyard in Guangzhou)
  • Type: Large missile boat
  • Displacement: 542 tons
  • Armament: 6 C-801 SSM, 2 Type 69 dual-30mm, 1 Type 76A dual-30mm
  • Powerplant: 3 diesel engines; 3 shafts; 15,000 hp total power
  • Speed: 33.5 knots
  • Ships in class: 9 in service, 1 under construction
  • Operator:  People's Liberation Army Navy,  Pakistan Navy (Azmat-class)
  • Commissioned: 1991
  • Status: In active service
Mandau-class missile boat
Skjold
Skjold-class patrol boat
  • Builders:  Norway (Umoe Mandal)
  • Type: Guided-missile fast attack craft
  • Displacement: 274 tons
  • Armament: 8 NSM SSM; Mistral SAM; 1 × Otobreda 76 mm Super Rapid ; 12.7 mm machine gun
  • Powerplant: 4 P&W gas turbines, total power 12000 kW
  • Speed: 60 knots (111 km/h)
  • Range: 800 nautical miles (1,480 km)
  • Ships in class: 1, 6 in construction
  • Operator:  Royal Norwegian Navy
  • Commissioned: April 17, 1999
  • Status: In active service
Houxin (Type 343M/Project 037-II)-class large missile boat
Končar (Type 240)-class missile boat
  • Speed: 40 knots (74 km/h)
  • Range: 870 nautical miles (1,610 km)
  • Ships in class: 6
  • Operator:  Croatian Navy: 1 in service
  • Commissioned: April 1977
  • Status: In active service
Kralj-class missile boat
  • Builder:  Croatia (Shipyard in Kraljevica)
  • Type: Fast attack craft
  • Displacement: 390 tons
  • Armament: 4–8 × RBS-15 SSM; 2 Bofors 57 mm (2.2 in)/70 Mk1 gun; 1 AK-630 CIWS
  • Powerplant: 3 M504-B2 diesel engines
  • Speed: 36 knots (67 km/h)
  • Range: 1,700 nautical miles (3,150 km)
  • Ships in class: 2
  • Operator:  Croatian Navy: 2 in service
  • Commissioned: June 1992
  • Status: In active service
Kronstadt-class missile boat
Osa-class missile boat
  • Builder: