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:
Frigates
- Type 053H, 053H1, 053H2, 053H1Q, 053H1G frigate (NATO codename Jianghu I, II, III, IV, V)
- Builders:
China (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:
People's Liberation Army Navy,
Royal Thai Navy,
Bangladesh Navy,
Egyptian Navy,
Myanmar Navy
- Commissioned: 1976
- Status: Most in active service, 7 retired
- Type 053H3 frigate (NATO codename Jiangwei II)
- 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
- 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-class frigate
- Abukuma-class destroyer escort
- Almirante Padilla-class Frigate
- 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
- 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-class frigate
- 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
- 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
- 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: 1 In active service
- 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 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
- 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
- Formidable-class frigate
Italian first FREMM Bergamini
FREMM multipurpose frigate (multiple classes)
- Builders:
France/
Italy
- Type: Stealth Multipurpose frigate
- Displacement: France 6,000 long tons (6,100 t); Italy 6,700 long tons (6,800 t)
- 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 +27 knots (50 km/h); Italy +30 knots (56 km/h)
- Range: France 6,000 nautical miles (11,000 km), Italy 6,800 nautical miles (13,000 km)
- Ships in class: 16
- Operators:
French Navy: Aquitaine-class, 8 ships
Marina Militare: Bergamini-class, 10 ships
Egyptian Navy: Aquitaine-class (purchased from France), 3 ships
Royal Moroccan Navy: Mohammed VI (single ship class)
United States Navy: Constellation-class, 15 ships planned
- Commissioned: 2012–present
- Status: In active service
- 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
- 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
- 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
Hamilton–class cutter
- 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-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
- Iver Huitfeldt-class frigate
- Builders:
Denmark (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: 30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph)
- Range: 9,300 nautical miles (17,200 km; 10,700 mi) at 18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph)
- Complement: 165 officers and sailors
- Ships in class: 3 (HDMS Iver Huitfeldt (F361), HDMS Peter Willemoes (F362) and HDMS Niels Juel (F363))
- Operator:
Royal Danish Navy
- Commissioned: 2012
- Status: In active service
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-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)
- 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
- 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
- Builders:
United Kingdom,
Australia,
Netherlands
- 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:
Royal Navy,
Royal Australian Navy,
Royal New Zealand Navy,
Indian Navy,
Pakistan Navy,
Chilean Navy,
South African Navy,
Ecuadorian Navy,
Indonesian Navy
- Commissioned: 27 March 1963
- Status: 8 in active service, 15 sunk as reefs/targets, 16 scrapped, 7 decommissioned
- 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
- 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- 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
- Neustrashimy-class frigate
- Builders:
Russia (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:
Russian Navy
- Commissioned: 1998
- Status: 2 in active service, 1 scrapped incomplete
- 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-class frigate
- Builders:
United States (Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine, Todd Pacific Shipyards in Seattle, Washington and San Pedro, California,
Spain, in Bazan, Ferrol and
Australia, 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:
Chilean Navy,
Spanish Navy,
Republic of China Navy,
Polish Navy,
Egyptian Navy,
Royal Bahrain Naval Force,
Turkish Navy,
Pakistan Navy
- Commissioned: 17 December 1977
- Status: 56 retired (2021)
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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)
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Vasco da Gama-class frigate
- 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
- Builders:
Yugoslavia /
Croatia (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:
Montenegrin Navy
- Commissioned: 1987
- Status: Withdrawn from service
Sigma 10514-class frigate (KRI Martadinata)
- Sigma-class frigate
Large patrol vessels
- Ægir-class offshore patrol vessel
- Albatros polar fisheries patrol ship
- Alex Haley-class cutter
- BAM (Meteoro-class) Maritime Action Vessel / offshore patrol vessel
- 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
- Comandanti-class offshore patrol vessel
- Deirdre/P20-class offshore patrol boat
- 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
- Famous-class cutter
- Harstad-class offshore patrol vessel
- Holland-class offshore patrol vessel
- Kingston-class patrol vessel
- Nordkapp-class offshore patrol vessel
- Reliance-class cutter
- Builder:
United States
- Type: Medium Endurance Cutter
- Displacement: 1,050 tons
- Length: 64 meters
- Range: 8,000 nautical miles
- Crew: 75
- Speed: 18 knots
- Armament:
- Operator:
- River-class patrol vessel
- 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
- 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
Missile boats
- Ambassador Mk III fast attack craft
- Builders:
United States (VT Halter-Marine)
- Type: Fast attack craft
- Displacement: 500 t
- Propulsion: 4 × MTU diesels,[5] 30,000 hp (22 MW), 4 shafts
- Speed: 41 knots (76 km/h)
- Armament:
- Countermeasures:
- 4 × chaff/IR launchers (ESM/ECM)
- Ships in class: 1(4–6 planned)
- Operator:
Egyptian Navy
- Commissioned: 2013–present
- Status: In active service
- 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
- Gepard-class fast attack craft
- Builders:
Germany
- Type: Fast attack craft
- Displacement: 391 t
- Propulsion: 13.235 kW
- Speed: 40 knots (74 km/h)
- Armament:
- Countermeasures:
- Decoy launcher HOT DOG
- Chaff launcher DAG 2200 Wolke
- Ships in class: 10
- Operator:
German Navy
- Commissioned: 1982–1984
- Status: In active service
- 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
- 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-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
- Powerplant: 2 RR Marine Gas gas turbines and 2 MTU diesel engines
- 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
- Rauma-class missile boat
- Builders:
Finland (Aker Finnyards in Rauma)
- Type: Guided-missile fast attack craft
- Displacement: 248 tons
- Armament: 6 RBS-15 SSM; 6 Mistral SAM; 1 40 mm gun; 2 12.7 mm machineguns; 2 ASW mortar launchers;
- Powerplant: 2 diesel engines; 2 water jets; 7,510 hp (5,600 kW) total power
- Speed: 30 knots (56 km/h)
- Ships in class: 4
- Operator:
Finnish Navy
- Commissioned: 1990
- Status: In active service
- Sampari-class missile boat
- Builders:
Indonesia
- Type: Missile fast attack craft
- Displacement: 460 tons
- Speed: 28 knots (52 km/h)
- Ships in class: 4 active, 2 under construction
- Operator:
Indonesian Navy
- Commissioned: 2014
- Status: In active service
- Tarantul (Project 1241.1 Molnaya)-class missile boat
Torpedo boats
- Shanghai II-class torpedo patrol boat
- Builder:
China
- Displacement: 135 tons
- Operators:
- Turya (Project 206 Shtorm)-class torpedo boat
Patrol boats
- Agdlek-class fisheries patrol boat
- Archer-class patrol boat
- Armidale-class patrol boat
- Babochka (Project 1141.1 Sokol)-class patrol boat
- Barso-class patrol boat
Hurricane, Typhoon and Chinook
Cyclone-class patrol boat
- Builder:
United States
- Displacement: 350 tons
- Armament:
- Operators:
- Diana-class patrol craft
- Diciotti-class patrol boat
- Builder:
Italy
- Displacement: 393 tons
- Operators:
- Subclasses: Malta – P61 : Iraq – Saettia MK 4
- Total ships planned = Italy: 5, Malta: 1, Iraq: 4
- Espadon 50 patrol boat
- Displacement: 410 tons
- Operator:
French Navy: 1 in service
- 35M FPV-class fast patrol craft[3]
- Builders:
United States
- Type: Fast Patrol Craft
- Displacement: 120 tons
- Armament:
- Length: 35 meters
- Range: 3,000 nautical miles (5,600 km; 3,500 mi)
- Speed: 35 knots (65 km/h; 40 mph)
- Complement: 12 + S.O.F., 4 berth & 12 recl.
- Ships in class: 2 RBNS Mashhoor (12) and RBNS Al-Areen (13)
- Operator: Royal Bahrain Naval Force
- Commissioned: 2 in 2021
- Flyvefisken (Standardflex 300 or SF300)-class patrol boat
- Builder:
Denmark
- Displacement: 320 tons
- Operators:
- Fulmar-class fisheries patrol boat
- Gumdoksuri-class patrol vessel
- Hainan (Project 037)-class patrol boat
- Haiqing (Project 037-I)-class patrol boat
- Haizhu (Project 062-I)-class patrol boat
- Island-class patrol boat
- Marine Protector–class patrol boat
- Mirna (Type 171)-class patrol boat
- Type: Patrol boat
- Displacement: 142 tons
- Armament: 1 Bofors 40 mm (1.6 in) gun; 1 Hispano M-75 four-barreled 20 mm (0.79 in) gun; 1 MTU-4 9K32M Strela-2M; 2 double-barreled 128 mm (5.0 in) illuminator launchers
- Powerplant: 2 SEMT Pielstick diesel engines
- Speed: 32 knots (59 km/h)
- Range: 600 nautical miles (1,110 km)
- Ships in class: 11
- Operator:
Croatian Navy: 4 in service
- Commissioned: 1980
- Status: In active service
Omiš-class patrol boat
- Type: Patrol boat
- Displacement: 240 tons
- Armament: Aselsan SMASH 30 mm SAM, 12.7 mm machine gun, MANPADS
- Powerplant: 2 Caterpillar diesel engines
- Speed: 28 knots (52 km/h)
- Range: 1,000 nautical miles (1,850 km)
- Ships in class: 1 in service, 4 under construction
- Operator:
Croatian Navy: 1 in service, 4 on order
- Commissioned: December 2018
- Status: In active service
- OPV 54 patrol boat
- Displacement: 375 tons
- Operator:
French Navy: 3 in service
- P400-class patrol vessel
- Builder:
France
- Displacement: 375 tons
- Operators:
- Pacific-class patrol boat
- Builder:
Australia
- Displacement: 170 tons
- Operators:
- Padma-class patrol vessel
- Builder:
Bangladesh
- Displacement: 350 tons
- Operators:
- Pauk (Project 1241.2 Molnaya 2)-class patrol boat
- Poti-class patrol boat
- Rihtniemi-class patrol boat
- Builder:
Finland
- Displacement: 110 tons
- Operators:
- Scimitar-class patrol boat
- Sea Panther-class patrol command boat[4]
- Shanghai (Project 062)-class patrol boat
- Builder:
China
- Displacement: 135 tons
- Operator:
- Sentinel–class cutter
- Sterne fisheries patrol boat
- Displacement: 380 tons
- Operator:
French Navy: 1 in service
- Storm-class patrol boat
- Builder:
Norway
- Displacement: 125 tons
- Operators:
Amphibious warfare vessels
Amphibious assault ships
- America-class amphibious assault ship (LHA-6)
HMAS Canberra participating in RIMPAC exercise 2016
- Canberra-class landing helicopter dock (LHD)
- Builder:
Spain, Navantia.
- Displacement: 27,500 tons.
- Aircraft carried: standard, 6 helicopters. Maximum in hangar space, 18 helicopters.
- Armament:
- Operators:
Royal Australian Navy, two in commission.
- Dokdo-class amphibious assault ship (LPX)
- Hyūga-class ASW helicopter (carrier) destroyer
- Izumo-class ASW helicopter (carrier) destroyer
- Juan Carlos I landing helicopter dock (LHD)
- Mistral-class projection and command ship
- Wasp-class amphibious assault ship (LHD 1)
- Albion-class landing platform dock
- Bay-class landing ship dock