page_title: List of naval ship classes in service
section_title: Frigates
hierarchical_section_title: List of naval ship classes in service / Frigates
caption_attribution_description: English: Aerial port side view of the Chinese Peoples Republic Army/Navy Jianghu series frigate Zigong (F-558) underway..
context_page_description: 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.
  List of submarine classes in service
  List of auxiliary ship classes in service
context_section_description: i053H, 053H1, 053H2, 053H1Q, 053H1G type frigate (NATO codename Jianghu I, II, III, IV, V)
  Builders:   People's Republic of 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
  053H3 type frigate (NATO codename Jiangwei II)
  Builders:   People's Republic of 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,  Pakistan Navy (F-22P Zulfiquar class)
  Commissioned:  1999
  Status:  In active service
  054 type frigate (NATO codename Jiangkai I)
  Builders:   People's Republic of 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
  054A type frigate (NATO codename Jiangkai II)
  Builders:   People's Republic of 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:  30
  Operator:   People's Liberation Army Navy
  Commissioned:  January 2008
  Status:  28 in active service, 2 fitting out
  Abukuma-class destroyer escort
  Type: Destroyer escort
  Builder:   Japan
  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: 27 knots (50 km/h)
  Ships in class:  6
  Operator:  Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force
  Commissioned:  12 December 1989
  Status: In active service
  Álvaro de Bazán (F100)-class frigate
  Builders:   Spain (IZAR, 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:  Spanish Navy,  Royal Australian Navy (three under constr
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