Frigate Classes by Country 2025

Australia

• Adelaide class - 6 ships (all 6 decommissioned)
• Anzac class - 8 ships built 1993-2004
• Hunter class - 9 ships ordered River class - 6 ships (all 6 decommissioned)

Brazil

• Greenhalgh class - 2 ships active (ex-UK Broadsword class (Batch 1))
• Niteroi class - 6 ships built (1975–86)
• Para class - all retired

Canada

• Halifax class - 12 ships Refit 2010-2017
• Loch class — 3 ships
• River class — 60 ships - all retired

China

• Jinan class - 15 ships
• Type 053H/H1 Xiamen (Jianghu I/II) class - 21 ships
• Type 053H2 Huangshi (Jianghu III) class - 3 ships
• Type 053HT-H Siping (Jianghu IV) class - 1 ship
• Type 053H1G Zigong (Jianghu V) class - 6 ships
• Type 053H2G Anqing (Jiangwei) class - 4 ships
• Type 053H3 (Jiangwei II) class - 8 ships
• Type 054 (Jiangkai I) class - 2 ships
• Type 054A (Jiangkai II) class - 22 ships (2 more are fitting out, and another 2 are under construction
• Zuhai class - 1 ship

Egypt

• Damyat class - 2 ships (ex-US Knox class)
• El Fateh class - 1 ship (ex-British destroyer Zenith)
• FREMM Aquitaine class - 1 ship
• FREMM Bergamini class - 2 ships
• MEKO 200 class - 4 ships
• Mubarak class - 4 ships (ex-US Oliver Hazard Perry class)
• Najim al Zafir class - 2 ships (ex-Chinese ‘Jianghu’ class)
• Tariq class - 1 ship (ex-British sloop Whimbrel)

France

• Cassard class - 2 ships, due to be decommissioned around 2020-2022.
• Commandant Rivière class - 9 ships decommissioned
• Floreal class - 6 ships
• Georges Leygues class - 7 ships
• La Fayette class - 5 ships commissioned 1996

Germany

• F120 Köln class - 6 ships retired
• F122 Bremen class - 8 ships 1980’s
• F123 Brandenburg class - 4 ships 1990’s
• F124 Sachsen class - 3 newest heavy frigate (replacing destroyers)
• F125 Baden-Württemberg class - 4 ships, in service by 2017 (replacing Bremen class)

Greece

• Elli class - 10 ships (ex-Dutch Kortenaer class)
• Hydra class - 4 ships commissioned 1992-98

India

• Brahmaputra-class frigate - 3 active
• Godavari-class frigate - 3 decommissioned
• Nilgiri-class frigate - 6 decommissioned
• Nilgiri-class frigate (2019) - 7 under construction
• Shivalik-class frigate - 3 active
• Talwar class - 6 active, 3 under construction, 1 more planned

Indonesia

• Ahmad Yani class – 6 ships (ex-Dutch Van Speijk class), 1 ship retired in 2019
• Arrowhead 140 frigate – 2 under construction
• Imam Bondjol class – 2 ships, retired 1978
• Martadinata class – 2 ships, modified Sigma class, frigate variant
• Martha Khristina Tiyahahu class – 3 ships (ex-UK Tribal class), retired 2000
• Riga class – 8 ships, retired 1973-1986
• Samadikun class – 4 ships (ex-US Claud Jones class), retired 2001-2009

Iran

• Alvand class - 3 ships
• Moudge class - 4 ships (2 more under construction)

Iraq

• Ibn Khaldoum class - 1 ship, sunk in 2003
• Lupo class - 4 ships planned, seized by Italy

Italy

• Alpino class - 2 ships
• Bergamini class - 4 ships
• Centauro class - 4 ships
• FREMM Bergamini class - 10
• Lupo class - 4 ships
• Maestrale class - 8 ships
• Soldati class - 4 ships, originally built for Iraq

Japan

• Abukuma class - 6 ships commissioned 1989 to 1993
• Akebono class - 1 ship decommissioned 1976
• Asahi class - 2 ship all decommissioned 1975
• Chikugo class - 11 ships all decommissioned 1996 to 2003
• Ikazuchi class - 2 ships decommissioned 1976 & 1977
• Ishikari class - 1 ship decommissioned 2007
• Isuzu class - 4 ships all decommissioned 1991 to 1993
• Mogami class - 4 ships in construction as of September 2021
• Wakaba class - 1 ship decommissioned 1971
• Yūbari class - 2 ships all decommissioned 2010

Malaysia

• Hang Tuah class - 1 ship (retired)
• Lekiu class - 2 ships
• Loch class — 1 ship (retired)
• Maharaja Lela - 5 ships (6 planned, 4 building, 1 cancelled)
• Rahmat class - 1 ship (retired)

Netherlands

• De Zeven Provinciën class - 4 ships, 2001–2005
• Jacob van Heemskerck class - 2 ships, 1986
• Karel Doorman class - 8 ships, 1991–1995
• Kortenaer class - 10 ships, 1978–1983
• Tromp class - 2 ships, 1975–1976
• Van Amstel class - 6 ships, 1954 (former United States Navy Cannon class)
• Van Speijk class - 6 ships, 1967-1968 (modified Leander class)

North Korea

• Najin class - 2 ships
• Soho class - 1 ship

Norway

• Fridtjof Nansen class, modified version of Álvaro de Bazán class - 5 ships delivered (2011)
• Oslo class - 5 ships all decommissioned

Pakistan

• Alamgir class - 1 ship (ex-US (Oliver Hazard Perry class))
• Jinnah class - 4 being built
• Tariq class - 6 ships (ex-UK Amazon class) - 2 decommissioned
• Type 054AP - 4 being built
• Zulfiquar class - 4 ships, 2 being built

Philippines

• Andrés Bonifacio class - 4 ships (1976-1993)
• Buckley class - 1 ship (1960-1964)
• Datu Kalantiaw class - 3 ships (1967-2018)
• Edsall class - 1 ship (1976-1988)
• Gregorio del Pilar class - 3 ships (2011-present)
• Jose Rizal class - 2 ships (2020-present)

Poland

• General K. Pulaski class - 2 ships (ex-US Oliver Hazard Perry class)

Romania

• Mărăşeşti class - 1 ship
• Rear-Admiral Eustațiu Sebastian class - 2 ships
• Type 22 class - 2 ships

Russia

• Admiral Gorshkov class - 3 ships (8 planned)
• Admiral Grigorovich class - 4 ships (6 planned)
• Bditelny class - 19 ships; possibly 4 still active as of 2008
• Bessmenny class - 10 ships; possible 4 still active as of 2008
• Gepard class - 2 ship in service
• Kola class - 8 ships all decommissioned
• Koni class - 1 ship sold to Bulgaria
• Legky class - 2 ships
• Mirka class - 18 ships all decommissioned
• Neustrashimy class - 2 ships.
• Petya class - 37 ships 8 still active as of 2008; 6 Vietnamese & 2 Syrian.
• Riga class - 68 ships built 1950’s sold to various navies

Saudi Arabia

• Al Madinah class - 4 ships
• Al Riyadh class - 3 ships building ( a version of the La Fayette class)

Singapore

• Formidable class - 6 ships commissioned 2007-2009

South Korea

• Daegu class - 8 ships
• Incheon class - 6 ships
• Ulsan class - 9 ships

Spain

• Álvaro de Bazán class - 5 ships
• Atrevida class - 6 ships
• Baleares class - 5 ships (modified Knox class)
• Eolo class - 2 ships
• Jupiter class - 2 ships
• Marte class - 2 ships
• Pizarro class - 8 ships
• Santa Maria class - 6 ships (Oliver Hazard Perry class, built in Ferrol, Spain.)

Taiwan

• Cheng Kung class - 7 ships
• Chi Yang class - 8 ships (ex-US Knox class)
• Chien Yang class - 12 ships
• Kang Ding class - 6 ships

Turkey

• Barbaros class - 2 ships
• Berk class - 2 ships
• Gaziantep class - 9 ships (Oliver Hazard Perry class)
• Muavenet class - 8 ships (Knox class)
• Tepe class - 4 ships (Knox class)
• Salihreis class - 2 ships (modified Barbaros class)
• Yavuz class - 4 ships

Ukraine

• Krivak-class frigate — 1 ship (Scuttled in 2022 during Russo-Ukrainian war to prevent capture)

United Kingdom

• Bay class — 21 ships
• Captain class — 78 ships
• Colony class — 21 ships
• Loch class — 24 ships
• River class — 151 ships
• Type 12 Whitby class — 6 ships
• Type 12I Rothesay class — 9 ships
• Type 12M Leander class (Batch 1) - 8 ships
• Type 12M Leander class (Batch 2) - 8 ships
• Type 12M broad-beamed Leander class (Batch 3) - 10 ships
• Type 14 Blackwood class — 12 ships
• Type 15 class— 23 ships
• Type 16 class— 10 ships
• Type 21 Amazon class — 8 ships
• Type-22 Broadsword class (Batch 1) - 4 ships
• Type-22 Boxer class (Batch 2) - 6 ships
• Type-22 Cornwall class (Batch 3) - 4 ships
• Type 23 Duke class — 16 ships
• Type 41 Leopard class — 4 ships
• Type 61 Salisbury class — 4 ships
• Type 81 Tribal class — 7 ships

United States

• Bronstein class - 2 FF ships 1963 (Transfer to Mexico actual ARM Bravo Class)
• Brooke class - 6 FFG ships 1966 to 1968
• Constellation class - 1 ship on order with 20 being planned total
• Garcia class - 10 FF ships and 1 AGFF ship 1964 to 1968
• Knox class - 46 FF ships 1969 to 1974
• Oliver Hazard Perry class - 51 FFG ships 1977 to 1989
• United States class - 6 original frigates of the US Navy 1797 to present (USS Constitution)

Venezuela

• Mariscal Sucre class - 6 ships (ex-Italian Lupo class)

Vietnam

• Gepard 3.9 class - 4 ships in service (all delivered)
• Petya class - 5 ships
• Phạm Ngũ Lão (HQ-01) - 1 ship (ex-seaplane tender)