- Domain
- Sea
- NCF capability
- Maritime security
- Military Balance category
- Patrol and coastal combatants (corvettes)
- SIPRI category
- Ships
- Evidence that places a platform here
- corvette · offshore patrol · \bOPVs?\b · littoral combat ship · \bLCS\b · national security cutter · cutter
The 24 nations
None, legacy only, modern, or modern and on order. Modern: in service from 1995, or the current generations of fighters, tanks, submarines and long-range air defence.
United StatesModern · 14United KingdomNoneAustraliaNoneFranceModern and on order · 5GermanyModern and on order · 1JapanNoneSouth KoreaLegacy only · 1CanadaModern · 1ItalyModern and on order · 4IndiaModern · 11TürkiyeModern · 3Saudi ArabiaLegacy only · 2BrazilModern · 3IndonesiaModern and on order · 7MexicoModern · 8ArgentinaModern · 1South AfricaNoneRussiaModern and on order · 11ChinaModern · 2IsraelLegacy only · 5UkraineLegacy only · 2TaiwanNoneIranNoneNorth KoreaNone
Generation timeline
Each platform from its first flight or launch to today, the 40 most operated, earliest in service first. Grey is development and, after the lead operator retires it, the years other nations keep it; colour is service.
- Development, from first flight or launch
- In service, from first deployment
- After its lead operator retires it, still held elsewhere
- Today
- Flag beside the name: the home country
Dates from Wikidata: first flights or launches for 0 of these 40, retirements for 0. A bar without grey at its start has no first flight recorded.
Platforms
Ranked by the number of the 24 nations that hold each.
Fingerprints
Each nation's equipment fingerprint with only corvette and opv in colour.
United States Marine Protector-class patrol boat 67, Sentinel-class cutter 62, Island-class patrol boat 49
France Floréal-class frigate 6, Félix Éboué-class patrol vessel 5, D'Entrecasteaux-class patrol ship 4
Germany Braunschweig-class corvette 5
South Korea Pohang-class corvette 4
Canada Harry DeWolf-class offshore patrol vessel –
Italy Thaon di Revel-class offshore patrol vessel 5, Comandanti-class patrol boat 4, Cassiopea-class patrol vessel 3
India GRSE Anti Submarine Warfare Shallow Water Craft 7, Veer-class corvette 7, Kamorta-class corvette 4
Türkiye B-class D'Estienne d'Orves-class aviso 5, Hisar-class offshore patrol vessel 5, Ada-class corvette 4
Saudi Arabia Al Jubail class 5, Badr-class corvette 4
Brazil Macaé-class patrol vessel 4, Amazonas-class corvette 3, Inhaúma-class corvette 1
Indonesia Parchim-class corvette 14, Diponegoro-class corvette 4, Bung Tomo-class corvette 3
Mexico Auk-class minesweeper 11, Oaxaca-class patrol vessel 8, Durango-class patrol vessel 4
Argentina Point-class cutter 1
Russia Grisha-class corvette 16, Tarantul-class corvette 16, Buyan-M-class corvette 12
China Type 056 corvette 50, Haixun-class cutter 1
Israel Sa'ar 72-class corvette 5, Sa'ar 6-class corvette 4, Sa'ar 5-class corvette 3
Ukraine Island-class patrol boat 3, Ada-class corvette –