- Domain
- Sea
- NCF capability
- Maritime combat
- Military Balance category
- Principal surface combatants (frigates)
- SIPRI category
- Ships
- Evidence that places a platform here
- frigate · \bFF[GH]?\b
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 StatesLegacy only · 2United KingdomLegacy only · 1AustraliaLegacy only · 1FranceLegacy only · 2GermanyModern and on order · 5JapanModern and on order · 1South KoreaModern · 4CanadaLegacy only · 1ItalyLegacy only · 1IndiaModern · 4TürkiyeModern · 4Saudi ArabiaLegacy only · 2BrazilLegacy only · 3IndonesiaModern · 4MexicoNone · 5ArgentinaLegacy only · 1South AfricaLegacy only · 1RussiaModern and on order · 5ChinaModern · 6IsraelLegacy only · 1UkraineNoneTaiwanLegacy only · 1IranNoneNorth KoreaLegacy only · 1
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 33, retirements for 3. 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 frigate in colour.
United States Original six frigates of the United States Navy 1, Constellation-class frigate –
United Kingdom Type 23 frigate 7
Australia Anzac-class frigate 7
France FREMM multipurpose frigate 8, La Fayette-class frigate 5
Germany Baden-Württemberg-class frigate 4, Brandenburg-class frigate 4, Sachsen-class frigate 3
Japan Mogami-class frigate 10
South Korea Daegu-class frigate 8, Incheon-class frigate 6, Chungnam-class frigate 2
Canada Halifax-class frigate –
Italy FREMM multipurpose frigate 10
India Talwar-class frigate 8, Nilgiri-class frigate 6, Brahmaputra-class frigate 3
Türkiye G-class frigate 8, Istif-class frigate 8, Barbaros-class frigate 4
Saudi Arabia Al Madinah-class frigate 4, La Fayette-class frigate 3
Brazil Niterói-class frigate 6, Tamandaré-class frigate 3, Type 22 frigate 1
Indonesia Ahmad Yani-class frigate 5, Balaputradewa-class frigate 2, Istif-class frigate 2
Mexico ARM Guadaloupe –, ARM Montezuma –, Allende-class frigate –
Argentina Espora-class corvette 1
South Africa MEKO A-200 DEU-class frigate 4
Russia Admiral Gorshkov-class frigate 3, Admiral Grigorovich-class frigate 3, Gepard-class frigate 2
China Type 054A frigate 46, Type 053H3 frigate 2, Type 054 frigate 2
Israel River-class frigate 3
Taiwan RIB –
North Korea corvette –