List of frigate classes

Template:Short description This list of frigate classes includes all post–World War II frigate classes listed alphabetically.

Frigate class	Number of ships	Notes
A
Template:Sclass	2
Template:Sclass	6
	1
Template:Sclass	6	derivative of Template:Sclass
Template:Sclass	3
Template:Sclass	3
Template:Sclass	3
	1
Template:Sclass	6	ex-Dutch Template:Sclass
	1
Al-Aziz	1	MEKO 200 design, three under construction
Template:Sclass	4
Al Riyadh	3
Template:Sclass	4	ex-US Template:Sclass
Template:Sclass	4	ex-US Template:Sclass
Template:Sclass	4	MEKO 360 design
Template:Sclass	4	built in Germany
Template:Sclass	2
Template:Sclass	4	built in Britain for the Iranian Navy
Template:Sclass	5
Template:Sclass	4
Template:Sclass	4	modified ex-US Casco class, all decommissioned
Template:Sclass	10	MEKO 200 design, built by Tenix in Williamstown, Vic, Australia
	1	MEKO 360 design
Template:Sclass2	4
Template:Sclass	2	ex-US Template:Sclass
Template:Sclass	1	built in Myanmar
Template:Sclass	2
B
Template:Sclass	4
Template:Sclass	5	modified Template:Sclass
	1	modified Template:Sclass
Template:Sclass	4
Template:Sclass	4	MEKO 200 design
	1
Template:Sclass2	21
Template:Sclass	19	see Burevestnik class
Template:Sclass	2
Template:Sclass	4
Template:Sclass	2
Template:Sclass	10
Template:Sclass	1
Template:Sclass	3	built by GRSE; Indian Navy: 2000–present
Template:Sclass	4
Template:Sclass	2
Template:Sclass	8
Template:Sclass	2	FF 1963
Template:Sclass	6	FFG 1966 to 1968
Template:Sclass	3
Template:Sclass2	40
C
Canterbury (Leander)	2
Template:Sclass2	78	US built destroyer escorts
Template:Sclass	2
Template:Sclass	4
Template:Sclass	4	Chinese Jianghu III class
Template:Sclass	4
Template:Sclass	8
Template:Sclass	8	ex-US Template:Sclass
Template:Sclass	12
Template:Sclass	11
Template:Sclass	4
Template:Sclass	9	French built, decommissioned 3 ships sold to Uruguay
Template:Sclass	4	British built Leander class
Template:Sclass	20 (planned)
Template:Sclass	2
D
Template:Sclass	17
Template:Sclass	8
Template:Sclass	2	ex-US Template:Sclass
	1	Vosper Mk 7 design
Template:Sclass	3	ex-US Template:Sclass
Template:Sclass	4
Template:Sclass	13
Template:Sclass	2	training ship
E
Template:Sclass	1	ex-British destroyer Zenith
Template:Sclass	10	ex-Dutch Template:Sclass
Template:Sclass	2	ex-British Template:Sclass
Template:Sclass	2
Template:Sclass	2	MEKO 200 design
Template:Sclass	6	MEKO 140 design
F
Template:Sclass	3
Template:Sclass	6
Template:Sclass	6
FREMM	4	twenty-seven planned
Template:Sclass	5	derivative of Template:Sclass
G
Gabya	8	ex-US Template:Sclass
Template:Sclass	11	10 FF and 1 AGFF ship, 1964–1968
Template:Sclass	2	ex-US Template:Sclass
Template:Sclass	7
Template:Sclass2	6
Template:Sclass	3	built by MDL; Indian Navy: 1983–present
Template:Sclass	3	derivative of Template:Sclass
Template:Sclass	4	ex-UK Broadsword class (Batch 1)
Template:Sclass	3	ex-US Template:Sclass
Template:Sclass	1
H
Template:Sclass	12
Template:Sclass	12
	1
Template:Sclass2	4
Template:Sclass	4	MEKO 200 design
I
Template:Sclass	2
Template:Sclass	6
Template:Sclass	4
Template:Sclass	1	ex-US Template:Sclass; two others decommissioned
	1
Template:Sclass	4
Template:Sclass	3
J
Template:Sclass	2	1986
Template:Sclass	3
Template:Sclass	6
Template:Sclass	2
Template:Sclass	2
K
Template:Sclass	6
Template:Sclass	8	1991–1995
Template:Sclass	2
Template:Sclass	46	46 FF, 1969–1974
Template:Sclass2	8
Template:Sclass	6
Template:Sclass2	14
Template:Sclass	2
Template:Sclass	12	1978–1983
Krivak	40	See Burevestnik class.
Template:Sclass	2
L
Template:Sclass	5
Template:Sclass	4
Template:Sclass	14
Template:Sclass	44
Template:Sclass2	9
Template:Sclass	2
Template:Sclass	2
Template:Sclass2	32
Template:Sclass	4
M
Template:Sclass	8
Template:Sclass		2 + 4
	1
	1
Template:Sclass	6
Template:Sclass	2	Sigma-class design
Template:Sclass	2
Template:Sclass	3	ex-UK Template:Sclass2, all decommissioned
Template:Sclass	4	Italian-built Template:Sclass
Template:Sclass2	18
Template:Sclass	2	Template:Sclass
Template:Sclass	3
Template:Sclass	5	Iranian built
Template:Sclass	4	ex-US Template:Sclass
N
Template:Sclass	2	Chinese Jianghu III class
Template:Sclass2	2
Template:Sclass	2
Template:Sclass	2
Template:Sclass	6	built by MDL; Indian Navy: 1972–2010
Template:Sclass	7
O
	1
Template:Sclass	26	2 with the Polish Navy (as General K. Pulaski class), 4 with the Egyptian Navy (as Mubarak class), 1 with the Royal Bahrain Naval Forces, 8 with the Turkish Navy (as Gabya class), 1 with Pakistan Navy (as Alamgir class) and 10 with the United States Navy
Template:Sclass	5
P
Template:Sclass	4
Template:Sclass	2
Template:Sclass2	54
Template:Sclass	1	former seaplane tender
Template:Sclass	2	ex-US Template:Sclass
Template:Sclass	8
Template:Sclass	21	modified Template:Sclass2
R
	1	decommissioned 2004 and retired
Template:Sclass	1	Sigma-class design
Regele Ferdinand	2	ex-UK Type 22 frigate
Template:Sclass2	69
Template:Sclass	2
Template:Sclass2	6
Template:Sclass2	6
S
Template:Sclass	3
Samadikun	4	ex-US Template:Sclass
Template:Sclass	6	Spanish subclass of US Template:Sclass
Template:Sclass2	(2)	two planned
Template:Sclass	3	built by MDL; Indian Navy: 2010–present
Template:Sclass2	1
Template:Sclass	2
Template:Sclass	2	Sigma-class design
T
Template:Sclass	6	Indian Navy: 2003–present
	1	Sigma-class design
Tariq	1	ex-British sloop Whimbrel
Template:Sclass	6	ex-UK Template:Sclass
Template:Sclass	3
Template:Sclass	4
Template:Sclass	3
Template:Sclass	2	1975–1976
Template:Sclass	2
Type 053H (Jianghu I)	14
Type 053H1 (Jianghu II)	9
Type 053H2 (Jianghu III)	3
Type 053H1Q (Jianghu IV)	1
Type 053H1G (Jianghu V)	6
Type 053K (Jiangdong)	2
Type 053H2G (Jiangwei I)	4
Type 053H3 (Jiangwei II)	10
Type 054 (Jiangkai I)	2
Type 054A (Jiangkai II)	30
Type 12 Whitby	8
Type 12M Rothesay	21
Type 12I Leander	26
Type 12I Canterbury	2	New Zealand variant of Leander class
Type 14 Blackwood	15
Type 15	23	converted War Emergency Programme destroyers
Type 16	10	converted War Emergency Programme destroyers
Type 21 Amazon	8
Type 22 Broadsword (Batch 1)	4
Type 22 Boxer (Batch 2)	6
Type 22 Cornwall (Batch 3)	4
Type 23 Duke	16
Type 41 Leopard	7
Type 61 Salisbury	4
Type 81 Tribal	7
U
Template:Sclass	9
Template:Sclass	3	ex-French Template:Sclass
V
Template:Sclass	4
Template:Sclass	6	ex-US Template:Sclass
Template:Sclass	6	1967–1968 modernised Template:Sclass
Template:Sclass	3	MEKO 200 design
Template:Sclass	4
W
	1	modified Template:Sclass
	1
Template:Sclass	3
Y
Template:Sclass	4	MEKO 200 design
Template:Sclass	2
Z
Template:Sclass	2
Zulfiquar	4