Álvaro de Bazán-class frigate vs BPS-500 missile boat

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Álvaro de Bazán-class frigate — licensed reference photograph

AWarships

Álvaro de Bazán-class frigate

Guided-missile frigate

Credit

Contando Estrelas from Vigo, España / Spain · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Resized · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Source ↗ · Modified

BWarships

BPS-500 missile boat

Guided-missile corvette

First system

Second system

At a glance

Side by side

Length comparisonOne shared metre scale

Álvaro de Bazán-class frigateLength

146.7 m

Length source ↗

BPS-500 missile boatLength

62 m

Length source ↗

Lengths retain their source configuration and measurement scope.

Álvaro de Bazán-class frigatelarger figure on 3 of 4

Length+137%
Beam+69%
Complement+618%

BPS-500 missile boatlarger figure on 1 of 4

Speed+13%

Counts only measures both sources give with the same scope. A larger figure is not a better system.

Measured figures

Head to head

14 of 35 rows sourced on both sides

147m

62m

Length+137%

All recorded figures & sources

146.7 m

Length

Single source

146.7 m (481 ft 4 in)^[source]

62 m

Length

Single source

Configuration

Details

Álvaro de Bazán-class frigate and BPS-500 missile boat configuration
Specification	Álvaro de Bazán-class frigate	BPS-500 missile boat
Name	Álvaro de Bazán class^[source]	BPS-500 class^[source]
Builders	NAVANTIA - IZAR , Astillero Ferrol^[source]	—
Operators	Spanish Navy Royal Australian Navy \| Royal Norwegian Navy^[source]	Vietnam People's Navy^[source]
Preceded by	Baleares -class frigate (Spain) Perth -class destroyer (Australia) Adelaide -class frigate (Australia) Oslo -class frigate (Norway)^[source]	—

Subclasses	Hobart -class destroyer (Australia) Fridtjof Nansen -class frigate (Norway)^[source]	—

Cost	F101-4: € 453 million per unit F105: € 834 million^[source]	—

Planned	6^[source]	4^[source]

Cancelled	1^[source]	—

Active	5^[source]	1^[source]

Type	Guided-missile frigate^[source]	Guided-missile corvette^[source]

Propulsion	CODOG : 2 × General Electric LM2500 gas turbines 2 × Caterpillar 3600 diesel engines 2 × Propellers^[source]	—

Sensors & processing systems	Lockheed Martin AN/SPY-1 D 3D multifunction radar Raytheon SPS-67(V)4 surface search radar Raytheon DE1160 LF active and passive sonar 2 × ARIES navigation/surface radar 2 × Raytheon AN/SPG-62 Mk99 radar illuminator^[source]	MR-352 ("Cross Dome") search radar MR-123 ("Bass Tilt") fire control radar^[source]

Electronic warfare & decoys	4 × FMC SRBOC Mk36 flare launchers SLQ-25A Enhanced Nixie torpedo countermeasures Indra SLQ-380 EW suite Indra Mk 9500 interceptor^[source]	—

Armament	1 × 5 in (127.0 mm)/54 Mk45 Mod 2 gun Provision for one CIWS FABA 20 mm/120 Meroka system. 1 × Mark 41 (VLS) (48-cell) 2 × 20 mm autocannon (F101-104) 2 × 25 mm autocannon (F105) 4 × 12.7 mm M2 Browning machine guns in Sentinel RWS 32 × Standard SM-2MR Block IIIA 64 × RIM-162 Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile (4 per cell) 8× RGM-84 Harpoon (To be replaced with Naval Strike Missile ) 2 × twin 12.75 in (323.8 mm) Mark 32 Mod 9 torpedo tubes with 12 Honeywell Mark 46 Mod 5 torpedoes^[source]	1 x AK-176 76 mm gun 1 x AK-630 30 mm CIWS 2 x 12.7 mm machine guns Anti-ship missiles 8 x Kh-35 Uran anti-ship missiles ( Ship 381 ) 8 x VCM-01 anti-ship missiles (from A2 onward) 1 x 9K38 Igla MANPADS^[source]