Anti-Submarine Warfare Shallow Water Craft vs Type 054A frigate

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Anti-Submarine Warfare Shallow Water Craft — licensed reference photograph

AWarships

Anti-Submarine Warfare Shallow Water Craft

Corvette

Credit

Ministry of Defence · GODL-India · Resized · GODL-India · Source ↗ · Modified

Type 054A frigate — licensed reference photograph

BWarships

Type 054A frigate

Frigate

Credit

日本防衛省・統合幕僚監部 · CC BY 4.0 · Resized · CC BY 4.0 · Source ↗ · Modified

First system

Second system

At a glance

Side by side

Length comparisonOne shared metre scale

Anti-Submarine Warfare Shallow Water CraftMahe class

78 m

Length source ↗

Type 054A frigateLength

134 m

Length source ↗

Lengths retain their source configuration and measurement scope.

Anti-Submarine Warfare Shallow Water Craftlarger figure on 0 of 1

None

Type 054A frigatelarger figure on 1 of 1

Speed+9%

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

Measured figures

Head to head

19 of 31 rows sourced on both sides

78mMahe class

134m

Length

All recorded figures & sources

77.6 m

Arnala class

Single source

78 m

Mahe class

Single source

Configuration

Details

Anti-Submarine Warfare Shallow Water Craft and Type 054A frigate configuration
Specification	Anti-Submarine Warfare Shallow Water Craft	Type 054A frigate
Power	—	CODAD , 4 × SEMT Pielstick 16 PA 6V 280 STC diesels, 20.7 MW (28,200 hp) total, 2 shafts^[source]
Name	Anti-Submarine Warfare Shallow Water Craft (ASW-SWC)^[source]	—
Builders	Cochin Shipyard (CSL) Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers (GRSE) (in partnership with Kattupalli Shipyard of L&T )^[source]	Hudong-Zhonghua Shipyard Huangpu Shipyard^[source]
Operators	Indian Navy^[source]	People's Liberation Army Navy China Coast Guard Pakistan Navy^[source]

Preceded by	Kamorta class by antecedence Abhay class by role^[source]	Type 054 frigate^[source]

Succeeded by	Next Generation Missile Vessels^[source]	Type 054B frigate^[source]

Cost	₹ 12,622 crore (equivalent to ₹ 150 billion or US$1.5 billion in 2023) for 16 ships (FY 2020) ₹ 789 crore (equivalent to ₹ 929 crore or US$96 million in 2023) per ship (FY 2020)^[source]	US$348 million (est. 2015)^[source]

Built	2020 – present^[source]	2005–present^[source]

In commission	2025 – present^[source]	2008–present^[source]

Planned	16^[source]	50^[source]

Building	9^[source]	—

Completed	7^[source]	—

Active	6^[source]	46^[source]

Type	Corvette^[source]	Frigate^[source]

Propulsion	3 × MTU 20V 4000 M93L ( Arnala class) 3 × L&T Water-jet propulsion^[source]	—

Sensors & processing systems	Combat Suite: ASW Combat Suite (presumably the DRDO -developed IAC MOD 'C' combat suite) Sonar: DRDO Abhay Hull-Mounted Sonar (HMS) Low Frequency Variable Depth Sonar (LFVDS) Management Systems: Fire Control System (FCS) Integrated Platform Management System (IPMS) Automatic Power Management System (APMS) Battle Damage Control System (BDCS)^[source]	Type 382 Radar Type 344 Radar (Mineral-ME Band Stand ) target acquisition and SSM fire control radar 4 × MR-90 Front Dome SAM fire control radars MR-36A surface search radar, I-band Type 347G 76 mm gun fire control radar 2 × Racal RM-1290 navigation radars, I-band MGK-335 medium frequency active/passive sonar system H/SJG-206 towed array sonar ZKJ-4B/6 (developed from Thomson-CSF TAVITAC) combat data system HN-900 Data link (Chinese equivalent of Link 11 A/B, to be upgraded) SNTI-240 SATCOM AKD5000S Ku band SATCOM^[source]

Armament	Anti-Submarine Warfare: 1 × RBU-6000 anti-submarine rocket launcher 2 × triple lightweight torpedo launchers (presumably the Advanced Light Weight Torpedo (ALWT)) Anti-submarine mines (launched from mine-laying rails) Guns: 1 × Naval Surface Gun (30mm) 2 × OFT 12.7 mm M2 Stabilized Remote Controlled Gun^[source]	1 × 32-cell H/AKJ-16 VLS HHQ-16 SAM Yu-8 anti-submarine missile 2 × 4 YJ-83 anti-ship missiles 1 × H/PJ-26 76 mm naval gun (Type 054A and Type 054A+) or 1 x H/PJ-87 100 mm naval gun (Type 054AG) 2 × 30 mm Type 730 7-barrel gun-based CIWS or Type 1130 11-barrel gun-based CIWS 2 × 3 324 mm Yu-7 torpedo launchers 2 × 6 Type 87 240mm anti-submarine rocket launcher^[source]