BPS-500 missile boat vs Halifax-class frigate

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AWarships

BPS-500 missile boat

Guided-missile corvette

Halifax-class frigate — licensed reference photograph

BWarships

Halifax-class frigate

Guided-missile frigate

Credit

MarkjF31 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Resized · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source ↗ · Modified

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Second system

At a glance

Side by side

Length comparisonOne shared metre scale

BPS-500 missile boatLength

62 m

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Halifax-class frigateLength

134.1 m

Length source ↗

Lengths retain their source configuration and measurement scope.

BPS-500 missile boatlarger figure on 1 of 5

Speed+5%

Halifax-class frigatelarger figure on 4 of 5

Length+116%
Beam+49%
Draught+96%
Complement+811%

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

Measured figures

Head to head

16 of 33 rows sourced on both sides

62m

134m

Length+116%

All recorded figures & sources

62 m

Length

Single source

62 metres (203.4 ft )^[source]

134.1 m

Length

Single source

Configuration

Details

BPS-500 missile boat and Halifax-class frigate configuration
Specification	BPS-500 missile boat	Halifax-class frigate
Power	2 × MTU diesel engine for 19,600 bhp (14,600 kW); 2 x Kamewa pump-jets^[source]	CODOG 2 × General Electric LM2500 gas turbines, generating 47,500 shp (35,400 kW) 1 × SEMT Pielstick 20PA6V280 diesel engine, generating 8,800 shp (6,600 kW) 1 × Royal de Schelde cross-connect gearbox 2 × Escher Wyss controllable pitch propellers 4 × 830 kW Hitzinger generators driven by 4 × C32 ACERT Caterpillar engines^[source]
Name	BPS-500 class^[source]	Halifax class^[source]
Operators	Vietnam People's Navy^[source]	Royal Canadian Navy^[source]
Built	1998–2001, 2025–present

In commission	2001–present^[source]	1992–present^[source]

Planned	4^[source]	—

On order	3^[source]	—

Building	3^[source]	—

Completed	1^[source]	12^[source]

Active	1^[source]	12^[source]

Laid up	2^[source]	—

Retired	0^[source]	—

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

Tonnage	850 tons (full load)^[source]	—

Sensors & processing systems	MR-352 ("Cross Dome") search radar MR-123 ("Bass Tilt") fire control radar^[source]	Combat management system: Lockheed Martin Canada CMS 330 with integrated Saab 9LV Mk 4 elements Air/Surface search and surveillance radars: Saab Sea Giraffe AMB 3D and Thales SMART-S Mk 2 3D Fire control radar : 2 × Saab CEROS-200 Integrated platform management system: L3 MAPPS IPMS Identification Friend or Foe (IFF) System: Telephonics Mk XII Electro-optical infrared search and track system: DRS Canada and Thales Nederland Sirius Tactical data link: SATCOM Link 11 , Link 16 , Link 22 Active/Passive sonar : GDMS-Canada AN/SQS-510 hull mounted sonar Towed array sonar : GDMS-Canada TLFAS (variable depth) Sonobuoy processing system: GDMS-Canada AN/UYS-503^[source]

Armament	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]	2 × quad Mk 141 canisters for 8 × RGM-84 Harpoon block II missiles AShM/LAM 2 × 8-cell Mk 48 vertical launch system (VLS) firing 16 × RIM-162 Evolved Sea Sparrow block II SAM/SSM 1 × Bofors 57 mm (2.2 in) Mk 3 gun 1 × Phalanx CIWS (Mk 15 Mod 21 (Block 1B)) 4 × 12.7 mm (0.50 in) M2HQ Mini Typhoon remote weapon stations 2 × twin 324 mm (12.8 in) Mk 32 torpedo tubes for 24 × Honeywell Mk 46 Mod 5 torpedoes^[source]

National origin	Russia^[source]	—

Alternative designation	BPS-500^[source]	—

Builders	—	Saint John Shipbuilding Ltd. , Saint John MIL Davie Shipbuilding , Lauzon^[source]

Preceded by	—	Annapolis class^[source]

Succeeded by	—	River class^[source]

Electronic warfare & decoys	—	Countermeasure dispensing system: 3 × TKWA/MASS Electronic warfare suite: AN/SLQ-503 RAMSES (4 × RAMSES radomes ) Signals intelligence COMINT and SIGINT Suite: Southwest Research Institute AN/SRD-506 Electronic support measure: Elisra NS9003A-V2HC Inflatable decoy system: Surface Off-Board Passive Decoy (SOPD) Towed torpedo countermeasure: Argon ST AN/SLQ-25 Nixie^[source]