Esmeraldas-class corvette vs Type 054A frigate

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Esmeraldas-class corvette

Corvette

Type 054A frigate — licensed reference photograph

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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

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At a glance

Side by side

Length comparisonOne shared metre scale

Esmeraldas-class corvetteLength

57.8 m

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Type 054A frigateLength

134 m

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Lengths retain their source configuration and measurement scope.

Esmeraldas-class corvettelarger figure on 1 of 3

Speed+38%

Type 054A frigatelarger figure on 2 of 3

Length+132%
Beam+72%

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 28 rows sourced on both sides

57.8m

134m

Length+132%

All recorded figures & sources

57.8 m

Length

Single source

57.8 m (189 ft 8 in)^[source]

134 m

Length

Single source

Configuration

Details

Esmeraldas-class corvette and Type 054A frigate configuration
Specification	Esmeraldas-class corvette	Type 054A frigate
Power	4 shaft MTU diesel engines, 24,400 hp (18,200 kW)^[source]	CODAD , 4 × SEMT Pielstick 16 PA 6V 280 STC diesels, 20.7 MW (28,200 hp) total, 2 shafts^[source]
Name	Esmeraldas class^[source]	—
Operators	Ecuadorian Navy^[source]	People's Liberation Army Navy China Coast Guard Pakistan Navy^[source]
In commission	1982–present^[source]	2008–present^[source]

Planned	6^[source]	50^[source]

Completed	6^[source]	—

Active	6^[source]	46^[source]

Type	Corvette^[source]	Frigate^[source]

Armament	1- Otobreda 76 mm gun 1 - 40 mm Breda Dardo guns 1 - Surface-to-air-missile - Selenia Aspide (1 × 4) 6 - MM40 Exocet anti-ship missiles 2 - Mk32 torpedo launchers^[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]

Aircraft carried	Bell 206 helicopter^[source]	Type 054A: Harbin Z-9 C or Kamov Ka-28 'Helix' Type 054AG: Harbin Z-20 family helicopter including Z-20F anti-submarine version and the Z-20J naval utility version^[source]

Aviation facilities	Small helipad^[source]	hangar^[source]

Builders	—	Hudong-Zhonghua Shipyard Huangpu Shipyard^[source]

Preceded by	—	Type 054 frigate^[source]

Succeeded by	—	Type 054B frigate^[source]

Subclasses	—	Tughril class (Pakistan) Type 818 Cutter (China Coast Guard)^[source]

Cost	—	US$348 million (est. 2015)^[source]

Built	—	2005–present^[source]

Sensors & processing systems	—	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]