Karakurt-class corvette vs Type 054A frigate

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Karakurt-class corvette — licensed reference photograph

AWarships

Karakurt-class corvette

Guided-missile corvette

Credit

Минобороны России · CC BY 4.0 · Resized · CC BY 4.0 · 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

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Second system

At a glance

Side by side

Length comparisonOne shared metre scale

Karakurt-class corvetteLength

67 m

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Type 054A frigateLength

134 m

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Lengths retain their source configuration and measurement scope.

Karakurt-class corvettelarger figure on 1 of 3

Speed+12%

Type 054A frigatelarger figure on 2 of 3

Length+100%
Beam+45%

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

Measured figures

Head to head

18 of 33 rows sourced on both sides

67m

134m

Length+100%

All recorded figures & sources

67 m

Length

Single source

67 m (219 ft 10 in)^[source]

134 m

Length

Single source

Configuration

Details

Karakurt-class corvette and Type 054A frigate configuration
Specification	Karakurt-class corvette	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	Karakurt class^[source]	—
Builders	Pella Shipyard , Saint Petersburg More Shipyard , Feodosia Zaliv Shipbuilding yard , Kerch Zelenodolsk Shipyard , Zelenodolsk Amur Shipyard , Komsomolsk-on-Amur Vostochnaya Verf , Vladivostok^[source]	Hudong-Zhonghua Shipyard Huangpu Shipyard^[source]
Operators	Russian Navy^[source]	People's Liberation Army Navy China Coast Guard Pakistan Navy^[source]

Preceded by	Buyan class Buyan-M class^[source]	Type 054 frigate^[source]

Cost	approx. RUB2 billion (2017) (US$34.3 million)^[source]	US$348 million (est. 2015)^[source]

Built	2015–present^[source]	2005–present^[source]

In service	2018–present^[source]	—

Planned	16^[source]	50^[source]

Building	2^[source]	—

Completed	13^[source]	—

Active	7 (+3 likely on trials, one - Askold - heavily damaged, undergoing repairs )^[source]	46^[source]

Lost	1 (Tsiklon)^[source]	—

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

Propulsion	CODAD : 3 Zvezda M-507D1 112 c or 16D49 16D500 12V ZE1600KZ turbodiesel engine with 3 diesel generators DGAS-315^[source]	—

Endurance	15 days^[source]	—

Sensors & processing systems	Mineral-M radar Pozitiv-M 1.2 3D radar AESA type radar Pal-N-4 5P-10-03 Laska Fire-control radar (for naval gun and AK-630 CIWS ) SP-520 Lanzor KT-216 PK-10 MP-405-1 Satellite communication station Tsentavr-NM^[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	1 × 76.2 mm 59- caliber AK-176 MA or 100 mm A-190 automatic dual-purpose guns 1 × Pantsir-M CIWS with Hermes-K missiles or 1 × 3M89 Palash/ Palma CIWS with Sosna-R missiles (4+4 SAM in total 8 plus under reload units) or 2 × AK-630M-2 CIWS and Tor missile system (on first 2 vessels) 2 × 4 UKSK VLS cells for Kalibr or Oniks anti-ship cruise missiles 2 × 12.7x108 mm Kord machine 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]

Aircraft carried	Launcher for Orlan-10 UAV^[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]