Kingston-class coastal defence vessel vs Type 054A frigate

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Kingston-class coastal defence vessel — licensed reference photograph

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Kingston-class coastal defence vessel

Coastal defence vessel

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Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Heather C. Wamsley · Public domain · Resized · Public domain · Source ↗ · Modified

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

Kingston-class coastal defence vesseloa

55.31 m

Length source ↗

Type 054A frigateLength

134 m

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Lengths retain their source configuration and measurement scope.

Kingston-class coastal defence vessellarger figure on 0 of 3

None

Type 054A frigatelarger figure on 3 of 3

Beam+42%
Draught+46%
Speed+79%

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

Measured figures

Head to head

17 of 30 rows sourced on both sides

55.31moa

134m

Length

All recorded figures & sources

55.31 m

Single source

49 m

Single source

Configuration

Details

Kingston-class coastal defence vessel and Type 054A frigate configuration
Specification	Kingston-class coastal defence vessel	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	Kingston class^[source]	—
Builders	Halifax Shipyards Ltd. , Halifax, Nova Scotia^[source]	Hudong-Zhonghua Shipyard Huangpu Shipyard^[source]
Operators	Royal Canadian Navy^[source]	People's Liberation Army Navy China Coast Guard Pakistan Navy^[source]
Preceded by

Built	1994–1998^[source]	2005–present^[source]

In commission	21 September 1996–present^[source]	2008–present^[source]

Completed	12^[source]	—

Active	4^[source]	46^[source]

Retired	8^[source]	—

Type	Coastal defence vessel^[source]	Frigate^[source]

Propulsion	2 × Jeumont DC electric motors 4 × 600 VAC Wärtsilä UD 23V12 diesel engines 2 × Z drive azimuth thrusters^[source]	—

Sensors & processing systems	Kelvin Hughes Nucleus S-band surface search radar Towed high-frequency sidescan sonar Remote-control Mine Hunting System (RMHS) Magnetic degaussing system^[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 × Bofors 40 mm L/60 Mk 5C cannon (removed 2014) 1 x Nanuk RCWS 12.7 mm heavy machine gun (trial) 2 × M2 machine guns^[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	AeroVironment RQ-20 Puma UAS^[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]