Sejong the Great-class destroyer vs Type 054A frigate

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Sejong the Great-class destroyer — licensed reference photograph

AWarships

Sejong the Great-class destroyer

Guided-missile destroyer

Credit

U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Brandon Raile · 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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Second system

At a glance

Side by side

Length comparisonOne shared metre scale

Sejong the Great-class destroyerBatch II

170 m

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Type 054A frigateLength

134 m

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Lengths retain their source configuration and measurement scope.

Sejong the Great-class destroyerlarger figure on 1 of 1

Beam+34%

Type 054A frigatelarger figure on 0 of 1

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

Measured figures

Head to head

21 of 29 rows sourced on both sides

170mBatch II

134m

Length

All recorded figures & sources

166 m

Batch I

Single source

170 m

Batch II

Single source

Configuration

Details

Sejong the Great-class destroyer and Type 054A frigate configuration
Specification	Sejong the Great-class destroyer	Type 054A frigate
Power	4 × General Electric LM2500 COGAG ; 2 × shafts; 100,000 shp (75,000 kW) produced power^[source]	CODAD , 4 × SEMT Pielstick 16 PA 6V 280 STC diesels, 20.7 MW (28,200 hp) total, 2 shafts^[source]
Builders	Hyundai Heavy Industries Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering^[source]	Hudong-Zhonghua Shipyard Huangpu Shipyard^[source]
Operators	Republic of Korea Navy^[source]	People's Liberation Army Navy China Coast Guard Pakistan Navy^[source]
Preceded by	Chungmugong Yi Sun-sin class

Succeeded by	KDDX-class destroyer^[source]	Type 054B frigate^[source]

Cost	$923 million per ship^[source]	US$348 million (est. 2015)^[source]

Planned	6^[source]	50^[source]

Building	2^[source]	—

Completed	4^[source]	—

Active	4^[source]	46^[source]

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

Endurance	30 days^[source]	—

Sensors & processing systems	AN/SPY-1D(V) multi-function radar AN/SPG-62 fire control radar DSQS-21BZ-M hull-mounted sonar SQR-220K towed array sonar system Sagem Infrared Search & Track (IRST) 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]

Electronic warfare & decoys	LIG Nex1 SLQ-200K Sonata electronic warfare suite^[source]	2 × Type 726-4 18-tube decoy rocket launchers Type 922-1 radar warning receiver HZ-100 ECM & ELINT system Kashtan-3 missile jamming system^[source]

Armament	Batch I: 1 × 5-inch (127 mm)/L62 caliber Mk 45 Mod 4 naval gun 1 × 30 mm Goalkeeper CIWS 1 × RAM Block 1 CIWS 16 × SSM-700K Haeseong anti-ship missile 2 × triple torpedo tubes for: K745 Blue Shark torpedo 1 × 48-cell, 1 × 32-cell (80 cells) Mk 41 VLS for: SM-2 Block IIIB/IV 1 × 48-cell K-VLS for: K-ASROC Red Shark Hyunmoo III land attack cruise missiles K-SAAM short range air defence missiles KM-SAM air defence missiles Batch II: 1 × 5-inch (127 mm)/L62 caliber Mk 45 Mod 4 2 × 20mm Block 1B Phalanx CIWS 8 × SSM-700K Haeseong anti-ship missile 2 × triple torpedo tubes for: K745 Blue Shark torpedo 1 × 48-cell Mk 41 VLS for: SM-2 Block IIIB/IV SM-3 NTW Block IB SM-6 Block I 1 × 16-cell K-VLS for: K-ASROC Red Shark Hyunmoo III land attack cruise missiles K-SAAM short range air defence missiles KM-SAM air defence missiles 1 × 24-cell K-VLS II for: L-SAM long range air defence missiles Hyunmoo IV-2 ballistic missiles^[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	2 × Super Lynx or SH-60 Seahawk^[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]