Type 054A frigate vs Valour-class frigate

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Type 054A frigate — licensed reference photograph

AWarships

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

BWarships

Valour-class frigate

Guided-missile frigate

First system

Second system

At a glance

Side by side

Length comparisonOne shared metre scale

Type 054A frigateLength

134 m

Length source ↗

Valour-class frigateoverall

121 m

Length source ↗

Lengths retain their source configuration and measurement scope.

Type 054A frigatelarger figure on 0 of 3

None

Valour-class frigatelarger figure on 3 of 3

Beam+2%
Draught+19%
Speed+12%

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 31 rows sourced on both sides

134m

121moverall

Length

All recorded figures & sources

134 m

Length

Single source

134 m (440 ft)^[source]

107.3 m

at waterline

Single source

Configuration

Details

Type 054A frigate and Valour-class frigate configuration
Specification	Type 054A frigate	Valour-class frigate
Power	CODAD , 4 × SEMT Pielstick 16 PA 6V 280 STC diesels, 20.7 MW (28,200 hp) total, 2 shafts^[source]	CODAG WARP 2 MTU 16V 1163 TB93 diesel engines , 5,920 kilowatts (7,940 hp) each, 2 shafts for cruise; 1 General Electric LM2500 , 20,000 kilowatts (27,000 hp) 1 waterjet^[source]
Builders	Hudong-Zhonghua Shipyard Huangpu Shipyard^[source]	Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft , Kiel and Blohm+Voss , Hamburg^[source]
Operators	People's Liberation Army Navy China Coast Guard Pakistan Navy^[source]	South African Navy^[source]
Preceded by	Type 054 frigate

Succeeded by	Type 054B frigate^[source]	—

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

Cost	US$348 million (est. 2015)^[source]	R 9.65 billion (2007) for 4 units R 2.41 billion (2007) per unit^[source]

Built	2005–present^[source]	2001–2002^[source]

In commission	2008–present^[source]	2006–present^[source]

Planned	50^[source]	5^[source]

Active	46^[source]	4^[source]

Type	Frigate^[source]	Guided-missile frigate^[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]	Surveillance radar : Thales Naval France MRR-3D NG G-band multi-role radar Optical radar tracker : 2 Reutech RTS 6400 monopulse X band (I/J bands) combined radar and optronics trackers Electro-optical tracker : Reutech Electro-optical tracker Identification friend or foe : Tellumat Integrated Naval Identification friend or foe system Target designation sights : M-Tek Target Designation Sights Sonar : Thales UMS4132 Kingklip sonar Obstacle avoidance sonar : MDS 3060^[source]

Electronic warfare & decoys	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]	ESM/ECM : Saab Grintek Avitronics SME 100/200 ESM (Intercept and Jammer) & ELINT Decoys : 2 Saab Grintek Avitronics MRL Super Barricade chaff launchers (96 decoys)^[source]

Armament	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]	Anti-ship missiles : 8 MBDA MM 40 Exocet Block 2 surface-to-surface missiles (mounted in two four-cell launchers) Surface-to-air : 16 Umkhonto surface-to-air missiles in a 32-cell Vertical launching system , can be increased to 32 missiles Naval guns : 1 Otobreda 76 mm gun 1 Denel 35mm Dual Purpose Gun ( CIWS ) 2 Mk1 Oerlikon 20 mm cannon 2 12.7 mm Rogue remotely operated guns ASW : 4 324 mm (12.8 in) torpedo tubes^[source]

Aircraft carried	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]	2 SuperLynx 300 , 1 Atlas Oryx , 2 AgustaWestland AW109 , 1 Denel Rooivalk or various UAVs (Planned)^[source]