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Air-defense and command frigate
De Zeven Provinciën-class frigate is a air-defense and command frigate. It was built by Damen Schelde Naval Shipbuilding. Reported operators include Royal Netherlands Navy.
NetherlandsDe Zeven Provinciën-class frigate
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Damen Schelde Naval Shipbuilding
Royal Netherlands Navy
Tromp class Jacob van Heemskerck class
Future Air Defender
~€1.9 billion program cost
1998–2005
2002–present
4
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Air-defense and command frigate
6,050 tonnes (full load)
144.24 m (473 ft 3 in)
18.80 m (61 ft 8 in)
5.18 m (17 ft 0 in)
4 × Wärtsilä - Deutz D620 V12 diesel-generators , 1,680 kW (2,250 hp) each
Combined diesel or gas 2 × Wärtsilä 16 V26 marine diesel engines , 5.1 MW (6,800 hp) each 2 × Rolls-Royce Marine Spey SM 1A gas turbines , 19.5 MW (26,100 hp) each 2 × propeller shafts , 5-bladed controllable pitch propellers
30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph)
4,000 nmi (7,400 km; 4,600 mi) at 18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph)
30 officers, 202 ratings
Thales Nederland SMART-L long-range air and surface surveillance radar Thales Nederland APAR air and surface search, tracking and guidance radar ( I band ) DECCA NAV navigation radar Thales Nederland Scout ( Low-probability-of-intercept ) surface search/navigation radar Thales Nederland Sirius IRST long-range infrared surveillance and tracking system Thales Nederland Mirador optical surveillance and tracking system Atlas Elektronik DSQS-24C hull-mounted sonar MK XII IFF system
2 × Thomson Racal Sabre ECM suite 4 × Sippican Hycor SRBOC Mk 36 launcher 1 × AN/ SLQ-25 Nixie torpedo decoy
Guns: 1 × Oto Melara 127 mm/64 dual-purpose gun 2–4 × Browning M2 12.7 mm machine guns 4–6 × FN MAG 7.62 mm machine guns 2 × Goalkeeper CIWS Missiles: 40-cell Mk 41 strike-length vertical launching system SM-2 IIIA surface-to-air missiles (typically 32 carried) Evolved SeaSparrow missiles (quad-packed, typically 32 carried) Tomahawk cruise missiles . 8 × Harpoon anti-ship missiles 2 × twin Mk 32 Mod 9 torpedo launchers with Mk 46 Mod 5 torpedoes
1 × NH90 NFH helicopter
Hangar and flight deck for 1 medium-sized helicopter
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True scale
Sourced dimensions beside a 1.75 m human reference.
Points represent sourced observations, including revisions. Revisions on the same effective date are not separate inventory events. Ranges appear in the table and are not plotted as exact points.
| Observation / report period | Value | Source | Claim state |
|---|---|---|---|
| 29 Sept 2026 | 144.24 m | Wikipedia contributors | superseded |
De Zeven Provinciën-class frigate equipment records. Variants, orders and quantities are shown as reported in each inventory source; coverage is incomplete.
NetherlandsNavy exact named equipment holdings of De Zeven Provincien (1 more in reserve), De Zeven Provincien. Active, operational-reserve and training units excluding equipment in store; November 2025 IISS assessment. Named service only, not a national or parent-force total or combat-readiness measure. Source role(s): PRINCIPAL SURFACE COMBATANTS / DDGHM. No heading aggregate, carried armament, crew, payload, factory production or future order count inherited. Family total is the sum of the separately printed nonoverlapping exact model components, each explicitly declared by its own source; no parent or sibling variant identity inferred. The leading printed inventory count is retained; separately stated extra reserve, nonoperational or repair quantities inside parentheses are not added to it and remain verbatim in the excerpt. Source parentheses retain employment, lease, reporting designation, alternate model, or included-subset scopes exactly. Own fetched primary and alternate/model identity declarations are retained. Numbers inside an included subset are part of the printed count and are never added again; no sibling or parent specification is copied.
Reported count for De Zeven Provinciën class. Service scope: Navy combat fleet; does not replace a national total. 1 distinct count cell(s) from the same source list; shared rowspan cells counted once. Excludes retired/reserve/on-order rows. Count column(s): in service: 4. Origin: Netherlands. The listed variants/roles are the scope, not an immediately deployable count. The components do not establish one inventory census date; the stored date is the retrieved source snapshot.