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The Miguel Malvar-class frigate is a class of frigates designed and currently built by Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) for the Philippine Navy.It was previously known as the HDC-3100 corvette based on the company's product nomenclature system and the service's acquisition project name until it was reclassified to its current "FF" frigate designation.
List of corvette classes by country during the modern era (post 1940); (see also List of frigate classes and List of frigate classes by country) Algeria ( Algerian Navy ) [ edit ]
navy of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has 3 Shahid Soleimani class corvettes and 1 Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis class corvette Iraqi Navy operates two Assad-class corvettes. Korean People's Navy operates four Sariwon-class corvettes, two Nampo-class corvettes, and one Amnok-class corvette. Royal Malaysian Navy operates six Kedah-class ...
Type 071 amphibious transport dock (Yuzhao class) Type 054A frigate (Jiangkai II class) Type 905 replenishment ship (Fuqing class). The ship types in service with the People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) include aircraft carriers, submarines, (both nuclear and conventional), amphibious transport docks, landing ships, tank, landing ships, medium, destroyers, frigates, corvettes, missile boats ...
The Single Class Surface Combatant Project is a naval procurement program for the Royal Canadian Navy created to replace the aging Iroquois-class anti-air warfare destroyers and Halifax-class multi-role frigates. The Iroquois and Halifax ships have come to the end or are nearing the end of their service lives and require replacement. [24]
On 4 May 1898, the US Congress authorized the first sixteen torpedo boat destroyers and twelve seagoing torpedo boats for the United States Navy. [1] In World War I, the U.S. Navy began mass-producing destroyers, laying 273 keels of the Clemson and Wickes-class destroyers. The peacetime years between 1919 and 1941 resulted in many of these ...
From the 1950s to 1975, the US Navy had three types of fast task force escorts and one type of convoy escort. The task force escorts were cruisers (hull classification symbols CAG/CLG/CG), frigates or destroyer-leaders (DL/DLG), and destroyers (DD/DDG); the convoy escorts were ocean escorts (DE/DEG), often called destroyer escorts as they retained the designation and number series of the World ...
DD: Destroyer; DDC: Corvette (briefly proposed in the mid-1950s) [18] DDE: Escort destroyer, a destroyer (DD) converted for antisubmarine warfare – category abolished 1962. (not to be confused with destroyer escort DE) DDG: Destroyer, guided missile; DDK: Hunter–killer destroyer (category merged into DDE, 4 March 1950)