A further six ships are expected as part of a long-term programme to replace older frigates and corvettes with a total of 22-24 new ships. The first-of-class was built at Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering (DSME) and commissioned in March 2018. Meanwhile the Republic of South Korea Navy (RoKN) has been taking delivery of its FFX-II Daegu-class frigates. He added that serial production of the ships has been stable with deliveries undertaken since 2013 and any further corvette classes or sub-classes they can be expected to be based on the Type 056. In terms of corvettes, Collin said that the PLAN only has the Type 056GP and Type 056A ASW vessels that are “geared towards littoral operations in the South China Sea”. The first units are under construction and are due to enter service soon. The new ships are being built by China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation (CSIC) and will have more vertical launch cells for surface-to-air missiles and long-range land attack or anti-ship cruise missiles.
Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS) in Singapore told AMR that although the PLAN has grown it has focussed on larger ships like the Type 055 destroyer, aircraft carriers and submarines rather building large numbers of frigates and corvettes “because the PLAN does not have infinite funding so has to prioritise.”īut despite this, the PLAN does have one frigate programme for a larger Type 054B Jiankai III-class, potentially up to 4,500 tonnes which Collin said appears to be an anti-air warfare (AAW) optimised version of the 4,000t Type 054A Jiankai II-class anti-submarine warfare (ASW) and general purpose (GP) frigate. Dr Collin Koh Swee Lean, from the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies at the S. The rapid expansion of the China’s People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) has been the catalyst for a number of frigate and corvette programmes. A spokesperson from French shipbuilder Naval Group told AMR: “In the Asia Pacific region, the navies are facing both traditional threats (other navies, missiles…) but also a resurgence of asymmetric threats (mine warfare, piracy, cyber threat…).”
The maritime threats to the Asia-Pacific are increasing. The scale with which frigates and corvettes are being built and the capability that these ships have reflects the better share of budgets that navies are attracting. There is a mix of countries that have their own naval manufacturing base and are building their own surface combatants and others that either buy ships from abroad or are attempting to develop the capacity of their own shipyards. Frigate and corvette shipbuilding programmes in the Asia-Pacific region are moving at difference paces across the various sub-regions.
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