Miecznik-class frigate

Basic information

Type:

Frigate

Parent class:

Inspiration-class frigate (Type 31)

Operators:

Polish Navy

Country of build:

Builder:

Polish Navy Shipyard

Babcock International

Planned:

Ship measurements

Displacement:

7,000 t

Length:

138.7 m

Beam:

19.75 m

Machine

Propulsion system:

CODAD

Propulsion:

4 * Rolls Royce/MTU 20V 8000 M71 (8.2 MW) diesel engines
4 * Rolls Royce/MTU 16V 2000 M41B (900 kW) generators
or 4 * Caterpillar 3512C (1360 kW) generators
MAN Alpha VBS Mk 5 CP propeller
2 * Shafts

Speed:

28 knots

Range:

8,000 nmi

Personnel

Complement:

100

Total capacity:

180

Combat assets

Cargo capacity:

4 * TEU 20`
20 * pallets 1t + 2x
TEU 20`

Boats & landing craft:

2 * 7.5 m RHIBs
2 * 11 m UAVs

Electronics:

Blue Hunter hull sonar and CAPTAS-2 towed sonar

Armament:

32-cell Mark 41 VLS for various missiles and Sea Ceptor anti-air missiles
1 * Leonardo 76mm Super Rapido gun
2 * PIT-Radwar 35mm AM-35 gun
2 * ZM Tarnów 12.7 mm ZSMU-1276 A3B remote-controlled armament modules
2 * ZM Tarnów 12.7 mm WKM-Bm machine guns
16 * SAAB RBS MK3/4 anti-ship missiles
2 * B515/2V launchers for 324mm ASW torpedoes

On 4 March 2022, Babcock announced that it won the frigate competition for the Polish Navy. The Polish Armaments Agency selected Babcock's AH140 from three different platform design proposals provided by the PGZ-MIECZNIK Consortium («Miecznik» is Polish for «Swordfish). In August 2023, the construction of the first in a series of three Projekt 106 frigates began at PGZ Stocznia Wojenna.