Miguel Malvar-class frigate

Basic information

Type:

Frigate

Operators:

Philippine Navy

Country of build:

South Korea

Builder:

Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., Ltd.

Planned:

Completed:

In service:

2025 – present (1 year)

Ship measurements

Displacement:

3,200 t

Length:

118.4 m

Beam:

14.9 m

Draft:

3.7 m

Machine

Propulsion system:

CODAD

Propulsion:

4 * MTU-STX diesel generators
4 * MTU 20V 1163 M94, each rated at 7,400 kW (9,925 shp), total output: 29,600 kW (39,694 shp)

Speed:

25 knots

Range:

4,500 nmi (8,300 km; 5,200 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)

Personnel

Complement:

120

Combat assets

Boats & landing craft:

2 * RHIB

Electronics:

EL/M-2258 ALPHA S-band 3D AESA multifunction radar
Identification Friend or Foe (IFF) System
Navigation radar:
Hensoldt SharpEye I-band & E/F-band radars
Fire control radar:
Leonardo NA-25X fire control radar
Electro-Optical Tracking System:
Safran PASEO XLR electro-optical
Tactical Data Link:
Hanwha Systems Link P (Link K Derivative)
Sonar:
Harris Model 997 medium frequency active/passive hull mounted sonar
SIGINT/ESM Suite:
Elbit Elisra Aquamarine R-ESM (Radar-Electronic Support Measures)
Elbit Elisra Aquamarine C-ESM (communications — electronic support measures)
Countermeasures Dispensing System:
2 * C-Guard DL-12T mortar-type decoy launchers by Terma A/S

Armament:

16-cell Vertical Launching System for 16 x MBDA VL MICA ship-to-air missiles
8 * C-Star SSM-710K antiship cruise missiles in quad configuration
2 * SEA triple-tube torpedo launching systems for K745 Blue Shark torpedoes
1 * 76mm Oto Melara Super Rapid
1 * Aselsan GOKDENIZ 100/35 CIWS
4 * K6 (12.7mm) 50cal heavy machine gun

Aircraft:

1 * AW159 Wildcat multi-role naval helicopter, with:
K745 Blue Shark torpedoes
FLASH compact dipping sonar
Sonobuoys
Spike NLOS missiles
Seaspray 7400E AESA X-band
MX-15Di EOIR cameras
2 * pintle-mounted machine guns

Aviation facilities

flight deck and starboard-side hangar for a 12-ton helicopter

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 frigate «FF» and then to its current «FFG» guided-missile frigate designation.

The Philippine Navy is expecting the delivery of ships acquired under its Corvette Acquisition Project under the Revised AFP Modernization Program's Horizon 2 phase covering years 2018 to 2022.

The Technical Working Group assigned for the project has used the Philippine Navy's latest warship, the Jose Rizal-class frigate as baseline for the new corvettes, while improvements will be added based on lessons learned from the said frigate's development and construction from 2016 to 2020.

Based on open source information, the new corvette would be more or less similar in size to the Jose Rizal-class frigate, but will have improved sensors and weapons suite.