Type 054A frigate

	Huanggang (577) in 2020
Class overview
Builders	Hudong-Zhonghua Shipyard; Huangpu Shipyard;
Operators	People's Liberation Army Navy; China Coast Guard; Pakistan Navy;
Preceded by	Type 054 frigate
Succeeded by	Type 054B frigate
Subclasses	Tughril class (Pakistan) Type 818 Cutter (China Coast Guard)
Cost	US$348 million (est. 2015)
Built	2005–present
In commission	2008–present
Planned	50
Active	46
General characteristics
Type	Frigate
Displacement	3,963 tonnes (full)
Length	134 m (440 ft)
Beam	16 m (52 ft)
Draught	5 m (16 ft)
Propulsion	CODAD, 4 × SEMT Pielstick 16 PA 6V 280 STC diesels, 20.7 MW (28,200 hp) total, 2 shafts
Speed	27 knots (50 km/h)
Range	3,800 nautical miles (4,400 mi; 7,000 km) estimated at 18 kn (33 km/h; 21 mph)
Sensors &; processing systems	Type 382 Radar; Type 344 Radar (Mineral-ME Band Stand) target acquisition and SSM fire control radar; 4 × MR-90 Front Dome SAM fire control radars; MR-36A surface search radar, I-band; Type 347G 76 mm gun fire control radar; 2 × Racal RM-1290 navigation radars, I-band; MGK-335 medium frequency active/passive sonar system; H/SJG-206 towed array sonar; ZKJ-4B/6 (developed from Thomson-CSF TAVITAC) combat data system; HN-900 Data link (Chinese equivalent of Link 11A/B, to be upgraded); SNTI-240 SATCOM; AKD5000S Ku band SATCOM;
Electronic warfare; & decoys	2 × Type 726-4 18-tube decoy rocket launchers; Type 922-1 radar warning receiver; HZ-100 ECM & ELINT system; Kashtan-3 missile jamming system;
Armament	1 × 32-cell H/AKJ-16 VLS; HHQ-16 SAM; Yu-8 anti-submarine missile; 2 × 4 YJ-83 anti-ship missiles; 1 × H/PJ-26 76 mm naval gun (Type 054A and Type 054A+) or 1 x H/PJ-87 100 mm naval gun (Type 054AG); 2 × 30 mm Type 730 7-barrel gun-based CIWS or Type 1130 11-barrel gun-based CIWS; 2 × 3 324 mm Yu-7 torpedo launchers; 2 × 6 Type 87 240mm anti-submarine rocket launcher;
Aircraft carried	Type 054A: Harbin Z-9C or Kamov Ka-28 'Helix'; Type 054AG: Harbin Z-20 family helicopter including Z-20F anti-submarine version and the Z-20J naval utility version;
Aviation facilities	hangar

The Type 054A (NATO/OSD Jiangkai II) is a class of guided-missile frigate from the People's Republic of China. It is a development of the Type 054 frigate; compared to its predecessor, the Type 054A has medium-range air defense capability in the form of Type 382 radar and vertically launched (VLS) HHQ-16 surface-to-air missiles.

The first ship (Xuzhou) of the new Type 054A was laid down in 2005 and entered service with the People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) in January 2008; the class was a key component of the PLAN's surface fleet by the late 2010s. Production was ongoing in 2023, with 30 ships in service by mid 2019, while the next batch of 10 ships commissioned from 2022 onwards, and a final batch of 10 ships to a new Type 054AG variant are currently being introduced into service from 2024, although this last batch was interrupted by two units being built to the follow-on (and larger) Type 054B frigate design.