Queen Shima class is a class of guided-missile frigates, the warships were designed in the Nation in the Late-1980s as general-purpose escort vessels inexpensive enough to be bought in large numbers to replace Old Era destroyers and Frigates. the FFGs serving as a high capability ships. Intended to protect amphibious landing forces, supply and replenishment groups, and merchant convoys from aircraft and submarines. They were also later part of aircraft carrier battle groups/strike groups

The first of the 18 Navy built Queen Shima frigates entered into service in 1990, with the last one entered service in 2001,the Shima also receive some attention from other country that have interest in purchasing the ship, in total 6 ship has been successfully exported to 2 nation,

The Queen Shima class were equipped with Various Radar and Electronic System, a quite advance system of its time but later every few years the ship receive many major upgrade thru the years and expected to be still operational till 2030 after new frigate design are announcement to replace the entire of Shima Class , the Frigate are powered by 2 × gas turbines each generating 25,120 bhp which propelled the ship into max speed of 32 knot

Specification

Displacement: 3900 Tonnes (Standard Load)
Length: 110meter (328 ft)
Beam: 14,5m(63,9 ft)
Boats & Landing Craft Carrier : 2 Rigid Hull Inflatable Boats
Complement: 154 Total
Speed: 32knots (60km/h)
Aircraft Carried: 1x Medium or light Helicopter

Armaments

1x 127mm Multi-Purpose Gun Mark 30

2x 6 Barrel 20mm lightweight CIWS

2 x Triple 324mm Lightweight Torpedo Tubes

8x Large Vertical Launch System
- 4x RAK-52 Anti Ship Missile
- 4x R-115 Surface to Surface Cruise Missile

8x Medium Vertical Launch System
- 8x RAU-71 Surface to Air Missile

Control

Throttle - Throttle

Yaw - Turn

Brake - Reverse

Trim - Torpedo Tubes

AG1 - 127mm Main Gun
Roll + Pitch

AG2 - Starboardside CIWS
Camera Aim Control

AG3- Portside CIWS
Camera Aim Control

AG6 - Exterior Light

AG7 - Navigation Light

Gallery

I don't use gyro as Turning for control, instead i use Rudder because its better, so you cant turn on zero/low speed