Frigate
A frigate is a warship in most current real world navies, many NationStates navies and some NationStates space forces.
The original frigates in the age of sail were light commerce raiders with a single deck gun, and this term passed out of use in the mid-19th century. Ironclads briefly used this term because they had a single deck gun like a sail frigate, but soon all these terms fell into disuse.
A hundred years later, the British navy revived the term and applied it to anti-submarine warfare ships ranking between a corvette and destroyer. The American navy also used the term missile frigates to describe warships which were later redesignated missile cruisers.
The ASW function continues in NS navies, but augmented by a somewhat more generalist weapons package and doctrinal use as escort ships. The list of known NS naval frigates include:
NationStates space force
Generalisations are more difficult to make in the space force; consult list of known NS space frigates below for details:
