Lekiu-class frigate

KD Lekiu (FFG30) and KD Jebat (FFG29) with USS George Washington
Class overview
Name	Lekiu class
Builders	Yarrow Shipbuilders, Glasgow, UK
Operators	Royal Malaysian Navy
Preceded by	KD Rahmat KD Hang Tuah (as a frigate)
Succeeded by	Maharaja Lela class
Completed	2
Active	2
General characteristics
Class and type	F2000 frigate
Displacement	2,300 tons full load
Length	106 m (348 ft)
Beam	12.75 m (41.8 ft)
Draught	3.08 m (10.1 ft)
Propulsion	4 × MTU 20V 1163 TB93 diesel engines, 24.5MW, twin shafts with Kamewa controllable pitch propellers
Speed	28 knots (52 km/h; 32 mph)
Range	5,000 nmi (9,300 km; 5,800 mi)
Complement	146 with 18 officers
Sensors and processing systems	Combat system: BAE Systems Insyte Nautis F combat data system Search radar: Ericsson Sea Giraffe-150 surface search radar G and H bands, Thales Netherlands (Signaal) DA-08 air search operating at E and F bands Navigation radar: Thales Defence I-band navigation radar Fire control radar: 2 × Marconi 1802SW, Alenia Marconi Systems Nautis F combat data system, Radamec Series 2000 Optronic weapon director, BAE SYSTEMS 1802 fire control radar operating at I and J bands Thermal imager: BAE Type V 3001 Sonar: Thales Underwater Systems Spherion TSM 2633 LF sonar
Electronic warfare & decoys	ESM: BAE Mentor-A ECM: Thales Defense Scimitar Decoy: 2 Super Barricade 12 barrelled launchers, Graseby Sea Siren torpedo decoy
Armament	Guns: 1 × Bofors 57 mm gun 2 × MSI DS30B 30 mm cannon Anti-air: 16 × VLS for Sea Wolf SAM Anti-ship: 8 × Exocet MM40 Block 2 SSM Anti-submarine: 2 × triple Eurotorp B515 with A244-S ASW torpedoes
Aircraft carried	1 × Super Lynx 300
Aviation facilities	Stern hangar Helicopter landing platform

The Lekiu-class frigates are a class of frigates of the Royal Malaysian Navy. They are the largest and most modern surface combatants of the Royal Malaysian Navy, until the Maharaja Lela-class frigates are completed. The class comprises two vessels, KD Jebat and KD Lekiu. The class is named after the second ship of the class which was launched before Jebat.

The two ships of the class are named after Hang Lekiu and Hang Jebat, two figures from the Malay 15th-century epic narrative Hikayat Hang Tuah. They share this characteristic with the two Kasturi-class corvettes, KD Kasturi and KD Lekir, as well as the old frigate-turned-training ship KD Hang Tuah, all of which are named after figures from the epic as well.