USS Fahrion FFG22 OHP class frigate 3D model

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The Oliver Hazard Perry class is a guided-missile frigate fleet named after US Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, renowned hero of the naval Battle of Lake Erie. Also known as the Perry or FFG-7 (commonly fig seven) class, these warships were designed in the United States during the mid-1970s as versatile escort vessels affordable enough to be purchased in large quantities to replace World War II-era destroyers and complement 1960s-era Knox-class frigates. In Admiral Elmo Zumwalt's fleet plan, the FFG-7s served as low-capability ships alongside Spruance-class destroyers as high-capability ships. Designed to safeguard amphibious landing forces, supply and replenishment groups, and merchant convoys from aircraft and submarines, they were also part of battleship-centred surface action groups and aircraft carrier battle groups/strike groups. Fifty-five warships were built in the United States: 51 for the US Navy and four for the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). Additionally, eight were constructed in Taiwan, six in Spain, and two in Australia for their respective navies. Former US Navy ships of this class have been sold or donated to the navies of Bahrain, Egypt, Poland, Pakistan, Taiwan, and Turkey.