A type of [[spacecraft|spaceships]] from the [[EVE Online]].
Small, fast but fragile vessels suited to a variety of purposes, especially tackling.

Frigates are the smallest and fastest ships in EVE. New pilots begin by flying frigates, and the Tech 1 frigates only cost a few hundred thousand ISK. Don't be fooled by the low cost of frigates and the fact that they're used by novice pilots, though: frigates can play an important role in battle, and in numbers or with skilled pilots even Tech 1 frigates can be deadly.
There are a number of classes of [[Tech 2 ship (EVE Online)|Tech 2]] frigates, which have advanced abilities and are also much more focused on a particular role: tackling [[interceptor (EVE Online)|]]s, cloaking and scanning covert ops frigates, surprise-attack stealth bombers, [[electronic warfare ship (EVE Online)|electronic attack]] frigates for electronic warfare, and [[Assault ship (EVE Online)|assault]] frigates, which are designed purely to deal and survive damage.

h5. External links: 
https://universe.eveonline.com/lore/frigates
https://wiki.eveuniversity.org/Frigates
frigate (eve online)