In terms of larger vessels, its 36 destroyers and frigates rank it only behind the US, the USSR, Japan, mainland China, Britain and France, and put it ahead of India, Italy and West Germany.
如果只論主力戰艦，則有卅六艘驅逐艦和巡防艦，數量僅次於美、蘇、日、中共、英、法，超過印度、義大利和西德。