List of active ships of the Sri Lanka Navy
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The Sri Lanka Navy, the naval warfare branch of the Sri Lanka Armed Forces.
Ships
The Sri Lankan Naval fleet consists of around fifty combat vessels, support ships and inshore patrol craft. This is a list of the current Sri Lankan Navy ships as of 2026 by their pennant numbers:
Ships by class
Equipment
Shipboard weapon systems
Gabriel anti-ship missile
PJ33A 100 mm dual gun naval artillery
Oto Melara 76 mm naval artillery
Typhoon Naval Optronic Stabilized Weapon Platform
CRN 91 Naval Gun
Type 76 dual 37 mm automated antiaircraft artillery
Type 61 shipboard antiaircraft artillery
Type 58 antiaircraft gun
M242 Bushmaster 25 mm (25x137mm) chain-fed autocannon
Heckler & Koch GMG 40 mm automatic grenade launcher
M2 Browning machine gun
EMGEPRON 47mm saluting gun (ceremonial gun salutes)
Specialized land vehicles
Unibuffel mine-protected APC
Unicorn mine-protected APC
Ideal Motors Combat All-Terrain Vehicles.
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