History | |
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Brazil | |
Name | Barroso |
Namesake | Francisco Manoel Barroso da Silva |
Ordered | 1993 |
Builder | Arsenal de Marinha do Rio de Janeiro |
Laid down | 21 December 1994 |
Launched | 20 December 2002 |
Commissioned | 19 August 2008 |
Identification |
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Status | Active |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Barroso-class corvette |
Displacement | |
Length | 103.4 m (339 ft) |
Beam | 11.4 m (37 ft) |
Draught | 5.3 m (17 ft) |
Propulsion | 1 × General Electric LM2500 gas turbine (27,490 shp) and 2 × MTU 1163 TB93 diesel engines driving two shafts with controllable pitch propellers in CODOG configuration |
Speed |
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Range | 4,000 nautical miles (7,000 km) at 15 knots (28 km/h) |
Complement | 154 (~25 officers, 125 enlisted) |
Sensors and processing systems |
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Electronic warfare & decoys | Elebra ET/SLQ-1A ECM, Cutlass B1BW ESM system, Elebra SLDM chaff/decoy launchers |
Armament |
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Aircraft carried | 1 × Westland Super Lynx Mk.21A |
Aviation facilities | Helipad and hangar |
Cv Barroso (V-34) is a corvette of the Brazilian Navy, and the lead ship of its sub class. The fifth Brazilian warship to be named after Admiral Francisco Manoel Barroso da Silva, Barroso was launched on 20 December 2002 and commissioned on 19 August 2008. [1]
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In 2015, EMGEPRON displayed at the LAAD 2015 trade show a model of the Tamandaré-class corvette, a proposed upgrade to Barroso. [7]
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