Brazilian corvette Barroso (V34)
_(53073626183).jpg) Cv Barroso
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| History | |
|---|---|
 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 |
Barroso (V34) 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]
Service history
[edit]On 4 September 2015 the corvette Barroso rescued 220 Syrian migrants in the Mediterranean Sea, as reported by the Ministry of Defense in a statement released on its website. The Brazilian ship was sailing towards Beirut in Lebanon to replace the frigate União as the flagship of the Maritime Task Force (MTF) of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) when it received an alert from the Italian Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre (MRCC) about a sinking vessel taking immigrants to Europe.[2]
On 27 November 2018 she fired the first Mansup prototype.[3]
Potential foreign sales and upgrades
[edit]In July 2010, after the visit of Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to Equatorial Guinea, an order for a Barroso-class corvette was announced.[4][5] However, as of 2014[update] no further news has been announced.[6]
In 2015, EMGEPRON displayed at the LAAD 2015 trade show a model of the Tamandaré-class corvette, a proposed upgrade to Barroso.[7]
References
[edit]- ^ "Cv Barroso – V 34". Navios de Guerra Brasileiros. Poder Naval Online. Archived from the original on 2009-04-21. Retrieved on July 23, 2009.
- ^ "Brazilian Navy's corvette rescues migrants in Mediterranean Sea". 5 September 2015.
- ^ mansup/
- ^ Felipe Salles. "Lula anuncia venda de navio da classe Barroso para Guiné Equatorial". Archived from the original on 18 August 2022. Retrieved 23 October 2014.
- ^ "Equato Guinea inks corvette deal with Brazil: report". defenceWeb. 2010-07-19. Retrieved 2021-03-08.
- ^ Pryce, Paul. "Africa's Newest Navy". NAOC. Retrieved 2021-03-08.
- ^ Galante, Alexandre (17 April 2015). "LAAD 2015: corveta 'Tamandaré' é destaque no estande da Emgepron". Poder Naval (in Portuguese). Poder Naval – Marinha de Guerra, Tecnologia Militar Naval e Marinha Mercante. Retrieved 17 July 2015.
Further reading
[edit]- Galante, Alexandre (n.d.). "Corveta Barroso: uma sobrevivente" (in Portuguese). Poder Naval Online. Archived from the original on 2009-06-07. Retrieved on July 23, 2009.
External links
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