Brazilian corvette Barroso (V-34)

For other ships with the same name, see Brazilian ship Barroso.
History
Brazil
NameBarroso
NamesakeFrancisco Manoel Barroso da Silva
Ordered1993
BuilderArsenal de Marinha do Rio de Janeiro
Laid down21 December 1994
Launched20 December 2002
Commissioned19 August 2008
Identification
StatusActive
General characteristics
Class and typeBarroso-class corvette
Displacement
Length103.4 m (339 ft)
Beam11.4 m (37 ft)
Draught5.3 m (17 ft)
Propulsion1 × 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
  • 27+ knots (50+ km/h)
  • 20.5 knots (38 km/h) on diesels alone
Range4,000 nautical miles (7,000 km) at 15 knots (28 km/h)
Complement154 (~25 officers, 125 enlisted)
Sensors and
processing systems
  • 1 × RAN-20S 2-D air- and surface-search radar
  • 1 × Terma SCANTER surface-search radar
  • 1 × Furuno FR-8252 navigation radar
  • 1 × Orion RTX-30 fire-control radar
  • 1 × Saab EOS-400 optronic fire-control system
  • EDO 99 C hull-mounted sonar
Electronic warfare
& decoys		Elebra ET/SLQ-1A ECM, Cutlass B1BW ESM system, Elebra SLDM chaff/decoy launchers
Armament
Aircraft carried1 × Westland Super Lynx Mk.21A
Aviation facilitiesHelipad 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]

Service history

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

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 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

  1. ^ "Cv Barroso – V 34". Navios de Guerra Brasileiros. Poder Naval Online. Archived from the original on 2009-04-21. Retrieved on July 23, 2009.
  2. ^ "Brazilian Navy's corvette rescues migrants in Mediterranean Sea". 5 September 2015.
  3. ^ mansup/
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ "Equato Guinea inks corvette deal with Brazil: report". defenceWeb. 2010-07-19. Retrieved 2021-03-08.
  6. ^ Pryce, Paul. "Africa's Newest Navy". NAOC. Retrieved 2021-03-08.
  7. ^ 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

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