Inhaúma-class corvette
Barroso | |
| Class overview | |
|---|---|
| Name | Inhaúma class |
| Builders | Arsenal de Marinha do Rio de Janeiro |
| Operators | Brazilian Navy |
| Succeeded by | Tamandaré class |
| Subclasses | Barroso |
| Built | 1983–2002 |
| In commission | 1989–present |
| Completed | 5 |
| Active | 2 |
| Retired | 3 (2 sunk as targets) |
| General characteristics as built | |
| Type | Corvette |
| Displacement | |
| Length | 95.8 m (314 ft 4 in) |
| Beam | 11.4 m (37 ft 5 in) |
| Draught | 5.5 m (18 ft 1 in) |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 27 knots (50 km/h; 31 mph) |
| Range | 4,000 nmi (7,400 km; 4,600 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
| Complement | 145 |
| Sensors & processing systems |
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| Armament |
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| Aircraft carried | Westland Super Lynx Mk.21B helicopter |
| Aviation facilities | Helicopter pad |
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The Inhaúma class are a series of five corvettes operated by the Brazilian Navy. These ships were built in Brazil and designed with assistance from the German company Marine Technik. It was originally planned to build 12 to 16 ships but the economic situation in Brazil did not permit this and only five vessels were built. The first two ships were constructed at the Arsenal de Marinha in Rio de Janeiro, the second pair by Verolme. The programme was considerably delayed due to funding issues and the Brazilian Verolme yard's insolvency in 1991 which forced Júlio de Noronha and Frontin to be completed by Arsenal da Marinha. The first ship entered service in 1989 and the last in 2008. Three of the five ships have been taken out of service and one was sunk in a missile exercise in the Atlantic Ocean in 2016.