Barroso
2008
(Rhenania Junior RJ-PP-021)
- Class: Inhaúma - 5 corvette of 1986-93
- Displacement: 1,785 tons standard / 2,360 tons full load
- Dimensions: 339 x 37 x 17 ft.
- Machinery: CODOG with 1 GE LM2500 gas turbine, 2 MTU 1163 TB93 diesels, 2 shafts, 27,490 shp = 27 knots
- Armament: 1-4.5in Vickers Mk 8, 1-40mm Bofors Trinity Mk 3, 4 MBDA Exocet MM40 missiles, 2x3 ARES SLT Mod 400 ASW TT
- Helicopter: Westland Super Lynx Mk 21A
- Complement:
- Builder: Arsenal de Marinha dio Rio de Janeiro
- Laid down: 21 Dec 1994
- Launched: 20 Dec 2002
- Completed: 19 Aug 2008
- Notes: Last of 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. Barroso was ordered as a follow-on to the original four with various improvements including better seakeeping.
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