Brazilian corvette Barroso (V34)

For other ships with the same name, see Brazilian ship Barroso.

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]

Cv Barroso
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	MMSI number: 710450000 Callsign: PWBS Pennant number: V34
Status	Active
General characteristics
Class and type	Barroso-class corvette
Displacement	1,814 t (1,785 long tons) standard 2,390 t (2,350 long tons) full load
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	27+ knots (50+ km/h) 20.5 knots (38 km/h) on diesels alone
Range	4,000 nautical miles (7,000 km) at 15 knots (28 km/h)
Complement	154 (~25 officers, 125 enlisted)
Sensors and processing systems	Alenia RAN-20S radar Krupp Atlas EDO-997C sonar Terma Scanter surface search radar Decca TM 1226C navigation radar Orion RTX-30 fire control radar Saab EOS-400 optronic director
Electronic warfare & decoys	Cutlass B1W ESM ET/SQL-1 ECM 12 × 102 mm decoy launchers
Armament	1 × 114 mm Mark 8 gun 1 × Bofors 40 mm guns 4 × Exocet SSMs 6 × Mark 46 torpedoes
Aircraft carried	Westland Super Lynx Mk.21B helicopter
Aviation facilities	Helicopter pad

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^[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]