Brazilian corvette Frontin

Frontin (V33) was the fourth ship of the Inhaúma-class corvette of the Brazilian Navy.^[1][2]

Cv Frontin
History
Brazil
Name	Frontin
Namesake	Engenheiro Paulo de Frontin
Builder	Arsenal de Marinha do Rio de Janeiro
Launched	6 February 1992
Commissioned	11 March 1994
Decommissioned	23 September 2015
Identification	Pennant number: V33
Fate	Sunk as target, 2016
General characteristics
Class & type	Inhaúma-class corvette
Displacement	1,700 t (1,670 long tons) standard 2,000 t (1,970 long tons) full load
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	2 shaft CODOG 1 GE LM 2500 gas turbine - 20,500 kW (27,500 hp) 2 MTU 16 V 396 TB 91 diesel engines 5,600 kW (7,500 hp)
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	Plessey AWS-4 radar Krupp Atlas ASO4 Mod 2 sonar
Armament	1 × 114 mm Mark 8 gun 2 × Bofors 40 mm guns 4 × Exocet SSMs 6 × Mark 46 torpedoes
Aircraft carried	Westland Super Lynx Mk.21B helicopter
Aviation facilities	Helicopter pad

Construction and career

The ship was built at Naval Arsenal Rio de Janeiro in Rio de Janeiro and was launched on 6 February 1992 and commissioned on 11 March 1994.

She was decommissioned on 23 September 2015.^[3][4]

On 12 April 2016, the former Frontin was sunk as a target ship during a training exercise.^[5]