BNS Brasil (U27) | |
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Name: | Brasil |
Ordered: | June 1981 |
Builder: | A. de M., Rio de Janiero |
Laid down: | September 1981 |
Commissioned: | 1984 |
Status: | Still in service as of 2013. |
Notes: | [1] |
General characteristics | |
Class & type: | Modified Niteroi-class frigate |
Displacement: |
2,380 long tons (2,420 t) light 3,400 long tons (3,500 t) full load |
Length: | 430.7 metres (1,413 ft) |
Beam: | 44.3 metres (145 ft) |
Draught: | 13.8 metres (45 ft) |
Propulsion: | 2 x Pielstick/Ishikawajima (Brazil) diesel engines producing 8000 bhp on two shafts |
Speed: | 18 kilotonnes (18,000 long tons; 20,000 short tons) |
Range: | 7,000 nautical miles (13,000 km; 8,100 mi) at 15 kilotonnes (15,000 long tons; 17,000 short tons) |
Complement: | 415 (26 officers, 69 senior ratings, 120 ratings, 200 trainees) |
Sensors and processing systems: | None |
Electronic warfare & decoys: | None |
Armament: | None |
Aviation facilities: | Designed to carry one helicopter |
Notes: | Infobox details taken from Jane's Fighting Ships. London: Jane's Publishing Company Limited. 1983. pp. 56. |
The BNS Brasil is a training ship of the Brazilian Navy. She was ordered in June 1981 with a budget of $124.2m. She was ordered as a modified version of the Niteroi-class of frigates, without weapons or sensors, and has since been used to carry 200 midshipmen - officers in training - from the Brazilian Naval and Merchant Marine Academies.[1]
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