Rhenania Junior
RJ PP 021 Barroso
$ 20.50
$ 41.00
New 1/1250 scale model of the Brazilian corvette Barroso from the PP series by Rhenania Junior (RJ PP 021).
| 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 |
| Status: | in active service |
| General characteristics | |
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| Class and type: | Barroso class |
| Type: | Corvette |
| Displacement: | 1,785 tons standard, 2,350 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 |
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| Range: | 4,000 nautical miles (7,000 km) at 15 knots (28 km/h) |
| Complement: | 154 (~25 officers, 125 enlisted) |
| Sensors and processing systems: |
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| Electronic warfare & decoys: |
Elebra ET/SLQ-1A ECM, Cutlass B1BW ESM system, Elebra SLDM chaff/decoy launchers |
| Armament: | |
| Aircraft carried: | 1 × Westland Super Lynx Mk.21A |
