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RJ PP 021 Barroso

Rhenania Junior

RJ PP 021 Barroso

$ 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
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
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:
  • 1 × RAN-20S 2-D air- and surface-search radar
  • 1 × Terma SCANTER surface-search radar
  • 1 × Furuno FR-8252 navigation radar
  • 1 × Orion RTX-30 fire-control radar
  • 1 × Saab EOS-400 optronic fire-control system
  • EDO 99 C hull-mounted sonar
Electronic warfare
& decoys:		 Elebra ET/SLQ-1A ECM, Cutlass B1BW ESM system, Elebra SLDM chaff/decoy launchers
Armament:
  • 1 × 4.5 in (113 mm) Vickers Mk.8 gun
  • 1 × 40 mm Bofors Trinity Mk.3 gun
  • 4 × MBDA Exocet MM40 Block 2/3
  • 2 × ARES SLT Mod 400 triple-tube (324 mm) launchers for Mk.46 Mod 5ASW torpedoes
Aircraft carried: 1 × Westland Super Lynx Mk.21A

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