Inhaúma-class corvette

	Cv Júlio de Noronha (V-32)
Class overview
Name	Inhaúma class
Builders	Arsenal de Marinha do Rio de Janeiro
Operators	Brazilian Navy
Subclasses	Barroso
Built	1986–2002
Completed	5
Active	2
Retired	3
General characteristics as built
Type	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 and ; processing systems	Radar: Plessey AWS-4, Kelvin Hughes Type 1007, Selenia Orion RTN 10X; Sonar: Krupp Atlas ASO4 Mod 2;
Armament	1 × Mk 8 114 mm (4.5 in) gun; 2 × 40 mm (1.6 in)/70 Bofors AA guns; 4 × Exocet SSMs ; 6 × Mk 32 324 mm (13 in) anti-submarine torpedoes;
Aircraft carried	1 Westland Super Lynx
Aviation facilities	Helicopter pad

The Inhaúma class are a series of five corvettes operated by the Brazilian Navy. These ships were built in Brazil and designed with assistance from the German company Marine Technik. It was originally planned to build 12 to 16 ships but the economic situation in Brazil did not permit this and only five vessels were built. The first two ships were constructed at the Arsenal de Marinha in Rio de Janeiro, the second pair by Verolme. The programme was considerably delayed due to funding issues and the Brazilian Verolme yard's insolvency in 1991 which forced Júlio de Noronha and Frontin to be completed by Arsenal da Marinha. The first ship entered service in 1989 and the last in 2008. Three of the five ships have been taken out of service and one was sunk in a missile exercise in the Atlantic Ocean in 2016.

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