Name: Niteroi Class, Mk10
Builders: Vosper Thornycroft, Navy Arsenal in Rio de Janeiro
Operators: Brazilian Navy
Built: 1975-1986
Completed: 7
Active: 7
General characteristics
Type: frigate
Displacement: 3,355 tons standard , 3,707 tons full load
Length: 129.2m
Beam: 13.5m
Draught: 5.5m
Propulsion: , 2 shaft CODOG
2 Rolls Royce Olympus gas turbines, 56000 hp
4 MTU Diesels 18,000 hp
Speed: 30 knots (22 knots diesels only)
Range: 5,300 nm - at 17 knots / 4,200-at 19 knots /1300 nm -at 28 knots
Endurance: 45 days
Complement: 217
Armament:
(after the modernization)
Missile antiship MM-40 Exocet;
Anti-aircraft missile ASPIDE;
1 Vickers gun 4.5 inch Mk 8 (114 mm), (22 km range);
2 BAE Systems Bofors Trinity Mk 3 anti-Aircraft single-gun turrets;
2x 3 torpedo tubes for Mk-46 torpedoes;
double-barrel Bofors Boroc anti-submarine rocket launcher
Aircraft carried: 1 Westland Super Lynx Mk.21A (locally designated as AH-11A) or 1 Eurocopter AS-350/355 Squirrel (locally assembled by Helibrás as UH-12/UH-13 'Esquilo')
Aviation facilities: pad and hangar