F-45 União

Country:  Brazil

Class, [Type]: Niterói, [FFG].

Builder: Arsenal de Marinha, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.

Launch date: 14 March 1975.

Commission date: 12 September 1980.

Displacement ( tons ): 3.200 standard, 3.707 at full load.

Dimensions ( metres ): 129,2 x 13,5 x 5,5

Main machinery: CODOG: 2 x RR Olympus TM3B gas turbines ( 50.880 hp ), 4 x MTU 16V 956 TB 91 diesels , 2 x propellers.

Speed ( knots ): 30 gas, 22 on diesels.

Range ( miles ): 5.300 at 17 knots on 2 diesels; 4.200 at 19 knots on 4 diesels; 1.300 at 28 knots on gas.

Complement: 209 ( 22 officers ).

Guns: 1 x Vickers 115mm/55 Mk8, 2 x Bofors SAK 40mm Mk3 Sea Trinity.

Missiles:  SSM: 4 x MM40 Exocet ( 2 twin launchers ); SAM: 1 x 8 cell Albatros launcher ( Aspide missiles ).

Torpedoes: 6 x 324mm tubes ( 2 triple launchers ), Honeywell Mk46 Mod5 torpedoes.

A/S Mortars: 1 x Bofors 375mm.

Radar: Air/Surface search: 1 x RAN 20 S, D-band; Surface search: 1 x Terma Scanter 4100, I-band; Navigation: 1 x Furuno FR-1942 Mk2, I-band; Fire control: 2 x RTN 30X, I/J bands.

Sonar: EDO 997F, hull-mounted, medium frequency.

Countermeasures: Decoys: 4 x IPqM/Elebra MDLS chaff launchers; ESM: Racal Cutlass B-1B.

Helicopter: 1 x Westland Super Lynx AH-11A.

Callsign: PWUN ()