Tamandaré-class corvettes will have a new designation for Frigates and the decision pleases both the Germans from TyssenKrupp and the Navy officers
The Águas Azuis consortium will have confirmation of good news when signing the contract with the Brazilian Navy regarding its victory in the tender for the construction of four Tamandaré Class Corvettes (CCTs)
The CCTs will be classified as FCTs (Tamandaré Class Frigates) upon signature of the contract between MB and the German company ThyssenKrupp Marine System (TKMS), until then they will be called NCT (Tamandaré Class Ships).
The Navy has already sent documents to Thyssen asking that the details of the contract be ready by next November, as the intention of the Navy Commander, Fleet Admiral Ilques Barbosa Júnior, is to sign the contract on December 13th, taking advantage of the Sailor's Day celebrations. .
Emgpepron (Company responsible for managing the Navy's naval projects), intends, in the days following the signing of the contract,
make the first payment to the Águas Azuis consortium, which is estimated to be around 15% of the total price of the ships, an amount that should exceed 2 billion Euros.
Decision that everyone liked
The decision to adopt an enlarged version of the MEKO A-100 (close to the A-200 in the figure below) for the new FCT series was celebrated, both by the German Thyssen and by the Navy officers, who always wanted a more robust ship with more musculature to face more complex seas and missions.
The idea of the Navy officials, since the beginning of the tender for the CCTs, was to transform the ships with a displacement of around 2.000 tons (already sold to Malaysia and Poland), so that it reached about 3.200 tons, or even a little more.
The Brazilian Navy intends to bid for a second batch of escorts around the year 2026, along with the delivery of the third FCT vessel and the fourth already in the final construction phase.
To this end, the Navy intends to create a good environment with Thyssen during the negotiations for the FCTs and also obtain a good offer from the company to re-equip the three Niterói-class frigates.
