Navy to Decommission a Frigate and a Corvettе This Year

Brazilian Navy Surface Ship Fleet Will Have Two More Retirements This Year, Reason Being The Low Cost-Benefit Ratio Of The Vessels

Increasingly, the renewal of the Brazilian Navy’s escort ship fleet is becoming more necessary. The Fleet Command and the Office of the Commander of the Navy have agreed, for this year, on the retirement of the Niterói Frigate (F40) and the Jaceguaí Corvette (V31).
The reason for the decommissioning of the vessels is said to be the high maintenance and preservation costs, with the Navy having even set a date
for the retirements.

The Niterói Frigate (F40) will be deactivated on the 28th of this month, and the Chief of Naval Staff, Fleet Admiral Celso Luiz Nazareth, will preside over the unit’s Decommissioning Ceremony, which, when acquired from the surplus of the US fleet at the end of the 1970s, was considered the icon of the renewal of the Brazilian fleet.

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Shortly thereafter, on September 18, it will be the turn of the decommissioning of the Jaceguaí Corvette (V31), of the Inhaúma class, which in the 1990s marked the resumption of surface ship construction at the Naval Arsenal of Rio de Janeiro.

The deactivation of the Corvette is not unanimous within the Navy, as part of the administration advocates for the recovery of its propulsion system.

New Decommissionings Soon

According to internal comments within the Navy, two more Frigates, the Constituição (F42) and the Liberal (F43), are also expected to be deactivated soon, as they would have been left out of the revitalization program.
Only the União Frigate (F45), the Independência (F44), and the F41 Defensora are part of this program, with the latter being under repair for several years.

The revitalization program for the Frigates was developed aiming to extend their service until the latter half of the next decade, estimated to be around the year 2028.
It is speculated internally that a corvette of the Inhaúma class will be the chosen target for the Mk.48 torpedo exercise, and that this corvette would be the Jaceguaí (V31), as a Frontin Corvette (V33), built at the Verolme shipyard in Angra dos Reis, from the same class has already met that fate in 2016.

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