The fleet of surface ships of the Brazilian Navy will have two more casualties this year, due to the low cost-benefit ratio of the vessels

more and more to renewal of the fleet of escort ships of the Brazilian Navy becomes more necessary. The Command of the Fleet and the Office of the Commander of the Navy agreed, for this year, the write-off of the Frigate Niterói (F40) and the Corvette Jaceguaí (V31).
The reason for the decommissioning of the vessels would be the high cost of maintenance and preservation, and the Navy has already scheduled until the day
for the lows.

The Niterói Frigate (F40) will be deactivated on the 28th of this month and the Chief of Staff of the Navy, Fleet Admiral Celso Luiz Nazareth, will preside over the unit's Disarmament Exhibition ceremony, which arrived at the end of the 70s, when it was acquired from the surplus of the US fleet, it was considered the icon of the renewal of the Brazilian fleet.

Soon after, on September 18, the Corvette Jaceguaí (V31), of the Inhaúma class, will be decommissioned, which in the 90s marked the resumption of the construction of surface ships at the Navy Arsenal in Rio de Janeiro.

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

New decommissions coming soon

As commented internally in the Navy, two other frigates, the Constitution (F42) and the Liberal (F43) should also be deactivated soon, after all they would have been left out of the revitalization program.
Only the Frigates União (F45), Independência (F44) and the F41 Defensora will be part of this program, the latter of which has been undergoing repairs for several years.

The frigates revitalization program was designed with a view to extending their navigation until the final half of the next decade, it is estimated around 2028.
It is speculated internally that the Inhaúma-class corvette is the target chosen for the Mk.48 torpedo exercise, and that this corvette would be the Jaceguaí (v31), since a Frontin corvette (V33), manufactured at the Verolme shipyard, in Angra dos Reis, of this same class already had this destination in 2016.

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