Brazilian Navy's third Tamandare-class stealth frigate floated out

The frigate's armament will include a 76mm naval gun, a 30mm close-in weapon system, two 12.7mm machine guns on remote weapon stations, 12 surface-to-air missiles housed in a vertical launch system, 12 anti-ship missiles, a decoy countermeasures launcher, and torpedoes that are to be fired from port and starboard triple launchers.

Cunha Moreira will be used for both territorial defence – encompassing anti-air, anti-surface and anti-submarine warfare – and humanitarian aid missions.

Although built in Brazil to comply with Brazilian Government requirements for major defence programs, the Tamandaré-class ships are based on the MEKO A-100 frigate originally developed by Germany, making the Brazilian Navy the second export customer of the sub-type (the MEKO A-100 also served as the basis for the Polish Navy’s offshore patrol vessel ORP Ślązak).