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So Paulo, 30 years old – The Brazilian Navy received yesterday morning at the naval base in Davenport, UK, the new nautical captain of the national fleet, the multiple helm carrier PHM A-140 Atlantic, ex- Ocean, of the English fleet. The vessel, a giant of 203 meters, the size of two football fields, and about 22,000 tons of displacement, carries up to 18 aircraft of different types.
In addition to the 465 crew, he can carry about 800 ready-to-fight sailors, an attack armor squadron, amphibious landing craft and multipurpose vehicles. In humanitarian missions, the lower decks can receive an emergency hospital configured to perform complex surgical operations and surgeries. The Atlantic cost 84.6 million pounds, or about $ 350 million at the December 2017 exchange rate, when the deal was concluded in London.
For Navy Commander, Admiral Leal Ferreira, the PHM enhances the fulfillment of naval power tasks, such as the projection of power over land and the control of marine areas. According to Leal Ferreira, the characteristics of the ship increase the possibilities to act in peace operations and to help the populations victims of natural disasters. The transfer of the ship was marked by a ceremony of great tradition in the naval forces, the Mostra de Armamento, in which the shield with the insignia of the unit presented and the flag of the country under which it sails for the first time . The Brazilian representative at the solemnity was Admiral Ilques Barbosa Jr, Chief of the Navy Staff.
The Atlantic went through a two-month maintenance and overhaul period. He received the regular color, gray, of the Brazilian military fleet, the new name and the identification plate. The cycle, involving familiarization and training courses with embedded systems, was accompanied by members of the first crews. The A-140 arrives in August in Rio de Janeiro. Built between 1995 and 1998, the ship underwent a major modernization between 2012 and 2014. Before, it stops in Portugal. The helicopter carrier will have a wing capable of operating all the rotary wing aircraft used by the Navy: the great Seahawak Super Puma and Cougar, combined with the Linx, Squirrel and Bell Jet Ranger. The convs flight allows you to act with seven of them simultaneously.
Although the on-board weapon system lost the fast fire Phalanx guns (electronically controlled and designed to prohibit anti-ship missiles) and some types of grenade launcher. artillery (not included in the sales package by the British government), the PHM has retained almost all the advanced digital features among which the powerful radar targeting and control area, Artisan. The information comes from the newspaper
The State of São Paulo
(Robeto Grodoy)
