The Brazilian Navy’s Program Management Directorate (Diretoria de Gestão de Programas da Marinha, DGePM), has announced a “short-list” for the Class-Tamandaré Corvettes (CCT in Portuguese) program comprising the following consortium. Tamandaré Project calls for the construction of an initial batch of four corvettes to replace the ageing Niteroi- and Broadsword-class frigates. The frigates are expected to cost $700 million each, and the corvettes $380 million.)
Four consortiums are
1 – “ÁGUAS AZUIS”: EMBRAER and TKMS
2 – “DAMEN-SAAB TAMANDARÉ”
3 – “FLV”: Fincantieri and VARD,
4 – “VILLEGAGNON”: Naval Group and Enseada.
Turkish Savunma Teknolojileri Mühendislik (STM) signed an MoU with Brasfels Shipyard, Brazil to bid on the Brazilian Navy's Tamandaré-class Corvette (CCT) Project in June 2018.
