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.