The Inhauma is a Brazilian Inhauma class frigate of 1600 tons displacement, designed by the Brazilian Naval Design Office with advice from the German private Marine Technik design company, and launched in 1986. She is powered by a single General Electric LM2500 gas turbine of 27000 hp and two MTU 16V956 TB91 diesels of 7800 hp giving a top speed of 27 knots and a range of 6400 km at 15 knots. She carries a complement of 162 including 19 officers. She is armed with four Aerospatiale Exocet MM40 ship-to-ship missiles; one Vickers 4.5 in (115 mm) Mk 8 gun with a rate of fire of 25 rounds per minute to 22 km in an anti-surface role and 6 km in an anti-aircraft role; and two Bofors 40 mm/70 guns. Six 324 mm Mk 32 torpedo triple tubes are fitted for the Honeywell Mark-46 Mod 5 anti-submarine torpedo. One WestlandLynxhelicopter is carried. Research Inhauma
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