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São Paulo (A12)
Clemenceau-class aircraft carrier of the Brazilian Navy
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| History and current status
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| São Paulo (A12) |
| Photo from:www.mar.mil.br/ |
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Brazilian aircraft carrier |
| Name: São Paulo (A12) |
| Class: Clemenceau-class |
| Ordered: 1955 |
| Builder: |
| Laid down: 15 November 1957 |
| Launched: 23 July 1960 |
| Commissioned: 15 July 1963 into the French Navy. |
Commissioned into Brazilian Navy:
15 November 2000 |
| Complement: 64 officers, 1274 sailors and 582 Brazilian Naval Aviation personnel |
| Home port: São Pedro d'Aldeia Naval Air Base, Brazil. |
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Displacement: 24,200 tonnes
32,800 tonnes (full load) |
| Length: 265 metres (870 ft) |
| Beam: 31.7 metres (104 ft) |
| Draft: 8.60 metres (28.2 ft) |
| Propulsion: 6 Indret boilers, 4 steam turbines producing 126,000 hp, 2 propellers |
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| Speed: 32 knots (59 km/h) |
| Range: 7,500 nautical miles (13,900 km) at 18 knots |
| Camouflage: |
| Fate: São Paulo is due to be fully operational by October 2009. |
| Sources for this site: |
| http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAeL_São_Paulo |
| http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_carrier |
| Navy site: |
| www.mar.mil.br/ |
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NAe São Paulo (A12) is a Clemenceau class aircraft carrier of the Brazilian Navy, formerly the French Foch and São Paulo is the flagship of the Brazilian Navy.
The incorporation of São Paulo and the AF-1 to the Navy of Brazil realized a long-held goal of being able to carry through the aerial defense of the naval forces with fixed wing aircraft.
In the first three years of service as São Paulo, the ship completed several missions, some in foreign waters (particularly Operations ARAEX, PASSEX, and TEMPEREX which is annually used to qualify and train Super Etendards and S-2T Turbo Trackers of the Argentine Navy).
Since 2005, the São Paulo is undergoing an extensive modernization program.
The upgrades are scheduled to complete in July 2009, and the São Paulo is due to be fully operational by October 2009.
Twelve Brazilian Navy A-4 Skyhawk will be upgraded by Embraer at a cost of $140 million The upgrade will be similar to the ones done for the AMX and F-5EM aircraft of the Brazilian Air Force.
The program includes restoring the aircraft and their current systems, as well as implementing new avionics, radar, power production, and autonomous oxygen generating systems.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAeL_São_Paulo |
| Aircraft carried: Up to 35 aircraft |
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A-4KU Skyhawks,
AS 532 SC Cougars,
HB 350 & HB.355 Ecureuils,
SH-3 Sea Kings
28 APR 2001: Navio-Aerodrome Sao Paulo (A12).
A-4KU Skyhawk
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| Air Wings: |
02 OCT 1998: Brazilian Navy Ship Minas Gerais A 11
28 APR 2001: Navio-Aerodrome Sao Paulo (A12).
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In recent years the Brazilian navy’saviation program has undergone a significant evolution in both ship and aircraft capability. Since 1965 the navy’s air assets had been limited to helicopters because the president decided that fixed wing aircraft were the exclusive territory of the air force.
However, in April 1998 the navy received governmental permission to buy fixed-wing aircraft, and three weeks later 23 (T)A-4KU Skyhawks were bought in Kuwait for $70 million, including spare parts and Sidewinder missiles.
These were among the last Skyhawks built by McDonnell Douglas in 1978
In Brazilian service the designation changed to AF-1 (single seat) and
AF-1A (two seat), and the jets were assigned to the Primeiro Esquadrão de Aviões de Interceptãçao e Ataque (First Intercept and Attack Squadron),
or VF-1, at naval air base São Pedro da Aldeia near Rio de Janeiro.
The new acquisition of jets brought with it the need for a newer, larger aircraft carrier.
Source: http://www.history.navy.mil |
More info:
www.skyhawk.org/2e/brazil/brazil-vf1.htm#HOMEPORT
www.airsceneuk.org.uk/hangar/2004/saopaulo/saopaulo.htm |
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| Armament: |
100 mm turrets
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Four 100 mm turrets,
Two SACP Crotale EDIR systems,
Five 12.7 mm machine guns,
Four dual Simbad launchers |
| Electronic warfare
and decoys: |
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DRBV-23B air sentry radar
DRBV-50 low-altitude or surface sentry radar
(later replaced by a DRBV-15)
NRBA-50 approach radar
DRBI-10 tri-dimensional air sentry radar
several DRBC-31 fire radar (later DRBC-32C)
DRBN-34 navigation radar |
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