TUPI submarines (1989-1999)
Tupi 2000
| Name | No | Yard No | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Comm | Fate |
| Tupi | S30 | HDW, Kiel | 8.3.1985 | 28.4.1987 | 6.5.1989 | in service (2019) | |
| Tamoio | S31 | Arsenal de Marinha do Rio de Janeiro | 15.7.1986 | 18.11.1993 | 12.12.1994 | in service (2019) | |
| Timbira | S32 | Arsenal de Marinha do Rio de Janeiro | 15.9.1987 | 5.1.1996 | 16.12.1996 | in service (2019) | |
| Tapajó | S33 | Arsenal de Marinha do Rio de Janeiro | 6.3.1990 | 11.6.1998 | 16.11.1999 | in service (2019) |
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Displacement standard, t |
1150 |
|
Displacement normal, t |
1450 / 1590 |
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Length, m |
59.5 pp 61.2 oa |
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Breadth, m |
6.20 hull 7.60 stern planes |
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Draught, m |
5.50 |
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No of shafts |
1 |
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Machinery |
4 MTU 12V493 TY60 diesel-generators, 1 Siemens electric motor |
|
Power, h. p. |
2400 / 5000 |
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Max speed, kts |
11 / 21.5 |
|
Fuel, t |
diesel oil 116 |
| Endurance, nm(kts) | 11000(8) (snorkel) / 400(4) |
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Armament |
8 - 533 TT (bow, 16 Mk 24 Tigefish or Tp 62) |
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Electronic equipment |
Calypso III radar, CSU-83/1 (DSQS-21) sonar suite, FAS-3, PRS-3/15 sonars, DR 3000U ECM suite, KAFS A10 CCS |
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Complement |
36 |
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Diving depth operational, m |
250 |
Project history: First boat of the Type 1400 (enlarged version of the Type 209) ordered in 1984 from German yard. Originally five more (two of them to the improved design) were to be ordered from Arsenal de Marinha for a total of six boats in service by the end of the 1990s. However only three were built in Brazil.
Modernizations: 2008, Tapajó; 2010, Timbira; 2013, Tupi; 2015, Tamoio: - Mk 24 Tigerfish torpedoes, DR 3000U ECM suite, KAFS A10 CCS; + Mk 48 Mod.6 torpedoes, DR 4000 ECM suite, BYG-501 Mod.1 CCS
Naval service: No significant events.
Tapajó 2005
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