10/06/2013
(Infodefensa.com) Brasilia - The front sections built in France's first conventional submarine arrived in Rio de Janeiro . The piece, weighing 22 tons, is 25 meters long, in addition to six meters wide and 12 meters high. Sections three and four were transported to the Port of Sepetiba, by raft, Nuclebrás Dock for Equipments Heavy (Nuclep).
Subsequently, the sections were transferred via land for Manufacturing Unit Structural Steel (UFEM) , where sections 1 and 2 of this submarines will be manufactured. The Entrepreneurship manager Obtaining Modular Conventional Submarines, Rear Admiral Sydney dos Santos Neves , ensured that this means the realization of technology transfer from France to Brazil.
"No more hull will be built in France. The hull construction definitely passes through Brazil, with the arrival of Sections 3 and 4. Sections 1 and 2 and will begin to be built. The sectional qualifying, which enables the manufacture, and are in the final stages of completion in Nuclep, then reach UFEM "said Admiral Neves.
Sections 3 and 4 of the first conventional submarine, built in partnership with France, took three years to be built. Participants were 255 companies astillerosn Ituaguaí Shipbuilding (ICN) and Nuclep as well as engineers, technicians and operators of the Brazilian Navy. During this period, were given 140 courses covering the most diverse areas of knowledge.
On June 28, the defense minister, Ambassador Celso Amorim, accompanied by the Commander of the Navy, Fleet Admiral Julio Soares de Moura Neto, visit UFEM for the front section of the first conventional submarine built in partnership with France.