Brazilian frigate Liberal vs Italian frigate Carabiniere (F 593)

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Brazilian frigate Liberal

Credit

Marinha do Brasil · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Resized · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Source ↗ · Modified

BWarships

Italian frigate Carabiniere (F 593)

Credit

Bahnfrend · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Resized · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source ↗ · Modified

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Second system

At a glance

Side by side

Length comparisonOne shared metre scale

Brazilian frigate LiberalLength

129.2 m

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Italian frigate Carabiniere (F 593)Length

144.6 m

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Lengths retain their source configuration and measurement scope.

Brazilian frigate Liberallarger figure on 1 of 4

Complement+8%

Italian frigate Carabiniere (F 593)larger figure on 3 of 4

Length+12%
Beam+46%
Draught+58%

Counts only measures both sources give with the same scope. A larger figure is not a better system.

Measured figures

Head to head

23 of 28 rows sourced on both sides

129m

145m

Length+12%

All recorded figures & sources

129.2 m

Length

Single source

129.2 m (423 ft 11 in)^[source]

144.6 m

Length

Single source

Configuration

Details

Brazilian frigate Liberal and Italian frigate Carabiniere (F 593) configuration
Specification	Brazilian frigate Liberal	Italian frigate Carabiniere (F 593)
Power	CODOG , two shafts 2 × Rolls-Royce Olympus TM-3B gas turbines 42,000 kW (56,000 hp ) combined 4 × MTU 16V 956 TB91 diesel engines 13,000 kW (17,000 hp ) combined^[source]	CODLAG 1 × 32 MW gas turbine General Electric/Avio LM2500+G4 2 × 2.5 MW electric motors Jeumont Electric 4 × diesel generators VL 1716 (T2ME series by 2,15 MW everyone, on first two frigate; HPCR series by 2,8 MW everyone, since the third frigate) 2 × shafts , driving controllable pitch propellers 1 × 1 MW bow thruster^[source]
Name	Liberal^[source]	Carabiniere^[source]
Namesake	Liberal^[source]	Carabiniere^[source]

Launched	7 February 1977^[source]	29 March 2014^[source]

Christened	2 May 1975^[source]	—

Commissioned	18 November 1978^[source]	28 April 2015^[source]

Home port	Rio de Janeiro^[source]	Taranto^[source]

Identification	MMSI number : 710466000 Callsign : PWLI Pennant number : F-43^[source]	MMSI number : 247321700 Callsign : Pennant number : F 593^[source]

Motto	Nosso barco, nossa alma (Our boat, our soul)^[source]	Nei secoli fedele (Forever faithful)^[source]

Nickname(s)	Lili^[source]	—

Status	Active^[source]	Active^[source]

Class & type	Niterói -class frigate^[source]	Carlo Bergamini -class frigate^[source]

Endurance	45 days^[source]	—

Sensors & processing systems	Modernized: Alenia RAN-20S air search radar Terma Scanter surface search radar Orion RTN-30X fire control radar Saab EOS-400 optronic director Krupp Atlas EDO-610E hull mounted sonar SICONTA Mk 2 C3I system^[source]	Leonardo Kronos Grand Naval (MFRA) Active electronically scanned array radar CAPTAS-4 towed-array sonar UMS 4110 CL hull-mounted sonar^[source]

Electronic warfare & decoys	Modernized: Cutlass B1W ESM ET/SQL-1 ECM 12 × 102 mm decoy launchers^[source]	—

Armament	Modernized: 1 × Albatros launcher for 8 Aspide surface-to-air missiles 1 × 114 mm Mark 8 gun 2 × Bofors 40 mm guns 2 × twin launchers for Exocet anti-ship missiles 2 × triple torpedo tubes for Mark 46 torpedoes 1 × double-barrel Bofors Boroc anti-submarine rockets^[source]	16-cell MBDA SYLVER A50 VLS for 16 MBDA Aster 15 and 30 missiles 2 × Leonardo OTO Melara 76/62 mm Davide/Strales CIWS guns 2 × Leonardo Oto Melara / Oerlikon KBA 25/80 mm remote weapon systems 4 × MBDA Teseo Mk-2/A anti-ship and land attack missiles 4 × MBDA MILAS anti-submarine missiles 2 x triple Leonardo (WASS) B-515/3 launcher for MU 90 torpedoes 2 x SITEP MASS CS-424 acoustic guns^[source]