The Espora-class corvettes are six warships of the Argentine Navy built in Argentina to the German MEKO 140A16 design, this in turn being based on the Portuguese João Coutinho-class project.

The operational status of Rosales is not clear, as of November 2012 she was waiting for spares,[4] whilst Spiro lost her sonar in a grounding accident in August 2012.

[11][12] The 1974 Naval Constructions National Plan was an initiative by the Argentine Navy to replace old World War II-vintage ships with more advanced warships.

All the ships of the class were built in Argentina at the AFNE "Río Santiago" shipyard, close to the city of La Plata in Buenos Aires Province.

[16] In June 2024, the chief of the Argentine Navy, Rear-Admiral Carlos María Allievi, noted that only three of six Espora-class vessels were operational (Espora, Rosales and Robinson),[17][18] with Parker in refit and the remaining two (Spiro and Gomez Roca) docked due to a shortage of spare parts.

[19] However, in October 2024, Gómez Roca was reported operational engaging in an exercise with her sister ships Espora, Rosales and Robinson as well as with the destroyers La Argentina, Almirante Brown, and Sarandí and with several other vessels.