| Visby class corvette |
 | | General Characteristics |
 | | Displacement: | 650 tonnes | | Length: | 72 m | | Beam: | 10.4 m | | Draft: | 2.5 m | | Hull material: | Sandwich construction carbon fibre reinforced plastic (CFRP) | | Propulsion: | 2 KaMeWa Waterjets, powered by: - High-speed machinery: 4 Honeywell gas turbines, total rating 16 MW
- Low-speed machinery: 2 MTU diesel engines, total rating 2.6 MW
| | Speed: | 35+ knots | | Range: | | | Complement: | 43 | | Sensors: | - Sea Giraffe ABM 3D surveillance Radar
- Saab Ceros 200 Fire control radar system
- Condor CS-3701 Tactical Radar Surveillance System
- Hull-mounted sonar
- Towed array sonar system
| | Armament: | | | Command & Control System: | 9LV CETRIS (C4I) from SAAB systems | Visby is the latest class of corvettes to be adopted by the Swedish Navy, and the corvette design is heavily emphazised on low visibility or stealth. The first ship in the class is named after Visby, the main city on the island of Gotland. The ships are built by Kockums in Karlskrona and have undergone extensive testing. The class has received widespread international attention because of the stealth design and network-centric capabilities. Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 518 pixelsFull resolution (2677 × 1732 pixel, file size: 970 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Website says: [...] [1] File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Swedish Armed Forces...
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History Much of the design was based on the experiences learned from the experimental ship HMS Smyge. The class was originally designed to be divided into two subcategories where some ships were optimized for surface combat and others for submarine hunting, however this was changed due to cutbacks. Other cutbacks have been the cancellation of the 127mm ALECTO ASW rocket system and the use of mkI RBS15 missiles upgraded to mkII configuration rather than the latest mk3. A helicopter hangar was originally planned but was considered to be too cramped and was deleted. However, the new navy helicopters Hkp15B (Agusta_A109) had been shortened to fit in the projected hangar. The Agusta A109 is a helicopter manufactured by Agusta (now AgustaWestland) of Italy. ...
Launch Dates - HMS Visby K31 - 8 June 2000
- HMS Helsingborg K32 - 27 June 2003
- HMS Härnösand K33 - 16 December 2004
- HMS Nyköping K34 - 18 August 2005
- HMS Karlstad K35 - 23 August 2006
- HMS Uddevalla (K36) - Cancelled
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Development Phase Anti-ship missiles have yet to be fired from the vessel and the SAM system has been selected but not installed. None of the ships can be considered fully operational yet due to the lack of such critical systems.
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