Göteborg-class corvette
The Göteborg class is a class of corvettes in the Swedish Navy, built between 1986 and 1993. The class was originally designed to destroy Soviet submarines and surface vessels, and is armed with eight RBS-15 anti-ship missiles, torpedoes, one 57 mm cannon and one 40 mm cannon.
HSwMS Gävle (K22) in Visby harbour in 2006. | |
Class overview | |
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Name: | Göteborg class |
Builders: | Karlskronavarvet AB |
Operators: | Swedish Navy |
Preceded by: | Stockholm class |
Succeeded by: | Visby class |
In commission: | 13 April 1989 |
Planned: | 6 |
Completed: | 4 |
Cancelled: | 2 |
Active: | 2 |
Retired: | 2 |
General characteristics | |
Type: | Corvette |
Displacement: | 380/425 tonnes |
Length: | 57 m (187 ft 0 in) |
Beam: | 8 m (26 ft 3 in) |
Draft: | 2 m (6 ft 7 in) |
Propulsion: | |
Speed: | 30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph) |
Range: | 3,704 km (2,000 nmi; 2,302 mi) |
Complement: |
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Sensors and processing systems: |
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Electronic warfare & decoys: | Rheinmetall TKWA/MASS (Multi Ammunition Softkill System) |
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Six corvettes were planned, but following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the final two were cancelled. Two Göteborg-class corvettes remain in service today, and are active in international military and humanitarian operations. Both vessels, HSwMS Gävle and HSwMS Sundsvall, took part in a United Nations operation off the coast of Lebanon in 2006 and 2007, following the 2006 Lebanon War.
HSwMS Sundsvall and HSwMS Gävle will receive modification in 2019-2020. After the modification the corvettes will be named Gävle class.[2]
The Gävle class will itself be replaced by a new class of corvetts starting from 2026.[3]
Units
Bow number | Ship name | Laid down | Launched | Commissioned | Service | Status |
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K21 | HSwMS Göteborg | 10 February 1986 | 13 April 1989 | 15 February 1990 | 4th Naval Warfare Flotilla | Decommissioned/mothballed |
K22 | HSwMS Gävle | 12 January 1987 | 23 March 1990 | 17 September 1990 | 4th Naval Warfare Flotilla | Active |
K23 | HSwMS Kalmar | 21 September 1988 | 1 November 1990 | 1 September 1991 | 4th Naval Warfare Flotilla | Decommissioned/mothballed |
K24 | HSwMS Sundsvall | March 1989 | 29 November 1991 | 7 June 1993 | 4th Naval Warfare Flotilla | Active |
K25 | HSwMS Helsingborg | Cancelled | ||||
K26 | HSwMS Härnösand | |||||
External links
- Swedish Navy – Göteborgsklass. (in Swedish)
- Soldf.com – Korvett typ Göteborg. (in Swedish)