Göteborg-class corvette

	HSwMS Gävle (K22) in Visby harbour in 2006.
Class overview
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:	3 × MTU diesel engines at 2,560 kW (3,430 hp)/each; Water jet propulsion system[1];
Speed:	30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph)
Range:	3,704 km (2,000 nmi; 2,302 mi)
Complement:	23 officers; 18 seamen;
Sensors and ; processing systems:	Sea Giraffe 150 HC radar; PN621 navigation radar; 2 × fire control radar sights (SAAB); CS-3701; Simrad SS 304 Spira HMS (hull-mounted sonar); STN Atlas Elektronik TAS (towed array sonar); Thales TSM 2643 Salmon VDS (variable depth sonar) (former); Kongsberg ST2400 VDS (variable depth sonar) (after upgrade);
Electronic warfare ; & decoys:	Rheinmetall TKWA/MASS (Multi Ammunition Softkill System)
Armament:	1 × Bofors 57 mm Mk2 gun; 1 × Bofors 40 mm/L70 gun; 8 × RBS15 MkII anti-ship missile; 4 × 400 mm tubes for Type 43/45 torpedoes; 4 × ELMA anti-submarine mortars; Mines & depth charges;

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.

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]

Units

A lateral diagram of HSwMS Göteborg

Bow number	Ship name	Laid down	Launched	Commissioned	Service	Status
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	Cancelled

References

External links

Swedish Navy – Göteborgsklass. (in Swedish)
Soldf.com – Korvett typ Göteborg. (in Swedish)

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