Göteborg-class corvette
 HSwMS Gävle (K22) in Visby harbour in 2006. | |
| Class overview | |
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| Builders: | Karlskronavarvet AB |
| Operators: |
 Swedish Navy |
| Preceded by: | Stockholm class corvette |
| Succeeded by: | Visby class corvette |
| In commission: | 13 April 1989 |
| Planned: | 6 |
| Completed: | 4 |
| Cancelled: | 2 |
| Active: |
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| Retired: | 2 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 380/425 tonnes |
| Length: | 57 metres (187 ft) |
| Beam: | 8 metres (26 ft) |
| Draft: | 2 metres (6.6 ft) |
| 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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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 57mm cannon and one 40mm 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 Israel-Hezbollah War.
Units
A lateral diagram of HSwMS Göteborg
| 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 | Cancelled | ||||
References
- Swedish Navy – Göteborgsklass. (Swedish)
- 4th Naval Warfare Flotilla – Korvett Typ Göteborg. (Swedish)
- Soldf.com – Korvett typ Göteborg. (Swedish)
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