Swedish Visby-Class Corvette Kiel-Canal 2010/05/28 evening eastbound
The Visby is the latest class of corvette to be adopted by the Swedish Navy. The ship's design heavily emphasizes "low visibility" or stealth technology.
Builder: Kockums (HDW-TKMS) - Launched 2003
Comm.: 2009/12/16
Displacement: 640 tonnes
Length: 72.7m Beam: 10.4m Draught: 2.4m
Propulsion: CODOG, 2 × KaMeWa Waterjets, 4 × Vericor TF50A gas turbines, total rating 16
MW, 2 × MTU Friedrichshafen 16V 2000 N90 diesel engines, total rating 2.6 MW, Speed: 35+
knots, Complement: 43
Armament: 1 × 57 Mk3; 8 × RBS15 Mk2 AShM
Mines and depth charges