Name: Visby class
Class overview:
Status: active
HSwMS Visby K31
HSwMS Helsingborg K32
HSwMS Härnösand K33
HSwMS Nyköping K34
HSwMS Karlstad K35
HSwMS Uddevalla K36 cancelled.
Builders: Kockums, naval architects Swedish Defence Materiel Administration (FMV)
Preceded by: Göteborg class
Cost: $184 Million
In commission: 16 December 2009
Planned: 6
Completed: 5
Cancelled: 1
General characteristics
Type: Stealth Missile Corvette
Displacement: 640 tonnes
Length: 72.7m
Beam: 10.4m
Draught: 2.4m
Propulsion:
CODOG
2 × 125SII Kamewa Waterjets
4 × Vericor TF50A gas turbines, total rating 16MWS
2 × MTU Friedrichshafen 16 V 2000 N90 diesel engines, total rating 2.6 MW
3 × generators of 270kW each
Speed: 35 knots (65km/h)+
Range: 2,500nmi (4,600km) at 15 kn (28km/h)
Complement: 43
Sensors and processing systems:
Saab 9LV combat management system
Saab Sea_GIRAFFE AMB 3D PESA surveillance radar
Saab Ceros 200 stealth fire control radar system
Condor CS-3701 tactical radar surveillance system
GDC Hull-mounted sonar
Hydroscience Technologies towed array sonar system
GDC variable depth sonar
Electronic warfare and decoys:
Rheinmetall TKWA/MASS (Multi Ammunition Softkill System)
Armament:
1 × Bofors 57mm Mk3
4 × RBS15 Mk2 anti-ship missiles
4 × 400mm torpedo launchers for Type 45 torpedoes
Mines and depth charges
Provision for but not fitted with
2 × 6 127mm ALECTO anti-submarine rocket launchers (cancelled)
12 × Umkhonto SAM (cancelled)
Aviation facilities: Helicopter pad