Göteborg-class corvette

HSwMS Gävle (K22) in Visby harbour in 2006.
Class overview
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:	HSwMS Gävle HSwMS Sundsvall
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:	3 × MTU diesel engines @ 2130kW/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 Sights(SAAB) CS-3701 Simrad SS 304 Spira HMS STN Atlas Elektronik, TAS Thales TSM 2643 Salmon VDS
Electronic warfare & decoys:	Rheinmetall TKWA/MASS (Multi Ammunition Softkill System)
Armament:	1 × Bofors 57mm MKII 1 × Bofors 40mm 8 × RBS15 MkII AShM 4 × 400 mm tubes for Type 43/45 torpedoes 4 × ELMA Antisubmarine grenadethrowers Mines & Depthcharges

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
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)

1. http://www.kockums.se/produkter-tjanster/marina-ytfartyg/ytstridsfartyg/korvett-typ-goteborg/