Göteborg-class corvette

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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.

The Swedish Navy originally planned to acquire six Göteborg-class corvettes, but following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the final two were cancelled.

Two of the four corvettes built remain in service in 2021. 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 were modified in 2019-2020. After the modification the corvettes were shifted from Göteborg class to Gävle class, given that HSwMS Göteborg had been mothballed.^{[2] [3]}

Units[]

A lateral diagram of HSwMS Göteborg

References[]

External links[]

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