| On a visit to the town Helsingborg. | |
| Class overview | |
|---|---|
| Builders: | Kockums |
| Operators: | Royal Swedish Navy |
| Preceded by: | Göteborg class corvette |
| In commission: | 8 June 2000 |
| Planned: | 6 |
| Completed: | 5 |
| Cancelled: | 1 |
| Active: | HSwMS Visby HSwMS Helsingborg HSwMS Härnösand HSwMS Nyköping HSwMS Karlstad |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 640 tonnes |
| Length: | 72.7 m |
| Beam: | 10.4 m |
| Draught: | 2.4 m |
| Propulsion: | CODOG 2 × 125SII Kamewa Waterjets 4 × Vericor TF50A gas turbines, total rating 16 MW 2 × MTU Friedrichshafen 16 V 2000 N90 diesel engines, total rating 2.6 MW 3 x generators of 270kW each |
| Speed: | 35+ knots |
| Range: | 2500nm @ 15 knots |
| Complement: | 43 |
| Sensors and processing systems: |
Ericsson Sea Giraffe AMB 3D surveillance radar Ceros 200 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 & decoys: |
Rheinmetall TKWA/MASS (Multi Ammunition Softkill System) |
| Armament: |
1 × Bofors 57 mm Mk3 8 × RBS15 Mk2 AShM 4 × 400 mm torpedo launchers for Type 45 torpedoes Mines and depth charges Provision for but not fitted with 2 × 6 127 mm ALECTO anti-submarine rocket launchers (cancelled) 8 × Umkhonto SAM(cancelled) |
| Aviation facilities: | Helicopter pad |