HELSINGBORG HSwMS (K31)

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HELSINGBORG HSwMS (K31)

Post by aukepalmhof » Sun Mar 01, 2015 8:37 pm

Built as a stealth corvette by Kockums Kalrskrona yard for the Swedish Navy.
27 June 2003 launched as the HSwMS HELSINGBORG (K32) one of the Visby class.
Displacement 650 ton, dim. 72.8 x 10.4 x 2.4m. (draught)
Powered: GODAG, 4 Honeywell TF50 A gas turbines, total power 16 MW and 2 MTU Friedrichshafen 16V 2000 N90 diesel engines, total power 2.6 MW, which are connected gearboxes which run 2 – KaMeWa waterjets. She is also fitted out with rudders and bow thrusters for harbour manoeuvring.
Speed 40 knots.
Armament 1 – 57 Mk3 gun, 8 – RBS15 Mk2 AShM anti-ship missile. Mines and depth-charges.
Crew 43.
Hull is made of a sandwich construction comprising a PVC core with a carbon fibre and vinyl laminate.
Fitted out with a helicopter platform.
24 April 2006 delivered.

After an extensive operational sea trials in which she returned to the yard several times, she left for her first voyage on 12 August 2006 for the Mediterranean, 11 September she returned back in Karlskrona, Sweden.
19 December 2009 in active service as a unit of the 31st Corvette Squadron, 3rd Naval Warfare Flotilla.
2015 In service.

Maldives 2015 Fr22 sg?, scott?
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSwMS_Helsingborg_(K32) Internet.
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