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Helsingborg 2006 Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.

Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Visby K31 454 Karlskronavarvet 17.12.1996 8.6.2000 12.6.2006 in service (2019)
Helsingborg K32 455 Karlskronavarvet 6.1997 27.6.2003 24.4.2006 in service (2019)
Härnösand K33 456 Karlskronavarvet 12.1997 16.12.2004 12.6.2006 in service (2019)
Nyköping K34   Karlskronavarvet 6.1998 18.8.2005 27.9.2006 in service (2019)
Karlstad K35   Karlskronavarvet 12.1999 24.8.2006 2008 in service (2019)
Uddevalla K36   Karlskronavarvet --- --- --- cancelled 2001


Technical data


Displacement standard, t420
Displacement full, t

650

Length, m

61.5 pp 72.7 oa

Breadth, m

10.4

Draught, m

2.40

No of shafts

2 waterjets

Machinery

CODOG: 4 Vericor PS TF50A gas turbines / 2 MTU 16V2000 N90 diesels

Power, h. p.

21760 / 3550

Max speed, kts

35

Fuel, t

gas turbine / diesel oil

Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armament

2 x 4 RBS-15 Mk 3 SSM (8 RBS-15 Mk 3), 1 x 1 - 57/70 SAK-57 Mk 3, 4 - 400 TT (4 Tp 45), helicopter deck, mines

Electronic equipmentSea Giraffe AMB 3D, Celsius Pilot Mk 2 or Terma Scanter 2001, CEROS 200 radars, Hydra sonar suite (CHMS-90, CVDS-26 sonars), CS-3701 ECM suite, 2x MASS decoy RL, CETRIS 9LV Mk 3E CCS
Complement

43



Standard scale images


<i>Visby</i> 2010
Visby 2010


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<i>Helsingborg</i> 2006 <i>Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.</i>
Helsingborg 2006 Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.


Project history

YS 2000 (YS means Ytstridfartyg, surface combat ship). Funds were requested in 1993 but ships were ordered in pairs in October 1995, December 1996 and August 1999 (together with cancelled K36 Uddevalla). Originally it was planned to build 20 ships, reduced to 14 in 1996 and then 5. GRP hull and superstructure, carbon-reinforced. Ships can be fitted with Double Eagle Mk 3 anti-mine ROVs and SeaBat 7123 or Seefuchs mine countermeasures sonar. Plans to install ALECTO/KAS 2000 ASWRL were cancelled but they can be installed later.

Modernizations

2012-2014, all: + 2 x 1 - 12.7/90, 4 x 1 - 7.6/90

Naval service

Visby, delivered to the navy 10.6.2002, became operational only in December 2009, Helsingborg and Härnösand in January 2010, Nyköping and Karlstad in September 2015.

Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.