Helsingborg off Gotska Sandön |
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| Career | Swedish Navy |
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| Name: | HMS Helsingborg |
| Ordered: | 1995 |
| Builder: | Kockums |
| Launched: | 27 June 2003 |
| Commissioned: | N/A |
| In service: | 2009 - |
| Status: | Operational |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Visby-class corvette |
| Displacement: | 650t |
| Length: | 72.6m |
| Beam: | 10.4m |
| Draft: | 2.5m |
| Propulsion: | CODAG 2 × KaMeWa Waterjets 4 × Honeywell TF 50 A gas turbines, total rating 16 MW 2 × MTU Friedrichshafen 16V 2000 N90 diesel engines, total rating 2.6 MW |
| Speed: | 40+ knots |
| Complement: | 27 officers 16 conscripts |
| Sensors and processing systems: |
Ericsson Sea Giraffe ABM 3D surveillance radar Ceros 200 Fire control radar system Condor CS-3701 Tactical Radar Surveillance System Hull-mounted sonar Towed array sonar system Variable depth sonar |
| Electronic warfare and decoys: |
Rheinmetall Waffe Munition MASS (Multi-Ammunition Softkill) decoy system |
| Armament: | 1 × 57 Mk3 8 × RBS15 Mk2 AShM Mines and depth charges |
| Armour: | Kockums GHOST Fiber Reinforced Plastic (FRP)Hull |
| Aviation facilities: | Helicopter pad |
| Notes: | The helicopter pad is not yet ready to receive helicopters. |
HMS Helsingborg is second in the new class of Swedish Visby-class corvettes ordered by the Swedish Government and built by Kockums. She has been in active service with the 31st Corvette Squadron, 3rd Naval Warfare Flottilla since 19 December 2009.
Kockums delivered her to FMV on 24 April 2006, when she started her extensive operational sea trials, during which she has returned to the yard several times. On 12 August 2006 she left Sweden for the Mediterranean. She returned to Karlskrona 11 September the same year.
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