HMS Karlstad |
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| Career | Swedish Navy |
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| Name: | HMS Karlstad |
| Ordered: | 1999 |
| Builder: | Kockums |
| Launched: | 24 August 2006 |
| Commissioned: | N/A |
| Status: | Fitting equipment |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Visby-class corvette |
| Displacement: | 600t |
| Length: | 72.8m |
| Beam: | 10.4m |
| Draft: | 2.4m |
| 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 |
| Aviation facilities: | Helicopter pad |
HMS Karlstad (K35) is the fifth of the new Visby-class corvettes ordered by the Swedish Government and built by Kockums. She was launched on August 18, 2006.
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