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| Career | Swedish Navy |
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| Name: | HMS Visby |
| Ordered: | 1995 |
| Builder: | Kockums |
| Laid down: | 17 February 1995 |
| Launched: | 8 June 2000 |
| Commissioned: | N/A |
| Status: | Fitting Equipment |
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| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Visby Class |
| 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 & Depth charges |
| Aviation facilities: | Helicopter Pad |
HMS Visby (K31) is the lead ship in the new class of Visby-class corvettes ordered by the Swedish Government and built by Kockums. She is currently in the Karlskrona Naval Yard being fitted with additional equipment slated for returning to her operational sea trials during the autumn 2008.
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