The Göteborg class is a class of corvettes in the Swedish Navy, built between 1986 and 1993. The class was originally designed to destroy Soviet submarines and surface vessels, and is armed with eight RBS-15 anti-ship missiles, torpedoes, one 57 mm cannon, and one 40 mm cannon.
The Swedish Navy originally planned to acquire six Göteborg-class corvettes, but following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the final two were cancelled.
Two of the four corvettes built remained in service . Modified in 2019, the two vessels form the subclass Gävle class. Both vessels, and , took part in a United Nations operation off the coast of Lebanon in 2006 and 2007, following the 2006 Lebanon War.
Gävle subclass and were modified in 2019–2022. After the modification, the remaining ships were given the subclass name, the Gävle class, as had been mothballed. During the upgrade the corvettes received new equipment bringing them to the same standard as the , a significant step in terms of capabilities.
Units
Bow numberShip nameNamesakeLaid downLaunchedCommissionedServiceStatusK21Gothenburg10 February 198613 April 198915 February 19904th Naval Warfare FlotillaDecommissioned/mothballedK22Gävle12 January 198723 March 1990 17 September 19904th Naval Warfare FlotillaActiveK23Kalmar21 September 19881 November 1990 1 September 19914th Naval Warfare FlotillaDecommissioned/mothballedK24SundsvallMarch 198929 November 1991 7 June 19934th Naval Warfare FlotillaActiveK25HelsingborgHelsingborgCancelledK26HärnösandHärnösand
References
External links Swedish Navy – Göteborgsklass. Soldf.com – Korvett typ Göteborg.