Göteborg-class corvette

HSwMS Gävle (K22) in Visby harbour in 2006.
Class overview
Builders:	Karlskronavarvet AB
Operators:	Swedish Navy
Preceded by:
Succeeded by:	Visby class corvette
In commission:	13 April 1989
Planned:	6
Completed:	4
Cancelled:	2
Active:	HSwMS Gävle HSwMS Sundsvall
Retired:	2
General characteristics
Displacement:	380/425 tonnes
Length:	57 metres (187 ft)
Beam:	8 metres (26 ft)
Draft:	2 metres (6.6 ft)
Propulsion:	3 × MTU diesel engines @ 2130kW/each Water jet propulsion system.
Speed:	30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph)
Range:	3,704 km (2,000 nmi; 2,302 mi)
Complement:	23 officers 18 seamen
Sensors and processing systems:	Sea Giraffe 150 HC Radar PN621 Navigation Radar 2 × Fire Control Sights(SAAB) CS-3701 Simrad SS 304 Spira HMS STN Atlas Elektronik, TAS Thales TSM 2643 Salmon VDS
Electronic warfare & decoys:	Rheinmetall TKWA/MASS (Multi Ammunition Softkill System)
Armament:	1 × Bofors 57mm MKII 1 × Bofors 40mm 8 × RBS15 MkII AShM 4 × 400 mm tubes for Type 43/45 torpedoes 4 × ELMA Antisubmarine grenadethrowers Mines & Depthcharges

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 57mm cannon and one 40mm cannon.

Six corvettes were planned, but following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the final two were cancelled. Two Göteborg-class corvettes remain in service today, and are active in international military and humanitarian operations. Both vessels, HSwMS Gävle and HSwMS Sundsvall, took part in a United Nations operation off the coast of Lebanon in 2006 and 2007, following the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah War.