HMS Helsingborg (K32)

HMS Helsingborg off Gotska Sandön
Career	Template:Country data SWE
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 (K32) is second in the new class of Visby-class corvettes ordered by the Swedish Government and built by Kockums. Since the 19th December 2009 she is in active service under the 3rd surface flotillia, and undergoing trails for international service.

History

Kockums delivered her to FMV 24 April 2006, where she started her extensive operational sea trials, which she is still active at with a few longer visits back to the yard along the way. On 12 August 2006, she left Sweden for the Mediterranean. She returned back to Karlskrona 11 September the same year.

External links

• BBC article
• FMV - Official homepage
• Kockums - Official homepage
• Swedish navy page on the Visby trials (Swedish)