Visby-class Stealth Corvette

The Visby is the latest class of corvette to be adopted by the Swedish Navy after the Göteborg and the Stockholm class corvettes. The ship's design heavily emphasizes "low visibility" or stealth technology. The first ship in the class is named after Visby, the main city on the island of Gotland. The ships are designed by Swedish Defence Materiel Administration (FMV) and built by Kockums AB and have undergone extensive testing. The class has received widespread international attention because of its status as a stealth ship and its network-centric capabilities.

The hull is constructed with a sandwich design consisting of a PVC core with a carbon fibre and vinyl laminate (see also the Oceanic-Creations spin-off), and its angular design reduces its radar signature (or radar cross section). Its 57 mm cannon barrel can also be folded into the turret to further reduce its cross section.

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Science & Technology

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• Visby-class
• corvette
• stealth
• Swedish
• Navy
• Kockums
• surface
• combatant
• ships

[thepure879]

go sweden

[OlderG0ds]

nice

[Lafladitu]

its made with plywood!! :)

[101andrewj]

@ozgurdavut 5 times stronger then steel and you think its doesnt have enough strengh, if you can afford it, build every piece outta carbon fibers

[Keinlicht]

@ozgurdavut Well sweden's military engineers would beg to differ, apparently

[ozgurdavut]

I think carbon fiber is not usefull for huge ships because its not enough strength

So i think milgem is better

[Nisselini]

@pushrex Det var Kockums AB's representant du hörde ditt blockmongo...

[TNorberg]

@pushrex There's no military leader in this video, dude.

[patrockfree]

@pushrex

Kom till Tyskland, vi kan inte allts Engelska där samma med Fransmänner...

Svensk Svengelska är jätte bra, jämförd med våra Denglisch :D

[pushrex]

This makes me ashamed to say I live in Sweden. Obviously it's a place where military leaders don't care to learn proper english.

[ElPanico]

@95predator no, thank YOU for giving us the leopard II tank :D