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The Visby-Class Corvette - Kockums AB, Karlskrona

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The surface combatant YS2000, or Visby-class corvette, for the Swedish Navy is being built by Kockums in Karlskrona. It is an innovative new stealth design that takes a quantum leap in naval ship design. By building the boat in a sandwich construction with DIAB core materials it is possible to achieve a number of harsh re¬quirements that the stealth concept demands, nonmagnetic, flat surfaces, thermal and acoustical insulation in addition to the inherit low weight. The very harsh structural requirement on the boat from the ability to withstand underwater mine explosions is met by the use of the highly ductile HD-material in the bottom. The boat is also built using an innovative modular technique where prefabricated core panels up to 16*3 m are delivered directly to the yard from DIAB ready to be used in the infusion process. The design is very successful with 5 vessels ordered by the Swedish Navy. The first, HMS Visby, was launched in June 2000 followed by HMS Helsingborg in 2003, HMS Härnösand in 2004, HMS Nyköping in 2005 and the last Visby-class corvette for the Swedish Navy will be named HMS Karlstad.
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