HMS VISBY Class

Ulrich Rudofsky · Post by **Ulrich Rudofsky** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 2:03 am

Modern ships do not seem as beautiful to me as the PRINZ EUGEN. The VISBY class of the Swedish Navy is not in the league with Miss Sweden, but comes close to the paper ships I folded in the 1940's

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHJFqwmFnkI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbZUHpk2 ... ed&search=
http://www.rossipotti.de/ausgabe12/tine ... steln.html

Bgile · Post by **Bgile** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 2:25 pm

Interesting! Obviously incorporating some stealth features.

Ulrich Rudofsky · Post by **Ulrich Rudofsky** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 2:52 pm

also very low acoustical and infra-red signatures. http://www.military.com/soldiertech/0,1 ... s,,00.html

Karl Heidenreich · Post by **Karl Heidenreich** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 3:16 pm

Those ships look to me as these thugs from the Klu Klux Klan...

Ulrich Rudofsky · Post by **Ulrich Rudofsky** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 3:54 pm

...more like the dunce cap I had to wear in school here and there........

RF · Post by RF » Mon Sep 17, 2007 12:58 pm

These vessels look like they have a very high centre of gravity.

I wonder how stable they are in rough seas....

Ulrich Rudofsky · Post by **Ulrich Rudofsky** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 2:27 pm

I don't know were the metacentric point is on this ship. They are supposedly very stable in rough seas and they may not be as top-heavy as they look since the ship is made from carbonfiber composite. But the ship's stability depends not only on passive bilge keels; it has some sort of interceptor stabilizers. One other drawback is its short range of 2000 nm at 12 kn. http://www.kockums.se/pdf/visby2006.pdf

Ramius · Post by **Ramius** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 12:30 am

besides the gun whats the other armament?

Ulrich Rudofsky · Post by **Ulrich Rudofsky** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 12:38 am

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visby_class_corvette

I imagine that must change with the mission requirements. At least I hope very much that all ships should have wide flexibility in mission-dictated choice of armament and no permanent static armament suite.

Ramius · Post by **Ramius** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 12:55 am

that makes sense, allot of the smaller navy vessels have this same trait. ex: the new LCS's

Ulrich Rudofsky · Post by **Ulrich Rudofsky** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 1:02 am

I would add to that the electronic equipment and crew as well as aircraft and amphibious assault troops and their boats. As an armchair naval person, it may not be as simple as I think it is ........