American Reacts to the Norwegian Skjold-Class Corvette
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As Americans we take a lot of pride in our military, but today I am very interested in learning about one of Norway's most impressive and advances military vehicles, the Norwegian Skjold-Class Corvette. If you enjoyed the video feel free to leave a comment, like, or subscribe for more!
USA was considering buying these, but went with the trimaran and that other class built by Lockheed Martin, made of aluminium and their hulls keap craking
You mean the one that makes US military contractors money, rather than the better one?
Sounds like the US :-P. The Krag Jørgensen rifle from 1887 was put through a trial in the US for their next service weapon. It was far superior to all of the other rifles at the time, so it won the trial. The US weapons manufacturers complained enough that a foreign weapons company won the trial and not a US weapons manufacturer. So a second trial was done, but the Krag Jørgensen won this one again. It wasn't until stripper clips was invented that other rifles was considered on par or better than the Krag Jørgensen. Today stripper clips has been replaced with removable magazines, and there is a lot of Americans that still don't know the difference between clips and mags.
The names of the ships translates to this:
Skudd = Shot
Storm = Storm, obviously
Gnist = Spark
Steil = Stiff/Unbendable
Glimt = Flash
Tyler says: "It's gigantic."
Narrator immediately says: "Its small size...."
LMAO
Haha, I get what he means though.
It goes 110 km/h tops
It looks so nimble etc. but it's quite the size actually.
As for the traditional "dreadnoughts" or carriers it is of course nothing but as for combat capability/utility, all larger ships except a carrier is just a larger, clunkier, undergunned target.
Funfact: During its stay in us it actually got a speeding ticket on the potomac river.
Imagine giving a speeding ticket to one of these things, pretty ballsy, very American.
during one of the NATO exercises here in norway the americans clocked one of the skjold corvettes doing 82,5 knots on their radar ;P that raised a few eyebrows ;P
dont believe it!
@@UltimaSRiwhy wouldnt you?
@@simonhaugenkolstad8561 ..sailed them..(fully loaded)
Saying more about US radar capabilities than Norwegian MTBs :D
Or perhaps confirming the fact that KNM Skjold klassen is built to be hard to detect.
Hopefully it will never face the Norwegian Navy's most dangerous adversary: A brightly lit tanker....
Uff
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ALLE på den brua skulle vært kjølhalt !
Very good point! Does not help to have modern ships if some officers are idiots! As a Norwegian i feel ashamed!!!
Those was buildt by Spain ... and they are now sued.. go figure
Actually Norway have a long tradition to make weapons and like missiles, after the ww2 we began to develop better weaponry and out from this we have made missiles like Penguin that also US bought, the MK-1 version of it was also the first fire and forget missile...
Terne was a anti-submarine rocketthrown sinkmine ... quite advanced but now ofcourse outdated as it was developed in cooperation with USA from late 40's to the 60's... latest as our ships are equipped with now are the NSM or Naval Strike Missile that can be equipped on ships, vehicles and planes .. (it have been designed to fit on F-35) these are a sea-skimming type of missiles so they fly right above the ocean so its difficult to detect, also they can move around obsticles and once it's locked on target it will find the target.
Kinda like that missile from doktor proktor that never misses.
@@sindreholmboe6063 hehe we can hope but I highly doubt there is a supermissile like that. But I would think it is everything they claim it is.
Israel have F35.
USA have Norwegian HiEnd weapons that fit on Israels
F35. ... Would be fun to take a look at those weapons Edit: under the Isaeli F35 taking off on missions in Gasa these days...
They bought the patriot rocket when i was on Andøya. We saw f''16s from Bodø sink old warships . It was pretty cool
1989
I Imagen those can be quite versatile, possibly equipped for AA as well? Drone and missile defense?
Several of the US weponsystems are actually Norwegian prodused in US under licensing to Norwegian developer’s ( Kongsberg, NAMMO and Raufoss)
Also NASAMS, which are heavy weapons/missiles made by Norway and sent to the US, Afghanistan and other middle eastern countries
@@DraslyThe1
And to IDF via U.S.A. ..? :-(
I know 😔@@andersrefstad8235
HIMARS too ? Flaut at jeg ikke vet....
Norwegian weapons are far more advanced than our mediocre government!
The mentioned 110 km/h top speed is for the older class, the top speed of the new class is classified but assumed to be at least 150 km/h (close to 100 mph)
... and at the same time, being more economic as well. The earlier models chugged fuel like crazy!
The Skjold class corvette, these are... _very_ capable ships, and extremely versatile. And they can hide in any Norwegian fiord. The modern equivalent to a Viking longship. 2:41 - _"Why did Norway develop these ships?"_ - Look to the East, their neighbour neighbour. Could the reason be russia? - And because they can. And because the Norwegians have always built fast, nimble, agile ships. Their Viking blood, you know. Don't mess with Norway. Oh, _"floating tank"_ that reminds me that don't mess with their tanks either. Those Norwegians go *drifting* in their *tanks* - Norwegian version of having fun. Search for: _Your Future Car - Drifting tanks in Norway_
Yeah cause they use Swedish tanks kabooom!
@@SuperfixrN In the said video the Norwegians use a German Leopard 2, and their American guests use an America M1 Abrams.
So the hull design is kinda like a mix of a catamaran and a hovercraft. It has a catamaran hull with skirts covering the front and back. When cruising the fan will blow air down that is held in place by the skirt, lifting the corvette up from the water. This, combined with the light-weight composite materials used for the hull is what gives it the low draft. This is an important feature given the mission of the ship. In a war situation it would stay close to shore, navigating shallow waters to sneak up on enemies, fire the NSM and sneak out.
Norways military has been quite clear in its mission, and why we are part of NATO. "Why is it we invest so much money into the military? Why is it we are part of NATO, the largest military alliance in the world. What is it we wish to accomplish with all of this? Nothing. Beautiful nothing"
yeah that should be the goal of all military. :D
@@Powertotheppl Very much does. Honestly speaking from military experience in Norway. The US is probably deployed in Norway defending the frontline faster than Norway is. Which is both impressive and disappointing
Loved that commercial! He should watch it.
@@Powertotheppl I never once underestimated NATO, I said NATO IS our defense. As we are incapable of doing it ourselves. And in many instances NATO would actually respond faster than us
@@Powertotheppl we would have about 4-5000 troops within 24 hours, about 20 000 within 3-4 days and about 50-60 000 within a week, of those about 40-50 000 would be fully equipped the rest getting their equipment within a month. The US would within 72 hours have about 70 000 troops on the front with Russia in Norway granted it's a attack on one point and not Norway, Finland and the Baltic's all at once. If not Poland too. Etc etc. We would have 2 jets in the air within 2 minutes m 6 jets within 15 minutes. 10 jets within 1 hour and 20-30 jets within 24. Over the next days a few would be added every day, the us would have 50-70 jets of equal and superior quality over Norwegian skies within 24 hours, and that's ignoring the UK, Poland, Denmark, Germany France and the many other airforces that would be here quickly. The truth is Norway is far less prepared than it should be, and although us supporting Ukraine is all well and good we are sending equipment that we don't even have enough for our own. I can't tell you the numbers, but it's not looking great.
The abilities of this vessel is astonishing when you look at them up close. They can lift up in the water and glide over reefs that are just a meter under the surface, or sink deep to mask their appearance, and when you consider just how big they are, the speed is very impressive. There is almost nothing out there that are able to get away from them if they decide to intercept it, only the sleekest of the daycruisers can.reach 60 knots in open sea. The latest police boat that was developed can actually go that fast, and this is cutting edge technology.
In fact, the history of Skjold class didn´t start as a military ship. It started as a civilian passenger boat in the early 80ies by a shipyard at small village at the westcoast of Norway - Hyen. Then incentiv was to replace the more traditional catamaran ships used to ferry goods/passengers along the Norwegian coast - to give the islands/villages more faster, frequent and reliable transport. The shipyard was named Brødrene Hyen (the Hyen brothers). They went bankrupt in developing the type of hull, about 10 years before the KNM Skjold was built, they didn´t have the money to get the class into traffic. If the small shipyard had survived, most likely every passenger boat on the coast of Norway would have had the same type of hull. Have you seen hovercrafts(like the USNavys LCAC)? These hulls are similar, they are a combo of hovercrafts placed in the middle of a catamaran. It cannot go on land like a hovercraft. The actual top speed of these corvettes are highly classified, but we know from the prototypes from Hyen they have at least a cruising speed of 60knots(70 miles) which the civilian prototypes had (and they were slower (not alot carbon fiber, but mostly glass fiber and aluminium), that was the max cruising speed the Hyen shipyard was aiming for to become most economic efficient (but the top speed of those were considerable higher-as they also were aiming for using them in emergency situations (ambulance operations)). My guess the actual top speed of the Skjold class is closer to 80knots or even beyond. Norway considers them obsolete!!. But US and the rest of NATO has denied Norway of decommissioning them! But even Sweden has a class of stealthy corvettes (not as fast as the Skjold, but more stealty). And with Sweden soon entering NATO - these also will become a part of NATO naval forces. And maybe, like with the Finnish, Swedish, Danish and Norwegian Airforces, these countries will create a joint naval forces as well.
Incorrect. The brothers from Hyen were named Aa.
It's a stealth ship with stealth missiles. So you don't see the thing shooting or the thing it shot at you. Which maxes out the fear factor.
The top speed on this vessel is classified. The speed was once messured and it clocked in at 94.3 mph during exercise..
ofc, they never want to show "enemies" how capable they really are.....
The best military weapons are the ones you never have to use because your enemy never wants to F around, in order to find out what happens when they do.
i think you will enjoy checking out more Militery videos
fishermen often realize one of these is watching them, hiding against land, combined with the camo and low radar signature you can be 400 meters away and not see it in daylight unless you are aware of where to look for it. Somewhere there's a clip where the voiceover says "can you see it now?" from like 500 meters against land and its just not possible to see it before they zoom way in with a lens.
You may have heard about the Norwegian Advanced Surface to Air Missil System AKA NASAMS. The rockets are made in Norway, the "S" is the radar system made by Raytheon in the USA. This system has saved a lot of lives in Ukraina.
I would like to see the production speeding up, but we have a low unemployment rate in Norway. The weapon factory can not get enough people.
Did you know that this protection system sits on top of the White House?
You may have heard about other missile defense systems with no Norwegian involvement -- Patriot, THAAD, Aegis, GBI....
@@JoannDavi I don't think anybody is saying norway is the only country developing missile defense systems mate
The other way around. Missiles are US, the system is Norwegian.
@@Kraakesolvwell. Kongsberg (the city I live in, in Norway) defence and aerospace is producing NASAMS, in Norway. But it's also produces by Raytheon on license. But it is an norwegian Ground to air missile.
those dont got 100% hit rate like nasam@@JoannDavi
The NSM missile is one of the worlds most advanced if not the most advanced ship-to-ship missile (JSM, air-to-ship missile) in the world. You can program in your target and let the missile find the target for you. It can go over water and land and avoid any obstacles along the way to the target area, searching for the target. The missile is stealth designed with jamming functionality and will evade any incoming attacks, making it almost of not entirely impossible to intercept. Having that on such a small vessel like the MTBs is great.
Norway's tactical doctrine is highly specialized into mobile rapid response forces and elite soldier groups in small(er) teams.
A lot of missile warfare both in small teams and mounted on larger vessels/vehicles (such as these super fast zone-of-control boats)
I love how animated you got while talking about these ships! Made me super enthusiastic about them too, while watching! 😂😂😂
I served in the norwegian navt on KNM Karmøy in 2001. KNM karmøy is a similar design used for minesweeping. And i remember the first skjold class was launched .
So the hull of the boat is a catamaran with a huge skirt in the front and back allowing the engines to blow up a "bubble" in the middle hull so it can basicly float ontop of the water. Hence the 0.9 - 2.3 meter depths.
All of norways navy boats are apart of the nato fleet and has been tested in peace and combat
Check the old US 'Nasty' class patrol boat from the Vietnam era. That's basically the old Norwegian Tjeld class Patrol boat.
The later Osprey class is just the same design improved with an aluminium hull.
Any time you see an US Army or Marine sitting well-protected inside a vehicle and operating a remote turret on the roof, he's using a Norwegian design.
Those tiny, tiny 4" or so helicoptershaped drones that the Ukrainians like so much for spying on the russians... Also a Norwegian product.
Ask a big game hunter what Nammo means to him.
The old Penguin missiles (first fire-and-forget missile) had a IR CAMERA. Not an IR Sensor. It can actually recognise ship profiles.
Pilots would fly across the opening of a fjord, get a radar lock of the ships there, fly out of harms way, then using the recorded radar picture, designate 'second to the left' or something, then launch the missile.
It would follow waypoints out of the cover area, turn into the fjord, then while skimming the water and zig-zaging ahead, count the ships until it found its target, gain altitude, then dive to hit the ship in the waterline, penetrate deep and explode. It carried a 120 - 130Kg warhead...
Anything but a battleship or nuclear powered aircraft carrier would have a bad day. And it was nimble enough to take out an MTB actively trying to avoid being hit.
Ukraine got a whole lot of them from us in 2022. Don't know if they've used any of them, yet.
(They can be launched from a fixed position, or even the bed of a truck as long as you can get a radar picture.)
Now, why was the US Coastguard so interested in the Helicopter-launched version of it?
Absolutely norway has been world leading in fast patrol boats small corvettes since the Tjeld Nasty class. Those boats also had the insanely advanced Napier deltic engines. A test prototype still hold the record i belive for most horsepower per kilo on a piston engine.
US army asked for a light sniper-rifle that could take out soldiers in standard infantry vests on 1000 meter, light armored vehicles. Ofc. They gave the job to US industri.
They failed.
Lapua 338 LM is a Finnish made caliber used in US Army now. Norma have some 50% ovnership in Lapua now.
13:53 You can really see the shape of the early C3 Chevy Corvette front.
If they'd put 2 exhausts at each side at the back, you'd get the taillights aswell.
And like you said, it's a lot bigger that it first looked like :D
Search 'Umoe Mandal Style', a video made by the shipyard in Mandal who built the ships.
The Skjold-class Corvette is a boat that has a top speed of 70 knots, is 155 feet long, and 44 feet wide. It has a radar-guided 35mm cannon, which fires one shot per second, has two 12.7mm machine guns for close combat, has four rocket launchers, which have a range of nearly 10 miles, these can fire, among other things, NASAMS +++. The boat only needs one meter of water to go full throttle. And the boat has 16,320 horse power, which gives this big boat its incredible speed.
You really should learn the metric system. And teach it to other americans. Make vids of it.
Most americans dont have a clue the US actually uses the metric system or how usefull it is, but they convert it to make it "easier" for your population, who the government dont think would be able to learn it(?)
Just like roundabouts, the most efficient solution for traffic flow.
Its insane to convert from a system where everything is connected, to something thats based on one random persons bodyparts, and makes math some kinds of math almost impossible.
Save the US. Learn metric.
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@sondrehagen6071
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- You are really on to something there...
The fact that he even converted it to 'Land Miles' for a 'boat/ship', that got on my t!ts in a bad way.
I weep for mankind... **Oy Vey**
'110 km/h = '68.350' Miles/h', or roughly just over '68 Miles/h'.
...vs...
'110 km/h = '59.395' Nautical Miles/h', or roughly just over '59 Nautical Miles/h'.
In 2001 'KNM Skjold' used '1 hour and 20 minutes' from 'Håkonsvern, Bergen' to 'Smedasundet, Haugesund' on rough seas.
Compared to a 'direct-route'-passenger liner at the time...
Which usually used about '2 hours and 50 minutes' to '3 hours and 20 minutes' on a slightly longer route, from 'Smedasundet, Haugesund' towards the main harbor of Bergen, depending on the conditions out at sea.
If the weather was particularly bad, the liner wouldn't dare even leave port at all...
Which says something very fundamental about the 'Skjold'-class's seafaring capabilities and construction thereof.
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Check out "Metric Act of 1866" and "Metric Act of 1975"....
And yet, carpenters in Norway sill use 4X2" and 4X4" ....
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@Lassisvulgaris
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- You are comparing a country that on average uses a very limited amount of 'Imperial/USCU' every once in a while to a country that on average almost exclusively uses the 'Imperial/USCU' on a daily basis.
Of course it depends on the field of work one is doing, but the average person on the street in the USA wouldn't know the length of a meter if you hit them across the face with it.
Despite them having tried going 'Metric' more than once...
If they really had to, I bet the average person on the street would eventually conform to this change.
I fear that it's not them that is the main problem over there, but rather the main ruling body that are so hung up on the independence still after all this time that they don't want to play nice with the other children in the playground unless they conform to them instead.
Which is pretty backwards, if you ask me, considering the global stands on the matter.
I personally wouldn't mind if the display industry eventually went full on 'Metric' at some point.
That could be interesting to watch people in the USA go mental over stuff like 'DPCM/PPCM' or 'DPMM/PPMM' instead of the usual 'DPI/PPI'. *L*O*L*
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the Skjold class is basically if a Catamaran type ship and a hovercraft got a child..
I'm not sure if you mixed up some of the weapon system. The nsm missile that you saw getting launched at the ship has a range of 150km and is a anti ship weapon. But it also har a weapon system called mistral, that is a smaler air defense missile launched from smaller launcers (not seen in the video).
Fun fact: Norwegian warships have barcodes on them so that when they come to port they can Scandinavian
After petroleum (a whopping 80%), seafood and metals (about 5% each), military equipment is actually our biggest export. Still, off course, we are net importers of military hardware, due to the import of fighters and other airplanes.
The norwegian military is formally named the norwegian defence.
Norwegian Armed Forces*
But if you're directly translating "det norske forsvaret" word by word, then yes.
The word Corvette actually comes from 1700s French and Dutch. The Latin word "Corbita", meaning a slow freight-ship, became "Korf" in Dutch, and "ette" as a suffix means a small version. So a Corvette is a small, slow freight-ship. Later it became the name for the smaller or smallest warships, a bit smaller than Frigates, likely as these cargo ships were retrofitted into warships.
i mean... ship building is in our viking blood. don't matter if you're half norwegian! you've probably thought about building your own boat once even if it was a silly thought.
Fuck me ive never thought about that. xD When i think back ive actually had the idea many times and usually it manifests in games lol. Skål
The class name of Norwegian navy ships and similarly for most western countries I believe, comes from the name of the first ship of it's class (hence why the KNM Skjold, which was the first ship built, is a Skjold-class ship). The ship that was hit by the NSM missile in the second clip you watched, was KNM Trondheim (F-602) of the Oslo-class of frigates. I served on one of it's sister ships, the KNM Bergen (F-601) close to 25 years ago, when the KNM Skjold was doing it's trials to be commissioned. Lots of fond memories from that time.
Norway also makes the Kongsberg Protector Land RWS Remote Weapon Station, if I remember correctly. It is currently being used all over the world, for all kinds of different operations.
Kongsberg also makes the NASAMS air defence system.
Just to have said it. The speed of the ship is the "official speed". That means that the actual speed is not revealed. Also, the missiles that are used is developed in joint cooperation with the US. That goes for ship to ship, air to air, and so on. It is a collaberation between Norwegian Kongsberg and US Raytheon.
Was fishing outside of finnmark one day (as usual) got boarded by one of them lmao
@9:51 I believe it's to prevent the engine from overheating.
No, it is to lift the hull, reducing friction at high speed and lowering the draft.
@@MichaelEricMenk Ah, I see. Thanks.
They've been out in my fjord a few times. You don't see them, you hear them and I'm guessing it's too late by then
I was a conscript in the marine, radar operator and plotter, live in the south of Norway and one day one of these showed up on
Glomma river. I filmed it, it was a fantastic ship, a bit scary: I rember the exhaust from the turbines, the air behind shimmered
Greetings, fellow RDV.
1MR, I presume? Not many other options for that job
The previous MTBs were quite the vessel, too. They tied up almost in the brambles and against the most impossible cliffs to attach a line to. On lookout we were promised a case of beer if we could spot one hiding like that, just so our captain would get the pleasure of radioing and saying "KNM Erle, I see you"
We had the Sorm as support when the US Gerald Ford was here in Sep and during the NATO meeting. They have some holes under for enter and exit and have deployable rockets that come out of the upper roof. They armed the rockets when the King was here in Oslo on visit our boat. And they go really fast in the fjords, much faster than the water jets. I like the design too, it resembles the viking ship little.
When the Skjold class was in the US, they did several scenarios of war games. The Skjold had a very high success rate and LOTS of enemy kills. The US Navy had 0 kills against the Skjold. Zero. Most of the time they weren't able to identify it's location at all. Then a missile killed another vessel in the group..
Of course in open water the Skjold only have it's insane speed to get away from trouble, but in littoral waters it's almost undefeatable. You'd need to introduce lots of air capabilities to get it, and be prepared to loose lots of them.
Nsm missiler are developed in norway and is used by us pacific Fleet. NASAms is also developed in norway and is protecting the White house. Norway has a large produktion of weapons Nammo panzer breaking ammo is used troughout the World
Suggestion: World Championship in DØDSING (death diving), a sport invented in Norway that is now taking off internationally.
these boats is made in my hometown i have designed some and machined a hundred of parts both inside and outside of them like custom piping couplings in titanium just because titanium is light ,strong and non magnetic ,altso so they not will be so visible on radar. i have altso drove my boat side by side of it (in a in good distance from it) i had 69mph and i couldnt get ahead of them would think they made 75miles.
Sorta kinda a modern interpretation of the WW2 PT patrol boats with missiles instead of torpedoes.
Those rockets are nasty even tho they only carry a 3 kg warhead i have heard they are slower then any other cruise missiles but this one can also evade incoming anti missile system rockets.
The GM car got its name from the Ship Class Tradition.
Definition;
A fast, lightly armed warship, smaller than a destroyer, often armed for antisubmarine operations. An obsolete sailing warship, smaller than a frigate, usually armed with one tier of guns. A wooden ship of war, flush-decked, frigate-rigged, and having only One tier of guns. A flush-decked warship of the 17th-18th centuries having a single tier of guns; it ranked next below a frigate; -- called in the United States navy a sloop of war. In a modern navy, a lightly armed and armoured blue water warship, smaller than a frigate, capable of transoceanic duty. A highly maneuverable escort warship; smaller than a destroyer.
At 9:46 skirted and fan augmented, Think hovercraft
You are right that Norwegians are peaceful.🙂. But also Vikings. As a UN soldier, a Lebanese told me that it was something he pondered a lot. How could these calm and peaceful Norwegians go so crazy as soon as the action started?😊 Norway also has a lot of good sailors.
IM NORWEGIAN NORWAY HAS A STRONG MILLITARY
Are we scrapping these boats already? I remember when they where paying for these, think they where like 2 billion kroner a pop. They must have found something really awesome to replace these, as this is the first time I have seen footage of these since they got painted ;)
May I suggest one on HMKG, one of the best drill teams in the world...?
Read up on the naval strike missile - they're pretty neat
The US navy had only one comment on this shipclass : WE WANT, this due to the fact that it would have been a really good ship for the US Marines and also for the US Coastguard.
It's nothing compared to my fishing boat.
I can detect and kill, like a thousand whales in about five minutes.
The whales have upgraded though, so they now shoot "laser" beams out of their frigging heads.
(This rant was highly influenced by Dr. Evil)
🙃
As you know USA and Norway have a lot of cooperation in Nato and in the weapon undustries, like the NASAMS aif defence and the new shells produced by NAMMO in Norway with rockeg engines from Boing and shells with game changing range. Slava Ukraine and glory to their great heroes 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦
Heroyam slava! 💙💛
I have actually seen a Norwegian navy ship, not of this class, in the port of Ålesund city when i did some work there over the summer a few years ago.
Rumor has it that the Ukrainian army may have used a NSM missile to sink the russian navy flagship Moskva in the Black Sea in 2022.
Norway is also right next to russia so we need a strong defensive posture, but we are in NATO and usually fight alongside USA and UK in conflicts around the world too.
Glimt=flash, Skudd=shot, Gnist=Spark, Steil=Steep and Storm means Storm. Interesting names on these boats:D
As they say, "If you want peace, prepare for war."
Corvette have nothing to do with the car. Corvette is a type of warship, right under ships called frigates in size. Corvette is a word that translates as 'basket', because in the saiship-era the corvettes was the smallest and fastest full rigged ship (full rigger ships are ships with three or more masts, and typically three sails on every mast). So the Chevrolet Corvette borrowed it's name from the fastest warship, notthe other way around.
They have been in combat service in the Persian gulf, as part of the NATO action against Iraq in 2003.
In the waters we share with Russia, there are mostly coast guard ships, the navy does operate there, but vthey keep a low profile,one of the Russian navys main bases on the Kola peninsula a 100 miles from Norway means that Russia has a high presence there. American nuclear carriers and nuclear subs often anchor in one of the ports up there when they are changig crews, which are flown to and from the US.
It's very impressive, but I can't believe we also created the first underwater frigate with its own helicopter deck not too long ago.
Sad mess indeed we do have a few very shiny vessel and ships but lack of maintenance crew and training. Is a big problem.
yeah... That's what happens when we outsource the construction and planning... Budgets and bidders are more important than quality and effect.
@@glennaberg no? the reason it sunk was plenty fold, from human error to comuncation faults
@@LadyZeldaia According to the post accitendt repport, human error caused the accident, however with the specs of the ship it should have survived that crash, the outsourced boatyard did a terrible job with regards to welding and plate work within the "waterproofed" sealed compartments of the ship.
@@glennaberg they crashed with a tanker ship..
And sweden send an steałh submarine Gotland classe that could sinking Americas largest aircraftcarrier 😂
it did sink that carrier and escape unnoticed from the battlegroup in a Practice battle indeed. The US rented it for a year after to study it and develop tactics for it
@@imortaliz study aka do a china ;)
“Everything we have. Everything we are. What we want to achieve? … absolutely nothing!”
-Norway’s armed forces motto.
No it's not...
It's
"For alt vi har. Og alt vi er."
(For everything we have. And everything we are.)
@@xtratic=Kopperud!
Donald Rumsfeld used to drool over these...
In norway we have build boats for 6000years +
Norway, known for it's environment and love of place, ironically has petroleum and advanced weaponry (missiles and drones in particular) as some of its major industries.
That's not irony, that's necessity.
If you have something valuable you need to protect it, otherwise other people will come and take it.
There is a reason for why people don't have all their money, gold or expensive jewelry stored at home.
As a small country, we need to be prepared!
That’s the Shield. Do not fuck with them, or you will be harmed. (Great name btw)
i remember them when they were testing them outside haugesund in norway in 98 or 99, 3 of them zig zag'ing 2gether.
Dear Tyler! As a Norwegian I must say that our weapons are far more advanced than our sleepy government! Our land forces have been neglected, and we are totally depending on the Americans!
Back in the days of old… the whole area.. of Norway ..was just on another level of badassodom ..
We need this if Tyler Walker and the Americans invade us. ;)
Well it sounds like Tyler Walker is to scared of the ships to do so😉😂
The Shield is a very decent vessel. Go Norway! Hovercraft with water jets is the way to go if you need the speed.
We like to present ourselves as a peace nation but we exported arms for around 7.5 Billion NOK last year. Ask any deployed US soldier if they like the Raufoss Mk 211 .50 BMG round for example. We sell $87.65M worth of ammo and rockets to the US per year or so.
Jeg er Norsk ,a am Norwegian we Vikings was the first boat builders....we toutured the Saxons for 400 years ❤️
I know, we look so friendly, but we have a history of wepons perfection, wile smiling to everyone like "just wave and smile boys" 😂
Btw, remember when the carriergroup was in norway over a year ago? Yeah, 5 norwegian special gremlins was having a sneeky fun making havoc 😂😂
Norway actually make the majority of weapon platforms, software and more for the US military.
It looks so mondain…but then again, I have been seeing it all my life as my home town is Mandal Norway 😂
theese boats are now old, capable but old, the design is a catamaran with a hovercraft senter part, and where air is blown between the hulls to lift the boat out of the water, the front and rear skirts is to keep the airpressure in. peace time speed is 60 knot. i first saw the desingn of theese boats in 1992 when i was i military. this style of boat holds high speed while keeping a good steering, witch a hovercraft has not.
It is the modern viking ship.
Look at norwegian cost in google, and zoom in. The coast has insane amount of small islands, islets?, dents, cracks, small and big fjords. It is heaven for sea-based guerrilla warfare. American navy ships coming to norway during nato exercises do struggle with norwegian naval assets, mostly because it is easy to hide along the coast.
THAT said, the norwegian navy is stupidly small, underfunded, and lack a ton of capabilities. It is basically a fancy fishing fleet. On the other side, the russian navy isn't anything to be afraid of either, so idk.
Norway is peaceful, not harmless or naive. Of course history wise we've been walked all over, and only real achievements are sabotage and elite black ops missions. Our military is mostly based upon tech and special training, we do got terrain hostile enough after all. You should also check out joined NATO exercises. It's quite fascinating.
The Swedes also produce so fine military equipment.
you might want to look into Sweden's Visby class corvettes. same design philosophy, but a lot bigger
Greetings from Norway ❤
This dude should react to the Norwegian movie "22 july" it portrays the saddest moment about Norwegian history
He has already reacted to ABB....
They can drive over magnetic mines without detonating them
My friends dad programmed the turret on the ship...
I am from Norway and I dident even know myself we had that😂
these are modern longships... fast, manuverable and stealth... with an attitude.
Fuck the boat, we don't have many. But NASAMS? That's us as well...
Com on Tyler they dont build semi stelth super fast missile Corvettes for a fishing trip or sightseeing 😂
It has one fatal flaw the engine is fucking loud. but then again its fast
it got a speed ticket on Hudson river!!
Norway got a lot of oil and gas rigs in their waters.. And shallow fjords.. So..