And the fact that we got a lot of islands like 24.000 islets alone in the Stockholm archipelago, these guys are made to operate in such an environment where they can use their stealth abilities and also hide among all those tiny islets all along Swedens coast. Mind you, I imagine in todays new sea warfare reality with sea drones and all other flying drones for scouting things will change and develop as the Visby class came in server already back in 2000 with the last commissioned in 2015 due to sever delays so they been around a while. Its successor the Luleå-Class is currently in development expecting to enter server is 2030 with a total of 4 planned.
@@Cortaxify it really looks futuristic. Also kind of surprised we still use torpedoes but something tells me that if we want to maintain a high quality armed forces despite our small size. I do hope that they'll include some kind of drone bay/hangar for the Luleå class. Given how effective both aerial and naval drones seem to have been in Ukraine I wouldn't be surprised if our guys have some ideas of their own to implement. I also don't really know much about our naval forces but I hope they plan on getting more than just four ships. I would imagine that there will be a few more needed in order to keep a fairly high level of security. I could of course be incorrect since I'm not a navy guy 😅.
Yes, they have beds/cabins. She is 70 meter long between pp pp..26-32 officers + 10-14 sailors. Not that small. We got five of them. You got an amazing channel. / Adam, VISBY Sweden
The "official" stealth capacity of the Visby class corvette is that the radar, infrared, acoustic and magnetic signature is equivalent of a small boat and since the Bofors 57mm canon is very fast like the Archer 155mm, the "shoot and scoot" doctrine work just as well as on the Archers. According to one of the designer, the radar cross section of the Visby class corvette is reduced by 99% due to extensive use of carbon fiber composite throughout. That also reduce the IR as well as magnetic and acoustic, hence making the the 72 meter long corvette appear more like a small fishing vessel than a formidable war machine, even at close range. You can easily acquire the target, fire on it and get 500m away within a couple of minutes. The gen 2 version was planned (the 6th ship) but canceled in favor of the new Luleå-class. SAAB Kockums shipyard is now working on a Luleå class which will retain the same stealth capabilities but with way better and superior fire power and be at least 30 meters longer without making the radar/IR/Magnetic and acoustic signature any larger (Swedish stealth Magic). It will most likely have much better radar and way better Electronic warfare capabilities. Since JAS-39E now have integrated passive radar systems (PBR), similar tech will most likely also be utilized in the new Luleå-class, making it even more stealthy. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visby-class_corvette
A 100m ship appearing on the radar as a goddamn fishing ship. That's really impressive. Hope they'll include a drone bay/hangar/workshop since it seems that drone warfare is being the latest addition of warfare. Both naval and aerial that is.
@@Kaiquintos Idk about that but it will have anti- aircraft capability at sea like we haven't had since the cold war and the visby class is getting upgraded with anti- aircraft weapons so thats something :D
Built for the Swedish "hide shoot hide " defence doctrine ..sweden has 267,571 islands(most in the world) and the swedish defense forces will play advanced hide and seek between them..just like in the vast 69% forests in sweden..
@@JMPERager wouldn't call the northern region "mountainous terrain" thats norway...its more endless dense forests where its extremely easy to hide for small teams of even homeguard soldier's and hunters creating havoc..just like the finnish winter war 1939 with their "motti tactics" against soviet
@@gmm5550 Mountainous doesn't just refer to the spiky bits. Mountains have wide roots, and they spread all over Norrland. (Look at a topographical map) Many parts cannot just be crossed the bird path, you have to use the roads that go through carved (blown away) mountains. I mean, just looking at Gothenburg where I live, it's mountainous enough that you can't just go however you please, there's cliffs everywhere. It might not be as bad as the high mountains of western Norrland and Norway, but it can still provide a challenge, especially in a land you don't know.
@@JMPERager jag är svensk serrö och har vandrat mycket i norrland =) Jag vet, men att kalla landskapet i Norrland bergigt är en sanning med modifikation i flesta fallen..mot norska gränsen är det dock ganska bergigt =) När jag gjorde lumpen var devisen ofta att skog var bättre att gömma sig i och göra bivack än bergs/stenig miljö pga synlighet och klimat..och med dagens drönare så..ja du..
There are five in the class. The Combat Information Center is the place where you fight the ship. All sensors are routed there and weapons can be fired.
I thought Royal Marines would know more about naval vessels. I guess it depends where you're stationed. The CIC is the brain of the ship where all information from the ships sensors is brought together and sent to the Captain. The ships weapon systems are commanded from there. The CIC is located deep in the hull in the most protected area of the ship. When the ship goes to GQ (general quarters, combat imminent) the Captain will be in the CIC. The ship can be controlled from there in case the bridge, which is exposed, is knocked out.
The Visby class hs a crew of 43 people and has berths and cabins for the crew and can indeed be at sea for a decent amount of days given that they've taken part is foreign (UN) missions
The hull is none magnetic to fool sea mines. Along with small radar cross-section, the ships exhaust system is placed just above the waterline to cool the exhaust gases and give the ship a smaller IR footprint. The Gotland uses water jets that gives a less distinct sound for sonars to pick up. The torpedoes is anti-submarine torpedoes. You can land, rearm and refuel helicopters, but they have none by them self, no hangar. The idea is to extend the range and combat capability of the helicopters we have, probably mostly during submarine hunts and rescue operations.
The cannon is so accurate SAAB had to electronically introduce a spread to prevent the shots hitting hole in hole whch is not efficiant for a naval gun. The spreader shooots smileys if allowed to fire the full algorithm.
I would assume there is a slightly overstaffed crew which rotates sleeping shifts while the majority of the crew operates that vessel....just a guess, I have no naval experience but logically that's what I would expect.
For the subs in the swedish navy the conscripts hot bunk 2 and 2. They have sort of a double madras to sleep on that is made to be turned up side down. There are no cabins (on the sub) so the conscrips bunks are simply anywhere in the ship where its space. Like the torpedo room or the engine room. This have a double function because it forces every one to work really quiet that is important on a sub. The engine is also really quiet.
Looks like they can relay radar info to both JAS and groung to air robots from those ships as well. So five of them and a few JAS will cover the balticsea pretty eazy.
Everything in the Swedish military is linked, if a random soldier marks a target and has the gear for it, everything can see the mark. Also why they designed the radar dish on the JAS to turn sideways, dont have to fly towards the target to target it for something else ;). So it could be a airplane, artillery, tank, boat/sub or a missile platform. It all depends on who the commander selects to fire at it :P
Compare the main dec to that of the us litoral ships and its day and night. Visby looks like a fight deck on a airliner, the litoral ships looks like its a cruise ship with that much space. No wounder tjey are 5 tumes heavier.
For a country of 10 or 11 million people Sweden punches way above its weight on defence systems. How many other countries that size develop and build their own fighters, their own submarines, their own AEW&C aircraft, their own surface ships, and a lot of their own weapons systems? And they’re good too. Did you know that in an exercise a while back the Swedish sun HMS Gotland got inside a US Navy carrier battle group and achieved a virtual sinking of the USS Ronald Reagan? I mean, damn! Good job they’re on NATO’s side, and even better now they’re in NATO.
Swedes are highly innovative when it comes to technology. We have amongst the most sophisticated and advanced systems in the world and we are developing them ourselves. We may be a small country with an small population but we do have inevtions and technological advancements on our side. Thank you for allowing us beng a part of NATO.
@@thepicard83 Varsågod, och också välkommen. Or would you put those the other way round? Whatever, even though I no longer live in Europe I think Sweden will be great in NATO. And for my money the Gripen is the prettiest thing in the sky.
@@TheExpatpomI agree, Gripen 39E is a beauty! 👍 But there is one❤️, nowadays NOT fighting, and only one left is flying; SAAB J29 Tunnan, Gul Rudolf. The chubby profile gave it its nickname 'The flying Barrel', or just 'The Barrel'. In its heydays the fastest aircraft in the world for a while. Unfortunately rather deadly for the flying pilots. Of the 661 built (J29, A29, S29, in individual versions) 242 went down, 99 pilots lost their lives. But, consider in the fifties (they flew 1951-1972) the pilots' training consisted of a lot of war-like situations, with several planes fighting each other. A dangerous game, that explains quite a few of the crashes. The British test pilot Rob More who took the maiden flight with the J29 in 1948, later said "It was love at first sight".
7 new Luleå-class Corvettes are to be set to use from 2030 and onwards. Those are bigger versions of the Visby-Corvette. The Visby's will currently also undergo a few upgrades aiming at better Anti-Air and Anti-Surface capabilities towards drones etc.
lol it feels really weird to me that anyone would think that a crew of a ship doesn't live onboard but that's might be because I used to be in the Swedish navy and we at least use the definition that a vessel is a ship if people live on it. If they can't live on it it's just a boat. I've just now found out that this is not at all a universal definition XD I'm not sure about the exact endurance of the Visby-class but they should be able to operate independently without needing to go into port for at least a month.
I know one of the people that work on one of the ships and got a private tour onboard. Really cool experience to see it from the inside in person. At the time the ship was docked and only a few people had patrol duty (in case of fire mostly). Took about 2 h to walk around and look at stuff and ask questions. Kinda jealous of the people working on board.
In many smaller ships the entire crew wouldn't be bunking at once; the ship has to be capable of being operational 24/7. It is normal for small ships to have bunks shared in shifts for all lower rates, but I don't know whether this is the solution used for this particular ship. And it is quite normal to live on the ship you're assigned to as long as it is in its active cycle. But because these crews live in such confined conditions they also tend to have more opportunities for leave than other branches as the psychological aspect also has to be taken care of.
part from the subs and a few larger ships most Swedish navy ships are not made for longer travels. The idea is to patrol or engage around our archiopelago where in many places the water isnt all that deep, so for example a Russian landing fleet would have to move trough an area deep enough wich makes it easy to plan against, and the only ships we need to sink is the troop transports, wich in the 80´s they had many of but now i dont think they have more than 4 or 5 obv u can use civilian ships aswell. So these korvettes together with subs and then smaller fast moving boats with marines between these islands can set up ambushes with antiship missiles. This i think is the reason why Russia never put their plans in motion to attack Sweden while we were neutral. Now it would be suicide to attack us. great reaction, ty and be safe all
The us litoral ships that was scapt was heavly based on the visby class. They used the same gun, radar and controll center. The turbines and jets was from the same surplier, but larger. Bassically the ships are really simular. The main diffrance is that the us ship are larger and have hangars for helicopters and speed boats.
Remember Anthony J. Melchiorri the Tide series actually having these ship class in it as the main character operates from one in the books or so I believe as they just stated to be stealth Corvette but no name is mentioned other then its of Swedish origin.
That combat center is like the Battle bridge... You fight the boat from there you don't fight the boat from the bridge, the bridges for navigation and steering etc.
We will bring in more and they will be called the Luleå class and will be significantly larger than the Visby class. I don't really know when the defense forces will receive them. We will get 5 pieces in. HMS Luleå, HMS Norrköping, HMS Trelleborg and HMS Halmstad. Then we will probably update the other surface combat ships :)
Crew of 43 and if they still use the same on/off schedule that the surface combatants used back in my days (did my military service on an MCMV back in -96) they work 4h on followed by 4h off.
1. Sweden has five of these. They were supposed to be six but the last one, HMS Uddevalla was cancelled due to budgetary reasons. 2. Yes, they are indeed cool ships to be stationed at. 3. The CIC is where alla the sensor data is gathered, presented and from where weapons are fired. 4. There's a crew of typically 43 people, most of them are divided into two watches manning the ship in intervals. 3. The Visby class actually has quite good endurance despite beeing small. They can be at sea for several weeks at a time. There's comfortable crew accomodations. Each crew cabin has two to six bunks. Some of them can be folded up to make a sofa when not used for sleeping.
@@Neo-xn7vc the 57mm autocannon is quite good for self defence against threats in the air so saying "AT ALL" is a grave exaggeration. ruclips.net/video/rldn9Hvzih4/видео.htmlsi=3rAHJlOMyzLA69yH&t=116 They are also about to recieve CAMM which will definitly improve air defence capabilities.
Zumwalts do look absolutely amazing. It’s such a shame they never got that clever gun system to work properly at a sane cost per round and they basically have two guns per ship with nothing to shoot. At least they’re replacing the guns with missiles now.
They do stay out for days and this ship is bigger than the older corvettes called Stockholm and Göteborg Class. I was stationed for 12 months on HMS Sundsvall and I lived on the boat during the weekdays. 20 conscripts and 20 officers. and that boat was 10m shorter than the Visby class.
Sweden has ordered 4 more called Luleå class, and they will be a little bigger than the visny corevettes. The visby class will be modernized and all of these ships are due for service in 2030, modeernized and the new ones.
In a few years we will get a new ship class, the Luleå-class, which is essentially a Visby++ designed primarily for EW and surface-to-air missiles. The Luleå-class will be the largest surface ship in the modern swedish navy once it gets commissioned.
The Visby ships are getting a midlife upgrade, The AA system is finally getting installed, it was designed for it from the start but got cut due to saving cost. Now British CAM Sea septer is gonna get installed.
Give it a couple of years and you can do a new video about the Visby class successor, the "Luleå class" which is under development, and is basicly a far more advanced and more improved version of the Visby class. That thing is gonna be an absolute beast! Btw: at 7:04, when you asked about the bed. That acctuslly is a bed where they can acctually sleep. You saw that thing above the guys head, you fold that whole thing down and voilá, you have a bed. And trust me, as a former navy stationed at one of these, HSwMS Nyköping to be precise, it ain't that uncomfortable as you might think. Sure it's not like the bed at home ofc but still it ain't that bad. :)
The Navy is getting new light torpedo tubes for it's surface vessels. These can be stacked to Visby will be able to have 8 ready to fire torpedoes instead of 4.
Officers have told down racks like that in their staterooms on real small boats. They flip the rack up during the work day and it turns into their office
Nope, the CIC may talk to an awacs but it gets all of the ship's radars and other sensors to track and target. The berthing they showed was likely an officer's stateroom. Enlisted berthing would be racked 3 tall, with a tray for personal effects.
We are curently working on new models that are going to be abit bigger. I wouldent be suprised if the new models also will carry surface to air missiles. The helicopter on this vessel is used for transport and for submarine hunting i believe.
This looks a lot like the littoral class by US Navy. Just my first thought, happened to see one of the US vessels in testing. I hope Sweden improved on our exterior flaws
this always has been a neat class also it going to get a another important upgrade in future Sam system the Camm you call it the sea ceaptor missile. also, they are name after cities in Sweden.
Pretty much the same as most ships the same size. It's a multi-layered carbon fibre grid mats combined with PVC. The ships follow the same standard as the MCM vessels, so should be able to withstand a mine blowing out. No modern ship hull withstands a torpedo (exception: specially-designed vessels for that purpose) hit. If anything, the carbon-fibre/pvc hull doesn't suffer the durability stress that steel does in the same way.
The Swedish navy has ordered new ships to be built, an upscaled version of the Visby class essentially. 100m long vs 70m currently, I think it was .They will be more equipped for anti-air capability, as the Visby class is lacking in this regard.
I wonder if these are the same types of boats he Swedes are considering sending out to Ukraine. Seems they would be great for coastal waters and brown water operations such as those in and around the Black Sea.
OriginalHuman i reccomend putting a disclaimer on your previous video on the SR-72 darkstar. Because there were 5 other videos with the exact same title so its possible that its clickbait and fake news
well sweden has 267,571 islands(most in the world).. good luck hitting anything playing "hide and seek" between islands with a missile..i promise u..they are built with knowledge of the land and sea..
The initial order was för 12 corvettes. It was later cut to 6 with an option för 2. It was finally domn to 5 beçause of the cuddly behavior of teddybear Putin. When launched it had just the Canon and torpedoes. It is now upgraded with the antiship missile RBS15. But still no anti-aircraft missiles. Great Ship but lacking the numbers and weapons...
hitting a target hiding among all the islands is like finding a needle in a heystack..like drone warefare in the dense swedish forests..and i promise u there are antiair missiles on some of the many islands hidden in wartime..
@@La_Roo a bigger ship is a juicy target and needs alot of protection..these smaller ships are built for advanced hide and seek between islands in sweden and not open sea.
@@La_Roo well they are "small" against a sea going ship.. but as we both agreed on it has different functions and different working areas..ill consider it almost big for the hide and seek game its built for. =)
Just in the Balticsea Sweden have 2400 km of coast. This corvette is the only thing we have to defend this coast. And we have 5. So 3 corvette in the Balticsea and 2 on the Westcoast. This means one corvette is defending 800 km which is utterly ridiculous. We also have 4-5 subs, which three is up to standard Gotlandclass. Or with other word our fleet is a joke. How old are you dude ?
We currently have 5 active Visby class corvettes. There are bunk beds in the crew cabins.
I had a Camaro.
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Should be like 25 imho. :) Love these rigs Those and a half a dozen of them subs that "sank" a US Carrier. Total ownage of Östersjön. :)
@@HappyHermittfeel sorry for you
And the fact that we got a lot of islands like 24.000 islets alone in the Stockholm archipelago, these guys are made to operate in such an environment where they can use their stealth abilities and also hide among all those tiny islets all along Swedens coast. Mind you, I imagine in todays new sea warfare reality with sea drones and all other flying drones for scouting things will change and develop as the Visby class came in server already back in 2000 with the last commissioned in 2015 due to sever delays so they been around a while.
Its successor the Luleå-Class is currently in development expecting to enter server is 2030 with a total of 4 planned.
@@Cortaxify it really looks futuristic. Also kind of surprised we still use torpedoes but something tells me that if we want to maintain a high quality armed forces despite our small size. I do hope that they'll include some kind of drone bay/hangar for the Luleå class. Given how effective both aerial and naval drones seem to have been in Ukraine I wouldn't be surprised if our guys have some ideas of their own to implement.
I also don't really know much about our naval forces but I hope they plan on getting more than just four ships. I would imagine that there will be a few more needed in order to keep a fairly high level of security. I could of course be incorrect since I'm not a navy guy 😅.
Yes, they have beds/cabins. She is 70 meter long between pp pp..26-32 officers + 10-14 sailors. Not that small. We got five of them. You got an amazing channel. / Adam, VISBY Sweden
The "official" stealth capacity of the Visby class corvette is that the radar, infrared, acoustic and magnetic signature is equivalent of a small boat and since the Bofors 57mm canon is very fast like the Archer 155mm, the "shoot and scoot" doctrine work just as well as on the Archers. According to one of the designer, the radar cross section of the Visby class corvette is reduced by 99% due to extensive use of carbon fiber composite throughout. That also reduce the IR as well as magnetic and acoustic, hence making the the 72 meter long corvette appear more like a small fishing vessel than a formidable war machine, even at close range.
You can easily acquire the target, fire on it and get 500m away within a couple of minutes.
The gen 2 version was planned (the 6th ship) but canceled in favor of the new Luleå-class. SAAB Kockums shipyard is now working on a Luleå class which will retain the same stealth capabilities but with way better and superior fire power and be at least 30 meters longer without making the radar/IR/Magnetic and acoustic signature any larger (Swedish stealth Magic). It will most likely have much better radar and way better Electronic warfare capabilities. Since JAS-39E now have integrated passive radar systems (PBR), similar tech will most likely also be utilized in the new Luleå-class, making it even more stealthy.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visby-class_corvette
There is no 155mm cannon on the Visby its 57mm
@@andersmalmgren6528
Yes, you are absolutely right, my bad! I have corrected the mistake. Thanks for pointing it out
A 100m ship appearing on the radar as a goddamn fishing ship. That's really impressive. Hope they'll include a drone bay/hangar/workshop since it seems that drone warfare is being the latest addition of warfare. Both naval and aerial that is.
@@Kaiquintos Idk about that but it will have anti- aircraft capability at sea like we haven't had since the cold war and the visby class is getting upgraded with anti- aircraft weapons so thats something :D
@tricuarta that is very assuring to hear!
Love the little printed a4 at 7:28 that says "are you salty enough?" 😂
Built for the Swedish "hide shoot hide " defence doctrine ..sweden has 267,571 islands(most in the world) and the swedish defense forces will play advanced hide and seek between them..just like in the vast 69% forests in sweden..
Adn mountainous terrain of the north. A lang invasion of Sweden is not easy unless you stay on the roads, which makes you easy pickings.
@@JMPERager wouldn't call the northern region "mountainous terrain" thats norway...its more endless dense forests where its extremely easy to hide for small teams of even homeguard soldier's and hunters creating havoc..just like the finnish winter war 1939 with their "motti tactics" against soviet
@@gmm5550 Finns helped alot too...
@@gmm5550 Mountainous doesn't just refer to the spiky bits. Mountains have wide roots, and they spread all over Norrland. (Look at a topographical map)
Many parts cannot just be crossed the bird path, you have to use the roads that go through carved (blown away) mountains.
I mean, just looking at Gothenburg where I live, it's mountainous enough that you can't just go however you please, there's cliffs everywhere.
It might not be as bad as the high mountains of western Norrland and Norway, but it can still provide a challenge, especially in a land you don't know.
@@JMPERager jag är svensk serrö och har vandrat mycket i norrland =)
Jag vet, men att kalla landskapet i Norrland bergigt är en sanning med modifikation i flesta fallen..mot norska gränsen är det dock ganska bergigt =)
När jag gjorde lumpen var devisen ofta att skog var bättre att gömma sig i och göra bivack än bergs/stenig miljö pga synlighet och klimat..och med dagens drönare så..ja du..
There are five in the class. The Combat Information Center is the place where you fight the ship. All sensors are routed there and weapons can be fired.
I thought Royal Marines would know more about naval vessels. I guess it depends where you're stationed. The CIC is the brain of the ship where all information from the ships sensors is brought together and sent to the Captain. The ships weapon systems are commanded from there. The CIC is located deep in the hull in the most protected area of the ship. When the ship goes to GQ (general quarters, combat imminent) the Captain will be in the CIC. The ship can be controlled from there in case the bridge, which is exposed, is knocked out.
The Visby class hs a crew of 43 people and has berths and cabins for the crew and can indeed be at sea for a decent amount of days given that they've taken part is foreign (UN) missions
The hull is none magnetic to fool sea mines. Along with small radar cross-section, the ships exhaust system is placed just above the waterline to cool the exhaust gases and give the ship a smaller IR footprint. The Gotland uses water jets that gives a less distinct sound for sonars to pick up.
The torpedoes is anti-submarine torpedoes.
You can land, rearm and refuel helicopters, but they have none by them self, no hangar. The idea is to extend the range and combat capability of the helicopters we have, probably mostly during submarine hunts and rescue operations.
The cannon is so accurate SAAB had to electronically introduce a spread to prevent the shots hitting hole in hole whch is not efficiant for a naval gun. The spreader shooots smileys if allowed to fire the full algorithm.
Where can i read more about this? Sounds quite hilarious.
I would assume there is a slightly overstaffed crew which rotates sleeping shifts while the majority of the crew operates that vessel....just a guess, I have no naval experience but logically that's what I would expect.
For the subs in the swedish navy the conscripts hot bunk 2 and 2. They have sort of a double madras to sleep on that is made to be turned up side down.
There are no cabins (on the sub) so the conscrips bunks are simply anywhere in the ship where its space. Like the torpedo room or the engine room.
This have a double function because it forces every one to work really quiet that is important on a sub. The engine is also really quiet.
Sweden is a really special land when it comes to it's Military..
Looks like they can relay radar info to both JAS and groung to air robots from those ships as well. So five of them and a few JAS will cover the balticsea pretty eazy.
Don't forget about our subs aswell! And we've ordered more corvettes but the next gen
@@dirreeN And if i remember right the current Visby class ships will also be upgraded with among other things AA weaponry
@@roboten98 Oh yeah, forgot about that!
Everything in the Swedish military is linked, if a random soldier marks a target and has the gear for it, everything can see the mark. Also why they designed the radar dish on the JAS to turn sideways, dont have to fly towards the target to target it for something else ;).
So it could be a airplane, artillery, tank, boat/sub or a missile platform. It all depends on who the commander selects to fire at it :P
Its from the home of IKEA, we know how to use the space 😉
haha my student apartment was 11 sqm and we did have party's there and often lived 2 in that apartment (good times). u adapt and conquer =)
Compare the main dec to that of the us litoral ships and its day and night.
Visby looks like a fight deck on a airliner, the litoral ships looks like its a cruise ship with that much space.
No wounder tjey are 5 tumes heavier.
It's why the boat has such sharp angles. It comes flat packed, and the navy need to assemble it themselves.
For a country of 10 or 11 million people Sweden punches way above its weight on defence systems. How many other countries that size develop and build their own fighters, their own submarines, their own AEW&C aircraft, their own surface ships, and a lot of their own weapons systems? And they’re good too. Did you know that in an exercise a while back the Swedish sun HMS Gotland got inside a US Navy carrier battle group and achieved a virtual sinking of the USS Ronald Reagan? I mean, damn! Good job they’re on NATO’s side, and even better now they’re in NATO.
Swedes are highly innovative when it comes to technology. We have amongst the most sophisticated and advanced systems in the world and we are developing them ourselves. We may be a small country with an small population but we do have inevtions and technological advancements on our side. Thank you for allowing us beng a part of NATO.
@@thepicard83 Varsågod, och också välkommen. Or would you put those the other way round? Whatever, even though I no longer live in Europe I think Sweden will be great in NATO. And for my money the Gripen is the prettiest thing in the sky.
@@TheExpatpomI agree, Gripen 39E is a beauty! 👍
But there is one❤️, nowadays NOT fighting, and only one left is flying; SAAB J29 Tunnan, Gul Rudolf. The chubby profile gave it its nickname 'The flying Barrel', or just 'The Barrel'.
In its heydays the fastest aircraft in the world for a while.
Unfortunately rather deadly for the flying pilots. Of the 661 built (J29, A29, S29, in individual versions) 242 went down, 99 pilots lost their lives.
But, consider in the fifties (they flew 1951-1972) the pilots' training consisted of a lot of war-like situations, with several planes fighting each other. A dangerous game, that explains quite a few of the crashes.
The British test pilot Rob More who took the maiden flight with the J29 in 1948, later said "It was love at first sight".
@ The Tunnan is cute in a weird way. Or it looks weird in a cute way, I can’t decide. It’s a little sad there’s only one airworthy one left.
7 new Luleå-class Corvettes are to be set to use from 2030 and onwards. Those are bigger versions of the Visby-Corvette. The Visby's will currently also undergo a few upgrades aiming at better Anti-Air and Anti-Surface capabilities towards drones etc.
4 not 7
lol it feels really weird to me that anyone would think that a crew of a ship doesn't live onboard but that's might be because I used to be in the Swedish navy and we at least use the definition that a vessel is a ship if people live on it. If they can't live on it it's just a boat. I've just now found out that this is not at all a universal definition XD
I'm not sure about the exact endurance of the Visby-class but they should be able to operate independently without needing to go into port for at least a month.
I know one of the people that work on one of the ships and got a private tour onboard. Really cool experience to see it from the inside in person. At the time the ship was docked and only a few people had patrol duty (in case of fire mostly). Took about 2 h to walk around and look at stuff and ask questions. Kinda jealous of the people working on board.
Schwing, and a good morning to you 😅. That opening was priceless!!
The combat information center or CIC is where the radar, coms and guns are operated from
In many smaller ships the entire crew wouldn't be bunking at once; the ship has to be capable of being operational 24/7. It is normal for small ships to have bunks shared in shifts for all lower rates, but I don't know whether this is the solution used for this particular ship. And it is quite normal to live on the ship you're assigned to as long as it is in its active cycle. But because these crews live in such confined conditions they also tend to have more opportunities for leave than other branches as the psychological aspect also has to be taken care of.
part from the subs and a few larger ships most Swedish navy ships are not made for longer travels. The idea is to patrol or engage around our archiopelago where in many places the water isnt all that deep, so for example a Russian landing fleet would have to move trough an area deep enough wich makes it easy to plan against, and the only ships we need to sink is the troop transports, wich in the 80´s they had many of but now i dont think they have more than 4 or 5 obv u can use civilian ships aswell. So these korvettes together with subs and then smaller fast moving boats with marines between these islands can set up ambushes with antiship missiles. This i think is the reason why Russia never put their plans in motion to attack Sweden while we were neutral. Now it would be suicide to attack us. great reaction, ty and be safe all
The us litoral ships that was scapt was heavly based on the visby class. They used the same gun, radar and controll center.
The turbines and jets was from the same surplier, but larger.
Bassically the ships are really simular.
The main diffrance is that the us ship are larger and have hangars for helicopters and speed boats.
Basically it's a littoral ship (depth in the water 2.4m), that punches like a frigate and on radar looks like a fishing vessel.
The ship is bigger than you think . they do sleep in there. Those where foldable bunk beds.
Remember Anthony J. Melchiorri the Tide series actually having these ship class in it as the main character operates from one in the books or so I believe as they just stated to be stealth Corvette but no name is mentioned other then its of Swedish origin.
That combat center is like the Battle bridge... You fight the boat from there you don't fight the boat from the bridge, the bridges for navigation and steering etc.
8:20 i love the party hats
Never mess with a swedish ship with the party hat on...
@@Patrik6920 true true
We will bring in more and they will be called the Luleå class and will be significantly larger than the Visby class. I don't really know when the defense forces will receive them. We will get 5 pieces in. HMS Luleå, HMS Norrköping, HMS Trelleborg and HMS Halmstad. Then we will probably update the other surface combat ships :)
4 not 5
Crew of 43 and if they still use the same on/off schedule that the surface combatants used back in my days (did my military service on an MCMV back in -96) they work 4h on followed by 4h off.
6h watches actually, same as we had on HMS Landsort (according to their own presentation videos in Swedish): ruclips.net/video/Twf-qWflR48/видео.html
1. Sweden has five of these. They were supposed to be six but the last one, HMS Uddevalla was cancelled due to budgetary reasons.
2. Yes, they are indeed cool ships to be stationed at.
3. The CIC is where alla the sensor data is gathered, presented and from where weapons are fired.
4. There's a crew of typically 43 people, most of them are divided into two watches manning the ship in intervals.
3. The Visby class actually has quite good endurance despite beeing small. They can be at sea for several weeks at a time. There's comfortable crew accomodations. Each crew cabin has two to six bunks. Some of them can be folded up to make a sofa when not used for sleeping.
With no airdefence AT ALL. Once they are spotted they are doomed.
@@Neo-xn7vc the 57mm autocannon is quite good for self defence against threats in the air so saying "AT ALL" is a grave exaggeration.
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They are also about to recieve CAMM which will definitly improve air defence capabilities.
For cool looks, it's hard to top the USS Zumwalt.
Zumwalts do look absolutely amazing. It’s such a shame they never got that clever gun system to work properly at a sane cost per round and they basically have two guns per ship with nothing to shoot. At least they’re replacing the guns with missiles now.
They do stay out for days and this ship is bigger than the older corvettes called Stockholm and Göteborg Class. I was stationed for 12 months on HMS Sundsvall and I lived on the boat during the weekdays. 20 conscripts and 20 officers. and that boat was 10m shorter than the Visby class.
Sweden has ordered 4 more called Luleå class, and they will be a little bigger than the visny corevettes. The visby class will be modernized and all of these ships are due for service in 2030, modeernized and the new ones.
In a few years we will get a new ship class, the Luleå-class, which is essentially a Visby++ designed primarily for EW and surface-to-air missiles. The Luleå-class will be the largest surface ship in the modern swedish navy once it gets commissioned.
Note, It is classed as a corvette, but it's closer to a frigate then a standard corvette.
The Visby ships are getting a midlife upgrade, The AA system is finally getting installed, it was designed for it from the start but got cut due to saving cost. Now British CAM Sea septer is gonna get installed.
It’s not that small, just a nudge shorter than a football field. It’s just the shape that makes it look small.
Everything military we have made is for defense against the ruskies.
The CIC process all the input from ship sensors and control all weapon systems onboard. Every navy ship has one, and is the brains of any ship.
Give it a couple of years and you can do a new video about the Visby class successor, the "Luleå class" which is under development, and is basicly a far more advanced and more improved version of the Visby class. That thing is gonna be an absolute beast!
Btw: at 7:04, when you asked about the bed. That acctuslly is a bed where they can acctually sleep. You saw that thing above the guys head, you fold that whole thing down and voilá, you have a bed.
And trust me, as a former navy stationed at one of these, HSwMS Nyköping to be precise, it ain't that uncomfortable as you might think. Sure it's not like the bed at home ofc but still it ain't that bad. :)
They do look quite cool somewhat up close, saw them when doing delivery's to the marine base.
The Navy is getting new light torpedo tubes for it's surface vessels. These can be stacked to Visby will be able to have 8 ready to fire torpedoes instead of 4.
Officers have told down racks like that in their staterooms on real small boats. They flip the rack up during the work day and it turns into their office
Love your content my friend! Keep it up. American audiences get a hard on for watching out superiority. And we all love the UK over here
They do sleep on the ship, it's bigger than you seem to imagine (73 meters long and 10 meters wide).
Nope, the CIC may talk to an awacs but it gets all of the ship's radars and other sensors to track and target. The berthing they showed was likely an officer's stateroom. Enlisted berthing would be racked 3 tall, with a tray for personal effects.
Cabins on the Visby come in two sizes, 2- or 4-man cabins. Most of the crew on board are officers, about a 2:1 ratio.
With a length of only 72m it's indeed a smaller corvette, but with 43 crewmembers onboard of course it has sleeping bunks..
We are curently working on new models that are going to be abit bigger. I wouldent be suprised if the new models also will carry surface to air missiles.
The helicopter on this vessel is used for transport and for submarine hunting i believe.
Yeah, beds that fold down, just like in a sleeper coach on a railroad. That's an officer's cabin [probably the XO].
This looks a lot like the littoral class by US Navy. Just my first thought, happened to see one of the US vessels in testing. I hope Sweden improved on our exterior flaws
this always has been a neat class also it going to get a another important upgrade in future Sam system the Camm you call it the sea ceaptor missile. also, they are name after cities in Sweden.
Love the navy. I miss warships though. They were badass
Some of the very junior guys might live on the ship but most don’t, unless they’re deployed. Which they’d obviously live onboard 24/7
Just a rough guess, the helicopter deck looks to be about the size of a tennis court?
I do have questions on the survivability of the armor, being it's composite with PVC.
Pretty much the same as most ships the same size. It's a multi-layered carbon fibre grid mats combined with PVC. The ships follow the same standard as the MCM vessels, so should be able to withstand a mine blowing out. No modern ship hull withstands a torpedo (exception: specially-designed vessels for that purpose) hit. If anything, the carbon-fibre/pvc hull doesn't suffer the durability stress that steel does in the same way.
Ever been on a submarine ? There are 143 members in the crew of a Los Angeles Class Submarine. They go out for MONTHS.
The Swedish navy has ordered new ships to be built, an upscaled version of the Visby class essentially. 100m long vs 70m currently, I think it was .They will be more equipped for anti-air capability, as the Visby class is lacking in this regard.
Those are more or less the same anti-ship missiles carried by the SAAB 39 Gripen 🙂
Visby is the "capitol" of the island Gotland, hence the class-name. :)
Gotland, also known as the "stationary aircraft carrier of the Baltic" :P
There is also Helsingborg and Karlstad corvette..
Combat information center i like the brain of the ship
like a modern-day PT boat
There is 2 more ships on drawing board planned. 2 double bigger.
Crazy tech... im subbin dude❤
I think they designed it to be possible to stay in the water but I bet the crew quarters is seemingly not meant for more then a few weeks probably.
2-3 weeks usually, which is enough considering you can cross the Baltic west-east in less than a day.
@@bjornflintberg3809 sounds reasonable. I would hate to be up against those bad boys in a rusty submarine 😂🇷🇺
You did not get to know about all of the weapons........ And lots of other stuff but it does have submarine hunting gear too
I saw 3 of those when i was in karlskrona
its 43 crew and 30ish cots i think the "Official" specs says
Holy shit i didnt know rockets could make a 90 degree turn in those speeds 😳
They are great ships made to stop an incoming Russian invasion fleet. However they are not made for blue water operations which is kind of a problem.
Only information ? Information is everything.
I wonder if these are the same types of boats he Swedes are considering sending out to Ukraine. Seems they would be great for coastal waters and brown water operations such as those in and around the Black Sea.
OriginalHuman i reccomend putting a disclaimer on your previous video on the SR-72 darkstar. Because there were 5 other videos with the exact same title so its possible that its clickbait and fake news
all visby class getting air defence missiles in there MLU update know in the near future
Did you really think that there wouldn't be bunk beds?
7:04 never seen a sofa bed before? 😂
You got to update your video on the AC-130 they came out with a new AC130 called the AC-130 j Ghost Rider it's got a rail gun
The Vikings always have the best ships 😛
Yeah they can stay and live on that ship for weeks.
If a ww2 sub could be out on sea for months so should this no?
USN has a ghost fleet
Should be a swedish flag on the thumbnail
de. kan vara ute till sjös i flera veckor om så behövs
Only air defense is the 57 cannon.
Ye. Should have had some surface to air missiles on it. But i believe the new models that we are working on will have that,.
well sweden has 267,571 islands(most in the world).. good luck hitting anything playing "hide and seek" between islands with a missile..i promise u..they are built with knowledge of the land and sea..
@@gmm5550 Im Swedish, so i know that information
@@jimmiekarlsson4458 Är åxå svensk..serrö =)
Samtliga Visby korvetter är på väg att få Sea ceptor missil system.
Yeah Sweden still rocks💯🫡🇸🇪😇
No they are sleeping on the ship.
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The initial order was för 12 corvettes. It was later cut to 6 with an option för 2. It was finally domn to 5 beçause of the cuddly behavior of teddybear Putin. When launched it had just the Canon and torpedoes. It is now upgraded with the antiship missile RBS15. But still no anti-aircraft missiles. Great Ship but lacking the numbers and weapons...
hitting a target hiding among all the islands is like finding a needle in a heystack..like drone warefare in the dense swedish forests..and i promise u there are antiair missiles on some of the many islands hidden in wartime..
you sleep on turns ...
Vikings still doing viking things.
Displacement 640 tonnes
Length 72.7 m (238 ft 6 in)
Beam 10.4 m (34 ft 1 in)
Draught 2.4 m (7 ft 10 in)
Propulsion CODOG
"Small ship" 75 meters lol
All things are relative. 75 meters is small compared to a US Aircraft Carrier (333 meters).
@@La_Roo a bigger ship is a juicy target and needs alot of protection..these smaller ships are built for advanced hide and seek between islands in sweden and not open sea.
@@gmm5550 Agreed. They are designed to serve different functions. But that could be how you could consider a 75m boat “small.”
@@La_Roo well they are "small" against a sea going ship.. but as we both agreed on it has different functions and different working areas..ill consider it almost big for the hide and seek game its built for. =)
@@gmm5550 Works for me 😀
Överraskad?
No anti air capabilities, it is kind of sad.
Can someone recommend him some growling sidewinder videos? I think this will help him understand BVM and dogfight tactics etc
Just in the Balticsea Sweden have 2400 km of coast. This corvette is the only thing we have to defend this coast. And we have 5. So 3 corvette in the Balticsea and 2 on the Westcoast. This means one corvette is defending 800 km which is utterly ridiculous. We also have 4-5 subs, which three is up to standard Gotlandclass. Or with other word our fleet is a joke. How old are you dude ?
0:41 littoral class ships suck and are all getting decommissioned thankfully
How much was invested in that useless piece of crap. lol.
Are you sure you don't have ADHD? Is that allowed in british army?
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