Best Corvette in The World, HSwMS Visby

[@thebigh4752]

Technical specifications aside; Damn she is pretty.

[@2.Cuzzzz]

Those Visby class are much bigger than you think , i have seen one in real life and than you feel like an ANT compeard to that

[@ZeroneAngel]

Data on the Visby-class top speed is incorrect. Around 40 knots is the official numbers. However, a few years back I was visiting friends in the archepilagio of stockholm and we had heard that its sister ship, HSwMS Helsingborg was in the neighbourhood we set out in my friends boat to try to get a glimpse of it. We found her steaming out to sea at what we only can assume was all ahead flank. Now, my friends boat can do 55-58 knots in calm seas. We held a steady speed of around 50 knots and we couldn’t catch up with it. After almost an hour we decided to give up an returned. It is a SERIOUSLY fast ship.

[@trevorlawrence310]

The will go faster than they tell the world

[@russelldawkins9094]

@@trevorlawrence310 Agreed. Understating, sometimes grossly understating, performance abilities is routine in military circles. Years ago I used to be in ASW (anti submarine warfare) as a pilot and even we were not informed of the true capabilities of other friendly nations' subs. For example it was quietly rumoured that certain subs that were said to be capable of X knots underwater were actually capable of well over twice that.

[@JH-lo9ut]

Holy shit your friend must be rich if he decided to chase this ship for an hour at 50knots. Sorry you didn't catch it because that must have been a sick gasoline bill.

[@reubenparies6678]

An absolutely glorious piece of kit...

[@marcoscampos6350]

I like Visby,,,from Brazil !!!!!

[@GhalidiusTrident]

Its basically a giant jetski with guns, missiles, and radar scattering technology

[@John_Doe657]

Yes in contrast to a sitting duck with guns and missiles, yes it is an invisable jetski...

[@30-e_fevralya]

Most beautiful ship!👍

[@stefdelnoye9049]

Is that what a modern viking boat looks like?

[@aasen99]

Skjold is a modern viking boat! #60knots

[@phamnuwen9442]

@@aasen99 Viking hovercraft maybe.

[@templerman1]

What is sad is the fact that our navy and air forces, can not abide the thought of any new acquisition not being big fast and beautiful regardless of the fact that it delivers on its projected performance. For the cost of one of our new carriers and/or submarines we could buy about fifty to seventy of the VISBY Class Corvettes. And if you think aboUT it abilities, it could perform one mission our scenario planners seem to have forgotten. Conveying! In any war of the future, we must be able to to dominate the sea lanes if we are to control China's intention to turn the South China Sea into a private lake. The VISBY Class can more than meet that need. Did you note the UAV helicopter drone in the video. Imagine several dozen of these with some form of AI capabilities that could interdict Chinese land based missiles meant to kill our first line ships, and carriers. Now granted the present ocupent of the White House would scrube any such option even though he is supposed to be the best Wheeler Dealer, who gets the most value for the taxpayers dollar. We might even get a licence from the Swedish Crown for manufacturing all or part of the ship's in America. The point I am making is, that until such time as we regain the fine tradition of American Craftsmanship, we should buy good Craftsmanship from our allies when we find it.

[@markusnordling2076]

We love sweden

[@coggie76]

Only a 57mm gun, no air defence etc comments.. First of all that 57 is quite impressive for it's caliber and fully capable at shooting down incoming missiles with it's 3P ammo thats programmable in the breach for different functions against different targets. And for serious offensive capabilities those RBS-15 anti ship missiles is among the best there is (for it's size which is comparable to a Harpoon). Those RBS-15's can be launched with targeting data from other sources (aircraft, coastal radar etc) fed to the Visby via datalink so it doesn't have to use active sensors and reveal itself. And it also carry torpedoes, mostly for anti submarine warfare but usable in some other scenarios as well so enough with the "Only a 57mm gun" comments please :)

[@tomatosoupwoo]

It’s a corvette...

[@rapitisioannis]

@@tomatosoupwoo is a light-armed corvette only for coastal defence and only for the relatively calm Baltic sea!...too specialized and too small for a universal corvette😁...I'm not gonna buy it!

[@davidmurphy8190]

Damn fine warship.

[@bobcat1384]

OK where can I buy one? Does it come with a hot tub?

[@joakimwohlfeil]

You buy them at IKEA in flat packages (like all swedish technology), and you need a hex-wrech to assembly the ship.....

[@neuron05]

I think many of you misunderstand what the purpose of this ship is. It is not designed to be a strong killer in naval battles. Figure the rest out yourself.

[@Veldtian1]

You'd surprised what ships in actual wars are suddenly expected to do.

[@ozerfilip]

Nice and impressive !

[@christera1116]

40knots is the correct speed .

[@ZeroneAngel]

That is the official numbers. However, a few years back I was visiting friends in the archepilagio of stockholm and we had hear that its sister ship, HSwMS Helsingborg was in the neighbourhood we set out in my friends boat to try to get a glimpse of it. We found her steaming out to sea at what we only can assume was all ahead flank. Now, my friends boat can do 55-58 knots in calm seas. We held a steady speed of around 50 knots and we couldn’t catch up with it. After almost an hour we decided to give up an returned. It is a SERIOUSLY fast ship.

[@karlzbatiao177]

i hope the 2 new corvettes to be acquired by the Philippines would be as sexy and deadly as this ship.

[@Veldtian1]

It's unlikely, Swedish models are expensive.

[@simonshagrat3309]

Awesome ship

[@coggie76]

Enough with the "Only a 57mm gun" and "No air defence" comments please. That 57mm is very capable for it's caliber with it's 3P ammo that is programmable for different functions against different targets within milliseconds while the shell is in the breach before firing and is very efficient against incoming missiles (and smaller naval vessels). And for offensive power those RBS 15 anti ship missiles are among the the best there is (for it's size which is comparable to the Harpoon (and i'd choose the RBS 15 mk2 over the Harpoon any day)). The Visby can fire those RBS 15's with targeting data from other sources like aircraft or coastal radar feeding it information via datalink so it doesn't have to use any active sensors and reveal itself before launch, the launch will most likely be detected but once it's done you are back to a radar cross section of a crab pot float.. And finally it also carry torpedoes, mostly for ASW operations but still useful in some other scenarios.

[@LegaRoSS]

So should we compare that "very capable" gun with for example 16 cells which might be loaded with up to 64 SAMs while there are 8 more cells available for tactical land strike missiles or anti-sub rocket launched torpedoes or supersonic anti-ship ones with range 3 times RBS-15 have? 4 torpedoes vs 8 torpedoes?

[@eibisiexyezet5300]

its like a ship from sci-fi movie

[@freespeech469]

Cute little thing.

[@vps6538]

Good desing

[@marshinator7806]

Can any ex visby crew members (without breaking there countrys secret act) actually verify the speed that these are capable of its says 35kts on wiki however iv witnessed one going 38kts and it was discussed in my mess when I served in my countrys navy about these things getting upto 50kts ?

[@canuzzi]

It will be higher - some say 40ktn. But the actual speed will be classified.

[@phamnuwen9442]

Consider the size of the ship when looking at this footage. Looks like way more than 40kts to me.

So much better than russian corvettes.

[@Nobody-vl2xc]

No

[@willgrainger2767]

Arc Light true true. the only place i think russian navy engineering really shines through is frigates. their destroyers and aircraft carriers are far outcompeted by american, south korean, japanese and even chinese shipbuilding.

[@V7JN]

Which country?

[@AnonyMous-ql9nj]

Sweden

[@RU-zm7wj]

@@AnonyMous-ql9nj The flag that a ship is flying is always a good indicator of nationality.

[@petter5721]

👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@adamanin1412]

Anyone know name backsound????. Please

[@nou-jn6uz]

I like Skjold class and Tuo Chiang class more, but its still cool.

[@ragingbull8024]

It's alive.

[@dwiantosyaiful8011]

Indonesia need this corvete

[@MrFlatage]

You already gotten new Belanda ships remember? Those are far superior.

[@paixtoura0691]

It would be a great if Greece ordered or leased two of them because they haven't got any Corvettes

[@GuidoNorden]

It is the best corvette!

[@jonasastrand9945]

No.

[@novitec729]

Truee

[@maxcypond]

Doesn't the idea" Don't point a gun at anything you are not going to shoot" apply to naval guns? That woman in the white coat...was without a doubt down the barrle of that gun.

[@fireballyang7310]

You call this a corvette?its a boat

[@Ali-be3hg]

The Corvette is a naval warship. Chevrolet took the name in the navy and slapped the name on their iconic sports car.

[@liuziyue462]

@@Ali-be3hg I think what he mean is this boat is not heavy enough to be a corvette.

[@walidadjerid4314]

👸☻

[@MeatBallFreak333]

Hmm only one who thinks cars 2

[@ravigoswami3614]

Ravlsh

[@edwardmcdonald9277]

Zero air defense

[@JorgenPersson-jo4sc]

No because of it´s a STEALTH ship...radar would reveal it´s position. Visby has defence against incoming missiles MASS from Rheinmetal... ...but Sweden has been planning to get air defence system for Visby corvette for internationel missions.

[@eouzcuemarz3114]

A helipad for non-stealthy helicopter and no hangar. I prefer Russian Steroguchy corvette.

[@kristerpettersson7314]

Eouz Cuemarz the helicopter is SKELDAR and its a stealth drone and a hangar to the helipad is not needed due the pad is just for the drones and deliverance... and the Visby corvettes are pure stealth built in carbon fibre with a top speed at 40+knots.

[@MrFlatage]

@@kristerpettersson7314 Pure stealth? Well they tried but we all know the heat exhausts were flawed and designed above the waterline? IRS can see them 2000 miles out, lol! Try sub aquatic heat exchange pipes next attempt?

[@willgrainger2767]

the steroguchy are alright but the enclosed stealth mast looks a bit unfortunate...

[@MetalMilitiaGda]

The best in the world without anti-aircraft missiles?

[@sorennilsson9742]

Does not have air defence.

[@adrianliljedahl4482]

Det har den visst fan

[@RU-zm7wj]

It has guns and missiles.

[@parsakaalionhyvaa23]

Finnish new corvette will be better

[@jonasastrand9945]

Even the Hamina is better than Visby.

[@teknisair421]

YES

[@ollieahokas9179]

Not very useful in year around service on the Baltic Sea..

[@dedatchie]

its just cannon fodder, its too small, too slow, not enough weaponry to defend itself against anything really, but yep, I would love to be able to use it to go fishing

[@gamesisfunny]

35 knots is not slow

[@TheSelkan]

It's not designed to fight fair, hug islands and become invisible, fire then hide again.

[@JorgenPersson-jo4sc]

@@gamesisfunny hmmm more like 40+ I would say.

[@bombarderoazul]

Russia has best Corvettes, this vispy can't fire land attack cruise missiles, like Buyan M or gremyaschy, or the newer dersky Corvettes

[@markusnordling2076]

WE HATE RUSSIA WE LOVE SWEDEN AND GERMANY

[@eouzcuemarz3114]

Markus Nordling You love western LGBT countries.

[@peterlundkvist2168]

Gungnir land and sea

[@phamnuwen9442]

@@eouzcuemarz3114 Better than "criticize the dictator and get assassinated" countries.

[@jborreggine8759]

Best corvette? Don't think so. No ASM, or CIWS, outdated ASW equipment. Would be easy for air or sub-surface enemies to destroy. Missiles are subsonic. Maybe good for land strike, but too slow to engage modern first rate warships that have the means to easily counter such weapons as the RBS-15.

[@tobiaslundqvist.71]

Its the best! Just deal with it! Nato naval officers, are having orgasms by the minute, as soon as the Swedish Corvettes show up! It opens up all kinds of possibilities , close-to-shore! 👍

[@akhalif579]

visby is beautiful corvette but is is not a beautiful girl. once war is start who made it anyway british?

[@JH-lo9ut]

They are built by Saab-Kockums in Sweden for the Swedish navy

[@LegaRoSS]

And it's best how exactly with completely no SAMs no tactical land strike capabilities and subsonic anti-ship missiles? Must be sort of a joke or author don't know shit on subject...

[@kleantpane8528]

Turkish Ada class is the best Corvette in the world

[@DrLoverLover]

Tin can with faulty systems made by the lowest bidder.

[@fastum000]

Worst corvette*