Norway's camouflaged Skjold-class corvette designed to hit hard and then disappear

[@_spooT]

That honestly looks something that came out of a Command and Conquer game. It looks fire

[@piers995]

We in the UK should have something small and punchy like this. Maybe not a catamaran, but something more than a wee patrol boat with a couple of machine guns.

[@wiryantirta]

No you don't. You fight in the open oceans/seas, they fight in fjords.

[@potatoes8414]

So basicaly a gunboat

[@piers995]

@@wiryantirta The Royal Navy hopefully won't be fighting anyone on the high seas in these little Archer Class boats, even though the Navy euphemistically call them ships. We are an Island. We do have bays inlets, sounds and estuaries. These little boats couldn't fight their way out of a paper bag, they are so lightly armed. Keep them for training and light duties by all means, but there is definitely a shortage of well armed ships and if we can't afford big ones then we should make do with smaller ones, but well equipped with weaponry. Corvettes would be a much more versatile multi-role weapon system.

[@noah766]

@@wiryantirta I don't see the point of these boat unless there launched from actual ships to fight fast attack boats or to scout. Only way it would make sense for us in the USA. Them Again we don't have any neighboring country to worry about being a ocean away from any major power to defend our shores. these definingly don't look like they would be in open water far from the shore.

[@kkollsga]

@@noah766 they are good for defense in close quarters. Not everyone is in to that :)

[@eckligt]

I'm seeing a lot of bot activity in the comments on this channel lately. BTW, as a Norwegian I can say that the correct pronunciation of "skjold" is "sholl". The trigraph "skj" corresponds to the digraph "sh" in English.

[@AtheistOrphan]

I would like on converted to a cool motor yacht.

[@raphaelcaldwell3831]

this channel is known to show off russian missiles systems as some sort of a advert for them

[@arch.blender1178]

ah so Norwegian language like English puts a few random letters in places they shouldn't be to generate a few laughs, I (k)no(w) the feeling

[@NoWonderDragon]

No, it's sholl'd. One of few Norwegian words that's not entirely phonetically accurate to the written language.

[@fallinginthed33p]

@@NoWonderDragon Is the meaning like shoal or shore?

[@d_lollol524]

These corvettes are probably suitable for Canadian coastline , and Alaska .

[@paulvarn4712]

Or Washington state Puget Sound

[@potatoes8414]

Any place with bunch of islands and crevices to hide,rocks,fjords..etc is good place for this type of boat

[@noah766]

look more like patrol boats then a actual naval ship.

[@tactilelite05]

Well realistically I wonder if it can survive bergs and hard weather conditions... Though as a patrol boat in calm water it would, but in the rough waters... I would just rely on the trusted and bested ice breakers types and sea-conditioned vessels

[@G-Lew]

The coastlines of canada and alaska are way to massive for something like this.

[@PAPIKen0728]

Nice boat! Canada needs a similar design.

[@al28854]

In 2023, Canada spent 1.38 percent GDP on defense, short of 2.0 percent NATO benchmark. Good luck with that, maybe sometime after you replace your inventory of F18s with ........ ?

[@noah766]

Think Canada needs real ships don't think Canada needs to worry about there territorial water since they only have one real neighboring country. This ship cant real do anything beside protect the coast definitely not be able to handle anything far from shore more of a patrol boat then a corvette.

[@tripleceas]

Great work! That corvette is sweet!

[@christianherheim195]

saw 2 of them patrolling in and out the fjord "sørfjorden" a couple of years ago, saw them from the road and about 150-200m ish from where i was parked. they were just creeping" along the middle of the fjord side by side. it was actually really hard too spot them at first, even when they were close. one of a kind machine!

[@FatMaverick]

“Hit hard and then disappear” was also the motto of 🇳🇴 frigate Ingstad when it hit the oil tanker.

[@Arctic_Dude]

Yeah, that 'incident' was an expensive fu** up. 😅

[@Jordan-du6fu]

This would be good for our navy here in New Zealand because we have lots of fjords and sounds aswell. But we have the roughest seas in the world to guard so i think that the skjold would just slam really hard on the waves. So I think the visby class is better because it would get through the waves better and it can only be seen from like 18 miles away on radar it has the rbs 15 which is also a stealthy missile made of composites like the nsm but has a way bigger warhead than the NSM and a longer range. And the visby also has 36 sea ceptors which can shoot down supersonic sea skimming anti ship missiles.

[@kkollsga]

This boat is tailor made for the Norwegian coastline, where you can travel along the coast in narrow protected fjordarms that link up. The purpose of it is to deter bigger navy vessels from entering the coastal waters of Norway. A job it does really well, but is also why it might only function in a limited number of areas. Visby is more of an alrounder that is a smaller replacement for Frigates, that Norway uses for open water. Since New Zealand is very exposed to open water they might need larger vessels.

[@christoffermonikander2200]

The Visby class is littoral ships through and through. They're not made for the high seas.

[@GregorMar]

Poland should have these add torpedos and anti-aircraft Piorun/Grom misails and 2x35mm Oerlikon guns in the 76mm gun turret.

[@daveh8114]

Look forward to seeing the upgraded version in Lerwick…

[@vitaliyvyntu4566]

Thank You

[@heribertfassbender5759]

We saw two of these in Plymouth while sailing. CRAZY machines.

[@williamhornabrook8081]

Wow these were already going to be retired? They are very cool and modern looking. Super speedy by the sound of it. 60 knots is like motorway speed.

[@Xtariz]

Fun fact... Norway normally sell their military toys when it get retired... You can often find bunkers and bases for sale too

[@380Scania]

Our Nordic brothers and sisters in arms should not be underestimated in their ability to take the fight to the enemy and give Mr Putin and like minded folks time to take a step back and think about their actions.

[@bengtmowitz5012]

Looks a lot like the Swedish HMS Smyge prototype vessel from 1991. It ended up in the Swedish Visby Stealth Corvettes.

[@ClaudeLeRoux]

"Hit hard and then disappear" That's very clever. No one will expect it to attack and then escape through the woods. 😏

[@lesferenczi5716]

I want one

[@Tex_actual]

TBH this thing would be a PAIN IN THE ASS to deal with during landing operations, or an kind of brown water operations.

[@vihreelinja4743]

Hit hard and disappear? So it's a submarine? :D

[@BinnyBongBaron_AoE]

It looks great, but how will it deal with low cost drones?

[@MrSchwabentier]

Machine guns

[@feonor26]

Got to find it first

[@ad_astra5]

They look a bit like the Swedish boat/landing craft, interesting design.

[@ioanbota9397]

Realy I like this powerful military ships

[@armageddonready4071]

So it’s a catamaran design AND a hovercraft?

[@Jmp5nb]

These look like they can be built swiftly in comparison to the next larger vessel. Much respect to the Norwegian navy for facing up squarely against Russian aggression.

[@DMurrayx2]

That would be a great addition to the US Coast Guard

[@BrittanyKlein-q9b]

Connelly Underpass

[@fishwomanyvr]

so basically the Norwegians are behaving like my ex-wife.

[@fjdkfdfjdf33]

Could be good to have some type of anti-aircraft defense on this craft.

[@xaco18]

They donated the little they had to Ukraine.

[@kooperativekrohn819]

Imagine how over powered and crazy these things would be with a phalanx CIWS strapped on em

[@TheClipper7]

It carries the Mistral SAM

[@kooperativekrohn819]

@@TheClipper7 a good system ! Thanks for the info

[@HanSolo__]

They have good radars and mid-life modernization will meet modern battlefield characteristics. "The MRR-3D-NG radar has a lightweight phased array antenna and operates as both surveillance radar and a self-defence system sensor, with automatic mode switching."

[@CatharineSebastiane-t1x]

Sheila Neck

[@logiczchance101]

super fast indeed. also who knew that coastlines are very special so that you can't find them any where else in the world.

[@wasylbakowsky5199]

You can't find many coastlines have have so many fjords, ding dong...

[@noxiouspro]

Is it smilar to hover craft. How shallow can it go?

[@HanSolo__]

1m.

[@noxiouspro]

@@HanSolo__ Do Norway have a lot of shallow water?

[@HassieMrnak-y7o]

Blaze Parkway

[@χσχσ-ν3χ]

What a joke

[@jeil5676]

cool boat

[@sirjohng1]

Give it suitable DRONE capabilities and it would be formidable indeed.

[@LincolnAstrid-k4u]

Reva Station

[@kiereluurs1243]

I would like to see it at real speed, now I know it's cushioned. Before that it looked very blunt and un-streamlined.

[@DarronGullo-l5x]

Jermaine Bridge

[@EsinAkbol-j9p]

Wiza Way

[@TateMagee-v5x]

Colton Village

[@tams805]

Were there any plans for a successor in 2025? Has that been pushed back? Anyway, the UK could do with a few of these.

[@WarPig_Official]

Not really. They fight in fjords. We don’t have any and wouldn’t be as useful in open waters so there is no point when you could get larger ships

[@NancyRod-q9f]

Jeanie Crossing

[@kralikkral5560]

Drones from the air and from the sea will find it, and when they hit the sensors of the vessel, it will be disfunctional. They need to install quickly devices that prevent such hazards.

[@HanSolo__]

Drones from the air and from the sea will not find it. Because it's too fast and the FPVs will pop immediately on the radar of those vessels.

[@JosephDavis-y4u]

Maximillia Ford

[@MaltzCaesar-x6q]

Maximillian Mall

[@albertbell-b7x]

Clemmie Route

[@DeliaJonas-z9c]

Williamson Harbors

[@RockefellerKelsen-p8e]

Rosalee Loaf

[@kungfooslap2983]

But I can see it?

[@sarkybugger5009]

So can I. Do you think we should tell them?

[@gaius_enceladus]

@kungfooslap2983 - But try seeing it from a few miles away when it's close up against the wall of a fjord. That's when its camouflage really comes into play. Ok sure, it's not invisible but the aim is "low vis", not "zero vis".

[@HughesAntony-c7i]

Ward Port

[@yopenzo]

60 knots or 6 knots?

[@sarkybugger5009]

I thought she said 16, but the captions said 60, which sounds more like what it should be.

[@Cta2006]

@@sarkybugger5009 60 + knots

[@HanSolo__]

Over 60. On stable Baltic Sea waters, it will reach 70. They don't tell those things. Similar to Leopard 2A4 (the lightest) which can get up to 90km/h on a paved road. Not the regulated 72km/h.

[@Hallvor1976]

Classified, but 60+ somewhere

[@hotdog9262]

four engines. two to lift them up and two for propulsion over 16k hp. obviously some of them to lift

[@KennethMartin-k1v]

Cecil Brooks

[@LaurieKilbourne-x9c]

Lenore Pines

[@abhishes]

Have you let the Houthis test this yet?

[@hakonsbu7191]

Norway have the second longest coastline in the world so we need fast boats

[@ThorDyrden]

I get, that this "folded" coastline with all the fiords is longer, than it appears... but is it really longer, than the coastline of the USA, Kanada, Australia or Russia? Not to forget the ice-coasts of Denmark+Greenland or Antarktika.

[@hjvdb6829]

But can it take i hit in a fight its going to get shot at

[@hotdog9262]

no

[@MrSchwabentier]

almost no modern warships can take any significant hits. The idea is not to get hit

[@hotdog9262]

@@MrSchwabentier especially not this one. its more or less a `styrofoam` glassfiber sandwich

[@Jim-nt7xy]

Aren't all boats, no matter how fast, obsolete given advances in drones and missiles? Like a couple of Ukrainians on shore fires 1 missile to take out a whole Russian warship.

[@enginerikli5895]

Yes, just like trucks, MRAPs, tankers, SPGs, tanks, APCs, bridges and infantry are obsolete!

[@Jim-nt7xy]

@@enginerikli5895 ok General!

[@CurtisColclough-y3y]

Keeling Stream

[@FAAMS1]

It better run like hell indeed given how much the technology of war has changed and keeps changing!

[@yuumetal2363]

0:45　ミツカンの社員w

[@BaliAgha]

Why would a boat be camouflaged? All vessels are easy to see on the water, how does a paint job prevent that?

[@anthonyhulse1248]

Sure, paint them pink 🌸

[@al28854]

1:04 did you see all that vegetation in the background?, imagine it parked up against all that foliage and try finding it with your binoculars.

[@simonbrennan7283]

It is not a blue water vessel, it is a littoral vessel. That is, it spends all its time hugging the coastline close to shore, as per @al28854's comment above.

[@RakHineUss9]

RakHine

[@gimigimi1299]

Imagine it would be like the color of the sea(on cloudy day) . Or color of the sea on sunny day.. That would be best camouflage, no?

[@EnuffSaid2]

Are you seriosly not gonna mention they do 60knot+ (70 mph) and can destroy 8 frigate sized ships from 185km+ away (120miles)?

[@Topper_Harley68]

Swooosh.

[@cancelaway]

norway army navy lmao

[@Sasha_in_Norway]

🇳🇴💪💪💪

[@rocksteady8232]

Lancet drone want's to know your location lol

[@CyberBeep_kenshi]

oh please try. instant article 5......

[@iGottaRandomName]

It keep wanting.

[@LearTrough]

@@CyberBeep_kenshi Article 5 is not for attack on vessels; it is for full-blown war.

[@mecha-sheep7674]

easy : out of range.

[@USN1985dos]

I like how these things act like they can "hit hard" and then "disappear" in this day and age of drones.

[@norsenomad]

The concept of the Skjold class is to stay beyond horizon, shoot and scoot: fire Naval Strike Missiles (250 km range) at hostile ships that has entered Norwegian territorial waters, and get away fast. Based on that concept and continuous rough coastal weather up here, we can forget about any MIL UAS Group 1 and Group 2 UAVs ("small drones" < 25 kg) due to limited range, speed (60 knots is 111 km/h, hard to catch up with, especially when windy) and poor sensory performance from small UAVs from such long distance. Group 3 only if they've identified the Skjold vessel (beyond horizon and out of radar range), and Group 4 or 5 would be less than likely in these waters. Hostile surface vessels, submersibles and UAVs would need to avoid very-long-range detection from the sky by Norwegian ISR micro satellites (undisclosed), P-8 Poseidon (since 2023), MQ-4C Triton Group 5 UAS (soon, assumed), MH-60 Seahawk (expected 2026), F-35A (since 2017) and AW101-612 NAWSARH (since 2020), on maritime patrol and surveillance - of course depending on degree of peace/war. Not theoretically impossible, neither realistic for enemy UAVs to avoid detection when every element of the total maritime ISR, SAR & defence system over these oceans is in place and operative, eventually. For Norway there is 2 millon square kilometres of Barents Sea, Norwegian Sea and North Sea to cover, plus 1750 km of sea border and 198 km of land border shared with an ever messy Russia now gone rogue... There's our motivation for more protection. For NATO from Norway! 🇳🇴

[@iFryTube]

Show an actual ship instead of just water..

[@IphigeniaAtAulis]

When the deputy commander of your navy is only a captain, I don't know if you can really call it a navy.

[@DSAK55]

they should paint it red

[@susmaryusep1497]

Philippines need this

0:10 "in the literal waters of Norway's fjords" Wtf? What is "literal" about the waters?

[@frostedbutts4340]

>ittoral /ˈlɪt(ə)rəl/ adjective relating to or situated on the shore of the sea or a lake.

[@Theorimlig]

Littoral.

[@ArtstradaMagazine]

would love Ukraine to have 250 SKJOLD class corvettes with updated Anti-air and network capabilities

[@meme4one]

You paying for these?

[@noah766]

@@meme4one I think we are supposed to 🤣still doubt they would do much against a real navy ship maybe 250 will but i doubt a few would.

[@redjacc7581]

why does the UK keep using american terms. It's used in coastal waters, stop with the littoral.

[@unknownuser069]

That’s not a word of American origin. Littoral is used primarily as military jargon, but it’s a real word in the Oxford dictionary and everything. We don’t use it in normal American English either, we say coastal waters normally. The word comes from Latin littoralis "of or belonging to the seashore.” Similar words appear in French, Spanish, and Portuguese. Also… I don’t know if you got the memo but the U.K. and U.S. are friends and stuff. Even if we did invent the word … it would still be cool if you used it.

[@English.Andy1]

Another thorn in Putin side

[@paulvarn4712]

Another reason LiliPutin should leave NATO alone.

[@therealunclevanya]

You know Otan is the aggressor right? That the Maidan coup was US funded, that the Ukies are literal nazis?

[@walkwithwolves3920]

The real question is how does it fair against immigrant boats?

[@tomassino]

76mm overkill for such nimble vessel

[@TaskSwitcherify]

Only 1 gun? What if it malfunctions or is disabled?

[@PtangPtangBiscuitBarrelSmith]

Its an inclusive Navy, No prejudice for disabled weapons.

[@meme4one]

And crew served weapons and missiles. One main gun on small ships is VERY normal. Those are very reliable anyway.

[@TaskSwitcherify]

@@meme4one Everything malfunctions. Everything is reliable until hit by enemy fire.

[@simonbrennan7283]

The Skjold class is also equipped with; 8 × Kongsberg Naval Strike SSMs 2 × .50 cal Brownings Portable Mistral SAMs ES-3701 electronic warfare suite ... and a top speed of ~55 knots (102 km/h)!! I would confidently assume if its autocannon fails it could safely protect itself.

[@meme4one]

@@TaskSwitcherify you need to get yourself a job as a naval arch or engineering consultant mate, you're wasted here.

[@cwwcww7465]

I love the medium to small Norwegian woman...unbelievably beautiful..... The big ones are too big and they hurt....and pinch... For I am only 5 10 and 4% body fat at 175....😂 haaaaaaaaaaa. I know, I am lean because of triathlons......😊

[@j.a.3138]

Made in the U.S. 🦅🦅

[@LearTrough]

? What? The video reads "Norway". I hope you can read. Where is 'Murica coming here from? Any proper sources or facts to back it up?