Spica and Norrköping classes | Fast and deadly boats of the Swedish Navy

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[@shaffar7300]

Malaysian Navy still has 4 modified Swedish Spica M fast attack boats in their service.

[@shumyinghon]

@@marcosiegenthaler6437 we priotize the use of diplomacy with all nations in settling disputes.

[@gideonsgate9133]

Excellent, excellent, excellent! I love these ships! Please bring us more Swedish machines of war. I love the way they think: as logical and precise as the Germans but more practical and with more heart. Keep up the good work!

[@jezurkajezic8937]

Croatian Navy has similar locally developed combat corvettes using this swedish ecperiance and they are also equiped with Bofors 57mm guns and RBS 15 missiles.

[@Tramseskumbanan]

I, together with my wife, visited onboard R142 Ystad this summer.

[@carlkolthoff5402]

I absolutely adore the Robotbåt class Norrköping. They were still in active duty when I did my conscript service in the Swedish Navy, so I often saw them and the Patrullbåt class Hugin at the naval bases and training along the Swedish coast lines. I know they were expensive to keep in service and there were less aggression in Northern Europe when they were decomissioned, but I still wish we could have kept a few of them a couple more years to support the Visby Corvettes.

I was on the piteå 1975-1976. Nice video. Operating speed fully loaded was 38 knots, and 40 knots after we had consumed some fuel. Max was around 45 knots, a bit higher during winter. Thanks.

[@str8ballinSA]

Sea temperature affects top speed? Good info.

[@Hiznogood]

As a Swede and a citizen of the town of Norrköping, I approve your pronunciation of the name of my hometown. Very well done and I’m a bit amazed!

[@TzunSu]

Literally the first time i've ever heard a non-Swede pronounce Norrköping right!

[@hazel-vf7on]

I lived in Norrköping for about two or three years and it surprised me by how well he pronounced its name. I'm used to English people straight up busting it out on city and town names haha

[@tjofrasse]

He's clearly not a native english-speaker. Maybe even swedish.

[@Brakvash]

Or from a country which uses ö - I believe Turkey and Germany use the "ö" and I'm probably missing a few more nations.

[@henrikgedda3455]

amazing footage and great facts! i was part of the crew on HMS Piteå in all of 1995 and i have never seen these nice clips and the info appears very accurate! thank you for your very hard work!!!

[@Izzegnag90]

I am Raised and live in the City of Norrköping :) , so it is an honor that this ship bear my citys name :) good video :)

[@AdurianJ]

The Spica 2 got an ESM system to detect enemy radar and warn of incomming anti ship missiles from the start. The Swedish Arte 722 (9LV200) fire control radar started what today is a world leading family of fire control systems and radars sold by SAAB The Danish Willemoes-class boats bought their advanced combat management system from Sweden. Which in Swedish service became the MARIL 880 that equipped Spica 2 after the RBS15 was fitted. The RBS 15 had a range of more than 70km and was generally stated as 100km. Modern variants double and tripple that.

[@aiman272]

The Royal Malaysian Navy is still using these boats (4 boats, Handalan Class) with some modifications made especially on electronics countermeasures. Still a potent with 4X Exocet MM38 as the main weapon.

[@brianp.6237]

the shape of that ship was amazing

[@Iskallt]

I visisted both Spica and Ystad last summer. Very very cool experiance!

[@mcpuff2318]

Very impressive coverage of exports in particular, but you missed the CG 40 variation that was sold to Trinidad and Tobago as the CG 5 Barracuda and CG6 Cascadura. These were configured as patrol craft rather than attack craft however with armament consisting of a single Bofors 40 mm L/70 and a 20 mm gun

[@habahan4257]

Excellent video as always. I hope I will get on board Spica and/or Ystad and feel the wind one day.

[@makegaminggreatagain3907]

Thank you so much for this video, you don't know how long I've been waiting for a video on these boats. Sweden should never have retired the R-142 or the T-56, the Visby is a great ship, but the design is complex and expensive too produce.

[@SteveDahlskog]

The Plejad class (T102-T112, bult 1954-1958) was built with a steel hull. Uncommon at the time but Swedish torpedo boats has always been built in steel (excluding some prototypes). See ”Attack till sjöss” (Borgenstam & Nyman, 1985, p100). The hull shape was too narrow and had poor stability in (p 143) in hard seas and also took a lot of water over the bow.

[@garyhooper1820]

Such speed and grace ,

[@larseriksson1741]

Impressive fact control before a presentation unusual to see. Good work sir

[@mrcpu9999]

Beautiful looks. Deadly. I'd run away from one just because it looks scary. :)

[@louiswilkins9624]

Excellent job

[@Svenmpa]

Excellent pronunciation of the Swedish names!

[@fredtedstedman]

thank you for a history of these beautiful vessels ! YSTAD 😍😍 ( I heard they fell out of favour because they could not defend against modern aircraft ??)

[@shingnosis]

These are really cool boats but they really could have benefited from having 1-2 diesel engines in addition to the gas turbines. The gas turbines were quite expensive and fuel thirsty to run, also very loud for slow patrol duty. I think two Scania v8 would have been an excellent complement for slow patrol use.

[@sohrabroozbahani4700]

If the Allfather would let me into his Valhalla 2.0 but he would have said, son, you can't be a Tomcat pilot in the Iceland Navy, that's just too much work to bring about, what's your next pitch? I would have said, I can serve on a Spica 2 very contently my lord...

[@NordicUlfr]

Any big warships: Enters Swedish archipelago. Spica: Who dares disturb my domain?!

[@stenljungquist349]

The Plejad class had a hull made of steel, not wood

[@nihalshaikh5530]

Amazing

[@Hiznogood]

I have friends that did their conscripted military service onboard Spika boats and heard a lot of tall stories about their mad lad captains, like them waterskiing after them and stuff like that.😂

[@JH-lo9ut]

Waterskiing behind those turbines? No way.

[@per-henrikpersson1884]

Well well well! The Plejadclass used not woden hulls but steal and The hulls where impirted from German without weapon and weapon systems because German was not allowed to export weapons in the fiftyes. And every Ship in the class was named after fameous Star orstarsystens like Pkejad after The Plejads. An old tradition in Sweden to name small shios with torpedoes after stars. A tradition more than 100 years old. But The tradition was boken by The Norrköping klass. Bigger shios like destroyers was named after counties and The Little smaker after swedish towns. But when The submarines became The submarines became most potent ships in the Navy after The destroyers where faced out now submarines are named after counties and next level ships like The Corvettes are named after towns. So The is still The same system in the naming of The Swedish warships. Like in the USA. So The name of The ship names gives a clue about The ships important level. So its an old system.

[@WeaponDetective]

Thanks for correction and additional information

[@Re.Configured]

Could you do a video on the RC-12 family or RC-135 and their many variants.

[@rasmustrygg2730]

R142 Ystad is Abel to reach 46 nots

[@lloydzufelt7514]

Do a show on the tank boat

[@loganoldon8924]

Wood is invisible to certain radar and sonar. It’s what the us made some pt boats and smuggled officers in the pacific. Reducing casualties. Of course other opportunities came

[@FrancisGuite]

For offshore patrol vessel and fast patrol vessel... Indian made Indian fast patrol vessel and Indian offshore patrol vessel are the best....no others countries made comes near to it specially in n the case of Asian and European countries

[@patricladubla5251]

Pettersson 026 HMS Umeå 93-94.

[@stefanjonsson9033]

012 Jönsson HMS Castor -80👌

[@dallesamllhals9161]

Willemoes-klassen! Danmark 😛

[@signorpippistrello]

HMS is the designation of British ships exclusively. For Sweden it’s HSwMS, translated of course meaning His or Her Swedish Majesty‘s Ship.

[@bennylofgren3208]

No, HMS is not uniquely British, no matter what the Brits may wish. :) In Sweden and in Swedish, the same designation is used, HMS, standing for Hans/Hennes Majestäts Skepp. When in international service, HSwMS is often used, but the ship's name including the HMS prefix does not change.

[@signorpippistrello]

@@bennylofgren3208 Alright, thanks! Learned something today!

[@opponenspericulo]

I still, at todays military threat, cannot understand the retirement of these ships, with brutally fast water turbines, space for 4-8 new RBS missiles, a potent gun etc, and just scrap them, for at best museum duty. Swedish military planners have a lot of bad decicions like these under their belt. What would it cost to develop a new small fleet of these?

[@oscaramorim7234]

💯🇧🇷

[@corey8420]

Imperial

[@ericmason349]

This is all one needs for a 'littoral combat' ship. U.S. versions are a giant waste of money and continue to be.

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[@vasskolomiets41]

Why HMS? Even if Sweden is a monarchy, traditionally just HMS privilege belongs to the UK, doesn't it? Like just RN and just RAF.

[@emileriksson76]

Same purpose for the naming and its word for word translated. "Hans Majestäts Skepp" / "His Majesty's Ship".

[@vasskolomiets41]

@@emileriksson76, it's using the English language here and in English publications always the abbreviatures for other monarchies were specified the nationality except for Britain. I think the question is requiring a more detailed discussion... For what auditory the movie is intended? From who the author is speaking? Etc.

[@vasskolomiets41]

@@emileriksson76, actually the world revolves not around GB but around the global international language for this period. It is just a linguistic matter.

[@HansenSWE]

They use the prefix "HMS" as mr Eriksson explained. However, when a Swedish navy ship is active on international missions, they can use HSwMS during that service. If a Swedish navy ship is in national service, which is 99.9999% of the time, it uses HMS. So, you are both correct. What a wonderful day.

[@staffangoldschmidt2721]

Learn English😮