Göteborg-class corvette

The Göteborg class is a class of corvettes in the Swedish Navy, built between 1986 and 1993. The class was originally designed to destroy Soviet submarines and surface vessels, and is armed with eight RBS-15 anti-ship missiles, torpedoes, one 57mm cannon and one 40mm cannon.

Six corvettes were planned, but following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the final two were cancelled. Two Göteborg-class corvettes remain in service today, and are active in international military and humanitarian operations. Both vessels, HMS Gävle (K22) and HMS Sundsvall (K24), took part in a United Nations operation off the coast of Lebanon in 2006 and 2007, following the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah War.