Visby Class – Stealth Ship Of The Swedish Navy

For the first time ever, no one correctly identified the correct answer for this week’s maritime mystery quiz. Maybe because the vessel in question is not a commercial ship but rather Sweden’s new Visby Class Stealth Corvette.

Let’s take a quick tour:

Stealth Jet Propulsion

High-tech in Carbon fibre: Water jet intakes and ducts are bonded to the hull, as all longitudinals  and bulkheads, and form a homogeneous structure of enormous rigidity.

Stealth Ship Equipment

The Visby Stealth Lineage

The Visby Design – Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHJFqwmFnkI

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Visby Corvette Underway – Video

Visby Links

• BBC article
• FMV – Official homepage
• Kockums – Official homepage
• Manufacturer’s brochure
• Naval-Technology.com – Visby Class Corvettes