The Göteborg class is a class of corvette

Corvette

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s in the Swedish Navy

Swedish Navy

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, built between 1990 and 1993. The class is armed with eight RBS-15 anti-ship missile

Anti-ship missile

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s, torpedo

Torpedo

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es, one 57mm cannon and one 40mm cannon.

The class was designed to hunt and destroy Soviet

Soviet Navy

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 submarine

Submarine

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s and surface vessels. Six corvettes were planned, but following the collapse of the Soviet Union

Soviet Union

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 in 1991, the final two were cancelled. Today, Göteborg-class corvettes are active in international military and humanitarian operations. Two ships of the class, and , took part in a United Nations

United Nations

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 operation off the coast of Lebanon

Lebanon

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 in 2006 and 2007, following the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah War.

Units

Bow number	Ship name	Laid down	Launched	Commissioned	Service	Status
K21		10 February 1986	13 April 1989	15 February 1990	4th Naval Warfare Flotilla	Decommissioned/Mothballed
K22		12 January 1987	23 March 1990	17 September 1990	4th Naval Warfare Flotilla	Active
K23		21 September 1988	1 November 1990	1 September 1991	4th Naval Warfare Flotilla	Decommissioned/Mothballed
K24		March 1989	29 November 1991	7 June 1993	4th Naval Warfare Flotilla	Active
K25	HMS Helsingborg					Cancelled
K26	HMS Härnösand					Cancelled