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Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Visby corvettes delivered to the Swedish Armed Forces

Visby-class CorvetteHMS Helsingborg and HMS Härnösand are the first two corvettes in the Visby series delivered to the Swedish Armed Forces to be included in the organization and ready for missions.

FMV handed over the two ships to the Armed Forces at a ceremony in Karlskrona on December 16.

“It's satisfying that we now can hand over the ships in a version where, after the training of the crew, they will be able to go into the organization and be available for operations, "says Mats Elofsson, project manager for the project Visby at FMV.

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