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Göteborg class corvette is a class of corvettes in the Royal Swedish Navy, that was built from 1990-1993. Armed with eight RBS-15 anti-ship missiles, torpedoes, one 57mm cannon and one 40mm cannon.
The class
was meant to search and destroy Soviet submarines and surface ships
when it was designed. Today it has also been given the role to act in
international crisis. Two ships of the class, the HMS Gävle and HMS
Sundsvall, took part in the UN operation off the coast of Lebanon in
2006 and 2007 following the Israeli war against Hezbollah.
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