Stealth Ship Visby on the Move with CFRP Composites, Other Nations Follow Stealth but with Steel Hulls.

From: Advanced Materials & Composites News | Date: June 21, 2004 | Copyright information

June 10, 2004 - The Swedish Navy is testing the new stealthy Visby corvette-class mostly carbon fiber, all-composite ship. The Royal Navy and the US Navy have plans for similar, larger warships, but with steel hulls.

The first Visby corvette (of six now planned), designed by the Swedish shipbuilders Kockums and built at their Karlskrona yard, has just completed sea trials with the Royal Swedish Navy. Service is to begin in January 2005.

American designers are working on DD(X) destroyer, which is due to enter service in 2011, as well as the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS)

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