Näcken-class submarine

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|Ship image=File:HMS Neptun under bogsering till Kockums Karlskrona för översyn..jpg

|Ship caption=HSwMS Neptun

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{{Infobox ship class overview

|Name=Näcken-class

|Builders=Kockums

|Operators=*{{Navy|SWE}}

  • {{Navy|DEN}}

|Class before={{sclass|Sjöormen|submarine|0}}

|Class after={{sclass|Västergötland|submarine|0}}

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|Total ships building=

|Total ships planned=3

|Total ships completed=3

|Total ships cancelled=

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|Total ships scrapped=2

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|Total ships preserved=1

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|Ship type=Submarine

|Ship displacement=*{{convert|1030|t|LT|lk=out}} submerged

|Ship length={{convert|49.5|m|ftin|abbr=on}}

|Ship beam={{convert|5.7|m|ftin|abbr=on}}

|Ship draught={{convert|5.5|m|ftin|abbr=on}}

|Ship draft=

|Ship propulsion=*2 × MTU diesel engines

  • 1 × Jeumont-Schneider electric motor
  • 1 shaft

|Ship speed=*{{convert|20|kn|lk=in}} surfaced

  • {{convert|25|kn}} submerged

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|Ship endurance=

|Ship test depth={{convert|150|m|ft|abbr=on}}

|Ship complement= 19 (5 officers)

|Ship sensors=FAS

|Ship EW=

|Ship armament=*6 × {{convert|533|mm|in|0|abbr=on}} torpedo tubes

  • 2 × {{convert|400|mm|in|0|abbr=on}} torpedo tubes
  • Mines

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The Näcken-class submarines, also known as the A14 type, were built for the Swedish Navy in the late 1970s. The boats were authorised in 1972 and completed between 1980 and 1981. All boats were built by Kockums in Karlskrona. The boats had a teardrop hull and diving depth was {{convert|150|m|ft}}. Between 1987 and 1988, Näcken and her sister ships were cut in half and an {{convert|8|m|ft|adj=on}} long hull section containing a prototype Air-independent propulsion (AIP) using a closed cycle Stirling engine was installed between the aft battery/propulsion & power control room and the engine/motor room. This technology increased underwater endurance to 14 days and has been adopted in subsequent Swedish submarines.

By the early 2000s the class was decommissioned from the Swedish navy as a result of defence cuts in the year 2000 Defence White Paper. {{ship|HSwMS|Näcken|1978|6}} was temporary leased to the Royal Danish Navy but was returned in 2005.

Ships

class="wikitable"
Ship

! Launched

! Commissioned

! Current status

{{ship|HSwMS|Näcken|Näk|2}}

| 17 April 1978

| 25 April 1980

|leased to the Royal Danish Navy 2001-2005 as Kronborg,

{{cite web

|url=http://www.navalhistory.dk/English/TheShips/K/Kronborg(2001).htm

|title=Kronborg (2001–2004)

|publisher=Danish Naval History

|accessdate=2013-03-17

}} scrapped in 2016

{{HSwMS|Neptun|Nep|2}}

| 6 December 1978

| 5 December 1980

|on display at Marinmuseum Karlskrona

{{ship|HSwMS|Najad|Nad|2}}

|13 August 1979

|26 June 1981

|Scrapped in 2015{{Cite web|url=http://www.blt.se/karlskrona/systrar-fran-kalla-kriget-skrotas/|title=Systrar från Kalla kriget skrotas|date=14 August 2015}}

References

=Notes=

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=Bibliography=

  • {{cite book |editor-last1=Gardiner |editor-first1=Robert |editor-last2=Chumbley |editor-first2=Stephen |editor-last3=Budzbon |editor-first3=Przemysław |date=1995 |title=Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1947–1995 |location=Annapolis |publisher=Naval Institute Press |isbn=1-55750-132-7}}

Further reading

  • {{cite book |editor-last=Darman |editor-first=Peter |date=2004 |title=Twenty-first Century Submarines and Warships |series=Military Handbooks|location=Rochester |publisher=Grange Books |isbn=1-84013-678-2}}
  • {{cite book |editor-last=Sharpe |editor-first=Richard |date=1989 |title= Jane's Fighting Ships 1989-90 | location=Coulsdon, Surrey |publisher= Janes Information Group |isbn=0-7106-0886-1}}

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