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SKJOLD air-cushion fast attack craft (1999-2012)


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Skudd 2014

Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Skjold P960   Kværner, Mandal 8.1997 22.9.1998 17.4.1999 to USA 6.9.2001-5.9.2002 (Skjold), in service (2019)
Storm P961   Kværner, Mandal 10.2005 30.10.2006 9.9.2010 in service (2019)
Skudd P962   Kværner, Mandal 3.2006 3.5.2007 28.10.2010 in service (2019)
Steil P963   Kværner, Mandal 10.2006 15.1.2008 30.6.2011 in service (2019)
Glimt P964   Kværner, Mandal 5.2007 15.8.2008 29.3.2012 in service (2019)
Gnist P965   Kværner, Mandal 12.2007 18.5.2009 7.11.2012 in service (2019)


100 - 1000 t displacement/ BRT tonnage vessels


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate Skjold P960   Kværner, Mandal 8.1997 22.9.1998 17.4.1999 to USA 6.9.2001-5.9.2002 (Skjold), in service (2019) Storm P961   Kværner, Mandal 10.2005 30.10.2006 9.9.2010 in service (2019) Skudd P962   Kværner, Mandal 3.2006 3.5.2007 28.10.2010 in service (2019) Steil P963   Kværner, Mandal 10.2006 15.1.2008 30.6.2011 in service (2019) Glimt P964   Kværner, Mandal 5.2007 15.8.2008 29.3.2012 in service (2019) Gnist P965   Kværner, Mandal 12.2007 18.5.2009 7.11.2012 in service (2019)

Technical data


Displacement standard, t 
Displacement full, t273
Length, m

41.5 pp 47.5 oa
Breadth, m

13.5
Draught, m

2.30 max 0.83 on cushion
No of shafts

2 waterjets + 2 lift fans
Machinery

COGAG: 2 Pratt & Whitney ST40M gas turbines + 2 Pratt & Whitney ST18M gas turbines + 2 MTU 12V183 TE92 diesels for lift fans
Power, h. p.

10880 + 5440 = 16320 + 2000
Max speed, kts

57
Fuel, t

diesel / gas turbine oil
Endurance, nm(kts)800(42)
Armament

1 x 2 Simbad SAM (4 Mistral), 1 x 1 - 76/62 OTO-Melara Compact SR, 2 x 1 - 12.7/90
Electronic equipmentMRR-3D, CEROS 200, Bridgemaster E radars, Vigy 20, QPD e/o systems, CS-3701 ECM suite, 1x MASS decoy RL, SENIT 2000 CCS
Complement

20


Standard scale images


<i>Skjold </i>2010
Skjold 2010


Graphics


<i>Skudd </i>2014
Skudd 2014


Project history

Project 6081. Originally have been a class of 24 but the prototype was ordered in 1996 and five production versions only in 1999. The order for six succeeded vessels was eliminated from 1999 budget. Foam-core GRP construction, rigid-sidewall surface effect ships with IR and radio energy shielding , molded into the structure to reduce signature.

Modernizations

2012, all: + 2 x 4 NSM SSM (8 NSM)

Naval service

Skjold was leased by USN in 2001-2002 with Norwegian crew (but without armament and only with two Decca 1226 radars) for experiments.