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Sleipner-class corvette
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The Sleipner class was a series of corvettes ordered as part of the Royal Norwegian Navy's 1960 fleet plan.[1] It was intended to build five ships of the class, but because of economic problems only two were built; Sleipner and Æger.[2]
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Sleipner was built by Nylands Mekaniske Verksted, Oslo, and Æger by Aker Mekaniske Verksted, Oslo, and handed over to the Royal Norwegian Navy between 1965 and 1967.[3] The ships were armed with an American 3 in (76.2 mm) gun forward and a Bofors 40 mm gun aft, with a Terne III anti-submarine rocket launcher ahead of the 40 mm gun. The ships were fitted with American SQS-36 sonar.[2]
The ships had their anti-submarine capabilities improved in 1972, when they were fitted with Mark 32 anti-submarine torpedo tubes.[2] The ships were mainly used as training ships in the 1980s, although they did retain a wartime role as coastal escorts.[2][4] They were again modernised between 1988 and 1989, with new sonar and gun fire control systems fitted.[1] They were decommissioned in 1993.[2]
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