“The Swallow” in the Baltic Sea

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Sea trials began 4th with Kormoran mine destroyers. Shipowners, representatives of the Armed Forces Agency and seafarers will check for respective months how the ship behaves on water, how its systems and weapons work. If everything goes as planned, the Swallow should be in service in the fall.

Illustration picture. Launching ORP Swallow, 2024.

Sea trials are the last phase of the ship's construction. The unit then leaves the yard and already at sea is subjected to tests to check, inter alia, the propulsion system, navigation strategy or stability. Ships are inactive in charge of the future, but sailors from the alleged skeletal crew and representatives of the national defence department are besides active in the trials.

According to the Agency for Arms, the “Jaskółka” tests have just begun. It'll last a fewer months. And if all goes according to plan, in the autumn of this year the unit should be handed over to the Navy," informs Kacper Bakula of the strategical Communications Division of the Armed Forces Agency.

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“The Swallow” is another, 4th of the Kormoran II mine destroyers. The ship will be utilized to search, classify, combat, but besides to set up sea mines. It can besides be utilized to monitor underwater infrastructure.

The unit has been equipped in the full scope of submarines, a 35 mm high-speed cannon, as well as respective large caliber device guns. All weapons can be ordered through the SCOT-M combat management system. The safety of the crew itself will strengthen the circumstantial plan of the ship – a hull made of a magnetic steel, electrical drive and cyclone propulsors alternatively of screws. The first 2 solutions will reduce physical fields, which could lead to uncontrolled detonation of the mine in case of besides advanced values. In turn, the propellants will supply the ship with the above-average maneuverability needed erstwhile crossing a minestead.

Three Cormorans already service in the Polish navy. The prototype ship entered service even in 2017, 2 more – 5 and six years later, respectively. They all went to the 8th Coast Defence Fleet, specifically the 13th Tray Squadron, which is stationed in Gdynia. The next 3 mine destroyers are to power another unit of 8 FOW – the 12th Tray Squadron based in Świnoujście. The sailors in it are already preparing to receive ships. – They go to abroad training at equipment and weapons manufacturers, and gain experience in 13 dTr. At the same time, skeletal crew members participate in all stages of the construction of the Cormorans. All this to get to know the ships that will shortly be in service," explains Lieutenant Grzegorz Lewandowski, press spokesperson for the 8th Coast Defence Fleet.

Kormorany builds a consortium composed of Gdańsk Shipbuilding Shipbuilding Refurbishment Yard, as well as the investigation and improvement Centre of the Marine Technology Centre in Gdynia and PGZ War Shipyard. presently in Gdańsk there are simultaneous work on 3 Kormorans. Shortly after Swallows to enter the line ‘Fish’ and "Chajka". Their introduction is scheduled for next year.

Łukasz Zalesinski

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