HDMS Niels Juel (F354)

The corvettes were fitted with an Otobreda 76 mm main gun, two quad RGM-84C Harpoon surface-to-surface missile (SSM) launchers, a MK 48 Mod 3 VLS Sea Sparrow surface-to-air missile (SAM) launcher carrying 12 missiles, two FIM-92A Stinger SAM launchers, two 20 mm Oerlikon anti-aircraft guns, seven 12.7 mm M/01 LvSa machine guns, and a Mark 3 depth charge launcher. Niels Juels radar suite consisted of two Terma Scanter Mil 009 units for navigation, an EADS TRS-3D air search unit, and a CelsiusTech 9GR 600 surface search unit. Fire control was provided by a CelsiusTech 9 LV 200 gun radar, and a General Dynamics Mk 95 missile radar. She was fitted with a Plessey PMS-26 hull-mounted sonar. The corvette was fitted with a Rascall Cutlass B-1 intercept unit, a Telgon HFD/F unit, and four 6-round Seagnat Mk 36 chaff launchers. ==Construction and career==

She was laid down on 20 October 1977 and launched on 17 February 1978 by Aalborg Værft, Aalborg. The vessel was commissioned on 26 August 1980. Niels Juel was decommissioned in 2009 and was scrapped by Lindø shipyard in February 2013. == Gallery ==

File:Niels Juel i Aalborg.jpg|HDMS Niels Juel at Limfjorden in January 1979. File:Engine Control Centre NIJU 03.jpg|HDMS Niels Juels engine control room in January 1979. File:Engine Control Centre NIJU 01.jpg|HDMS Niels Juels engine control room in January 1979. File:Engine Control Centre NIJU 02.jpg|HDMS Niels Juels engine control room in January 1979. File:NIJU-afrigget.jpg|HDMS Niels Juel at Limfjorden awaiting scrap on 3 February 2010. ==See also==