Saab to modernise Sweden’s coastal anti-ship missile capability

Saab news release

Saab has actually authorized an agreement with the Swedish Support Materiel Management concerning the modernisation of Sweden’s seaside anti-ship rocket capacity. The complete order worth is SEK 800 million and distributions will certainly start in 2026. Most of the order consumption was scheduled in the 3rd quarter of 2024.

The agreement consists of Saab’s RBS15 Mk3 anti-ship rocket incorporated on a launcher component set up on a vehicle.Sweden currently uses the predecessor RBS15 Mk2 The seaside anti-ship rocket capacity was reestablished in the Swedish Army in 2016 and will certainly currently be matched with RBS15 Mk3 on brand-new launcher systems.

” Sweden will certainly get a considerable capacity rise with an anti-ship rocket including an advanced target candidate, boosted variety and a bigger warhead. RBS15 is particularly created for the complicated atmosphere and severe weather of the Baltic Sea,” states Görgen Johansson, head of Saab’s organization location Characteristics.

RBS15 Mk3 has a variety of over 200 kilometres, can be introduced from ships and vehicles and is mostly made use of versus marine targets. The system is created and generated by Saab and its German companion Diehl Support.

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Concerning Saab’s RBS15 anti-ship rocket

The RBS15 (Robotsystem 15) is a long-range fire-and-forget surface-to-surface and air-to-surface, anti-ship rocket, the very first variation of which (Mk I) went into solution with the Swedish Navy in the mid 1980ies. It had a variety of 70+ kilometres

The RBS-15 Mk II, which was made use of in the joint workout, has the exact same variety yet brings renovations to the advice system (which utilizes inertial, general practitioner and energetic radar homing). It is made to be introduced from land-based launchers, airplane, and ships. Its manufacturing began in 1998.

The later variation Mk III (not made use of by Sweden yet being used with the German and Polish navies) has the capability to strike land targets and raises the rocket variety to over 200 kilometres.

Sweden will certainly be changing from the Mk II straight to the most up to date, Mk IV, version (additionally called Gungnir). According to Saab, it will certainly have far better variety, a far better candidate and reduced weight. It is readied to be released from Sweden’s Visby-class corvettes and JAS Gripen E competitors from the mid-2020ies.

The RSB15 (all variations) anti-ship rocket has actually been picked by Sweden, Germany, Croatia, Finland, Poland, Thailand and Algeria.

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