Video: Saab test-fires lightweight torpedo from CB 90 and USV

The Swedish Support Materiel Firm, FMV, together with the Swedish Army and Swedish support firm Saab has actually terminated Saab’s Lightweight Torpedo (Torpedo 47 or SLWT), from a CB 90 quick attack craft and a Unmanned Surface Area Automobile (USV) throughout current tests.

Tale by Robin Häggblom, added coverage by Xavier Vavasseur

These tests’ objective was to check out incorporating the tool to what Saab calls “smaller sized systems than what [the SLWT] was initially established for” and examining the capability to install the torpedo as a “short-term installment”.

The Swedish marines are presently going through a significant shift as component of the Amfbat 2030-programme, as has actually been reported on earlier here at Naval News, with among the vital objectives being to reinforce the capability to combat from their little craft along with the existing strategies of getting down marines with hefty tools in the Swedish island chain. While torpedoes have up until now not been discussed, and while the current examination shootings are not component of a functional program to place anti-submarine torpedoes on the CB 90, the phrasing in journalism launch does show that this is certainly one feasible end result.

Swedish CB 90 have actually previously been made use of in an ASW-role with typical deepness costs went down over the strict of the vessel while it is relocating at rate. This has actually been seen much more as a tool versus non-conventional undersea targets– such as scuba divers and midget submarines– than versus submarines, and counts on sensing units and targeting information from elsewhere.

The effective test-firings carried out over the strict from 2 single-tube launchers of the SLWT, additionally recognized by the Swedish Military’s classification Torped 47, placed on the back deck of a CB 90 does open brand-new opportunities for incorporating the ASW-mission right into the goal established the marines have the ability to take care of, or conversely can be made use of to enable the Navy to create a lighter torpedo-carrying system able to run either with its very own sensing units or as component of a networked ASW-effort.

Journalism launch specifies that the outcomes are presently evaluated by the Army and FMV together to determine exactly how to ideal utilize these. Noteworthy is, nevertheless, that journalism launch additionally clearly specifies that the examinations do reveal that the mix of CB 90 and SLWT job “quite possibly” with each other, which could be an indicator of what the research studies ultimately may reveal as the method onward. Saab, as one celebrations associated with the examination shootings, additionally significantly is the firm behind both the torpedo in addition to the CB 90, following their purchase of the Dockstavarvet shipyard back in 2017.

Torpedo examination from USV

Naval Information found out throughout UDT 2025 in Oslo that the examination project additionally consisted of torpedo shooting from a USV. The USV was a T24 Adversary Ray by American firm MARTAC. The T24 was fitted with a solitary torpedo launcher.

Saab likely has a rate of interest in seeing their system as the recommended service provider for the torpedo however stays open up to incorporating its torpedo with various other light vessels also, specifically for the export market.

In Sweden, the CB 90 has actually currently been picked as the system for both the future RBS 18 anti-ship rocket and the upcoming 30 mm air-defence system, it would certainly not be unusual to see it furnished with torpedoes also. The large inquiry will certainly be whether the marines will certainly obtain natural ASW-sensors, or whether this will certainly be a second ability made use of on behalf of typical ASW-capabilities.

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