BAE Systems AB is subsidiary

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for the Swedish assets of BAE Systems Land & Armaments, whose ultimate parent is the British defence contractor

BAE Systems BAE Systems plc is a British Multinational corporation, multinational Aerospace industry, aerospace, military technology, military and information security company, based in London. It is the largest manufacturer in Britain as of 2017. It is ...

. The portfolio in 2020 contained the companies ''Systems C-ITS'', involved in simulators and training; ''Bofors'', that produces tube gun systems and related munitions; ''Hägglunds'', the manufacturer of tracked military and civilian vehicles.

Subsidiaries

BAE Systems Hägglunds

''AB Hägglund & Söner'' was founded in 1899 by Johan Hägglund in Gullänget,

Örnsköldsvik Örnsköldsvik (; ), often shortened to just Ö-vik, is a Urban areas in Sweden, locality and the seat of Örnsköldsvik Municipality in Västernorrland County, Sweden, with 32,953 inhabitants in 2017. Its natural harbour and archipelago is in th ...

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. The company was divided in 1988, one part being ''Hägglunds Vehicle AB'', the military vehicles business. In October 1997 the British company

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acquired Hägglunds Vehicle AB to form Alvis Hägglunds AB. Alvis expanded its military vehicle business in 1998 with the purchase of GKN's armoured vehicle division in 1998 and Vickers Defence in 2002 to form Alvis Vickers. In September 2004 BAE Systems acquired Alvis Vickers and merged it with its RO Defence ordnance division to form BAE Systems Land Systems. Hägglunds was renamed Land Systems Hägglunds. In June 2005 BAE Systems acquired

United Defense United Defense Industries (UDI) was an American defense contractor which became part of BAE Systems Land & Armaments after being acquired by BAE Systems in 2005. The company produced combat vehicles, artillery, naval guns, missile launchers and ...

and reorganised its land systems businesses into BAE Systems Land and Armaments, with Land Systems and Land Systems Hägglunds as subsidiaries of this U.S. based operating group.

BAE Systems Bofors

BAE Systems Bofors AB, located in

Karlskoga Karlskoga () is a urban areas of Sweden, locality and the seat of Karlskoga Municipality, Sweden. It is located within Örebro County, 45 km (28 mi) west of Örebro, and 10 km (6 mi) north of Degerfors. With a 2020 population o ...

, is a Swedish subsidiary of BAE Systems Platforms & Services. Its corporate heritage goes back to Bofors, which was founded in 1646 and entered the Defence business in 1883. In 1999 Saab purchased the Celsius Group, the parent group of Bofors. In September 2000 United Defense Industries (UDI) purchased Bofors Weapon Systems from Saab (the tube

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interests), while Saab retained the

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interests. In 2005 BAE Systems purchased UDI and re-organised all its land systems businesses into BAE Systems Land and Armaments. As part of acquisition Bofors Defence was renamed BAE Systems Bofors.

BAE Systems C-ITS

The company "construct, develop and maintain computer based education-, training-, management- and command systems in Europe". It originated from the former United Defense company. On 28 November 2007, BAE Systems acquired the Swedish high-tech company Pitch Technologies AB founded in 1991, an innovator of computer-based research simulation and training technologies. The company is registered as inactive since 2018.Alla bolag
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Products

All-terrain vehicles

* Bandvagn 202 tracked articulated all-terrain vehicle * Bandvagn 206 tracked articulated all-terrain vehicle * BvS 10 tracked articulated all-terrain vehicle

Combat vehicles

Pansarbandvagn 302 Pansarbandvagn 302 (pbv 302), meaning roughly ''armoured tracked carrier vehicle 302'', is a Swedish high-mobility infantry fighting vehicle () used by the Swedish Army from 1966 to 2014. The vehicle was commissioned by the Swedish Army in 1961 a ...

Combat Vehicle 90 The Combat Vehicle 90 (CV90) (, strf 90 or Stridsfordon 90) is a family of Swedish tracked armoured combat vehicles designed by the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration (FMV), Hägglund & Söner and Bofors during the mid-1980s to early ...

* SEP * Stridsvagn 122

Weapon systems

* 40 mm Tridon * 40 mm TriAD * Archer SP Artillery * FH 77 Howitzer * Bofors 57 mm & Bofors 40 mm Naval guns

Ammunitions

* Bofors Bonus Anti-armour artillery shell. * XM982 Excalibur Ammunition * 3P Ammunition

Camouflage

* Adaptiv

References

Land Systems Hägglunds: The Company History
(Accessed Jan. 10 2006)

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