Saab AB (originally , ,
acronym
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SAAB), with subsidiaries collectively known as the Saab Group (), is a Swedish
aerospace
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and
defence company primarily operating from Sweden. The company is headquartered in
Stockholm
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, but its development and manufacturing operations are undertaken in
Linköping
Linköping ( , ) is a city in southern Sweden, with around 167,000 inhabitants as of 2024. It is the seat of Linköping Municipality and the capital of Östergötland County. Linköping is also the episcopal see of the Diocese of Linköping (Chu ...
.
The company was formally founded by
AB Bofors in 1937, by reforming the
aero engine
An aircraft engine, often referred to as an aero engine, is the power component of an aircraft propulsion system. Aircraft using power components are referred to as powered flight. Most aircraft engines are either piston engines or gas turbin ...
division of company
NOHAB (founded in 1930), located in
Trollhättan
Trollhättan () is the 23rd-largest city in Sweden, the seat of Trollhättan Municipality, Västra Götaland County. It is situated by Göta älv, near the lake Vänern, and has a population of approximately 50,000 in the city proper. It is loc ...
, into a proper aircraft manufacturer. It would soon merge with aircraft manufacturer
ASJA (founded in 1931), located in
Linköping
Linköping ( , ) is a city in southern Sweden, with around 167,000 inhabitants as of 2024. It is the seat of Linköping Municipality and the capital of Östergötland County. Linköping is also the episcopal see of the Diocese of Linköping (Chu ...
, in 1940, which had it own design bureau and is considered the spiritual predecessor to today's Saab AB.
This formed the SAAB-
concern, with the factory in Trollhättan becoming ''SAAB/T'' and the factory in Linköping (previously ASJA) becoming ''SAAB/L'' and design
headquarters
Headquarters (often referred to as HQ) notes the location where most or all of the important functions of an organization are coordinated. The term is used in a wide variety of situations, including private sector corporations, non-profits, mil ...
.
From 1947, Saab started producing automobiles, the automobile division being spun off as
Saab Automobile
Saab Automobile AB () was a automotive industry, car manufacturer that was founded in Sweden in 1945 when its parent company, Saab AB, began a project to design a small automobile. The first production model, the Saab 92, was launched in 1949. ...
in 1990, a joint venture with
General Motors
General Motors Company (GM) is an American Multinational corporation, multinational Automotive industry, automotive manufacturing company headquartered in Detroit, Michigan, United States. The company is most known for owning and manufacturing f ...
. The joint venture ended in 2000 when GM took complete ownership. From 1968 onwards the company was in a merger with
commercial vehicle manufacturer
Scania-Vabis, known as
Saab-Scania. The two were de-merged in 1995 by the new owners,
Investor AB. Despite the
demerger
A demerger is a form of corporate restructuring in which the entity's business operations are segregated into one or more components. It is the converse of a Mergers and acquisitions, merger or acquisition.
A demerger can take place through a cor ...
, both Saab and
Scania
Scania ( ), also known by its native name of Skåne (), is the southernmost of the historical provinces of Sweden, provinces () of Sweden. Located in the south tip of the geographical region of Götaland, the province is roughly conterminous w ...
share the right to use the
griffin
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logo, which originates from the coat of arms of the Swedish region of
Scania
Scania ( ), also known by its native name of Skåne (), is the southernmost of the historical provinces of Sweden, provinces () of Sweden. Located in the south tip of the geographical region of Götaland, the province is roughly conterminous w ...
.
History
Svenska Aeroplan Aktiebolaget (SAAB)

Saab was founded by
AB Bofors in 1937 as ''Svenska Aeroplan Aktiebolaget'' (
acronym
An acronym is a type of abbreviation consisting of a phrase whose only pronounced elements are the initial letters or initial sounds of words inside that phrase. Acronyms are often spelled with the initial Letter (alphabet), letter of each wor ...
''SAAB''; ), located in
Trollhättan
Trollhättan () is the 23rd-largest city in Sweden, the seat of Trollhättan Municipality, Västra Götaland County. It is situated by Göta älv, near the lake Vänern, and has a population of approximately 50,000 in the city proper. It is loc ...
,
by reforming the aircraft engine division of engineering company
NOHAB (''Nohab Flygmotorfabrik AB'', ), which had been acquired by Bofors in 1935. Bofors had in recent years been in development with the
Swedish Air Force
The Swedish Air Force ( or just ) is the air force Military branch, branch of the Swedish Armed Forces.
History
The Swedish Air Force was created on 1 July 1926 when the aircraft units of the Army and Navy were merged. Because of the escalatin ...
(SAF) to create aircraft weaponry and ordnance and wanted to create an aircraft manufacturing subortinate which could take a monopoly over the SAF's future aircraft orders, a premise supported by the SAF.
At the time, however, there already was a competing company formed with this premise in 1931, by the name of
ASJA (''AB Svenska Järnvägsverkstädernas Aeroplanavdelning'', ), located in
Linköping
Linköping ( , ) is a city in southern Sweden, with around 167,000 inhabitants as of 2024. It is the seat of Linköping Municipality and the capital of Östergötland County. Linköping is also the episcopal see of the Diocese of Linköping (Chu ...
, which was a successor to
Svenska Aero (''SA'') under Sven Blomberg, head designer of the
Svenska Aero Jaktfalken fighter plane. ASJA had solicit Blomberg from Svenska Aero in 1930 and later purchased the company in 1932 along with their portfolio of designs, quickly making them the leading aeroplane manufacturer in Sweden at the time.
Bofors started negotiating with ASJA in 1936 to see if they could enter into a sort of stock sharing
consortium
A consortium () is an association of two or more individuals, companies, organizations, or governments (or any combination of these entities) with the objective of participating in a common activity or pooling their resources for achieving a ...
lead under a
parent company
A holding company is a company whose primary business is holding a controlling interest in the Security (finance), securities of other companies. A holding company usually does not produce goods or services itself. Its purpose is to own Share ...
. Such a deal was struck in 1937, with support from the SAF, the parent company being named ''AB Förenade Flygverkstäder'' (''AFF''). To ease future competition, Bofors bought out small competitor
E. Sparmanns aircraft workshop, which at the time was developing a modern fighter for the SAF, under the name of .
Despite the consortium, SAAB in Trollhättan (previously Nohab Flygmotorfabrik AB) still had to compete with ASJA over contracts and the cooperation never came to fruition. While SAAB in Trollhättan got a few contracts, such as license producing the
Junkers Ju 86 bomber for the Swedish Air Force (SAF designation ''B 3'') in 1938, ASJA won most of the contracts from the SAF, such as license production of the Hawker Hart (''B 4'') and
Northrop Model 8 (''B 5'').
After ASJA's design bureau produced the winning designs for what eventually became the
Saab 17
The Saab 17 is a Sweden, Swedish single-engine monoplane reconnaissance dive-bomber aircraft of the 1940s originally developed by AB Svenska Järnvägsverkstädernas Aeroplanavdelning, ASJA prior to its merger into Saab AB , Saab. It was the fir ...
(ASJA L-10) and
Saab 18 (ASJA L-11), beating out AFF/SAAB's competing F.1 and G.1 designs, it was decided in March 1939 to scrap AFF and formally reform ASJA into the SAAB-
concern, the Trollhättan factory (previously Nohab) becoming ''SAAB/T'' and the Linköping factory (previous ASJA) becoming ''SAAB/L'', the latter becoming
headquarters
Headquarters (often referred to as HQ) notes the location where most or all of the important functions of an organization are coordinated. The term is used in a wide variety of situations, including private sector corporations, non-profits, mil ...
.
The basic initial development was the problems for the
Swedish government to get quality
military aircraft
A military aircraft is any Fixed-wing aircraft, fixed-wing or rotorcraft, rotary-wing aircraft that is operated by a legal or insurrectionary military of any type. Some military aircraft engage directly in aerial warfare, while others take on su ...
delivered at the beginning of the
Second World War
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...
. The final trigger was the inability to get a large number of
Seversky P-35
The Seversky P-35 is an American fighter aircraft built by the Republic Aviation, Seversky Aircraft Company in the late 1930s. A contemporary of the Hawker Hurricane and Messerschmitt Bf 109, the P-35 was the first single-seat fighter in United ...
delivered from the United States. From then on the Swedish government focused on establishing domestic production and development of military aircraft which Saab became involved in, a policy that has continued to this day. The first SAAB-developed aircraft was the
SAAB 17
The Saab 17 is a Sweden, Swedish single-engine monoplane reconnaissance dive-bomber aircraft of the 1940s originally developed by AB Svenska Järnvägsverkstädernas Aeroplanavdelning, ASJA prior to its merger into Saab AB , Saab. It was the fir ...
light dive bomber (first flight: 1940-05-18), soon followed by the
SAAB 18 schnellbomber (first flight: 1942-06-19) and
SAAB 21 single-seat fighter (first flight: 1943-07-30), among other developments, the latter being the first aircraft to see service with a modern style
ejection seat
In aircraft, an ejection seat or ejector seat is a system designed to rescue the aircraft pilot, pilot or other aircrew, crew of an aircraft (usually military) in an emergency. In most designs, the seat is propelled out of the aircraft by an exp ...
, using gunpowder to eject instead of compressed air like the contemporary German counterparts.

Originally manufacturing aircraft, the company sought ways in which to diversify its business. Before the Second World War, a majority of cars in Sweden were imported from the United States. The US car manufacturers were producing
tank
A tank is an armoured fighting vehicle intended as a primary offensive weapon in front-line ground combat. Tank designs are a balance of heavy firepower, strong armour, and battlefield mobility provided by tracks and a powerful engine; ...
s during the war, and the US domestic market took all the US car production in the late 1940s. Hence there was a large supply shortage of private cars in Europe and Sweden, and buyers were facing waiting lists for years for new cars. In the late 1940s, Saab began manufacturing cars at its
Saab Automobile
Saab Automobile AB () was a automotive industry, car manufacturer that was founded in Sweden in 1945 when its parent company, Saab AB, began a project to design a small automobile. The first production model, the Saab 92, was launched in 1949. ...
division, based in Trollhättan. The first car was the
Saab 92; full-scale production started 12 December 1949, based on the prototype
Ursaab. Around 1950 the style "Saab" started being used instead of the
all caps
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"SAAB".
In the late 1950s Saab ventured into the computer market with
Datasaab Datasaab was the computer division of, and later a separate company spun off from, aircraft manufacturer Saab in Linköping, Sweden.
History
Its history dates back to December 1954, when Saab got a license to build its own copy of BESK, an early ...
.
The company was a result partly of the need to make a computer that would be small enough to mount in an aeroplane as navigational equipment. During the 1960s several computers were developed and sold to European countries, for uses such as banking. The aircraft computer (CK 37) was used in 1971 in the
Viggen. The company was sold in 1975 to
Sperry UNIVAC, while Saab retained its flight computer development.
Saab AB

In May 1965, the company name was changed to Saab AB to reflect its broad range of activities.
In 1968 Saab AB merged with the Swedish lorry, bus and heavy-duty
diesel engine
The diesel engine, named after the German engineer Rudolf Diesel, is an internal combustion engine in which Combustion, ignition of diesel fuel is caused by the elevated temperature of the air in the cylinder due to Mechanics, mechanical Compr ...
manufacturer
Scania-Vabis, and became
Saab-Scania AB.
In 1990
General Motors
General Motors Company (GM) is an American Multinational corporation, multinational Automotive industry, automotive manufacturing company headquartered in Detroit, Michigan, United States. The company is most known for owning and manufacturing f ...
bought 51% of the car division
Saab Automobile
Saab Automobile AB () was a automotive industry, car manufacturer that was founded in Sweden in 1945 when its parent company, Saab AB, began a project to design a small automobile. The first production model, the Saab 92, was launched in 1949. ...
, and acquired the rest a decade later.
In 1991
Investor AB completed a leveraged buyout of Saab-Scania AB. Investor AB acquired all the outstanding shares in Saab-Scania for approximately SEK 21 billion. Saab-Scania became a wholly owned subsidiary of Investor AB and the company was de-listed.
In 1995 Saab-Scania was divided by Investor AB into two independent companies, de-merging into Scania AB and Saab AB. The intention by Investor AB was to broaden ownership in the two companies later. Following the sale of 50% of the car division Saab Automobile AB to General Motors, the main reason behind the merger with lorry manufacturer Scania-Vabis in 1968 had disappeared.
Also in 1995 Saab Military Aircraft and
British Aerospace
British Aerospace plc (BAe) was a British aircraft manufacturer, aircraft, munitions and defence-systems manufacturer that was formed in 1977. Its head office was at Warwick House in the Farnborough Aerospace Centre in Farnborough, Hampshire. ...
(now
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 ...
) formed the joint venture company Saab-BAe Gripen AB, to manufacture, market and support Gripen internationally. This co-operation was extended in 2001 with the formation of Gripen International for the same purpose. From 1998 until 2005, British Aerospace/BAE was the largest shareholder in Saab following its acquisition of a 35% stake from
Investor AB. In January 2005, BAE Systems reduced its shareholding to 20%. Investor AB maintained a 20% share.
On 16 November 1999, Saab announced its intention is to purchase Celsius AB and the acquisition was concluded by early March 2000.
In September 2000
United Defense Industries (UDI) purchased Bofors Weapon Systems from Saab (the
autocannon
An autocannon, automatic cannon or machine cannon is a automatic firearm, fully automatic gun that is capable of rapid-firing large-caliber ( or more) armour-piercing, explosive or incendiary ammunition, incendiary shell (projectile), shells, ...
and tube
artillery
Artillery consists of ranged weapons that launch Ammunition, munitions far beyond the range and power of infantry firearms. Early artillery development focused on the ability to breach defensive walls and fortifications during sieges, and l ...
interests), while Saab retained the
missile
A missile is an airborne ranged weapon capable of self-propelled flight aided usually by a propellant, jet engine or rocket motor.
Historically, 'missile' referred to any projectile that is thrown, shot or propelled towards a target; this ...
interests.
In December 2005 Saab joined the
Dassault nEUROn project as a major partner.
In October 2008 the company announced its intention to merge its operations with that of
Simrad Optronics. The new unit will develop high-tech
optronics products and will be headquartered in Norway, although other details of the new arrangement have not been finalized.
In 2010 the company restructured from fifteen business units into five business areas; Aeronautics, Dynamics, Electronic Defence Systems, Security and Defence Solutions, and Support and Services. According to Saab the restructuring was undertaken to become more market and customer oriented.
In March 2010, BAE Systems sold half of its 20% stake in the company to Investor AB, which then became the major shareholder. In June 2011, the British company sold its remaining stake bringing its 16-year involvement in Saab to an end.
As of August 2020, Investor AB owns a 30.16% stake in the company (39.69% of the voting rights) and is the top owner.
In August 2023, it was announced Saab had acquired the
Bedford, UK–based manufacturer of
AI-enabled autonomous swarm systems, Blue Bear Research Systems.
In September 2023, it was announced Saab had acquired the
San Francisco
San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, Financial District, San Francisco, financial, and Culture of San Francisco, cultural center of Northern California. With a population of 827,526 residents as of ...
–headquartered
artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence (AI) is the capability of computer, computational systems to perform tasks typically associated with human intelligence, such as learning, reasoning, problem-solving, perception, and decision-making. It is a field of re ...
/
machine learning
Machine learning (ML) is a field of study in artificial intelligence concerned with the development and study of Computational statistics, statistical algorithms that can learn from data and generalise to unseen data, and thus perform Task ( ...
development company CrowdAI.
Aircraft production
The main focus of aircraft production is
fighter aircraft
Fighter aircraft (early on also ''pursuit aircraft'') are military aircraft designed primarily for air-to-air combat. In military conflict, the role of fighter aircraft is to establish air supremacy, air superiority of the battlespace. Domina ...
. Saab has been making aircraft since the 1930s, and the jet predecessors of the
JAS 39 Gripen were the
Tunnan, the
Lansen, the
Draken and the
Viggen. The last civilian models made by Saab were the
Saab 340 and
Saab 2000. Both were mid-range
turboprop
A turboprop is a Gas turbine, gas turbine engine that drives an aircraft Propeller (aeronautics), propeller.
A turboprop consists of an intake, reduction drive, reduction gearbox, gas compressor, compressor, combustor, turbine, and a propellin ...
-powered airliners. The development and the manufacturing of these aircraft is undertaken in Linköping.
In May 2019, Saab announced plans to locate a new U.S. manufacturing operation in Discovery Park District Aerospace on the west side of the
Purdue University
Purdue University is a Public university#United States, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in West Lafayette, Indiana, United States, and the flagship campus of the Purdue University system. The university was founded ...
campus. The facility will do the final assembly of the
T-X advanced jet trainer, which is a plane developed by
Boeing
The Boeing Company, or simply Boeing (), is an American multinational corporation that designs, manufactures, and sells airplanes, rotorcraft, rockets, satellites, and missiles worldwide. The company also provides leasing and product support s ...
and Saab for the United States Air Force.
Organization
Aeronautics

Aeronautics offers airborne systems, related subsystems, Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) and aerostructures. The business area Aeronautics is responsible for airframe structures for
JAS 39 Gripen, and whole sections for
Airbus
Airbus SE ( ; ; ; ) is a Pan-European aerospace corporation. The company's primary business is the design and manufacturing of commercial aircraft but it also has separate Airbus Defence and Space, defence and space and Airbus Helicopters, he ...
,
Boeing
The Boeing Company, or simply Boeing (), is an American multinational corporation that designs, manufactures, and sells airplanes, rotorcraft, rockets, satellites, and missiles worldwide. The company also provides leasing and product support s ...
and
NH90
The NHIndustries NH90 is a European medium-sized, twin-engine, multirole military helicopter. It was the first production helicopter to feature entirely fly-by-wire flight controls.Perry, Dominic"Rotor club: Our top 10 most influential helico ...
; & system development of the JAS 39 Gripen and the Skeldar VTOL UAV. Aeronautics is also partner in the European joint UAV-project
Dassault nEUROn, where Saab develop avionics and is responsible for the overall architecture and design. Marketing and support of the
JAS 39 Gripen fighter jet is also included in the Aeronautics business area.
Dynamics
Dynamics offers ground combat weapons, missile systems, torpedoes, sensor systems, unmanned underwater vehicles such as ''Sabertooth'' and signature management systems, remotely operated vehicles for armed forces as well as civil security applications.
Short range weapons offered include the
Carl Gustaf,
AT4
The AT4 is a Swedish unguided, man-portable, disposable, Shoulder-fired missile, shoulder-fired recoilless Anti-tank warfare, anti-tank weapon manufactured by Saab Bofors Dynamics (formerly FFV Ordnance; later, Bofors Anti-Armour Systems). ...
/AT4 CS,
STRIX and
NLAW
The Saab Bofors Dynamics NLAW ( ), also known as the MBT LAW or RB 57, is a fire-and-forget, lightweight shoulder-fired, and disposable (single-use) line of sight (LOS) missile system, designed for infantry use. The missile uses a soft-laun ...
. Missile systems offered are the
RBS 70
RBS 70 (Robotsystem 70) is a Man-portable air-defense system, man-portable air-defense system (MANPADS) designed for anti-aircraft warfare in all climate zones and with little to no support from other forces. Originally designed and manufactured ...
,
RBS 23 and
RBS 15.
Surveillance
Surveillance offers airborne surveillance (including
GlobalEye, Saab 2000
Erieye) AEW&C and fighter radar, ground-based and naval radar (including the
Giraffe radar range), electronic warfare (including IDAS and ESTL) and combat systems and C4I.
Industrial Products and Services
Industrial Products and Services was established on 1 January 2015 and comprises the business units Combitech, Avionics Systems, Aerostructures, Traffic Management, Vricon as well as the development of product ideas that fall outside of Saab's core business.
The business units within Industrial Products and Services differ from Saab's other operations by their focus on business-to-business (B2B) customers or because they are not dependent on Saab's principal end-customers. Other business areas within Saab have a customer base largely consisting of public authorities. With different customer groups come different management strategies and priorities. Opportunities to strengthen these operations in the long term are greater in the new organisation. Industrial Products and Services will work with individual growth strategies for each business unit.
Support and Services
Support and Services offer maintenance, integrated support, field facilities, logistics and regional aircraft maintenance.
Saab Aircraft Leasing leases and resells Saab aircraft to airlines. It completed 30 transactions in 2010.
Saab Barracuda LLC
The Saab Barracuda LLC facility in
Lillington, North Carolina
Lillington is a town in and the county seat of Harnett County, North Carolina, United States. Its population was 3,194 at the 2010 census, and was 4,735 in the 2020 census. Lillington is a part of the Dunn micropolitan area, which is also a ...
, manufactures
signature management products and provides customized services. Foremost among the
camouflage
Camouflage is the use of any combination of materials, coloration, or illumination for concealment, either by making animals or objects hard to see, or by disguising them as something else. Examples include the leopard's spotted coat, the b ...
, concealment and deception products is the Ultra Lightweight Camouflage Net System (ULCANS) which provides
multi-spectral protection against visual, near infrared, thermal infrared and broadband radar detection. ULCANS is fielded with the
U.S. Army and other
Department of Defense
The United States Department of Defense (DoD, USDOD, or DOD) is an executive department of the U.S. federal government charged with coordinating and supervising the six U.S. armed services: the Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force, Space Force, ...
organizations and is available in both woodland and desert versions. Saab Barracuda is one of only two qualified suppliers of ULCANS in North America, and currently has a competed US$1.76 billion contract, along with GMA Cover Corp.
Saab Kockums
The
Kockums shipyard is the base for the company's submarine division.
Products
Military aircraft
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Saab 17
The Saab 17 is a Sweden, Swedish single-engine monoplane reconnaissance dive-bomber aircraft of the 1940s originally developed by AB Svenska Järnvägsverkstädernas Aeroplanavdelning, ASJA prior to its merger into Saab AB , Saab. It was the fir ...
(bomber/
dive-bomber: manufactured 1941–1944, 323 built)
*
Saab 18 (twin-engine bomber and reconnaissance aircraft: manufactured 1944–1948, 245 built)
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Saab 21 (twin-boom push-prop fighter/attack aircraft: manufactured 1945–1949, 298 built)
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Saab 21R (jet-powered version of Saab 21: manufactured 1950–1952, 64 built)
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Saab 29 Tunnan (first purpose-built jet fighter: manufactured 1950–1956, 661 built)
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Saab 32 Lansen (attack aircraft: manufactured 1953–1959, 450 built)
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Saab 35 Draken
The Saab 35 Draken (; ''The Kite'', ambiguous with ''The Dragon'') is a Swedish interceptor aircraft, fighter-interceptor developed and manufactured by Saab AB, Svenska Aeroplan Aktiebolaget (Saab AB, SAAB) between 1955 and 1974. Development of ...
(fighter: manufactured 1955–1974, 644 built)
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Saab 37 Viggen (fighter/attack/reconnaissance aircraft: manufactured 1970–1990, 329 built)
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Saab JAS 39 Gripen (multirole fighter: introduced 1996, 306 built as of 2020)
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Saab 105 (twin engine trainer: manufactured 1963–1972, 192 built)
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Saab 340 AEW&C (airborne early warning and control aircraft: manufactured 1994–1999, 12 built)
*
Boeing-Saab T-7 Red Hawk (advanced pilot training aircraft: developed by
Boeing
The Boeing Company, or simply Boeing (), is an American multinational corporation that designs, manufactures, and sells airplanes, rotorcraft, rockets, satellites, and missiles worldwide. The company also provides leasing and product support s ...
in partnership with Saab Group, 2 demonstrators built, 351 trainers to be purchased by the
USAF
The United States Air Force (USAF) is the Air force, air service branch of the United States Department of Defense. It is one of the six United States Armed Forces and one of the eight uniformed services of the United States. Tracing its ori ...
)
Cancelled military aircraft projects
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Saab 36 (bomber, 1950s, none built)
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Saab 38 (attack/trainer, 1970s, none built)
Civilian aircraft

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Saab 90 Scandia (32 passenger short-/medium-haul aircraft: manufactured 1946–1954, 18 built)
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Saab 91 Safir (single engine trainer: manufactured 1946–1966, 323 built)
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MFI-15 Safari/MFI-17 Supporter (single engine trainer: manufactured 1971 – late 1970s, ca 250 built)
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Saab 340 (30–35 passenger short-haul aircraft: manufactured 1983–1999, 459 built)
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Saab 2000 (50–58 passenger high-speed turboprop airliner: manufactured 1992–1999, 63 built)
Experimental aircraft
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Saab 210 (experimental aircraft: manufactured 1952, 1 built)
* Saab/Linköping University
Generic Future Fighter.
Unmanned aerial vehicles
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Saab Skeldar
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Swiss UAV
Missiles
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RBS 56B BILL 2
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KEPD 350
The Taurus KEPD-350 is a German-Swedish air-launched cruise missile, manufactured by Taurus Systems and used by Germany, Spain, and South Korea. Taurus Systems GmbH is a partnership between MBDA Deutschland GmbH (formerly LFK) and Saab Bofors D ...
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NLAW
The Saab Bofors Dynamics NLAW ( ), also known as the MBT LAW or RB 57, is a fire-and-forget, lightweight shoulder-fired, and disposable (single-use) line of sight (LOS) missile system, designed for infantry use. The missile uses a soft-laun ...
(shoulder-launched anti-tank)
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RB 04 (anti-ship missile)
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Rb 05 (air-to-surface missile)
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RBS 23
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RBS-15 (surface-to-surface and air-to-surface anti-ship missile)
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RBS-70
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Meteor BVRAAM
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Ground Launched Small Diameter Bomb
Naval Combat Management Systems
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9LV Naval Combat Management System
Naval Integrated Communication Systems
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TactiCall Integrated Communication System
Naval Radar Systems
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Sea Giraffe 180 (SG180) medium air/surface RADAR
Surface Radar Systems
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Giraffe 1X
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Giraffe 4A
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ARTHUR
Arthur is a masculine given name of uncertain etymology. Its popularity derives from it being the name of the legendary hero King Arthur.
A common spelling variant used in many Slavic, Romance, and Germanic languages is Artur. In Spanish and Ital ...
(counter-battery radar)
Boats
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Saalina
Gallery
File:Männen bakom B-17. SAAB - Nordiska museet - NMAx.0001772.tif, Production of Saab 17
The Saab 17 is a Sweden, Swedish single-engine monoplane reconnaissance dive-bomber aircraft of the 1940s originally developed by AB Svenska Järnvägsverkstädernas Aeroplanavdelning, ASJA prior to its merger into Saab AB , Saab. It was the fir ...
File:SAAB B 18B, 01.jpg, Saab 18B (B 18B)
File:Lansen 2.JPG, Saab 32 Lansen (J 32B)
File:Saab 91C 01.jpg, Saab 91C (Sk 50C)
File:J 29F.jpg, Saab 29 Tunnan (J 29F)
File:Viggen.JPG, Saab 37 Viggen (SF 37)
File:JAS Gripen.jpg, Saab Gripen (JAS 39)
File:FAA Saab340.jpg, Saab 340B
File:Saab340AEW&C.jpg, Saab 340 with Erieye radar
The Erieye radar system is an Airborne early warning and control, Airborne Early Warning and Control System (AEW&C) developed by Saab Group, Saab Electronic Defence Systems, formerly Ericsson Microwave Systems, of Sweden. It uses active electron ...
File:Golden Air SE-LTX 20071020.JPG, Saab 2000
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Datasaab Datasaab was the computer division of, and later a separate company spun off from, aircraft manufacturer Saab in Linköping, Sweden.
History
Its history dates back to December 1954, when Saab got a license to build its own copy of BESK, an early ...
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List of Swedish aircraft
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Saab Automobile
Saab Automobile AB () was a automotive industry, car manufacturer that was founded in Sweden in 1945 when its parent company, Saab AB, began a project to design a small automobile. The first production model, the Saab 92, was launched in 1949. ...
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Saab Training and Simulation
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