Saab AB (originally , ,

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SAAB), with subsidiaries collectively known as the Saab Group (), is a Swedish

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and defence company primarily operating from Sweden. The company is headquartered in

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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 BAE Systems AB is subsidiary holding company for the Swedish assets of BAE Systems Land & Armaments, whose ultimate parent is the British defence contractor BAE Systems. The portfolio in 2020 contained the companies ''Systems C-ITS'', involved ...

in 1937, by reforming the

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division of company

NOHAB NOHAB (Nydqvist & Holm AB) was a manufacturing company based in the city of Trollhättan, Sweden. History The company was founded by Antenor Nydqvist, Johan Magnus Lidström and Carl Olof Holm in 1847 as ''Trollhättans Mekaniska Verkstad'' as ...

(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

, 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

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. 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

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. The joint venture ended in 2000 when GM took complete ownership. From 1968 onwards the company was in a merger with

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manufacturer

Scania-Vabis Scania AB ( , ), stylised SCANIA in its products, is a major Swedish manufacturer headquartered in Södertälje, focusing on commercial vehicles—specifically heavy lorries, trucks and buses. It also manufactures diesel engines for heavy veh ...

, known as

Saab-Scania Saab-Scania AB was a Swedish vehicle manufacturer that was formed from the 1969 merger of Saab AB and Scania-Vabis. The company was split in 1995. History Truck and bus manufacturer Scania AB of Södertälje merged with car and aeroplane manu ...

. The two were de-merged in 1995 by the new owners,

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. Despite the

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, both Saab and

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share the right to use the

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logo, which originates from the coat of arms of the Swedish region of

History

Svenska Aeroplan Aktiebolaget (SAAB)

Saab was founded by

in 1937 as ''Svenska Aeroplan Aktiebolaget'' (

''SAAB''; ), located in

, by reforming the aircraft engine division of engineering company

(''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

, which was a successor to

Svenska Aero Svenska Aero AB (full name: Svenska Aero Aktiebolaget, , abbr. SA) was a Swedish aircraft manufacturer on Hästholmen in Lidingö. The company was founded September 10, 1921, to license build Caspar-Werke and Heinkel aircraft. The company was bo ...

(''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

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lead under a

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. 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

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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

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(''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

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(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

. The basic initial development was the problems for the

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to get quality

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delivered at the beginning of the

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. The final trigger was the inability to get a large number of

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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 The Saab 18 was a twin-engine bomber and reconnaissance aircraft, designed and built by Svenska Aeroplan AB (SAAB) for use by the Swedish Air Force in response to a 1938 design competition. Due to delays, it did not enter service until 1944, but ...

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(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

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, using gunpowder to eject instead of compressed air like the contemporary German counterparts. SAAB Logotyp 1943

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

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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

division, based in Trollhättan. The first car was the

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; full-scale production started 12 December 1949, based on the prototype

Ursaab Ursaab (lit. ''Proto-Saab''), also known as 92001 and X9248, was the first of four prototype cars made by Saab AB, which at that time was solely an aeroplane manufacturer, leading to production of the first Saab car, the Saab 92 in 1949. The car ...

. Around 1950 the style "Saab" started being used instead of the

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"SAAB". In the late 1950s Saab ventured into the computer market with

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. 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

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, 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

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manufacturer

, and became

AB. In 1990

bought 51% of the car division

, and acquired the rest a decade later. In 1991

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

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(now

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) 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

. 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

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(UDI) purchased Bofors Weapon Systems from Saab (the

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and tube

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interests), while Saab retained the

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interests. In December 2005 Saab joined the

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project as a major partner. In October 2008 the company announced its intention to merge its operations with that of

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. The new unit will develop high-tech

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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

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–headquartered

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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 The Saab JAS 39 Gripen ( ; English: ''Griffin'') is a light single-engine supersonic multirole fighter aircraft manufactured by the Swedish aerospace and defence company Saab AB. The Gripen has a delta wing and canard configuration with rela ...

were the Tunnan, the Lansen, the Draken and the Viggen. The last civilian models made by Saab were the

Saab 340 The Saab 340 is a Swedish twin-engine turboprop aircraft designed and initially produced by Saab AB and Fairchild Aircraft. It is designed to seat 30–36 passengers and, as of July 2018, there were 240 operational aircraft used by 34 differen ...

and

Saab 2000 The Saab 2000 is a twin-engined high-speed turboprop airliner built by Swedish aircraft manufacturer Saab. It is designed to carry 50–58 passengers and able to cruise at a maximum speed of . Production took place in Linköping, Sweden. It ...

. Both were mid-range

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-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

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campus. The facility will do the final assembly of the

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advanced jet trainer, which is a plane developed by

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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

, 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 ...

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

, where Saab develop avionics and is responsible for the overall architecture and design. Marketing and support of the

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 The RBS 23, designated BAMSE (Bofors Advanced Missile System Evaluation), is a Swedish medium range, all-weather capable air defense system developed by Bofors and Ericsson Microwave Systems (now both in the Saab group). BAMSE is designed for p ...

and

RBS 15 The RBS 15 (Robotsystem 15) is a long-range fire-and-forget surface-to-surface and air-to-surface anti-ship missile. The later version Mk. IV has the ability to attack land targets as well. The missile was developed by the Swedish company Saab ...

Surveillance

Surveillance offers airborne surveillance (including

GlobalEye SAAB GlobalEye is a multi-role airborne early warning & control (AEW&C) platform from Swedish defence and security company Saab. GlobalEye consists of a suite of sensors using Saab's Erieye ER (Extended Range) radar and mission system, installed ...

, Saab 2000

Erieye The Erieye radar system is an Airborne Early Warning and Control System (AEW&C) developed by Saab Electronic Defence Systems, formerly Ericsson Microwave Systems, of Sweden. It uses active electronically scanned array (AESA) technology. The Er ...

) 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

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, manufactures

signature management Stealth technology, also termed low observable technology (LO technology), is a sub-discipline of military tactics and passive and active electronic countermeasures. The term covers a range of military technology, methods used to make personnel ...

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

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and other

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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 Saab Kockums AB is a shipyard headquartered in Malmö, Sweden, owned by the Swedish defence company Saab AB. Saab Kockums AB is further operational in Muskö, Docksta, and Karlskrona. While having a history of civil vessel construction, Kocku ...

shipyard is the base for the company's submarine division.

Products

Military aircraft

(bomber/ dive-bomber: manufactured 1941–1944, 323 built) *

(twin-engine bomber and reconnaissance aircraft: manufactured 1944–1948, 245 built) * Saab 21 (twin-boom push-prop fighter/attack aircraft: manufactured 1945–1949, 298 built) *

Saab 21R The Saab 21R was a Swedish fighter/attack aircraft developed and produced by Svenska Aeroplan AB (SAAB). It was a jet-powered development of the piston-engined SAAB 21 and was the first jet aircraft to be produced by Saab. The R-suffix stands ...

(jet-powered version of Saab 21: manufactured 1950–1952, 64 built) *

Saab 29 Tunnan The Saab 29 ''Tunnan'' (''The Barrel''), colloquially also ''Flygande Tunnan'' (''The Flying Barrel''), is an early jet-powered fighter aircraft designed and produced by the Swedish aircraft manufacturer Saab. It was the second turbojet-powered ...

(first purpose-built jet fighter: manufactured 1950–1956, 661 built) *

Saab 32 Lansen The Saab 32 Lansen (English: Lance) is a two-seat, transonic military aircraft designed and manufactured by the Swedish aircraft manufacturer Saab AB. In late Autumn 1946, development of the Lansen began as a successor to the Saab 18, Saab B 18 ...

(attack aircraft: manufactured 1953–1959, 450 built) *

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) *

Saab 37 Viggen The Saab 37 Viggen (''The Tufted Duck'', ambiguous with ''The Thunderbolt'') is a single-seat, single-engine multirole combat aircraft designed and produced by the Swedish aircraft manufacturer Saab AB, Saab. It was the first Canard (aeronautic ...

(fighter/attack/reconnaissance aircraft: manufactured 1970–1990, 329 built) *

Saab JAS 39 Gripen The Saab JAS 39 Gripen ( ; English: ''Griffin'') is a light single-engine supersonic multirole fighter aircraft manufactured by the Swedish aerospace and defence company Saab AB. The Gripen has a delta wing and canard configuration with rela ...

(multirole fighter: introduced 1996, 306 built as of 2020) *

Saab 105 The Saab 105 is a Swedish high-wing, twinjet trainer aircraft developed in the early 1960s as a private venture by Saab AB. The Swedish Air Force, which had opted to procure the type for various roles, designated the aircraft SK 60. The SK 60 ...

(twin engine trainer: manufactured 1963–1972, 192 built) *

Saab 340 AEW&C The Saab 340 AEW&C is a Swedish airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) aircraft. A variant of the Saab 340 aircraft, it is designated S 100B Argus by the Swedish Air Force. Radar Compared to the traditional circular radar on AWACS planes ...

(airborne early warning and control aircraft: manufactured 1994–1999, 12 built) * Boeing-Saab T-7 Red Hawk (advanced pilot training aircraft: developed by

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

Saab 36 __NOTOC__ The Saab 36 (also known as Projekt 1300) was a cancelled Swedish supersonic bomber planned by Saab AB during the 1950s. The aircraft was intended to be able to carry an 800 kg free-falling nuclear weapon, but the Swedish nuclear ...

(bomber, 1950s, none built) *

Saab 38 __NOTOC__ The Saab 38 (also known as B3LA or A 38/Sk 38) was a single-engine jet trainer and attack aircraft planned by Saab during the 1970s. The project was a collaboration between Saab and the Italian aircraft manufacturer Aermacchi. It w ...

(attack/trainer, 1970s, none built)

Civilian aircraft

Saab 90 Scandia The Saab 90 Scandia was a civil passenger aeroplane, manufactured by Svenska Aeroplan Aktiebolaget (SAAB), in Linköping, Sweden. In 1944, as it became clear that hostilities in Europe (the Second World War) would soon end, SAAB realised that t ...

(32 passenger short-/medium-haul aircraft: manufactured 1946–1954, 18 built) *

Saab 91 Safir The Saab 91 Safir (Swedish for sapphire) is a three (91A, B, B-2) or four (91C, D) seater, single engine trainer aircraft. The Safir was built by Saab AB in Linköping, Sweden (203 aircraft) and by '' De Schelde'' in Dordrecht, Netherlands (120 ...

(single engine trainer: manufactured 1946–1966, 323 built) * MFI-15 Safari/MFI-17 Supporter (single engine trainer: manufactured 1971 – late 1970s, ca 250 built) *

(30–35 passenger short-haul aircraft: manufactured 1983–1999, 459 built) *

(50–58 passenger high-speed turboprop airliner: manufactured 1992–1999, 63 built)

Experimental aircraft

Saab 210 The Saab 210 is an approximately 70% scale research prototype for the double-delta wing, delta configuration of the Saab 35 Draken supersonic fighter. It became known by the unofficial nickname Lilldraken (Little Dragon or Little Kite). Its first ...

(experimental aircraft: manufactured 1952, 1 built) * Saab/Linköping University Generic Future Fighter.

Unmanned aerial vehicles

Saab Skeldar The UMS Skeldar V-200 is a medium-range helicopter and UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) developed by the Swedish aerospace company Saab. The Skeldar can be used for surveillance, intelligence gathering, light cargo transportation, and electroni ...

* Swiss UAV

Missiles

* RBS 56B BILL 2 *

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 ...

(shoulder-launched anti-tank) * RB 04 (anti-ship missile) *

Rb 05 The Saab RB05 (abbreviation of Swedish: robot 05, "missile 05"), initially named Saab 305 (RB 305) or AT 3 internally, was a short-range air-to-surface missile with that was developed in the 1960s by the Swedish company Saab-Scania, Missiles a ...

(air-to-surface missile) *

RBS-15 The RBS 15 (Robotsystem 15) is a long-range fire-and-forget surface-to-surface and air-to-surface anti-ship missile. The later version Mk. IV has the ability to attack land targets as well. The missile was developed by the Swedish company Saab ...

(surface-to-surface and air-to-surface anti-ship missile) * RBS-70 * Meteor BVRAAM *

Ground Launched Small Diameter Bomb The Ground Launched Small Diameter Bomb (GLSDB) is a weapon developed by Boeing and the Saab Group to allow Boeing's GBU-39 Small Diameter Bomb (SDB), originally developed for use by aircraft, to be ground-launched from a variety of launchers and ...

Naval Combat Management Systems

* 9LV Naval Combat Management System

Naval Integrated Communication Systems

* TactiCall Integrated Communication System

Naval Radar Systems

* Sea Giraffe 180 (SG180) medium air/surface RADAR

Surface Radar Systems

* Giraffe 1X * Giraffe 4A *

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

Saalina Saalina was a boat made by SAAB after World War II. When the war ended the interest in making fighter planes went down and SAAB needed something to use all the aluminum sheets they had stored. Kurt Sjögren thus designed an aluminium boat and ...

Gallery

File:Männen bakom B-17. SAAB - Nordiska museet - NMAx.0001772.tif, Production of

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,

Notes

References

Bibliography

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External links

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