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Sweden Orders Saab’s GlobalEye

Our Bureau - : Jul 7, 2022 - : 11:17 pm

Saab has signed a contract with the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration (FMV) for the GlobalEye Airborne Early Warning and Control (AEW&C) aircraft.

The order includes two GlobalEye aircraft with deliveries planned for 2027. The order value is approximately SEK 7.3 billion. The contract also includes options that enable FMV to order up to two additional systems.

Saab’s GlobalEye features the Erieye Extended Range radar, which has a range of more than 650 kilometers, as well as a suite of advanced sensors and a command and control system integrated into the Global 6000 aircraft.

“GlobalEye will provide Sweden with world-class airborne early warning and control capability. Saab’s most important mission is to keep people and societies safe, and I am proud that GlobalEye will further strengthen the Swedish Armed Forces’ capability,” says Saab’s President and CEO Micael Johansson.

The award of the contract comes about nine months after the Swedish Armed Forces submitted a request in September 2021 to the government to procure the system. The system will replace the Swedish Air Force’s two aging Saab 340 (ASC 890) Erieye platforms.

The GlobalEye is built around the Swedish company’s Erieye Extended Range (ER) radar that is housed in the same external dorsal ‘plank’ as the company’s original Erieye system. The Erieye ER is an active electronically scanned array (AESA) system that doubles the radar’s power efficiency compared with previous Erieye iterations.

To date, three Saab GlobalEye aircraft have been exported to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to provide airborne early warning capability to the country’s air force.

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