Saab Wins SEK 2 Billion From Naval Group to Equip Sweden's Four FDI Frigates — Weapon Control, Ceros, Sea Giraffe 1X, RBS15 and Lightweight Torpedo
Stockholm, 6 November 2026
Key points
- Saab said on 6 November it has signed a contract with Naval Group to deliver and integrate weapon control systems and sensors for the four FDI frigates Sweden has ordered; the order is worth approximately SEK 2 billion, with deliveries to Naval Group from 2027 to 2034
- The scope: a weapon control system, the Ceros fire-control director and the EOS 500 electro-optical director, the RBS15 anti-ship missile, the Saab Lightweight Torpedo, Trackfire remote weapon stations and the Sea Giraffe 1X radar
- Naval Group is the prime contractor; Sweden's procurement agency FMV signed for the four Luleå-class ships on 31 August, a contract Opex360 put at about EUR 4.3 billion, with ship deliveries from 2030 to 2034
- Saab's release names no combat management system; Naval News reported at the May selection that the ships looked set to keep Naval Group's SETIS
The Swedish weapons and sensors chosen for Sweden's French-designed frigates now have a contract, placed with Saab by the shipbuilder rather than by Sweden's procurement agency.
The list is consistent with the configuration reported when the ships were signed in August: the RBS15 in place of the French Exocet, the lightweight torpedo, known in Swedish service as Torped 47, in place of the MU90, the Sea Giraffe 1X beside the Seafire main radar, and Trackfire stations. Saab's deliveries start in 2027, three years before the first hull, Luleå, is due. The release states no split between the four ships and gives no figure for missile or torpedo quantities.
On Germany's F128 Saab supplies the combat management system; on its own navy's new frigates its release names none. In July Saab took SEK 8.7 billion from TKMS for four German frigates, a scope that includes the 9LV combat management system and fire control, the Sea Giraffe 4A and 1X radars and composite superstructures. Both orders run through the shipbuilder, and their scopes differ too far for the two values to be read as prices. The FDI contract, which Signal No. 184 carried, puts a figure on what Saab secured when Stockholm bought a French design: weapon control, fire-control directors, weapons and sensors for four ships, about SEK 2 billion. The combat management system is the open line. Naval News reported at the May selection that the ships looked set to keep Naval Group's SETIS rather than the 9LV family Saab has supplied to Swedish ships; Saab's release does not name the system the Luleå class will run.
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