Submarines play a vital role in a wide range of operations and tasks, from covert operations to more offensive roles that require engaging adversaries with an array of weapon.
Through evolutionary and modular design, Saab’s submarines offer a flexible configuration, tailored for the various needs of navies around the world. This flexibility, allow for easy upgrades and modifications to adapt to evolving mission requirements, making the submarine future-proof. Equipment installations can be easily accessed for maintenance and upgrades at any point in the submarine’s lifecycle.
Expeditionary and blue water submarines rely on autonomy and engagement from a distance where surveillance ability, endurance, speed, evasiveness, stealth and high versatility in engagement capabilities is important for mission success. Effective weapon launch systems on submarines offer exceptional operational flexibility and enables submarines to carry a diverse array of weapon types, including anti-ship missiles, land-attack missiles,torpedoes and mines, all in the same launch system. This versatility allows submarines to adapt quickly to changing mission requirements without the need for extensive reconfiguration.
To enable this flexibility and to achieve launch capability across the whole operating depth and speed range of the submarine, a pumped water system was adopted by the US many decades ago. To be compatible with US weapon system such as the Mk48 Mod 7 and in particular the Tomahawk Land Attack Missile (TLAM), the submarine must have a compatible pumped water launch system. Launch system offered by Saab has demonstrated its ability to successfully launch TLAM.
Saab offers a weapon and combat system suite based on proven designs from suppliers that have their systems operational on submarines, providing confidence, great knowledge and extensive experience. Saab has a long history of collaborating on the integration of combat system, weapon systems and weapon launch system into a successful harmonized and effective solution.
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