Saab Bofors Dynamics

Template:Short description Template:More footnotes Saab Bofors Dynamics is a subsidiary of the Saab Group that specializes in military materiel such as missile systems and anti-tank systems. It is located in Karlskoga and Linköping, Sweden.

Its corporate heritage goes back to Bofors, a hammer mill, which was founded as a royal state-owned company in 1646. In 1873, this was converted to a modern corporate structure by becoming a "stock company", in Swedish an aktiebolag, that is a "limited company" or a "corporation". In 1999, Saab purchased the Celsius Group, by that time the parent owner of Bofors. In September 2000, SAAB sold their Bofors Weapon Systems, which produced the autocannon and tube artillery weapons, to United Defense Industries, while Saab retained their missile interests. Later BAE Systems acquired United Defense Industries.^[1]

The weapon systems include sensors based on radar, infrared, and lasers.

Several public campaigns, including civil disobedience actions, have targeted production sites as a protest against Swedish arms export.

Products

Ground Systems

Anti-armour systems

Cannons

Bofors 40 mm

Firearms

Saab Bofors Dynamics CBJ-MS 9 mm PDW
Ak 5C 5.56mm carbine rifle, standard issue in the Swedish Armed Forces

Surface-to-surface missiles

Ground Launched Small Diameter Bomb (GLSDB)

Artillery shells

Naval Systems

Cannons

Anti-ship missiles

Aerial Systems

Anti-air systems

Bofors 40 mm
RBS 70 SAM system
RBS 23 BAMSE SAM system
ASRAD-R

Air-air missiles

IRIS-T (international collaboration, Aircraft Interface Unit and Signal Processing Unit provided by Saab Bofors Dynamics)^[2]
Meteor (international collaboration, active radar proximity fuze subsystem (PFS) provided by Saab Bofors Dynamics)^[3]

Cruise missiles

Taurus KEPD 350