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Home» News»Swedish Navy tests Saab Enforcer III USV during exercise
Swedish Navy tests Saab Enforcer III USV during exercise
Saab Enforcer-III unmanned sea vessel (Saab photo)

Swedish Navy tests Saab Enforcer III USV during exercise

Saab's test platform for the development of autonomous functions Enforcer III, which was converted from the Combat Boat 90, was tested in a joint trial by Saab and the Swedish Navy in the southern Baltic Sea.

Naval News Staff 09 Sep 2022

Saab press release

Unmanned technology is under rapid development and future Swedish corvette divisions could be made up of a combination of manned and unmanned platforms. The unmanned platform makes the manned platform more efficient and reduces the risks to units and staff.

Saab Enforcer III contains techniques for improved navigation support and possibilities to operate it unmanned. It can be used for advanced reconnaissance. This is when you send the boat out on long distances and it delivers useful information with assistance from radar and camera.

For security reasons, there is a crew onboard during the tests, but the boat’s operations are directed from the corvette HMS Nyköping. The targets discovered by Enforcer III are sent to Saab’s staff on the corvette, and they then transfer them to the ship.

“We have used Enforcer III tactically for advanced reconnaissance. We are then able to be more withdrawn and radar silent. That makes my ship far more difficult to localise for the enemy.”


Viktor Tornerhjelm, commanding officer of HMS Nyköping
Swedish Navy tests Saab Enforcer III USV during exercise

“A risk assessment is made every time you send out a boat and today we always have people onboard. But we see that it is now possible to send unmanned boats out in higher risk scenarios. The Swedish Navy is examining how autonomous platforms can fit in with their existing operations and that is where we come in to create the technology and the possibilities. We look forward to receiving feedback from the exercise.”


Jens-Olof Lindh, Project Manager at Saab
Saab USV 2022-09-09
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