The Swedish company Saab and General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) from the USA have successfully completed the maiden flight of the world’s first unmanned Airborne Early Warning (AEW) aircraft. This significant milestone was achieved […]
On 30 April 2026, the Saab company announced on its website that Magyar Légierő (the Hungarian Air Force – HunAF) had received two new JAS 39 Gripen C fighters. The delivered aircraft are going to […]
On 30 December 2025, Saab announced that it had signed a contract with Direction Générale de l’Armement (DGA — the French General Directorate of Armaments) for the purchase of two GlobalEye Airborne Early Warning and […]
In November 2025, Força Aérea Brasileira (FAB – the Brazilian Air Force) reached a significant milestone by successfully firing the METEOR Beyond Visual Range Air-to-Air Missiles (BVRAAM) from a Gripen E aircraft for the first […]
On 21 November 2025, the Swedish company Saab announced that it had signed a global cooperation agreement with Canadian Aviation Electronics Inc. (CAE), to work together on providing advanced training specifically designed for Saab´s Airborne […]
“Our country should manufacture its own weapons as much as possible. We have good shipyards and armouries, but no domestic production of warplanes”, it was these words, spoken by Per Albin Hansson in 1936, that […]
On 9 December 1988, the light multirole fighter JAS 39, developed by the Swedish aerospace company Saab AB, performed its maiden flight. The aeroplane was flown by Stig Holmström, a company test pilot. Yet in […]
On 25th October 1955, the Swedish fighter-interceptor Saab 35 Draken, performed its first flight. Development of the new Swedish supersonic interceptor, intended to replace both Saab 29 Tunnan and Saab 32B Lansen fighter aircraft, began […]
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