SAAB’S LEADERSHIP IN AEW&C HISTORY

Lars Tossman

Head of Airborne Surveillance Systems

Business Area Surveillance

Feb, 2018This document and the information contained herein is the property of Saab AB and must not be used, disclosed or altered without Saab AB prior consent.

AEW&C RETROSPECT

• High altitude coverage is easilyobtained with overlap from ground based radars

Map source:Google earth

AEW&C RETROSPECT

• Low level coverage requires a large number of radars

‒ With little or no overlap

Map source:Google earth

AEW&C RETROSPECT

Requirement from mid-eighties

• Gap filler for lost ground radar coverage

• Extension of early warning range

• Coverage in new threat directions

Map source:Google earth

KEYWORDS:COVERAGE & MOBILITY

NOT ONLY MILITARY TASKS – MULTI-MISSION OPERATIONS

PEACETIME CRISIS WAR

Hijack

shadowing

Protect

fishing zones

Drug

enforcement

Piracy

Backup of ATC Society

disaster

Event

protection

Refugees

VIP

Search & Rescue

Guerillas

Sabotage

Terror

Conflicts

Evacuation/

Mass exodus

Network Centric Warfare

Full scale conflict

THREATS IN CONSTANT CHANGE

• Threats continuously evolve

• Asymmetric actions are common

• Threats appear in all domains

• Targets become increasingly difficult to detect

• Safeguarding people and society today requires:

The ability to detect and track a wider

range of objects over extended range

AIRBORNE SURVEILLANCE STORY

AEW

AEW&C

GlobalEye

Swing RoleSurveillanceSystem

Basic requirements

1990 20102000 2015 2020

Requirements

• Autonomous

operation

• Improved slow

targets capability

Requirements

• Multi-role, Multi-mission

• Reclaiming the

distance

• Long endurance

• Extended early

warning

• Gap filler

• Mobility

Solution

• Additional fused sensors

• New radar Erieye ER

• Global 6000Solution

• Complete Mission

system with C2, COM

etc

• Upgraded radar

A radar on an

aircraft

Solution

PROVEN – ERIEYE HAS THE BIGGESTCUSTOMER BASE IN THE WORLD

SWEDEN

BRAZIL

MEXICO

GREECE

PAKISTAN

THAILAND

COUNTRY X

UAE

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