LENNART SINDAHL Deputy CEO Saab AB GRIPEN UPDATE - FARNBOROUGH 2014
Jan 22, 2015
LENNART SINDAHL Deputy CEO Saab AB GRIPEN UPDATE - FARNBOROUGH 2014
Gripen E Programme Update
Gripen On The Future Battlefield
Gripen Beyond 2025
Saab’s Strategic Airpower Roadmap
Conclusions
AGENDA
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TODAY’S GRIPEN IS ALREADY
TOMORROW’S FIGHTER
We continue to upgrade and enhance the current
Gripen generation. It is already the world’s most
flexible and adaptable fighter design.
Addition of operational Meteor capability in
2014/2015 makes Gripen the most formidable
counter air platform in service, anywhere.
MS20 will further expand its range of operational
capabilities, not only Meteor but also SDB,
enhanced EW, enhanced radar modes…
All development experience feeds into Gripen E
and vice versa – the generations evolve around
each other.
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2019 2020 2021 2022 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013
Training, support and maintenance systems
Aircraft deliveries
39-7 39-8 39-9 39-10
Test aircraft
Version
21
Version
22 Development and verification
GRIPEN E PROGRAMME
Certification
Tactical rigs
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GRIPEN DEMO/TEST AIRCRAFT 39-7
Technical summary Gripen 39-7
• First flight on May 27 2008
• 281 sorties performed, 274 hours flown
• Flight envelope (highlights)
• Supercruise
• Leh airbase India, altitude 3,300 m
Current operations Gripen 39-7
• IRST initial flight test concluded further trials ongoing
• AESA production-standard radar initial flight test
concluded and further trials ongoing
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Rigs and simulators Main purpose: Open architecture avionics, general vehicle systems
Status: Ongoing test
39-7 Main purpose: Avionics, AESA, IRST
Status: Ongoing flight test
39-8 Main purpose: Airframe, vehicle systems and FCS development and verification
Status:
• Systems and airframe at CDR-level
• Manufacturing of parts ongoing
• Assembly initiated
39-9 Main purpose: Tactical systems development and verification
Status:
• All systems defined
• Parts manufacturing ongoing
39-10 Main purpose: Final verification of 39E airframe (weight reduction + full life) and systems
Status:
• Systems design initiated
• Airframe
GRIPEN E TEST ASSETS
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Survivability New sensors
IRST, AESA-radar
General System Upgrade
Increased payload
Communication
Performance New engine F414G
Increased Range Increased internal fuel
New Avionic system New architecture
New Displays
New Computers
HMI/Sensor fusion
GRIPEN E STRENGTHENED CAPABILITIES
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’FIFTH GENERATION’ VERSUS THE GRIPEN
Narrow-band stealth through fixed, unadaptable
airframe design.
Weapons load severely compromised by design.
Providers rigidly controlled.
Airframe design compromises guarantee sub-
optimal flight performance.
Minimal EW provision.
Connectivity with any other forces unknown.
System control conceded to foreign
government/corporation.
Massive, complicated, expensive and unreliable
logistical footprint at large facilities, probably not
under your control.
Unbelievable acquisition and operational costs.
Balanced signature with multi-role, adaptable
airframe.
Total freedom in weapons choice, supplier,
integration and configuration.
No engine/airframe design compromises,
performance drove the design.
Maximum EW provision.
Connectivity with all other forces, air, land and
sea: guaranteed.
National sovereignty guaranteed with handover
of full software ownership.
Tiny operational and support footprint from
warbase/roadbase if required, with full
ownership and oversight.
Unbelievable acquisition and operational costs.
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A WORD ON…
COUNTER-STEALTH
Stealthy fighters are not invisible.
- just more difficult to detect at certain RF frequencies.
Low signatures at VHF/UHF frequencies are very
difficult to achieve.
The limitations of ‘stealthy’ design, particularly when it
comes to rigid, airframe shaping, are now well
understood. It’s not a secret and technology (different
radars, better processing, sensor fusion) will defeat
stealth… it may already have.
We can see that advanced IR sensors fused with AESA
radars will be very useful for counter-stealth detection
and targeting, over significant ranges.
Nebo SVU VHF Digital AESA
Tikhomirov NIIP L-Band AESA
IR image (@ Farnborough Air Show)
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GRIPEN ON THE FUTURE
BATTLEFIELD
SCENARIO 1 – SILENT BATTLEFIELD
Combat and survival in the hostile RF arena
SCENARIO 2 – MULTI-ROLE 2.0
Deploy new weapons to maximum effect
SCENARIO 3 – DECENTRALISATION
Dispersed basing
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SCENARIO 1 – THE SILENT BATTLEFIELD Hide and fight in a hostile, intense RF environment.
High-speed, flexible, secure and effectively unjammable datalinks allow a few
aircraft to provide the eyes for the many.
In datalinked, loose formations can provide co-operative targeting of weapons and
co-operative jamming over wide areas.
Gripen can rely on accurate target data from passive sensors • IRST, passive radar, ESM
• Enablers
• Improved angular accuracy
• Enhanced sensitivity – detection range, LPI-modes
• Improved computational capacity – low FAR, LPI-modes, predictions
Aircraft connectivity provides protection from hostile passive sensors • Operate in cloud, but maintain complete SA
• Silent behaviour
• Electronic emission control
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THE SILENT BATTLEFIELD THE CHALLENGE:
STAY QUIET AND COVERT UNTIL YOU’RE READY TO STRIKE
You will need:
Active tactics with
passive sensors
– not simple stealth
New or enhanced
sensors and
datalinks
You will need:
Smart communication
between air land and sea,
remaining always undetected
and unjammed
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THE SILENT BATTLEFIELD THE GRIPEN SOLUTION:
COVERT OPERATIONS AND ADVANCED SENSOR INTEGRATION
Gripen features:
State-of-the-art sensor
suite with aircraft
operating ‘nose cold’
Multi-sensor fusion and
control, from multiple
sources, shared on
‘fighter link’
Open, flexible platform
and balanced design
Ground-based and airborne
surveillance provides situational
awareness and target location
Smart, directional communication
between fighters and surveillance
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SCENARIO 2 – MULTI-ROLE 2.0 Multi-role aircraft with multi-functions weapons, supported by an advanced onboard
targeting sensor suite.
The future is… modular weapons
• Different seekers, fuzes, warheads -- swapped before each mission
• Development demands low-cost testing integration and manufacturing
The future is… multi-target weapons
• Same missile for DEAD and air-to-air
• Same missile for air-to-ground and anti-ship missions
The future is… intelligent weapons
• Communication between weapons
• Weapons with ESM and ECM, i.e. ’MALD with warhead’
• Weapons with sub-weapons– loitering cruise missile with multiple payloads
• ISR capability in the weapon
In a future where weapons capability will need to constantly evolve to meet new threats,
only Gripen provides an affordable path to rapid (and successful) integration of new
airborne weapons
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MULTI-ROLE 2.0 THE CHALLENGE:
BE PREPARED TO CARRY NEW PAYLOADS… THAT HAVEN’T BEEN INVENTED YET
You will need:
The ability to quickly and safely
integrate new payloads
Maximum envelope clearance at
minimum cost
A multirole platform that can fully
support evolving weapons and tactics
Airframe flexability to carry new and
challenging loads
Onboard sensors and systems that can
support new modes of operation
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MULTI-ROLE 2.0 THE GRIPEN SOLUTION:
FAST, EFFICIENT AND SAFE FUTURE PAYLOAD INTEGRATION
The flexible Gripen platform provides:
Proven speedy integration of
new payloads from multiple sources
Sovereign control of weapons options
and applications
Unrivalled multi-role and
multi-sensor fusion capabilities,
properly adapted to operators needs
A cost-efficient way to increase combat power
and survivability
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SCENARIO 3 – DECENTRALISATION Flexible basing is the key to survivability. In a conflict, air bases are little more than
large, expensive targets.
Against a serious opponent, forces need to deploy to survive, but don’t want to
admit this.
Increasingly, air forces also need to deploy air power to areas where there is little
or no infrastructure.
Dispersed basing provides protection from attack and a highly flexible and
unpredictable response to aggressors.
Dispersed basing allows small air forces to cover wide areas and/or diverse terrain.
It gives commanders freedom of movement and the ability to act within a short
decision cycle.
Dispersed basing demands a mastery of secure comms and close datalink
integration.
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DECENTRALISATION THE CHALLENGE:
SECURE YOUR AIRPOWER, AND YOUR NATION, AGAINST DETIRMINED ATTACK
Requirement:
Maximise effectiveness of available aircraft
Easily redeploy to alternate bases
Sustain operations from austere
locations
Rapidly reconfigure existing aircraft
Retain command and control
authority over all forces
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DECENTRALISATION THE GRIPEN SOLUTION:
HIGHLY AVAILABLE, FAST-MOVING UNITS, ALTERNATE DEPLOYABILITY
Gripen features:
A high sortie rate over extended periods of operation
Very small logistic footprint
True multi-role capacity combined with very short
turnaround times
Reliable connectivity with other dispersed forces and
command authority
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IN BRIEF… SCENARIO 1 – SILENT BATTLEFIELD
THE GRIPEN SOLUTION: Covert operations and advanced sensor integration.
Smart use of emitting and non-emitting sensors with datalinked tactics over a very wide
battlefront.
SCENARIO 2 – MULTI-ROLE 2.0
THE GRIPEN SOLUTION: Fast, efficient and safe future payload integration.
Without weapons fighters are worthless. Gripen keeps air forces future-proof by adapting
swiftly to new requirements.
SCENARIO 3 – DECENTRALISATION
THE GRIPEN SOLUTION: Highly available, fast-moving units, alternate deployability.
Stay on the move, stay alive and always be flexible for contingency ops.
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GRIPEN E+/F+
SEA GRIPEN
UNMANNED
PAST EXPERIENCE FOR FUTURE SUCCESS
GRIPEN A/B
GRIPEN C/D DEMONSTRATOR
2040+
Gripen facilitates continuous
stepwise upgrades to meet
capability requirements
GRIPEN E/F
GRIPEN C/D+
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FUTURE AIRLINERS
NEW COOPERATIONS
MANNED AND UNMANNED FCAS
AERONAUTICS ROADMAP
GRIPEN
ADVANCED TRAINER
SURVEILLANCE UAS TACTICAL UAS
NEW CONCEPTS
SYSTEMS
AEROSTRUCTURES
STRUCTURE & PRODUCTION
CAPABILITIES AND R&T
DEMONSTRATORS SYSTEMS
STRUCTURE & PRODUCTION
SYSTEM OF SYSTEMS
NEW CONCEPTS
C/D E A/B F E/F+
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CONCLUSIONS
Saab is now the guarantor of Sweden’s defence technology and a unique provider of complete,
fully integrated, strategic and tactical systems in the air, on land, at sea … and soon, under the
sea.
Gripen is at the heart of that strategic technology offering.
Gripen has a clearly defined and properly funded development path for decades.
It continues to be the world’s only fighter programme to move forward on time and on budget.
Gripen is the Smart Fighter, remaining totally operationally relevent throughout the 21st century.
Saab will continue to provide a truly effective, affordable and sovereign choice – with a product
that actually works.
For a smart customer, Gripen is the only viable way to sustain your effective air power over the
coming decades.
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