Stockholm — Swedish aerospace and defence company Saab has received an order worth approximately SEK 2.9 billion ($300 million) from the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration (FMV) for continued concept and development work on Sweden’s future fighter system.
The contract covers 2026 to 2028, with options to extend the work through 2029 and 2030. It is the third major order under Sweden’s Koncept för Framtida Stridsflyg (KFS) programme, also known as Vägval stridsflyg, which is intended to support decisions on the country’s air combat capabilities beyond 2040.
The programme will include flying and ground-based technology demonstrators, advanced studies and development of future system concepts for both manned and unmanned aircraft. Saab will focus on technologies including systems integration, autonomy, propulsion, digital development, signature adaptation and future production capabilities.
The work is also intended to build Swedish technical competence, reduce technical risks through early testing and maintain freedom of action for future choices in air combat capabilities.
Lars Tossman, head of Saab’s Aeronautics business area, said: “We are very pleased that FMV continues to show confidence in Saab through this new contract. The work is crucial to further develop and demonstrate new technologies that will be central to future fighter system.”
The latest order follows an initial contract signed in March 2024 and a SEK 2.6 billion follow-on order awarded in October 2025 for work covering 2025 to 2027. The latest agreement brings the value of the two publicly disclosed 2025 and 2026 orders to approximately SEK 5.5 billion.
Sweden began pursuing its own national future fighter concept work after withdrawing from the UK-led Team Tempest project in 2023, now known as the Global Combat Air Programme (GCAP). Saab has previously outlined future F-series concepts involving a manned fighter intended to eventually succeed or operate alongside the Gripen fleet, as well as subsonic and supersonic unmanned aircraft.
The latest KFS contract continues Sweden’s effort to develop and demonstrate future combat aviation technologies while keeping options open before any final decisions on the country’s future fighter system.
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