The Czech Republic ordered 24 Saab MSHORAD system in July 2025, and will be delivered in 2028-2030. The contract is valued at SEK 1.8 billion.[3][4]
Each fire unit is made of 2 vehicles:
a MARS S-330 "Mobile Firing Unit", equipped with a launcher with 3 RBS 70NG missiles ready to fire.
a MARS S-330 "Mobile Radar Units", equipped with the GBAD C2 (command and control) system and a Saab Giraffe 1X radar.Saab M-SHORAD launcher on the Oshkosh JLTV
Sweden ordered 2 Saab MSHORAD system in January 2024, and will be delivered in 2024-2026. The contract is valued at SEK 300 million.[8][9] Each fire unit is made of 2 vehicles:
a Bv 410"Mobile Firing Unit", equipped with a launcher with 3 RBS 70NG missiles ready to fire.
a Bv 410"Mobile Radar Units", equipped with the GBAD C2 (command and control) system and a Saab Giraffe 1X radar.
Sweden ordered additional Saab MSHORAD systems in 2025, and will be delivered in 2027-2028. The contract is valued at SEK 1.5 billion.[10][11]
Each fire unit is made of 2 vehicles:
a Sisu GTP"Mobile Firing Unit", equipped with a launcher with 3 RBS 70NG missiles ready to fire.
a Sisu GTP"Mobile Radar Units", equipped with the GBAD C2 (command and control) system and a Saab Giraffe 1X radar.
The Iranian Armed Forces used a RBS 70 launcher based on a Land Rover Defender during its war against Iraq in the 1980s. It is believed that the system caused most of the aircraft losses of Iraq.[12]
RBS 70 ordered in 1979, delivered by 1981.[48][49]
RBS 70 missiles purchased from Norway in 2017.[50]
Modernisation of fire units (RBS 70 BOLIDE capable + BORC night-capability), new simulators and support ordered in June 2014 with deliveries in 2015. The contract was worth SEK 40 million.[51]
RBS 70 missiles ordered in June 2015, deliveries in 2015-16. The contract was worth SEK 270 million.[52] Trials took place in September 2017 with the new missiles.[53]
RBS 70 BOLIDE / NG ordered in December 2018, delivered in 2019-22. The contract was worth SEK 60 million.[54][55][56]
The Lithuanian Armed Forces are using the MANPADS variant of the RBS 70.[66]
The purchases are:
RBS 70 Mk1, 21 launchers, 260 missiles, 3 simulators purchased second hand from Norway in 2004.[67]
RBS 70 simulators ordered in December 2016, delivered in 2018.[68]
RBS 70 NG, modernisation of missiles and launchers with the BORC night-capability sights ordered in August 2018, delivered in 2019. The contract was worth SEK 100 million.[69]
RBS 70 NG framework agreement signed in October 2022, enabling deliveries until 2026. Firm orders:
October 2022, deliveries 2023-24. The contract was worth SEK 350 million (USD $31.4 million).[70]
Note: orders of mobile systems have taken place with the Saab MSHORAD.[66]
RBS 70 ordered at the Paris Air Show in 1979, delivered by 1981.[86] The contract was worth USD $30 million, for 60 launchers and 300 missiles.[87][88]
Missiles and missile launchers supplied to Ukraine since it has been invaded by Russia in 2022:
Sweden: Total of 100 launchers and more than 500 missiles supplied and promised as of July 2025.[89]
November 2022, Sweden decided to supply the RBS 70 to Ukraine.[90] At the end of 2022, Sweden started to train Ukrainian soldiers on the RBS 70 system.[91] These entered service in Ukraine in early 2023 at the same time as the Giraffe 75 radars.[92][93]
February 2025, additional RBS 70 systems for Ukraine.[94]
Aid to Ukraine with missiles that had been purchased since 1987 in multiple versions as they were retired in 2023 in the Australian Armed Forces.[95][96][97] The transfer took place in 2024, it includes RBS 70 NG missiles and launchers valued at USD $50 million.[98]
At the end of the 1970s and the early 1980s, the UAE purchased the first generation of the RBS-70 from Bofors AB in Singapore. Bofors AB was not authorised to export those missiles to Bahrain and the UAE.[88][102][103][104]
A total of 300 missiles were exported to both countries.[105]
Orders and upgrades of the RBS 70 when it was in service in Norway, according to SIPRI:
RBS 70, 110 launchers, 550 missiles ordered in 1978, delivered between 1981 and 1984. The contract was worth SEK 400 million.[120]
RBS 70, around 1,000 missiles ordered in 1985, delivered between 1987 and 1990. The contract was worth SEK 700 million.[121]
RBS 70, around 250 missiles ordered in 1987, delivered between 1989 and 1990.[122]
RBS 70 Mk2, around 1,000 missiles ordered in 1988, delivered between 1990 and 1992. The contract was worth SEK 500 million.[123]
RBS 70 Mk2, around 2,000 missiles ordered in 1989, delivered between 1991 and 1994. The contract was worth USD 124 million.[124] Part of the production took place at the Kongsberg Våpenfabrikk.
1 2 Prime Minister of Ukraine Denys Shmyhal; Minister for Defence Richard Marles (27 April 2024). Joint press conference, Lviv, Ukraine (Speech). Department of Defence Ministers. Australian Government. Retrieved 5 June 2025.
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