The RBS 23, designated BAMSE for Bofors Advanced Missile System Evaluation, is a Swedish medium-range, all-weather air defense system developed by Bofors and Ericsson Microwave Systems, now both part of Saab. It protects military facilities, ground forces and key infrastructure against small, fast targets such as attack missiles, anti-radiation missiles, drones and cruise missiles. A surveillance and control center with a Giraffe 3D radar coordinates two to four missile control centers carrying six ready-to-fire missiles each. The missile is derived from the RBS 70 but is radar command guided, and its range is 20 kilometers. Sweden ordered the system in 2000 with deliveries from 2002, and it entered Swedish Army use on 1 July 2019 with units on Gotland.
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Weapon Class
Weapon Class (category) Classification
Service Status Introduced Year Sources
1. RBS 23 (source article)
Lead
medium range, all-weather capable air defense system
Deployment
deliveries started in 2002
Deployment [service-status]
the system was taken into Swedish Army use
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