The Swedish Armed Forces' Loke C-UAS, with a detector and effector mounted on separate vehicles, seen at Enköping test area in March 2025. (Swedish Armed Forces)
The Swedish Air Force (SwAF), the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration (FMV), and Saab, together with partners, announced in March the successful evaluation of a counter-unmanned aircraft system (C-UAS) they call ‘Loke'.
Starting with a visit to a demonstration carried out by the defence industry, the goal set was to rapidly develop a mobile and flexible C-UAS capability.
Teams then put in intense work, creating and testing the system in 84 days, just under three months. Existing systems were combined to save time.
The Trackfire remote weapon station, already mounted on Royal Swedish Navy (RSwN) Combat Boat 90 platforms, was put on a 4×4 vehicle. It was armed with a heavy machine gun and a medium 7.62 mm FN MAG 58 machine gun. The system can also operate with electronic warfare effectors mounted on the same platform, the Swedish Armed Forces said in a press release.
A Saab Giraffe 1X X-band (8–12 GHz) 3D volume short-range air surveillance radar and short-range air defence (SHORAD) command-and-control (C2) system were mounted on a 6×6 vehicle. According to the Swedish Armed Forces, the radar can be moved between different vehicles and is protected against small-arms fire. The service added that the radar is envisaged as easily re-deployable for airbase defence, and is “scalable and can be expanded with more sensors or weapon stations and can also be active during movement”.
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