Special Report: Saab increases production as Sweden scopes threats – Janes

A fully automated Saab production line for tubes for AT4 infantry support weapons, part of new investments by the Saab Dynamics business area. (Saab) Sweden is facing the need for adaptation and is examining defence industrial capacity as potential lessons from current conflicts become more apparent, figures from Saab and the Swedish Armed Forces have told Janes . Major General Jonny Lindfors, chief of army of the Swedish Armed Forces, said during a media briefing in May 2026 that Sweden was backfilling its stockpiles after the peace dividend and amid donations of equipment to Ukraine. Specific areas of capability investment include wet gap crossing and mobility within Sweden, Maj Gen Lindfors said. Another is creating a modern anti-access/area-denial (A2/AD) bubble in the Baltic. Both the internal national mobility for forces and the A2/AD bubble are part of increased focus on defending Sweden, Finland, and Norway (from 7 March 2024 all NATO members) from a potential Russian invasion. Maj Gen Lindfors no longer sees such an invasion as remote a possibility as he did before 2022. Sweden has around 60,000 full time soldiers and around 20,000 in the home guard. Should it come, Maj Gen Lindfors said, “we need to learn
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