Saab has unveiled a modified version of one of its Model 340 commuter airliners as a demonstrator for the maritime security mission.
The company has turned the Saab 340 twin-engined airliner into a multi-mission aircraft fitted out with a surface-search radar and an EO/IR turret. With the equipment the aircraft has been designed to take on a variety of missions including maritime surveillance, fisheries protection, piracy prevention and SAR.
Joakim Mevius, head of special mission aircraft programmes at Saab, said he believed there was a market for between 50 and 100 aircraft over the next 10 to 15 years and