Saab’s Manpack 300 for Sweden
Saab will supply Manpack 300 training systems to the Swedish Army as part of a $6 million contract with the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration, the company announced on 20 April.
The systems will be delivered to most of the regiments in Sweden along with a number of networked base stations.
The Manpack 300 system, which comes with commercial 4G-functionality, is used for controlling, monitoring and collecting training data to analyse exercises. The base station comes in the form of mobile containers, giving the user the opportunity to deploy the equipment and practice anywhere.
Saab´s Exercise Control software tool will be included in all systems to be delivered. This software aids in the preparation, planning, execution, control and evaluatation of training exercises.
Åsa Thegström, head of training and simulation, Saab Dynamics, said: ‘With this order, the Swedish Army is upgrading and modernising its training capability. The new systems allow for larger geographical coverage for the training. It also ensures that radio communication can be recorded via the base stations, allowing the customer to evaluate that part of the training.
‘The Swedish Army has in recent years invested heavily in improving their training capability and strengthening their simulator portfolio. They have always been one of the leading users of simulators and with the new instrumented training systems, based on the latest 4G technology, they will place themselves at the forefront.’
Deliveries will take place at the end of 2018.
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