Saab RBS15 missile family has proven potential to meet the existing and future requirements of all branches within the Indian armed forces

The future of wars is going to compel defence establishments across the world to think big with more agile, precise, manoeuvrable and smaller but effective forces. The asymmetric nature of today’s military conflicts and emerging trends in the battle field environment necessitates holistic exploitation of the entire technological spectrum available to secure war winning advantages. Militaries today tend to walk the extra mile towards winning edge by harnessing the cruise missile technology even for high seas and land attacks.

Saab’s RBS15 missile family has proven potential to meet the existing and future requirements of all branches within the Indian armed forces. They come with unique flexibility and ability of being launched from various platforms. The RBS15F ER and the RBS15 Mk3 constituting the RBS15 family has the potential to become the common missile for many attack purposes.

The RBS15 Mk3 is the latest developed surface-to-surface (SSM) missile system. It is a true fire and forget multipurpose anti-ship/land attack, sea skimming, cruise type missile. The missile possesses a high hit probability due to a flexible pre-launch programmable active radar seeker. It has unique ECCM and defence penetration capabilities by an offset stealthy approach featuring a very low terminal trajectory with a set of evasive manoeuvres and re-attack. Thus, it is packed with all features that contribute to the missile’s high defence penetration capability.

The RBS15F ER is the air-launched missile in the RBS15 missile family. It can be launched from both fighter aircraft and reconnaissance aircraft. The performance of the two missiles are principally the same and they use the same software in the planning and fire control system.

The RBS15 missile is designed to operate in the naval scenario, from blue sea conditions to littoral warfare and in land attack missions. Launches can be made from ship, land and airborne platforms making it suitable for a wide spectrum of threat scenarios.

The long flight range and extremely flexible trajectory enables attacks from short distances to ranges well beyond the horizon. Attacks can also be mounted from different directions with pre-selected time of arrival for each missile as well as simultaneous arrival.