This week, Air Force Commander Jonas Wikman visited the Helicopter Flotilla at Malmen and now he was able to announce that the Air Force’s investigation is complete.
See and hear more in the video above.
Linköping thus lost the tug-of-war over the new radar reconnaissance and control aircraft, which receive the military designation S106.
Both the Special Aviation Squadron’s staff and leading East Göteborg politicians have flagged that important competence may be lost if GlobalEye is not based in Linköping.
– I fully understand that aspect. It is also one of our main risks and an area that is carefully investigated, says Major General Jonas Wikman.
Share runway at Arlanda
The fact that a high-profile military capability such as Global Eye has to share a runway with the civil air traffic at Arlanda is nothing that worries Wikman.
– Arlanda will only be a part, we have several bases. And we will adapt the base based on the threat picture.
So GlobalEye will be portable.
– Absolutely.
Planned to be operational in 2027
In 2022, the Armed Forces got the go-ahead from the government and ordered two GlobalEye planes from Saab for an order value of around SEK 7.3 billion. Production of the state-of-the-art planes is now in full swing and the system is expected to be operational in 2027.