Saab AB signed a contract with the Swedish Defence Material Administration for a regular, yearly overhaul and modification of the Swedish Navy’s two Stockholm-class corvettes, the company said Friday.
The order covers 2016-2017 with the corvette work to be undertaken in Karlskrona, Sweden. The contract provides for the technical detail design and execution of the annual overhaul and modification program.
Saab is set to conduct the overhaul and modification program for the HMS Stockholm and HMS Malmö. After the modifications are complete ships are to be classified as warships intended primarily for maritime surveillance. Both ships were built as the Karlskrona shipyard in the 1980s and entered service in 1985. Both vessels went underwent a midlife upgrade in 2002.
“HMS Stockholm and HMS Malmö are fine examples of how a good basic design combines with planned maintenance and modifications to deliver low lifecycle costs and longer operational deployment,” Gunnar Wieslander, head of the Saab Kockums business unit, said in a statement.