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16 November 2023
by Kate Tringham
HSwMS
Artemis
will replace HSwMS
Orion
as Sweden’s signals intelligence resource at sea.
(Saab/Glenn Pettersson)
The Royal Swedish Navy (RSwN) has taken delivery of its first new signals intelligence (SIGINT) ship, HSwMS Artemis (A 202).
The new vessel was formally handed over by the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration (FMV) in Karlskrona, on 15 November, FMV announced the same day.
Artemis will replace the RSwN’s existing SIGINT vessel HSwMS Orion (A 201), which has been in service since the early 1980s. As with its predecessor, Artemis will be used primarily to monitor and analyse communications traffic in the Baltic region.
Artemis is the first of two SIGINT vessels being built by Saab under a contract awarded by FMV in 2017. The ship was partially built in Poland at Nauta Shiprepair Yard under subcontract to Saab in 2018 and was originally planned to enter service in 2020. However, following its launch in April 2019 Nauta ran into financial difficulties and Artemis
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