SAAB SKA ASM

[A Tentative Fleet Plan]

The new missile is one of three proposals awaiting government decision. The other two are the SKA ship-to-ship coastal artillery attack missile and the Saab 05B, a TV-guided variant of the earlier Saab 05A command-guided attack missile. The SKA is an advanced multi-mission launch-and-leave weapon, apparently similar to the U.S. Navy McDonnell Douglas Harpoon in its capability to be launched from the air or surface against naval targets.

Does anyone know what the SKA would have looked like? Did it eventually become RBS-15 or was it a separate project?

 

[TomS]

The new missile is one of three proposals awaiting government decision. The other two are the SKA ship-to-ship coastal artillery attack missile and the Saab 05B, a TV-guided variant of the earlier Saab 05A command-guided attack missile. The SKA is an advanced multi-mission launch-and-leave weapon, apparently similar to the U.S. Navy McDonnell Douglas Harpoon in its capability to be launched from the air or surface against naval targets.

Does anyone know what the SKA would have looked like? Did it eventually become RBS-15 or was it a separate project?

Timing is right for this to be RBS-04E Turbo, which essentially became RBS-15.

 

[JAZZ]

SKA

 

[overscan (PaulMM)]

Swedish Ska?

 

[TomS]

SKA

Fascinating. Not very much like Rb-04 or RBS-15. Configuration looks more like Otomat.

 

[blockhaj]

SKA

What source?

 

[JAZZ]

SKA

What source?

Rockets & Missiles - Bill Gunston,1979 P78

Test Launch 1978. 3rd Gen anti-ship missile disclosed at Paris Air Show 1975, 640kg and 40km range. terminated 1977.

 

[Grey Havoc]

Strange that the SKA program wasn't reactivated a few years later when the state of Sweden's defences became all too apparent.

 

[blockhaj]

1976 ad for what is assume is the "SKA"

 

[blockhaj]

Looking around regarding the name, SKA seems to mean skol-attack, "trainer-attack", which was a prefix Saab used for period aircraft projects intended for both roles. I think SKA here refers to the Saab 38 aircraft project which they were working on at the time, and ASM simply means anti-ship missile. SKA ASM = anti-ship missile for the projected SKA attacker-trainer aicraft.

Image from Facebook.

 

[Grey Havoc]

Could be.

 

[blockhaj]

Found this in a random PDF i have. Translation in red.

 

[blockhaj]

Found more about the rb11 in a different pdf.
Robot 11 is a Swedish robot, so far as a first preliminary project, prepared by SAAB. The starting weight is estimated to be approx. 640 kg, the length is 3.8 m and the warhead weight approx. 125 kg. A solid propellant-rocket engine gives an average speed of M 0.8 (274.4 m/s). The robot can make a course change of about 40 degrees after start. The range is about 35 km. It is designed to also be used in coastal artillery.

 

[blockhaj]

Well here we go, seems i am blind. In the same pdf as mentioned above, SKA stands for "Sjö-, Kust-, and Attackrobot" (Sea, Coastal and Attack missile).


This goes together with the ad above, minus the fourth image depicting it for air-to-air usage.