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Saab AB (publ) Class B
SAABBs · BCXE · Aerospace & Defense · Sweden
Saab AB (publ) Class B is the publicly traded B share class of the Swedish aerospace and defense company Saab AB (publ), founded in 1937 and headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden. It specializes in developing and delivering advanced products, services, and solutions for military defense, commercial aviation, and civil security markets globally. The company operates through key segments: Aeronautics, focusing on military and civil aviation technologies including manned and unmanned aircraft; Dynamics, providing ground combat weapons, missile systems, torpedoes, and unmanned underwater vehicles; Surveillance, offering safety, security, surveillance, and threat detection solutions; Kockums, developing naval solutions such as submarines and surface combatants; and Combitech, delivering systems integration, cybersecurity, and services to defense, telecom, and public sectors. Led by CEO Micael Johansson, Saab employs over 24,500 people and holds a significant market capitalization exceeding 279 billion SEK. With a robust order backlog and presence in electronic technology and industrials sectors, Saab AB (publ) Class B plays a pivotal role in the global defense industry amid rising military expenditures.
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Aerospace Supply Chain
The aerospace supply chain is governed by three root constraints that interact to produce extreme concentration, decades-long supplier lock-in, and a system where every component must be traceable from raw material to flight: certification requirements make every part a regulated article, product lifecycles measured in decades force suppliers to support platforms long after production ends, and integration complexity across millions of parts from thousands of suppliers creates coordination demands that few organizations can manage.
Defense Supply Chain
The defense supply chain is governed by three root constraints that interact to produce extreme supplier concentration, glacial production timelines, and a system where political decisions — not market demand — determine what gets built and how much: monopsony buyer structure means the government is typically the only customer, security classification requirements restrict who can manufacture, supply, and even know what is being produced, and production rate inflexibility means defense manufacturing runs at low volumes with specialized tooling where surge capacity barely exists because maintaining idle lines for contingencies has no commercial justification.