Carl-Gustaf® M4 weapons
Saab has received an order from the Australian Department of Defence for the supply of additional Carl-Gustaf® M4 weapons. The order value is AUD 56 million with deliveries during 2024-2025. The Carl-Gustaf M4 weapons will be delivered with Saab’s new Fire Control Device, FCD 558.
“This order continues Saab’s longstanding relationship with the Australian Defence Force and again demonstrates the diverse range of products and services we offer,” said Saab Australia Managing Director, Andy Keough CSC.
“We are proud to deliver modern and user-focused weapon systems that ensure the ADF’s ability to meet a wide range of challenges on the battlefield. Saab’s support for the ADF extends from these advanced weapons through to ground based air defence solutions, battle management systems and world-leading deployable health and infrastructure services.”
Proven to deliver results on the battlefield, Carl-Gustaf provides the effectiveness soldiers need. The wide range of ammunition types for
makes it flexible and able to handle any situation, whether it is to destroy an armoured vehicle or structure, or illuminating the battlefield during night operations.
The Carl-Gustaf system is supplied to more than 40 countries around the world.
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Why buy this weapon system when this firm refused to supply ammunitions for the earlier version due to our involvement in the Vietnam war
The Department may have short memories but us regular army Vietnam veterans don’t
Ahhhh – I’ve been waiting for this one for years. The “Sweden refused to supply Australia during Vietnam” is one of the great enduring myths of the local defence environment. It has been passed down from generation to generation. What the Swedes did – to comply with their laws about not selling to nations involved in a war – was a deft bit of paperwork to change the order booking for Carl Gustav ammunition from Australia to the Australian High Commission in London. This meant that by a quirky but permissible interpretation of Swedish law, the ammunition was going to the UK – the Brits weren’t involved in Vietnam – rather than to Australia. Rest assured, the ammunition continued to be delivered but the Australians had to remain silent on the matter so as not to publicly embarrass the Swedish government, which continued to do the right thing. However as far as the general public were concerned – and the 99.5% of Army who didn’t know about this diplomatic sleight of hand – the report of the supposed non-delivery of ammunition was established as fact. This endures until today – obviously – and will continue to last forever, unless more people read what I have just written.
Any problems that Australian forces had with the unavailability of Carl-Gustav ammunition – and I’m not aware of any – would have been because of the Australian logistic system and not with supplies from Sweden. This exceedingly rare LA Times story from 1988 backs this up (even though they report it was all unofficial in Sweden) and I urge people to share it: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-04-17-mn-1899-story.html