NATO to acquire up to 10 Saab GlobalEye

[Falcon26]

Turkey has so many projects.... The AEW&C market remains narrow, and already well occuped. No way.

Tell us about your upgraded Netra. When will it enter service?

 

[BonPlan]

Tell us about your upgraded Netra. When will it enter service?

What is it ?

 

[Falcon26]

What is it ?

Rakesh being funny is cute

 

[Colt_Six_Nine]

Yeah, and once you count Israeli and Western subsystems and throw on their homegrown stuff it really is a massive clusterf**k mix of stuff. I think their biggest challenge will be creating one true network that can talk to AEW, SAMS, Fighterst metc

The "Make in India" doesn't really help the Indian military in the short run either. Pakistan has up to an extent accepted their R&D/production resources and picked off the shelf solutions that benefit from economies of scale.
I admire Indians for their "can do" and "Make in India" mindset but talent alone can't catch up to decades of R&D and production experience that the West has.

 

[Colt_Six_Nine]

The Indians are planning on going big with the Rafales, and they also have a fleet of Mirages so the E7s can integrate with them and form a high quality integrated "pod" of capability. 150( i have not kept track) odd Rafales in total that they are planning alone can justify a fleet of E7 to back them up. The UK has 4-5 for the same fleet size of Typhoons and F-35s.

This can form as a capability bridge, until they get their own link up and running and integrated onto their own platforms and their existing Russian fleet.

All this of course assumes that the Indian's apply some "common sense" in their procurement programmes, which "thankfully" they have demonstrated that they cannot!

France itself went with the GlobalEye over E-7. Not to say that the E-7 was not up to the mark or anything. E-7 seems to be in use with air forces that primarily run American fighters.

Maybe India's 5th gen fighter will decide what India chooses?

 

[Colt_Six_Nine]

27 July 2026

Saab has received an order for two GlobalEye aircraft from a country in the Middle East region. The order value is SEK 10.1 billion (~ USD 1 billion), and deliveries will take place in 2030.

Saab receives order for GlobalEye

Saab has received an order for two GlobalEye aircraft from a country in the Middle East region. The order value is SEK 10.1 billion, and deliveries will take place in 2030.

www.saab.com

 

[Colt_Six_Nine]

With ~20 GlobalEye orders and options for 3-4 more, it would make sense to upgrade the platform with in-flight refueling.

NATO: ~10 aircraft
Canada: ~6 aircraft (pending final decision)
Sweden: 3 aircraft, 1 option
France : 2 aircraft, 2 option

Updated:
NATO: ~10 aircraft
Canada: ~6 aircraft (pending final decision)
Sweden: 3 aircraft, 1 option
France: 2 aircraft, 2 option
Middle East: 2 aircraft

 

[Colt_Six_Nine]

Likely for Saudi or Qatar.

I believe Saudi has Saab Erieye 2000 already in service and their Boeing E-3 Sentrys are getting older like everyone else's. Saab GlobalEye could be a good replacement.

Qatar has no AEW&C platform in service. Saab GlobalEye could be a good platform to induct.

UAE already has a fleet of 5 Saab GlobalEye.

 

[Ali_Baba]

Likely for Saudi or Qatar.

I believe Saudi has Saab Erieye 2000 already in service and their Boeing E-3 Sentrys are getting older like everyone else's. Saab GlobalEye could be a good replacement.

Qatar has no AEW&C platform in service. Saab GlobalEye could be a good platform to induct.

UAE already has a fleet of 5 Saab GlobalEye.

Some of UAE's GlobalEyes were destroyed in an attack from Iran apparently - so we can't really dismiss these being attrition replacements right now.