On Wednesday, April 8, 2026, Naval Port Command Gdynia published notice of the conclusion of a contract worth 64,600,000 EUR (274,446,971 PLN) with the Swedish company Saab Dynamics AB (part of Saab Defence and Security) for the intermediate-level overhaul of RBS15 Mk3 guided anti-ship missiles.
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The contract was negotiated without prior publication of a contract notice. The contracting authority had set the procurement budget at 229,589,050 PLN net (282,394,531.50 PLN gross). The final negotiated price was 10,947,560.50 PLN gross lower. The relevant contract was signed on March 11 of this year. The subject and scope of the contract are defined in Annex No. 5 to the invitation to tender draft contract. The completion date is July 15, 2031. The work will be carried out at the facilities of the German company Diehl Defence in Überlingen, Baden-Württemberg, which serves as a subcontractor to Saab Dynamics.
It should be recalled that in October 2006, the then Armaments Inspectorate of the Ministry of National Defence, now the Armament Agency, ordered a batch of 36 RBS15 Mk3 combat missiles from the Saab–Diehl Defence consortium. These were later introduced into service with three modernized Project 660M missile craft of the 161 Orkan class, NATO reporting name Sassnitz: ORP Orkan, Piorun, and Grom, assigned to the Gdynia Combat Ship Division of the 3rd Ship Flotilla.
The missiles entered service on those vessels in 2015, as from 2008 they had temporarily operated RBS15 Mk2 missiles transferred by the Swedish Navy, while deliveries of the Mk3 variant began late in 2011. Each ship can carry up to eight missiles, although the standard combat load is four.
The Polish Navy also received two telemetry missiles for live-fire trials, which were conducted on August 31 and September 1, 2021, at the Swedish naval missile test range Test och evaluering provplatser near Härnösand. Earlier, in March 2017, Naval Port Command Gdynia and Saab Dynamics AB, in cooperation with Diehl Defence, carried out verification tests worth the equivalent of 13.3 million PLN.
The RBS15 Mk3 missiles weigh 800 kg, while the enhanced-penetration high-explosive fragmentation warhead with an insensitive explosive charge weighs 200 kg. They are guided by inertial navigation and by radar in a fire-and-forget mode in all weather conditions. Their strike range is 200 km, and they can also engage land targets if necessary. To penetrate enemy defenses, the missiles are fitted with electronic counter-countermeasures, ECCM.
The newest variant in the family is the RBS15 Mk4 Gungnir.
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