Saab to open new Sirius Compact production facility in Finland

Saab is to open a new production facility in Tampere, Finland, in 2025 in response to high demand for its Sirius Compact electronic warfare (EW) sensor, Saab announced on 16 January 2025.

First launched in 2022 and manufactured in Finland, Sirius Compact “has been well received by the market with significant deliveries scheduled for 2025”, Saab noted. In response to this high demand, Saab is now opening a new manufacturing facility in Tampere to cater for volume serial production of Sirius Compact sensors.

Saab’s footprint is growing, in Finland with a focus on research and development of EW capabilities. The company currently employs more than 200 people in Helsinki, Tampere and Turku: a footprint that has grown rapidly in recent years and continues to grow with planned recruitments. In addition to the Sirius Compact family of sensors, Saab Finland is delivering sensor network capabilities and threat library management tools supporting customers’ tactical electronic support measures (ESM) operations.

The Sirius Compact family of passive surveillance sensors enable detection, geolocation, classification and prioritisation of hostile radar (R-ESM) and communication (C-ESM) emitters, with variants dedicated to land, air and naval domains.