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bcp_version: "2.0.0"
file_type: claims
parent: https://registry.encodedbrands.ai/saab-b8a26b99/.well-known/brand.md
last_updated: "2026-10-29"
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# Claims

Each record quotes saab.com, a Saab press release or a Saab financial report as it stood on 2026-10-27. Scope is Saab AB group-wide unless the record says otherwise.

- `evidence_status: supported` means only that Saab publishes the statement, with the stated basis, at the cited source. Encoded Brands has not independently verified the underlying data.
- `brand_approval` is `unreviewed` throughout, because Saab has not reviewed this package.
- `permitted` is a use classification for demonstration copy. It is not legal, export-control or investor-relations clearance.

> **Legal and disclosure notice.** Saab is listed on Nasdaq Stockholm. Financial figures, orders and guidance are regulated disclosures (EU Market Abuse Regulation). Repeat them only as published, with the period or date, and never anticipate an unpublished result or order. Defence product claims can also touch export-control rules. Get review by Saab's accountable owner before any factual use, and re-check the cited page on the day of use.

Do not introduce product performance, order, customer, financial or headcount claims that are not in this file.

## Permitted

```yaml
permitted:
  - claim: "Saab's purpose is 'Keeping people and society safe.'"
    use_status: permitted
    evidence_status: supported
    brand_approval: unreviewed
    exact_text: true
    approved_language: "Keeping people and society safe."
    evidence: "https://www.saab.com/about/company-in-brief/purpose-and-values. Checked 2026-10-27."
  - claim: "Saab is a defence and security company. It serves governments, authorities and corporations with products, services and solutions ranging from military defence to civil security."
    use_status: permitted
    evidence_status: supported
    brand_approval: unreviewed
    evidence: "Press boilerplate ('Saab is a leading defence and security company …') and site meta/footer ('Saab serves the global market of governments, authorities and corporations with products, services and solutions ranging from military defence to civil security.'). Checked 2026-10-27."
  - claim: "Saab's core values are Trust, Drive and Expertise."
    use_status: permitted
    evidence_status: supported
    brand_approval: unreviewed
    evidence: "https://www.saab.com/about/company-in-brief/purpose-and-values. Checked 2026-10-27."
  - claim: "Saab was founded on 6 April 1937 to develop and manufacture combat aircraft."
    use_status: permitted
    evidence_status: supported
    brand_approval: unreviewed
    evidence: "https://www.saab.com/about/company-in-brief/history. Checked 2026-10-27."
  - claim: "Saab's Series B shares are listed on Nasdaq Stockholm (SAAB-B). Investor AB owns all Series A shares."
    use_status: permitted
    evidence_status: supported
    brand_approval: unreviewed
    evidence: "https://www.saab.com/about/corporate-governance and /investors/the-share ('All A shares are unlisted and owned by Investor AB'). Checked 2026-10-27."
  - claim: "Saab has four business areas: Aeronautics, Dynamics, Surveillance and Naval."
    use_status: permitted
    evidence_status: supported
    brand_approval: unreviewed
    evidence: "https://www.saab.com/about/company-in-brief/organisation. Naval was established effective 1 April 2026 (Q3 2026 interim report). Before that date the business area was Kockums."
    valid_from: "2026-04-01"
  - claim: "Saab's 2025 sales were SEK 79.1 billion and order bookings were a record SEK 168.5 billion."
    use_status: permitted
    evidence_status: supported
    brand_approval: unreviewed
    evidence: "https://www.saab.com/investors/annual-report-2025 (Annual Report 2025, published 3 Mar 2026). Always state the year."
  - claim: "Saab's order backlog was SEK 364 billion (SEK 364,223 million) at 30 September 2026."
    use_status: permitted
    evidence_status: supported
    brand_approval: unreviewed
    evidence: "Saab Q3 interim report 2026, published 23 Oct 2026, and /investors key figure ('Order backlog SEK bn 364, 30 September 2026'). Always state the date. The home-page 'Quick facts' still shows the year-end 2025 backlog (SEK 274,532 million)."
    valid_from: "2026-10-23"
  - claim: "Saab has customers in more than 100 countries and operations and employees in over 30 countries."
    use_status: permitted
    evidence_status: supported
    brand_approval: unreviewed
    evidence: "https://www.saab.com/about/company-in-brief/organisation and /investors/annual-report-2025. Checked 2026-10-27."
  - claim: "Saab does not develop, produce, market, sell or provide services for products prohibited under international treaties, including anti-personnel land-mines, cluster munitions and biological and chemical weapons."
    use_status: permitted
    evidence_status: supported
    brand_approval: unreviewed
    exact_text: true
    approved_language: "Saab does not develop, produce, market, sell or provide services for any products that are prohibited under international treaties, including anti-personnel land-mines, cluster munitions and biological and chemical weapons (sometimes referred to as \"controversial weapons\")."
    evidence: "https://www.saab.com/sustainability/resilient-and-safe-societies/export-compliance. Checked 2026-10-27."
  - claim: "Swedish export decisions on Saab products are made case by case by the Inspectorate of Strategic Products (ISP)."
    use_status: permitted
    evidence_status: supported
    brand_approval: unreviewed
    evidence: "https://www.saab.com/sustainability/resilient-and-safe-societies/export-compliance. The government agency decides. Saab does not authorise its own exports."
  - claim: "Saab's near-term climate targets were approved by the Science Based Targets initiative in December 2022: -42% Scope 1+2 emissions by 2030 against 2020, and -90% across Scope 1, 2 and 3 by 2050."
    use_status: permitted
    evidence_status: supported
    brand_approval: unreviewed
    evidence: "https://www.saab.com/sustainability/environmental-and-social-transition/climate. Checked 2026-10-27."
  - claim: "Poland ordered three A26-type submarines from Saab, with a total order value of about SEK 47 billion and final deliveries in 2038."
    use_status: permitted
    evidence_status: supported
    brand_approval: unreviewed
    evidence: "https://www.saab.com/newsroom/press-releases/2026/saab-receives-order-for-three-submarines-for-poland (29 Jun 2026)."
  - claim: "Saab signed a contract with FMV for 16 Gripen E for Ukraine, worth about SEK 24.6 billion, with deliveries to FMV in 2029–2030."
    use_status: permitted
    evidence_status: supported
    brand_approval: unreviewed
    evidence: "https://www.saab.com/newsroom/press-releases/2026/saab-signs-contract-for-gripen-e-for-ukraine (30 Jun 2026). The contract counterparty is FMV, the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration."
    caveat: "State it exactly this way: a contract with FMV, deliveries to FMV in 2029–2030. Do not imply a delivery date to Ukraine, an operational date, combat use or a political position. Pair with the political-neutrality and combat-effect rules in boundaries.md."
  - claim: "Gripen E/F: maximum take-off weight 16,500 kg, 10 hardpoints, GE F414G engine with 98 kN thrust, combat turnaround of 15–25 minutes."
    use_status: permitted
    evidence_status: supported
    brand_approval: unreviewed
    evidence: "https://www.saab.com/products/gripen-e-series (product page). Checked 2026-10-27."
  - claim: "Carl-Gustaf M4 weighs about 7 kg and is under 1 m long."
    use_status: permitted
    evidence_status: supported
    brand_approval: unreviewed
    evidence: "https://www.saab.com/products/carl-gustaf-m4. Write it as Carl-Gustaf®. Product tagline: 'One weapon. Any task.'"
  - claim: "Carl-Gustaf M4 is a man-portable, multi-role 84 mm recoilless weapon system. Its ammunition covers anti-armour, anti-structure, anti-personnel and support (smoke, illumination). It takes open, red dot and telescopic sights and advanced fire control devices, works with programmable ammunition, and fires all legacy Carl-Gustaf ammunition."
    use_status: permitted
    evidence_status: supported
    brand_approval: unreviewed
    evidence: "https://www.saab.com/products/carl-gustaf-m4 (retrieved 2026-10-27): technical specifications table; 'backward-compatible with all legacy Carl-Gustaf ammunition'; 'Every munition for Carl-Gustaf has a calibre of 84 mm'."
    caveat: "Reusable is a fair reading of a recoilless rifle with a maintenance kit, but the page does not use the word; say 'fires a range of rounds' rather than quoting a service life or round count."
  - claim: "Saab sells Carl-Gustaf as a complete package: weapon, sights, ammunition, training and support. Training uses sub-calibre and full-calibre practice rounds and indoor and outdoor simulators."
    use_status: permitted
    evidence_status: supported
    brand_approval: unreviewed
    evidence: "https://www.saab.com/products/carl-gustaf-m4 (retrieved 2026-10-27)."
  - claim: "Carl-Gustaf M4 has 24 customers, including Sweden, the US and Australia. The US Army designation is M3A1; in Sweden it is GRG m/18."
    use_status: permitted
    evidence_status: supported
    brand_approval: unreviewed
    evidence: "https://www.saab.com/products/carl-gustaf-m4 ('As of today Carl-Gustaf M4 has 24 customers including Sweden, US and Australia'; retrieved 2026-10-27)."
    caveat: "Customer count is as stated on the page on 2026-10-27; recheck before reuse. Name only the three customers the page names."
  - claim: "HEAT 758 is a Carl-Gustaf anti-tank round with a pre-charge for Explosive Reactive Armour and a main charge that penetrates up to 700 mm of armour."
    use_status: permitted
    evidence_status: supported
    brand_approval: unreviewed
    evidence: "https://www.saab.com/products/carl-gustaf-m4 (HEAT 758 section; retrieved 2026-10-27)."
    caveat: "A published product specification. State it as a specification, not as an effect on a real or named target."
  - claim: "The AT4 family is lightweight, man-portable, single-shot and fully disposable, 84 mm calibre, with an effective range of 200–1,000 m depending on variant. Saab describes it as optimised for anyone to use: the soldier aims, fires and discards the empty tube. Variants share identical handling and have confined-space capability."
    use_status: permitted
    evidence_status: supported
    brand_approval: unreviewed
    evidence: "https://www.saab.com/products/at4 (retrieved 2026-10-27)."
  - claim: "AT4 variants (weight / effective range / armour penetration): AT4CS HP < 8 kg / 300 m / 420 mm; AT4CS RS < 8 kg / 300 m / 350 mm; AT4CS ER < 9 kg / 600 m / 460 mm; AT4CS AST ~9 kg / 200 m / n/a (urban, anti-structure, can create entry points into buildings); AT4CS HE < 9 kg / 600 m impact, 1,000 m airburst with a compatible external sight / n/a."
    use_status: permitted
    evidence_status: supported
    brand_approval: unreviewed
    evidence: "https://www.saab.com/products/at4, 'Meet the AT4 family' table and variant descriptions (retrieved 2026-10-27). The page table labels the first row 'ATCS HP'; the variant heading is AT4CS HP."
  - claim: "More than 1 million AT4s have been produced, and the AT4 family is deployed by over 15 countries."
    use_status: permitted
    evidence_status: supported
    brand_approval: unreviewed
    evidence: "https://www.saab.com/products/at4 ('Did you know' section; retrieved 2026-10-27)."
  - claim: "Product enquiries for Carl-Gustaf and AT4 go to Saab Dynamics: Info.dynamics@saabgroup.com, +46 13 18 0000 (Pierre Farkas, Head of Marketing and Sales)."
    use_status: permitted
    evidence_status: supported
    brand_approval: unreviewed
    evidence: "Contact block on https://www.saab.com/products/at4 (retrieved 2026-10-27)."
    caveat: "Use the shared inbox and switchboard as the call to action; name the individual only where a named contact is needed."
  - claim: "GlobalEye is a multi-domain AEW&C solution built on the Bombardier Global 6000/6500, combining Saab's Erieye ER (Extended Range) AESA radar with a maritime surveillance radar, AIS, an electro-optical system, ISAR and ground moving target indication, plus a multi-domain command and control system."
    use_status: permitted
    evidence_status: supported
    brand_approval: unreviewed
    evidence: "https://www.saab.com/products/globaleye (retrieved 2026-10-27)."
  - claim: "GlobalEye mission figures: 12 h endurance, instrumented range 350 NM (650 km), 6,500 ft airfield performance, full self-protection suite; detection of low-flying threats beyond 400 km (216 NM) when operating at 35,000 ft."
    use_status: permitted
    evidence_status: supported
    brand_approval: unreviewed
    evidence: "https://www.saab.com/products/globaleye, 'Mission capability' and 'Did you know' (retrieved 2026-10-27)."
    caveat: "Quote as Saab's published figures. Do not add classified-sounding performance, crew numbers or price; they are not published here."
  - claim: "Saab delivered 60 Giraffe 1X radar systems in 60 days."
    use_status: permitted
    evidence_status: supported
    brand_approval: unreviewed
    evidence: "https://www.saab.com/newsroom/stories/2026/july/60-systems-in-60-days-saabs-remarkable-giraffe-1x-radar-delivery (3 Jul 2026)."
```

## Requires caveat

```yaml
requires_caveat:
  - claim: "Saab has about 28,000 employees."
    use_status: conditional
    evidence_status: supported
    brand_approval: unreviewed
    caveat: "Say 'approximately 28,000 employees (2025)' and cite the Annual Report 2025. Site figures conflict: 26,100 (home Quick facts, 2025), 27,865 FTE (Q3 report, year-end 2025), and press boilerplate of 28,000, 29,000 and 31,000 in 2026 releases. Do not quote 22,000 or 17,000, which are stale."
    evidence: "/investors/annual-report-2025; Q3 2026 interim report; press releases Jun–Oct 2026."
  - claim: "NATO selected Saab's GlobalEye."
    use_status: conditional
    evidence_status: supported
    brand_approval: unreviewed
    caveat: "Selection and formal negotiations for up to ten systems, not an order. Keep Saab's wording: 'At this point, Saab has not signed a contract or received an order related to the announcement.' (7 Jul 2026)"
    evidence: "https://www.saab.com/newsroom/press-releases/2026/nato-selects-saabs-globaleye"
  - claim: "The Netherlands and Canada are moving towards GlobalEye."
    use_status: conditional
    evidence_status: supported
    brand_approval: unreviewed
    caveat: "The Netherlands signed a Letter of Intent (10 Sep 2026) and Saab 'has not yet received an order'. Canada signed a non-binding term sheet for six aircraft (25 Sep 2026) that 'does not constitute a contract or commitment to procure aircraft'. Neither is an order."
    evidence: "/newsroom/press-releases/2026/the-netherlands-announces-intention-to-procure-globaleye; /canada-takes-next-step-towards-future-globaleye-capability"
  - claim: "Saab named CAE, IMP and Magellan as industrial partners for Gripen Canada."
    use_status: conditional
    evidence_status: supported
    brand_approval: unreviewed
    caveat: "Conditional on Canada selecting Gripen E: 'if Gripen E is selected by the Government of Canada'. Canada has not ordered Gripen."
    evidence: "/newsroom/press-releases/2026/saab-announces-key-partners-for-gripen-canada (27 Oct 2026)"
  - claim: "Saab presented the first GlobalEye for Sweden."
    use_status: conditional
    evidence_status: supported
    brand_approval: unreviewed
    caveat: "Presented, not delivered. It 'will now enter a phase of testing and verification ahead of its first flight and subsequent delivery' (15 Oct 2026)."
    evidence: "/newsroom/press-releases/2026/saab-presents-first-globaleye-for-sweden"
  - claim: "Saab is divesting its Public Safety Solutions operations to Omda AS."
    use_status: conditional
    evidence_status: supported
    brand_approval: unreviewed
    caveat: "Announced 9 Jun 2026. Completion was expected in Q4 2026 and had not been reported on 2026-10-27. Do not describe it as completed."
    evidence: "/newsroom/press-releases/2026/saab-to-divest-its-public-safety-solutions-operations"
  - claim: "GlobalEye is the only AEW&C solution on the market that can provide long-range air, sea and land surveillance in real time from a single platform."
    use_status: conditional
    evidence_status: supported
    brand_approval: unreviewed
    caveat: "An exclusivity claim that Saab makes on its own product page. Attribute it to Saab ('Saab describes GlobalEye as …') and do not restate it as independent fact."
    evidence: "https://www.saab.com/products/globaleye"
  - claim: "A26 is the world's first 5th-generation submarine."
    use_status: conditional
    evidence_status: supported
    brand_approval: unreviewed
    caveat: "Saab's own category claim (page URL /products/5th-generation-submarine). Attribute it to Saab."
    evidence: "https://www.saab.com/products/5th-generation-submarine"
  - claim: "Saab was the first major company in the defence sector to have near-term targets approved by the Science Based Targets initiative."
    use_status: conditional
    evidence_status: supported
    brand_approval: unreviewed
    caveat: "Self-declared 'first'. Attribute it to Saab and give the date (December 2022)."
    evidence: "https://www.saab.com/sustainability/environmental-and-social-transition/climate"
  - claim: "Saab was named the world's most sustainable aerospace and defence company 2026 by TIME and Statista, is on the CDP A-list 2025 and is an FT European Climate Leader 2026."
    use_status: conditional
    evidence_status: supported
    brand_approval: unreviewed
    caveat: "Third-party rankings. Always name the ranking body and year. The TIME/Statista list ranked Saab 42nd overall of 5,000 companies, first in its sector."
    evidence: "Climate page and Q3 2026 interim report."
  - claim: "Saab's medium-term financial targets for 2023–2027 include organic sales growth of about 22% CAGR."
    use_status: conditional
    evidence_status: supported
    brand_approval: unreviewed
    caveat: "A target, not a forecast. Saab gives no outlook for 2026. State the period and that the target was raised from 18% in February 2026."
    evidence: "https://www.saab.com/investors/financials/financial-targets"
  - claim: "Saab and Boeing jointly developed the T-7A Red Hawk trainer; Saab builds the aft fuselage."
    use_status: conditional
    evidence_status: supported
    brand_approval: unreviewed
    caveat: "Boeing leads the programme. Call it 'a Boeing-Saab cooperation', as Saab does, and do not present T-7A as a Saab product."
    evidence: "https://www.saab.com/products/T-7A; /about/company-in-brief/organisation"
  - claim: "Saab, Inc. reinvests approximately 17% of annual revenue in R&D."
    use_status: conditional
    evidence_status: supported
    brand_approval: unreviewed
    caveat: "A US-subsidiary statement only. Do not apply it to the Saab group."
    evidence: "https://www.saab.com/markets/united-states"
```

## Forbidden

```yaml
forbidden:
  - claim: "Saab makes cars / Saab is the Swedish car brand."
    use_status: prohibited
    evidence_status: unsupported
    brand_approval: unreviewed
    evidence: "Saab Group 'no longer makes Saab cars and has no further involvement in automobile manufacturing' (story, 25 Apr 2018). Saab Automobile AB went bankrupt in December 2011."
  - claim: "NATO / the Netherlands / Canada has ordered GlobalEye."
    use_status: prohibited
    evidence_status: unsupported
    brand_approval: unreviewed
    evidence: "Each of these is a selection, LoI or non-binding term sheet. Saab's own releases say no contract or order has been received."
  - claim: "Canada has bought Gripen."
    use_status: prohibited
    evidence_status: unsupported
    brand_approval: unreviewed
    evidence: "The 27 Oct 2026 partner release is conditional on a future selection."
  - claim: "Sweden has received its first GlobalEye."
    use_status: prohibited
    evidence_status: unsupported
    brand_approval: unreviewed
    evidence: "Presented on 15 Oct 2026. Testing, first flight and delivery are still ahead."
  - claim: "Saab has 22,000 / 17,000 / 26,100 employees."
    use_status: expired
    evidence_status: unsupported
    brand_approval: unreviewed
    evidence: "Stale figures still on career, locations and home pages. Use the requires_caveat headcount record."
  - claim: "Saab's order backlog is SEK 274.5 billion."
    use_status: expired
    evidence_status: supported
    brand_approval: unreviewed
    evidence: "Year-end 2025 figure, superseded by SEK 364,223 million at 30 Sep 2026."
    valid_until: "2026-09-30"
  - claim: "Saab's business area Kockums builds the A26."
    use_status: expired
    evidence_status: supported
    brand_approval: unreviewed
    evidence: "Business area Naval replaced the Kockums business area on 1 April 2026."
    valid_until: "2026-03-31"
  - claim: "Saab decides which countries it exports weapons to."
    use_status: prohibited
    evidence_status: unsupported
    brand_approval: unreviewed
    evidence: "Export decisions are made by Sweden's Inspectorate of Strategic Products (export-compliance page)."
  - claim: "Saab has no involvement with nuclear weapons of any kind."
    use_status: unknown
    evidence_status: unknown
    brand_approval: unreviewed
    evidence: "Saab's statement is narrower: it is 'fully compliant with the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT)'. Use that wording only."
  - claim: "Saab products have killed / destroyed [number] targets in [conflict]."
    use_status: prohibited
    evidence_status: unknown
    brand_approval: unreviewed
    evidence: "No such operational-effect claim appears on saab.com. Saab does not publish combat results for customers."
  - claim: "Saab's 2026 profit or full-year result will be …"
    use_status: prohibited
    evidence_status: unsupported
    brand_approval: unreviewed
    evidence: "Saab gives no outlook for 2026 (financial-targets page, Q3 2026 report). Forecasting results is a market-disclosure risk."
  - claim: "Saab reinvests about 17% / about a quarter of group revenue in R&D."
    use_status: prohibited
    evidence_status: unsupported
    brand_approval: unreviewed
    evidence: "17% is Saab, Inc. (US) only. 'About a quarter' is from a 2018 story. No current group-level figure was found."
  - claim: "The customer for the July 2026 GlobalEye order is [named country]."
    use_status: prohibited
    evidence_status: unsupported
    brand_approval: unreviewed
    evidence: "Saab says only 'a country in the Middle East region' and that 'no further information regarding this order or the customer will be provided'."
```