BAE Systems AB is a Swedish defence company and a subsidiary of

BAE Systems Land & Armaments BAE Systems Platforms & Services is a wholly owned subsidiary of BAE Systems Inc. and is a large provider of tracked and wheeled armored combat vehicles, naval guns, naval ship repair and modernization, artillery and missile launching systems, ad ...

, whose ultimate parent is the British defence contractor

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. The company is a

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for Land Systems Hägglunds AB and BAE Systems Bofors AB, and has no products of its own.

Subsidiaries

BAE Systems Hägglunds

''AB Hägglund & Söner'' was founded in 1899 by Johan Hägglund in Gullänget,

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. The company was divided in 1988, one part being ''Hägglunds Vehicle AB'', the military vehicles business. In October 1997 the British company

Alvis plc Alvis PLC was created when United Scientific Holdings plc acquired the Alvis division of the nationalised vehicle manufacturer British Leyland in 1981. United Scientific maintained its own name until 1992 when the group was renamed Alvis plc ...

acquired Hägglunds Vehicle AB to form Alvis Hägglunds AB. Alvis expanded its military vehicle business in 1998 with the purchase of

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's armoured vehicle division in 1998 and Vickers Defence in 2002 to form Alvis Vickers. In September 2004 BAE Systems acquired Alvis Vickers and merged it with its

RO Defence BAE Systems Platforms & Services is a wholly owned subsidiary of BAE Systems Inc. and is a large provider of tracked and wheeled armored combat vehicles, naval guns, naval ship repair and modernization, artillery and missile launching systems, a ...

ordnance division to form BAE Systems Land Systems. Hägglunds was renamed Land Systems Hägglunds. In June 2005 BAE Systems acquired United Defense and reorganised its land systems businesses into BAE Systems Land and Armaments, with Land Systems and Land Systems Hägglunds as subsidiaries of this U.S. based operating group.

BAE Systems Bofors

BAE Systems Bofors AB, located in Karlskoga,

, is a Swedish subsidiary of

BAE Systems Platforms & Services BAE Systems Platforms & Services is a wholly owned subsidiary of BAE Systems Inc. and is a large provider of tracked and wheeled armored combat vehicles, naval guns, naval ship repair and modernization, artillery and missile launching systems, ad ...

. Its corporate heritage goes back to Bofors, which was founded in 1646 and entered the Defence business in 1883. In 1999 Saab purchased the Celsius Group, the parent group of Bofors. In September 2000

United Defense Industries United Defense Industries (UDI) was an American defense contractor which became part of BAE Systems Land & Armaments after being acquired by BAE Systems in 2005. The company produced combat vehicles, artillery, naval guns, missile launchers an ...

(UDI) purchased Bofors Weapon Systems from Saab (the tube

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interests), while Saab retained the

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interests. In 2005 BAE Systems purchased UDI and re-organised all its land systems businesses into BAE Systems Land and Armaments. As part of acquisition Bofors Defence was renamed BAE Systems Bofors.

BAE Systems C-ITS

The company provides "Interactive Training and Simulation". It was a former United Defense company. On 28 November 2007, BAE Systems acquired the Swedish high-tech company Pitch Technologies AB, an innovator of computer-based research simulation and training technologies.

Products

All-terrain vehicles

* Bandvagn 202 tracked articulated all-terrain vehicle * Bandvagn 206 tracked articulated all-terrain vehicle * BvS 10 tracked articulated all-terrain vehicle

Combat vehicles

Pansarbandvagn 302 Pansarbandvagn 302 (pbv 302), meaning roughly ''armoured tracked carrier vehicle 302'',), are instead only called wagons (chassis description) to denote that they are tracked but more specialized and less universal. was a Swedish high-mobility infa ...

* Combat Vehicle 90 * SEP * Stridsvagn 122

Weapon systems

* 40 mm Tridon * 40 mm TriAD * Archer SP Artillery * FH 77 Howitzer * Bofors 57 mm &

Bofors 40 mm Bofors 40 mm gun is a name or designation given to two models of 40 mm calibre anti-aircraft guns designed and developed by the Swedish company Bofors: *Bofors 40 mm L/60 gun - developed in the 1930s, widely used in World War II and into the 1990s ...

Naval guns

Ammunitions

* Bofors Bonus Anti-armour artillery shell. * XM982 Excalibur Ammunition * 3P Ammunition

Camouflage

* Adaptiv

References

Land Systems Hägglunds: The Company History
(Accessed Jan. 10 2006)

(Accessed Jan. 10 2006) {{BAE Systems BAE Systems subsidiaries and divisions Defence companies of Sweden Bofors Swedish companies established in 2006 Holding companies of Sweden Holding companies established in 2006