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# Sweden's FMV contracts Saab to build a seabed sensor drone
- URL: https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/news/2025-08-29-saab-fmv-luuv-contract/
- Published: 2025-08-29T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-16T12:01:21.000Z
- Description: Sweden's FMV contracted Saab, worth SEK 60 million (EUR 5.42 million), to design, build and test a Large Uncrewed Undersea Vehicle for seabed monitoring and subsurface threat detection. First sea trials are due in summer 2026.
- Author: Reidar Balstad
- Tags: Defence and space, #news, #verified, #ai-drafted

Verified AI-drafted [Saab press release, 29 August 2025](https://www.saab.com/newsroom/press-releases/2025/saab-to-develop-large-autonomous-underwater-vehicle-for-sweden?ref=sovereigntymonitor.eu)

**What it does not test.** Does not establish that the vehicle will move beyond this prototype contract into production or naval service.

**How this item counts.** This item is dated before the index starts on 1 January 2026, so it does not count in the [European Sovereignty Index](https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/sovereignty-index/).

**How this item was made.** Drafted by an AI system (Claude (Anthropic)) from the source cited above and published under the editor’s responsibility without a person reading it first. [How the record is made](https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/method/#how-the-record-is-made)