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# Poland selects Sweden's Saab A26 submarine design for Orka programme
- URL: https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/news/2025-11-26-poland-selects-saab-a26-orka/
- Published: 2025-11-26T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-11T16:02:53.000Z
- Description: Poland selected Sweden's Saab A26 Blekinge class design, built with Swedish state agency FMV, for its Orka submarine programme, passing over Germany's TKMS and a French Spanish Scorpene bid. Minister Kosiniak Kamysz called it a new Baltic security architecture.
- Author: Reidar Balstad
- Tags: Defence and space, #news, #reported, #editor-read

Reported Editor-read [Defense News and euro-sd.com, 26 November 2025, citing Saab and Poland's Ministry of National Defence](https://www.saab.com/globalassets/cision/documents/2025/20251126-sweden-and-saab-selected-for-polands-new-submarines-en-0-5261930.pdf?ref=sovereigntymonitor.eu)

**What it does not test.** It does not disclose a signed contract value; a government to government agreement is still being finalised.

**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; read and approved by the editor on 2026-10-11\. [How the record is made](https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/method/#how-the-record-is-made)