The Royal Swedish Navy’s Visby-class corvettes are to be fitted with the Sea Ceptor local area anti-air missile system. Space for a vertical launcher installation for CAMM missiles already exists in the weapon deck area beneath the main deck hatch. (MBDA)

Sweden is moving ahead with plans to retrofit MBDA’s Sea Ceptor local area anti-air missile system to its five Visby-class corvettes as part of the mid-life upgrade (MLU) for the class.

The country’s Defence Materiel Administration (Försvarets materielverk: FMV) on 16 November announced it had signed a sales agreement that day with MBDA UK for the supply of the Common Anti-air Modular Missile (CAMM) munition associated with the Sea Ceptor system.

Installation work on the first corvette is planned to start late next year, according to FMV.