![]() ![]() In addition, there are five new weapons mounts toward the stern of the craft which could mount heavy or general purpose machine guns as well as grenade launchers. This NG design is no longer just a transport, but it has been designed to lay down firepower through its Trackfire automatic weapons position mounted above the wheelhouse but controlled from within the internal trooping bay (it can carry up to 21 troops and their man-packed equipment). The CB90 NG has a top speed greater than 40 knots (74km/h) and is incredibly quick to stop (as my media group who had been invited onboard for a short on-water demonstration can attest). It is very much seen as an archipelago type of craft due to its high manoeuvrability. ![]() This is now being introduced into the Swedish Navy’s existing fleet, which already has 149 older CV90s. SAAB demonstrated its new Combat Boat 90 (CB90 NG) Next Generation at the dockside outside the ExCel halls. In fact, the security outlook is more perilous than it was two years ago.” He referenced the twin threats of “emboldened Jihadi terrorists’ and a growing authoritarian zeitgeist that celebrates the suppression of political and individual freedom as a better way to govern.” Naval News During his keynote speech, UK Strategic Commander General Sir Patrick Sanders stated that “the threat isn’t diminishing. “They look to dominate the system of systems confrontation creating new operating concepts, cross domain, autonomous swarms and precision attack to achieve persistent paralysis,” stated Gen. Sanders warned that China’s push for technological advantage by 2025 included artificial intelligence (AI), advanced computing, quantum technologies, robotics, autonomous systems, commercial space technologies, additive manufacturing, the internet and new generations of technology such as 5G communications. ![]()
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