Sweden orders additional CAMM missiles for Visby corvettes

Sweden has expanded its acquisition of the Common Anti-air Modular Missile, signing a contract amendment with MBDA to enable further deliveries for the country’s air defence requirements.

The new agreement builds on an initial 2023 order placed by the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration (FMV) for CAMM missiles to be employed within MBDA’s Sea Ceptor system, which Sweden is integrating onto its Visby-class corvettes.

Lorenzo Mariani, MBDA’s Executive Group Director for Sales and Business Development, said in the release that “Sweden continues to place its trust in MBDA’s world-class capabilities with this contract for further CAMM.”

He added that through this continued partnership, “Sweden is strengthening the protection of its sovereign airspace, while maintaining interoperability and security with its European and NATO allies.” Mariani also highlighted CAMM’s performance, describing it as a missile that “has proven itself against the type of evolving threats we are seeing today.”

According to the company, CAMM provides a common stockpile for short- to medium-range air defence across land and maritime platforms. The system’s soft-vertical-launch mechanism is stated to offer minimal launch signature and full 360-degree engagement coverage, while enabling rapid firing against multiple simultaneous threats.

MBDA notes that operators have described the missile’s accuracy as sufficient to strike “targets as small as a tennis ball traveling at twice the speed of sound.”

MBDA said the latest Swedish order reflects a long-running relationship with the country’s defence sector. The company stated that deepening industrial cooperation remains central to its operating model, describing such collaboration as “a golden thread… through multiple successful programmes.”