Product profile
Sabertooth
Sabertooth is Saab’s hovering hybrid AUV/ROV for autonomous subsea inspection, maintenance and repair. It supports tether-free missions, six-degree-of-free...
Facts
- Company
- Saab
- Product type
- hybrid_rov_auv
- Status
- commercial
- Primary capability
- hybrid auv/rov
- Website
- https://www.saab.com/products/sabertooth
About Sabertooth
Sabertooth is a hovering underwater vehicle capable of operating autonomously as an AUV or through supervised ROV-style control. Its vectored thrusters provide six-degree-of-freedom movement and station keeping around subsea structures, pipelines and production equipment.
The vehicle carries sonar, cameras, manipulators and inspection tools and can remain resident at a subsea docking station. Docking supports charging, data transfer and repeated shore-controlled missions. Saab supplies Sabertooth for inspection, maintenance, repair, environmental monitoring and defence tasks at substantial operating depths.
Market context
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Summary
Type: Hybrid submersible
Core: Sabertooth
Function: Subsea repair
Audience: Offshore teams
Specifications
- battery_capacity_kwh
- Up to 30 kWh kWh
- depth_rating
- Up to 3,000 m m
- max_speed_mps
- 2.06 m/s m/s
Operations
- Environment
- industrial and commercial operations
- Primary user
- commercial operators, technical teams
- Role
- hybrid auv/rov
- Interaction model
- operator_supervised
- Mobility class
- hybrid auv/rov
- Product detail
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Research, Articles and recent verified events
- Finland authorizes EUR 108M Saab RBS 70 NG procurement — 2026-07-03
- Saab Inc. wins $23.19m U.S. Navy AUV62-AT undersea target contract — 2026-06-29
- Saab takes 10% strategic stake in Comand AI — 2026-06-17
- Saab LoyalEye completes first flight on GA-ASI MQ-9B — 2026-05-19
- Saab receives SEK 2.6 billion C-UAS order from Sweden — 2026-04-02