Does anyone has an idea about the range of the Rb 04; I found 32 km in internet, however I remember to read somewhere that it could reach 55 km if launched from higher altitude from Viggen.
Such values are always at the highest speed and highest altitude where you can launch the corresponding weapon. So I can hardly imagine that you can go any higher than the specifications of the weapon.
 
Of course all air to sea missiles have limitations into its flight envelope. I remember found these info in a magazine anout models. It had an article for a 1/48 Saab Viggen armed with twin Rb04.
 
NW were contemplated by Sweden as a deterrent to Soviet agression and as way to reduce defense expenditures, instead of a massive investment in conventionnal forces (System 37, to be Viggen). Which is why, paradoxically, the youth/left wing of the Social-democratic Party led by Olof Palme was in favour. Sweden never planned to launch first strikes with NW on the USSR. When the Kennedy administration initiated the policy that would produce the NPT, Sweden went for System 37 and other advanced conventional systems. Btw Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians were in the first place citizens of their countries under Soviet occupation; "Soviet citizens" against their own will.
A person in the Swedish parlament Inga Thorsson put a stop to the Swedish Nuclear weapons program. My dad Rolf Ohlon was part of a SAAB development team working on an Inertia guidance system, end of 1950's. During his 1957 trip to the US he meet the infamous Swedish spy Stig Wennerström.
 
Grainy image of TV-guided RB.05B from Jane's AWA,1975-76.

Length 3.64m, weight 330kg, EO seeker derived from technology of SAAB TST-300 TV tracking system.
Colour image, looks like a still from a video, of an Rb.05B on a Viggen. Apparently lost out to the AGM-65 that was adopted by Sweden as the Rb.75.
 

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Drawings of the combined torpedo-missile launchers from the book: Svenska Jagare - Fyrtio legendariska fartyg med detaljerade ritningar (Swedish Destroyers - Forty legendary ships with detailed drawings) by Lars Carlbom
Quad-Single variant:
View: https://i.imgur.com/nxkRJ6L.jpg

View: https://i.imgur.com/qUenlSD.jpg

Triple-Twin variant:
View: https://i.imgur.com/SjTBGMm.jpg

View: https://i.imgur.com/v5AovNd.jpg

From the book: Jagere - Med Svenska flottans jagere onder 80år (Destroyers of the Swedish Navy of the 80's ) by Curt Borgenstam, Per Insulander, Gösta Kaudern
Loading mechanism:
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Photo of the launcher (bit blurry)
https://i.imgur.com/A9OAfpN.jpg
Hey tzoli
Do you still have these images ?

The imgur links are expired or not there anymore so they are not working, thanks
 
Hey tzoli
Do you still have these images ?

The imgur links are expired or not there anymore so they are not working, thanks
They are working perfectly fine for me. But in such a case when I've posted those images, I've included a different link for them see under the images.
 
They are working perfectly fine for me. But in such a case when I've posted those images, I've included a different link for them see under the images.
Its the issue with imgur actually
As i can't open either imgur or the images probably from imgur being restricted or banned in my country
 
Its the issue with imgur actually
As i can't open either imgur or the images probably from imgur being restricted or banned in my country
Not impossible
Will upload to somewhere else for you
 
Thank you
Here they are:
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