9LV is a Naval Combat Management System (CMS) from the Swedish company Saab. The 9LV was established when Philips Teleindustri AB (1975 renamed Philips Elektronikindustrier AB), a subsidiary of Philips of the Netherlands, was selected as the supplier of the torpedo and dual-purpose gun fire control system including a radar fire control director for the Royal Swedish Navy Norrköping-class torpedo boats.[1]
Prior to the Norrköping class, Philips provided torpedo fire control to Spica-class and Plejad-class torpedo boats, as well as to Sjöormen-class and Draken-class submarines, and also anti-submarine fire control for the Halland-class destroyers and Visby-class frigate. However, not until the air defence fire control and radar fire control director was introduced, the name 9LV was established; LV is the Swedish abbreviation for "luftvärn", i.e. air defence. [citation needed]
9LV is currently used on several classes of naval combatants, including the Australian Anzac-class frigates, the Swedish Visby-class corvettes, the Canadian Halifax-class frigates[2] and the Australian Canberra-class landing helicopter dock ships. It will be used on the Norwegian Coast Guard’s new Jan Mayen-class vessels.[3]
- ^ Den marina strids- och eldledningsmaterielens utveckling under 50 år i koncentrat [Naval Combat Management and Fire Control equipment development during 50 years - a summary] (PDF) (in Swedish), NU: Försvarets Historiska Telesamlingar.
- ^ Modernizing Canada's Halifax Class Frigates, NU: Defence Industry Daily.
- ^ "Saab Receives Order for 9LV Fire Control System from Norway".