Ukraine's New Weapon: Sweden-made Monstrously Powerful "CB90" Fast Assault Craft 

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And not a single oar in sight! I wonder how they compare with the riverine ships used back in Nam...

@@ljprep6250 it's the big guns strapped to a floating jet fort

I've been to Sweden. They don't want Freedom of Movement. This is all B.S.

@@ljprep6250 the modern Riverine(US 2012) is a modified US market CB90 version

The russians will be blowing their minds trying desperately to copy them!

How abŏut RPGs?

@@user-ef6vp7ho1z It would prove a very lucky hit. Maybe an ATGM? Our coastal troops are trained to counter amphibious assault craft with Spike ATGMs. Ideally, you'd take the shot when the craft is beached or otherwise immobile.

​@@peabase think he wounders if has/can be eqipped with heavier weaponds... it can be equipped with a wide variety of stuff, from macine guns, anti-tank missiles, rockets, anti-ship rockets, 40mm canons, smoke etc... its a modular design

how about sea mines or kamikaze sea drone boats? can it handle those well? @@peabase how fast does the F'er go without the whitewater jetspray out the back?

🇸🇪From Sweden. Gee, thanks. But please don't overpraise, we are just doing our best to help.😁😅🇸🇪

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Humble friend, you laid the very philosophical foundation** that European society's built on -so those CB90's lucky to serve such a noble purpose! ** (no, it sure weren't the _financial_ foundation you laid (thank Jesus!) 🙄... kidding!!😆😜😂😇😝) -

It lays nearly on top of the water, making landing and entering easy, like the ships the Vikings used for raiding. Yeah, good description.

@@annabackman3028 The shallow draught also leaves them less seaworthy. The Baltic Sea is manageable, but the Ukrainians had better not venture too far out on the Black Sea when the weather is rough.

@@peabase Why would the Baltic Sea be more manageable than the Black Sea? They are the same size. I think that the passengers on the ferry Estonia beg to differ.

Modern Sweden has nothing to do with Viking heritage, they couldn't care less and in fact their future isn't even white.

@@bfelten1 The northern Baltic has vast archipelagos, and that's where the CB90 is in its element. It's easy to take shelter behind islands whenever the weather gets too rough. The Ukrainians don't have the same luxury in the Black Sea. The Estonia had an improperly constructed bow. Cruise ferries ply the route to this day, often in worse weather.

Thank you 🇨🇦

That boat is a beast!!!

Perhaps beeing a small country, with a relatively small budget (well, we're rich, but still, we are only 10million people), and trying to really be able to take care of ourselves ("neutrality"), can lead to some pretty amazing "bang for the buck"!

@@andersgrassman6583 I'm a very envious neutral Irishman. Well done at your end . Thank God Sweden has joined NATO. Slan leath from Dublin. SLAVA UKRAINI.

@@daviddunne4737 Thank's!😃

Not a SAAB product, made by "DockstaVarvet" Sweden. Edit: However SAAB bought it in 2017 but still built and developed by Dockstavarvet.

Cheers!

@@AndyWoohoo666 and in former days every CB90 with an even number was built on Gotlands varv (a shipyard on Gotland)

@@KennethiSlite Helt riktigt, Fårösundsvarvet.

​@@AndyWoohoo666trodde det var djupvik

VIKINGS HELPING EUROPE ......NOW I HAVE SEEN IT ALL.......

Water jet propulsion system

Semper Fi

i would imagine though that in the immediate landing suppressive fire would make sense, so spray as fuck (at least from the stationary guns on the boat)

The soldiers firing full auto is likely the SAW gunners with 5.56×45mm 200rnd belt boxes. Then there's two fixed forward M2HB HMGs on the boat for assault supression in addition to any railing mounts and the main ring/weapon station mount that often mounts a .50 M2HB or 40mm GLMG or a launcher for the Swedish light anti-ship version of the Hellfire missile 😊

Sweden is so sweet! Brings badass boat to the battlefield! Nice! Thanks “sweeten!”! Ukraine has the best of friends these days!!

USMC from time to time these days practice together with the Swedish “Coastal Ranger Company” who uses these boats. Among other things I believe CB90s launching from larger USMC amphibious assault ships. The US Navy’s NECC also has two of these boats. Manly for use in rivers it seems. The Swedish archipelagos are full with small islands like everywhere. And the Swedish military strategy is mainly defensive. To repel an aggressor on its own territory. Moving from island to island with relatively small units. The US doesn’t seem to have much of those kinds of archipelagos, and I would suppose USMC’s strategy is more offensive and about launching way larger amounts of Marines against a shoreline. So I assume the CB90 isn’t the best option for that. What deserves to be mentioned though is that the USMC, when on an exercise in Sweden, didn’t stand a chance against possible the toughest units of the Swedish militia. Who deployed unconventional weapons the Marines hadn’t trained to encounter: Swedish kids armed with snowballs! Sorry guys…!

No worries mate! (Can I say that as a sweed? XD Well I guess I helped pay for like 0.000001% of the boats, so it still counts?)

@@andreasv9472 Yes, very definitely. Well done. These boats look fantastic!

@@andreasv9472 Du betalade ungefär 9 kr för 10 båtar till ukraina

Agree live preservers are on board for good reason. 😊

Swedish people like peace! Nato is just from the regime!

Also submarines.

and air carriers

@@Patrik6920 Haha, nah. We don't have any aircraft carriers, DIY or otherwise. Unless you count Gotland as the worlds biggest aircraft carrier. Which it kinda is... 😁

@@theTeknoViking Good comeback.

First move over the sea extremely fast, then quickly stop and deploy the troops. This boat is meant for invasion.

From full speed 42 knots to stop about 11.5 meters. It is quite impressive.

Not Holland, the Netherlands. There are two regions in the Netherlands, Noord and Zuid Holland, but no Holland only.

after they founded the "rus" ... some thousands years ago..

europe could use hundreds of old school VIKINGS about now

Sweden lost the war against Russia like Hitler and Napoleon!@@user-ot6fk7vs3n

The nazis have panzers as well

@@GMan-yg1og Yeah, you can tell them apart by the Z markings. Always invading, those Nazis.

I was curious about going to Odesa for summer vacation a year and a half before the full scale invasion. Feels strange. And I get angry and sad. We have to make sure you win! (And then I can come for vacation, and spend some tourist money!)

Thank You, my son used to work for this company. Amazing fact is that these great boats are designed and built by a small private company that merged with SAAB just a few years ago. In Swedish sevice they are "Stridsbåt90", all recently modified and upgraded. Hope they make a difference against the invaders in Ukraine! 🇺🇦👍

They have rbs 15

They are modular, you can add grenade launchers, missiles etc.

​​@@Sam_Guevenne no, you are thinking of the Rb17, a beam riding ground launched anti-ship modification of the US Hellfire missile. The Rbs 15 is far too big for the CB90.

Our coastal troops routinely carry ATGMs aboard amphibious assault craft. That said, target acquisition may be a wee bit challenging from a small boat like this. I'd much rather beach the boat somewhere behind an island and take the shot from terra firma.

I wonder how much support Germany would get if they fight the Russians and had just a company Nazies fighting for them, I dont think much 🤔

You mean Zelensky? Yes he is a mad clown..

Yep, Zelensky is much worse Than Hitler, and all those henchmen of his grabbing boys, old men and women off the street and tossing them into vans.

@@Ukrainian__Patriot I feel real bad for the average Ukrainian just as I do for the average American. But you all should have known better than to believe in Joe Biden and that witch Victoria Nuland handing out cookies. Much of your farmland and gov't owned properties have been sold to BlackRock, JP Morgan and others.

@@variaxaxis1176 You calling someone a clown is projection at it's finest

The west is the aggressor when you leave the propaganda lies out...

Never saw a boat that size come off plane as if it hit an invisible brick wall!!

It makes a full stop from full speed (40+ knots) in ~2,5 boat lengths (about 35 m).

What makes it possible is that it doesn't have any propellers that could get damaged, just a pair of heavy duty impeller water jets inside the hull with two different methods of reversing. One for crash stops by dropping the thrust reverser scoops on the back, the other for backing off when beached by reversing the impellers to pull water in through the thrust vector nozzles at the back and push it out through the intakes underneath to form a water cushion underneath the boat if it came onto the beach a bit too fast😊

Sweden likes to both start and stop fast. ('The Griffin', Gripen)

@@annabackman3028 That would be the Viggen, which, rather uniquely, had a thrust reverser. In theory, the pilot could brake and put the Viggen in reverse in mid-flight (but only in theory).

Kiev was the name of the place. Rus was he name of the people that live in the place called Kiev. Russians are the old Greek name for the Rus people. Russia is the old Byzantine name for The land of the Rus. Kiev was destroyed and sacked by the Mongol invaders. The Rus moved their capital to Moscow. They are the same people.

@@cristitanase6130 Rus - mostly slavic people governed by (vi)kings from Roslagen (They have some blonde genetics for a reason even today, especially in Kiev obviously)

@@Loff3t nothing you say contradicts my statements

⁠​⁠​⁠@@cristitanase6130There is no direct historical lineage from Kyiv being the capital of a Kievan Rus state to Moscow being the capital of Russia. The Rurik dynasty of Kyiv Rus (who had its origin in Novgorod) had started to fracture already before the Mongols invaded. Different linages created rather independent principalities. And there were a bunch of capitals of different principalities of the Kievan Rus, that the Mongols came to invade and control by outmaneuvering them against each other. Vladimir-Suzdal was one of those principalities. Tver was then the capital of Vladimir-Suzdal. Moscow had essentially just been a fortress, also sacked by the Mongols. And not until later were the capital moved from Tver to Moscow. Still under rule of the Mongols. Moscow being rather distant to the Mongol rulers, and hence later could muster a force to start ousting the Mongols. But the Mongols were also defeated at other places by other forces. Three different linages of the Rurik dynasty formed, creating different principalities. Vladimir-Suzdal expanded through different means (obviously often through violence) and the Grand Duchy of Moscow became the outcome. All different linages of the Rurik dynasty ending while borders moved constantly between principialities. The Grand Duchy of Moscow transferring into a tzarsom, where the tzar gave himself the title “the tzar of all Russia”, so to spell out the ambitions that he and his linage were the true rulers of all of Russia. Obviously such a self acclaimed title doesn’t make it true. Russia is a name taken for imperialistic reasons. Not because it is a proof of absolute continuity Kievan Rus->Russia that ratifies an invasion of the original lands of the Rus and the Rurik dynasty. Just like adapting the doubble eagle doesn’t make Russia the successor to Rome and Constantinople. Moscow is not the inheritor of Kyiv. It was just one of many Rus states with a Rurik dynasty that appeared in the aftermath of the Mongol invasion. Really, Russia perhaps should call itself “Earth” and do some historical tricks to create a linage from Adam and Eve. Obviously that would make it the true ruler of all nations.

@@cristitanase6130 It is like saying a Danes and a Swedes are the same people as they share genetic traits, culture and similar language. But they are clearly culturally different people.

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Sweden have long history with Ukraine and will provide all they can for as long as they can. Now with Sweden getting into NATO you will see more equipment and probably even Gripen. Slava Ukraini!

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@@AndyWoohoo666Heroiam Slava! (Glory to Heroes!) We appreciates this efforts very much indeed.

scott the seamine entered the chat: can we be friends boaty mcboatface? boaty mcboatface: no. Seamine: explodes with rage.

Holland is just washing money and tax dodging Europe. Worthless really!

The Swedish boat have capacity for mine laying, and Sweden did give mines (as in smart sea mines) to Ukraine, and I am sure they will find some clever use of them.

​@@kirgan1000 or depth charges depending on what's needed on the same rails.

Yes they are!😃

Ura😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Bullshit. SIMA Perú is assembling a downgraded copy modified for interdictions, not for assault. The peruvian version has a smaller and cheaper Diesel Caterpillar engine instead of the Scania of the Swedish version. The Peruvian version only carry 6 soldiers in its interior plus 3 crew. It does not have so many heavy machine guns emplacements, only have 1, and carry three times more fuel, because its main task will be patrolling Peru´s EEZ. So far has assembled only 4. The intention is to buy 3 o 4 more lots of four, but so far has adquired one lot of four.

Another hopeful wonder weapon.

​@@amazingdany it will be helpful for Ukraine.

@@AlexKall Oh sure, the billions in NATO hardware totally helped to shrink the red part of the map.

@@amazingdany And that's just a drop in the sea of EU/US/NATO/1st world funds. Poor tankie, go eat some potatos.

@@amazingdany They're called game changers. Each time, Russia has to figure out how to play the new game, wrong-footing it and robbing it of its iniative.

It’s rather close between the islands in the archipelagos. I would believe once you have control of one island it is easier to launch drones from a more static position. You also wouldn’t want to launch drones so the launching position (the boat) is identified. But there are likely a bunch of different drones that can be easily carried along with the CB90. The drone wars have just begun, so I would bet there’s a bunch of research and evaluations on their use in Ukraine going on. Likely the Ukrainians will experiment. Counter-drone technology is likely more important. But they’re too fast for the types of drones mostly used in Ukraine. I’d say you would need a laser guided missile or similar.

if you are 16 or over, good health, and such, and have a passport, why haven't you become a PMC fighting for the Ukies? nothing stopping you from actually enlisting to the front. just you. and or reality.

That's the plan.😉 Now that we are also finally part of NATO, Gripen fighter jets will also be coming. There is overwhealming political support. Good thing about Swedish arms, is that they are specifically designed to fight an asymetric war with Russia, so designed for Ukraine's war.

@@andersgrassman6583 Exactly, designed for Ukraine's war. I too would love to see Gripens for Ukraine. They wouldn't be in huge numbers at least to start with. They could serve important roles, f.ex. stationed more forward for a fast response role where F-16 bases could be more vulnerable. I believe the Gripen would be a great asset for Ukraine.

Congratulation!Ukraine has won a ticket home to Russian Federation!.

Crimea beach party! CB90 Tactical Party Boat!

@@andersgrassman6583 The CB90 isn't quite that ideal for Ukraine. In the northern Baltic, these boats can dart between islands and seek out shallows that are out of bounds for larger watercraft. For riverine operations, like in the Dnipro with its vast open expanses, they're not that ideal.

Yup, 2 fixed ma deuces to the front, a third .50 or a 40mm grenade machinegun in the central ring mount, and possibly even railing pintle mount MGs shooting past the driver cab. On each boat... And if in a joint amphibious operation woth our Finnish brothers, they also have a bigger assault boat where they have a couple of support variants mounted with 12cm AMOS and NEMO turrets. (Twin and single tube respectively of breech loaded rapid fire mortars)

more equipment onboard means less troop cap. could mod the E version (strip out the medevac stuff) and make that the APC, supply the larger Riverine as a gunboat. some CB90 as mortar or ATGM fire support. might change the course of a skirmish or two. but wont be much more effective than that because we both know the Ukes aren't trained in the usage corretly.@@SonsOfLorgar

Have to be a big river. Think the other boats given by Sweden is better suited for that task.

They are good for seas as well, can drop of people everywhere nearly and very fast. Ukraine has some huge rivers so could work there probably but drones are always a danger.

@@rubenskiii id say its more probable they will be used for special forces missions om krym than krynky

Dnipro is a pretty big river!@@cyclonemouse

The Dnipro is a big river...don't worry @@cyclonemouse

its aluminium i think, so of all things - a tank it is not.

right, unarmored and machine guns only @@zoolkhan

@@robertoborri1233 Armement can be varied, including anti ship missiles with a range of 30km. (RBS15) And we've already sent RBS15 to Ukraine in the beginning of the invasion, to defend Odesa.

@@zoolkhan U sure it's aluminium and not some kind of metallic alloy? Is aluminium too soft for this kind of stress?

​@@tomparatube6506 it's welded aluminium, not armor. My older brother worked a few summers at one of the shipyards that built them.

The Ukrainian marine must be trained and learn how they work in exercises and then delivered to Ukraine. Everything can be ready in a few months.

if starting today, then by around August. if starting a few months ago and we are hearing about it now to stop potential info going to orcland, then anytime within the next week or so. if starting in a few weeks for training then October is likely.@@larszenthio1012

They have it

Not sure what the ones sent to Ukraine will have.

@@AlexKall me neither. One can only hope its the granatspruta version.

They can, but I don't think Mini-guns will be included, at least for Sweden it's a pretty new weapon system on these boats, along with some other capabilities, like dedicated mortar boats.

@@Alex-oc2vi I eblive the minigun version doesnt exist yet.

they'd be more of a hazard than help to commercial shipping lanes.

spectacularily.

Adding Archer, AT4, Carl Gustaf, NLAW, Taurus, CV90, SBS. Yeah, a lot of great stuff from a small country.

@@johanlittorin2765 taurus? Manufactured in Germany by Taurus Systems GmbH - and gripen can launch it, but as far i know - sweden is not even an operator. So maybe take that off the list... its not developed or designed in sweden.

​@@zoolkhan Taurus Systems is the partner-baby of both German company MBDA Deutschland GmbH and Swedish company Saab Bofors Dynamics. Edit: I get your point. But I get Johan's point too.

Gripen E is to be described as a 4. 5 gen. Fighter. A&C is gen 4.

Yeah coast guard i think

They did and now they produce them under license.

The US Navy has 2, they're called Riverine Command Boat.

They should be useful.😉/greetings from Sweden (Now that we are NATO members, I think Gripen fighter jets will also be coming. Former primeminister sayed so on the day we became NATO member! And the matter has been looked into - even what exact numbers. Personally, I hope Ukraine will also be producing a lot of this stuff domestically in cooperatin with Sweden. Aparently the infantry fighting vehicle CV90 is under planning for Ukranian production. Other things will take time, but unfortunately Ukraine needs very strong defence for decades to come, not just to win this war. So there also has to be long term planning.

They reverse the hydrojets

Scoops that are pushed down to redirect the water jet forward.

It goes from full speed to a stop in about 2½ the boat length.

They print the daily price for diesel on a piece of paper. Hook the paper on a fishing rod and when they want the boat to stop, they lower the paper infront of it so the boat can read it. It's a very fiscally responsible boat.

@@HansenSWE You sometimes see these second hand (old models), but shit, how the hell do you afford to run it privately?!?

that is a problem for all existing vehicles today - nobody planned for FPVs - definetely need jammers

It looks like a fairly modular design so they should be able design a dedicated station for this. I'm wondering if you can get a phased array radar small enough and powerful enough to detect a drone and then deal with it, without microwaving the crew. Various tanks claim to have a close in weapons system, but so far I'm not seeing impressive results..

DRONE VS DRONE OR MINI GUN