RBS 23

BAMSE is designed for protection of military facilities, ground forces and high value infrastructures.

It is used for threat evaluation, combat coordination, with target acquisition, identification, tracking and prioritization.

[2] It comprises a Ka-band fire control radar with an 8 meters mast, IRST (infrared sensor for surveillance and tracking), IFF system, six ready-to-fire BAMSE missiles, and weather sensors.

The older PS-90 can both talk to the fire units and translate the modern data system to the new one, that is why the PS-90 was picked.

The naming of the system received heavy criticism by socialist cartoonist Rune Andréasson through the Swedish Peace and Arbitration Society for using the same name as his character, the pacifistic cartoon-bear Bamse, which is popular in Sweden.

Att ge ett vapen namn associerande till en barnens figur som i decennier har stått för icke-våld, tolerans och solidaritet vittnar om en sådan omdömeslöshet, att man inte heller i övrigt kan hysa tilltro till vapenindustrin.

To give a weapon name associated with a children's character who for decades has represented non-violence, tolerance and solidarity testifies about a lack of judgement so grave, that one in no other aspects can have confidence in the arms industry.