SAAB is an aircraft and automobile concern based within Sweden, founded 1937 in Linköping. Its title is an acronym for "Svenska Aeroplan AB," in which "AB" stands for "aktiebolag" ("limited company").

Originally manufacturing aeroplane, a company sought ways where to diversify its business & in the late 1940s started to manufacture Saab Automobile, based in the city Trollhättan. A number one car was a Saab 92001 on June 10, 1947. In a late 1950s SAAB so ventured into the computer market sustaining Datasaab.

Inside 1969 Saab merged with the truck maker Scania-Vabis, & between 1969 and 1995 a company was known as Saab-Scania AB. General Motors bought 51 percent of the automobile section Saab Automobile in 1990, and acquired the rest a decade late. Saab Automobile has non generated a benefit since the complete G takeover.

Ownership
Since 1998 BAE Systems has been the big shareowner around Saab charted its acquisition of a 35% stake from either Investor AB by its predecessor, British Aerospace. From either January 2005 BAE reduced its shareholding to 20%, which it deem a yearn term interest. Trader AB besides maintains the 20% part.

Aircraft
Saab Gripen

Presently, a independent focus of the aircraft production is fighter aircraft, with a recent JAS 39 Gripen as the flagship model. Saab has been making aeroplane since a 1930s, and predecessors to a Gripen were among others the Lansen, the Draken and the Viggen. A previous civilian system manufactured by Saab were a Saab 340 and Saab 2000. Each were mid-range, turboprop powered, passenger planes. A development & a manufacturing one aeroplane has altogether been manufactured around Linköping, Sweden.

Around 1995 Saab Military Aircraft & British Aerospace (now BAE Systems) formed a joint venture company Saab-BAe Gripen AB, sustaining a goal of adapting, manufacturing, marketing & supporting Gripen internationally. This co-operation was extended around 2001 by using a formation of Gripen International for the same purpose.

BAE SYSTEMS designed an improved wing, which it so made & come placed to develop 45% of presently plotted exportation airframes. Saab Military Aircraft is responsible the overall 'aircraft formulas' including basic aircraft development & production, & touching & delivery.

Models
Saab 17 (bomber) Saab 18 (bomber) Saab 21 (push-prop) Saab 21R (jet) Saab 29 Tunnan Saab 32 Lansen Saab 35 Draken Saab 37 Viggen Saab 39 Gripen Saab 90 Scandia Saab 91 Safir Saab 105 Saab 340 Saab 2000

Space & military technology
Saab Ericsson Space is a joint venture with Ericsson, designing a in board computers utilized in the Ariane 5 rockets used per European Space Agency. Saab Missiles develops military applications.

Datasaab
A Datasaab company wwhen the symptom part of the want of heavily computational power for the aircraft development, partially of the science-fictional idea to produce a computer that would exist as microscopic plenty to mount around an aeroplane as navigational devices. When you took a Sixties many successful & advanced systems were developed & sold to many European countries (utilized within e.g. banking). A aircraft computer (CK37) was achieved around 1971 in the Viggen. A at present less successful company was sold bump off inside 1975 to Sperry UNIVAC, while flight computer development was saved inside Saab.