At the end of June the defence and security company Saab announced that the company’s advanced fifth-generation R5 family of AIS products were now commercially available.

Said Stefan Karlsson, Vice President Sales and Marketing, Saab TransponderTech., “The new R5 AIS products from Saab are the first to incorporate software-defined radio (SDR) transceivers together with newly developed high-speed analog-to-digital converters in a type approved Class A system. The result is a dramatic improvement in receiver sensitivity, stability and signal processing compared to our already exceptional R4 platform.”