Short-Medium Distributed Defense
Sky Sabre
Sky Sabre / Land Ceptor
Short-to-medium-range ground-based air defense
System Status
Active
Updated 2026-03-18
CAMM Land Ceptor CAMM-ER / Narew pathway
Key Specifications
Range Verified
25 km class with CAMM; 40+ km class with CAMM-ER in Narew pathway Altitude Unavailable
Not published in official sources reviewed Radar Verified
Saab Giraffe AMB 3D radar in UK Sky Sabre configuration Interceptors
CAMMCAMM-ER (Polish Narew pathway)
Mobility Distributed road-mobile architecture; launcher, radar, and command elements can disperse
Operators Verified
United Kingdom operational; Poland fields CAMM-based Mała Narew and is scaling wider Narew Procurement & Transfer Activity
2021-12-09
UK Ministry of Defence said the first Sky Sabre tranche was accepted into service with the British Army
Verified 2022-04-28
UK and Poland launched collaboration on CAMM-based Narew while the UK prepared a Sky Sabre deployment to Poland
Verified 2023-11-07
MBDA and PGZ signed Narew agreement covering 100+ launchers and 1,000+ CAMM-ER missiles
Verified Strengths
- + Clean allied short-to-medium-range layer built around the common CAMM interceptor family
- + Distributed architecture supports survivability and flexible site geometry
- + Strong UK-Poland industrial and operational momentum gives it relevance beyond a single domestic user
Limitations
- - Public envelope depends on whether the discussion is about CAMM baseline or CAMM-ER growth path
- - Official public sources reviewed do not publish a clean normalized altitude figure
- - Not an upper-tier ballistic-missile-defense system
Manufacturer
MBDA UK / Saab
United Kingdom
Sources
Evidence Labels
Verified Official manufacturer or government source
Reported Credible third-party or think-tank reporting
Unavailable Official sources do not publish this figure