Trackfire

Trackfire is Saab's remote weapon station, fitted here with a 30mm cannon for Sweden's GUTE II counter-drone system. On 2 April, Sweden awarded Saab the GUTE II procurement, identifying Trackfire as the system's kinetic effector.

A remote weapon station allows a CREW to aim and fire a weapon from a protected position or at distance. In a counter-drone role, Trackfire provides the final gun-based response after a threat has been detected and assessed.

Its significance lies in that narrow role: Trackfire is not the detection layer or the electronic-warfare layer. It is the weapon station that gives GUTE II a physical means to destroy a drone when other measures do not stop it.