Saab unveils Carl-Gustaf HEAT 758 round
Saab's HEAT 758 anti-armour and ERA defeating round for the Carl-Gustaf recoilless rifle, revealed in May 2026. (Saab)
Saab has revealed a new 84 mm high-explosive anti-tank (HEAT) round for its Carl-Gustaf M4 recoilless rifle.
The HEAT 758 round has a tandem warhead intended for all armour types, according to Saab. Its precursor charge is designed to neutralise the impact of any generation of explosive reactive armour (ERA), allowing the main charge to take effect against the target vehicle's main armour, it added.
Janes was shown the HEAT 758 round in a live-firing demonstration on 5 May 2026 at Karlskoga, Sweden. Fired from around 300 m at the side of a T-80 main battle tank (MBT) without ERA, the round's shaped charge successfully penetrated the hull just below the turret, around the area of the turret ring.
Saab told Janes on 7 May that in a demonstration firing the day before two HEAT 758 rounds were “fired against two different ERA targets and both were successfully defeated… The ERA targets, representing both legacy and latest-generation versions… were mounted on standardized NATO heavy triple targets, with 250 mm armour plate attached at the rear to illustrate residual effect. The rounds cut clean through both ERA targets and the entire witness stack.”
The HEAT 758 round weighs 3.7 kgs with an effective range of 600 m. Saab added that MBTs are the heaviest intended target for the round, which it says can penetrate up to 700 mm of armour.
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