Overview

• Stockholm’s contract covers four C-390 Millennium aircraft with seven additional purchase options for future expansion.
• The deal sits within a Netherlands–Austria–Sweden framework designed to cut costs by pooling training, maintenance, logistics and supply chains.
• The signing at Uppsala Air Base featured Defence Minister Pål Jonson, Air Force Commander Maj. Gen. Jonas Wikman and delegations from the Netherlands, Austria, Portugal, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Brazil.
• Sweden’s acquisition modernizes its tactical airlift and enhances NATO interoperability as it phases out aging C-130H Hercules transports.
• The C-390 offers a payload of up to 26 tonnes, roughly 470-knot cruise performance and rough-field operations, with the KC-390 variant providing demonstrated aerial refueling capability.