The Swedish Armed Forces carried out for the first time a firing of the Robot System 23. The firing demonstrates that the active defense of Gotland is strengthened, and it is part of building up the anti-aircraft capability on Gotland.
A target was launched. detected by reconnaissance radar 90. and shot down by a Robot 23 fire unit.

The RBS 23, is a Swedish medium range, air defense system developed by Bofors and Ericsson Microwave Systems, (now both in the Saab group). BAMSE is designed for protection of military facilities and high value infrastructures. It is intended to operate against very small and fast targets, such as attack missiles, anti-radiation missiles, UAV, and cruise missiles. A unit was trained at the Air Defense Regiment in Halmstad, but it was never incorporated into the Swedish Armed Forces’ operational organization at the time, and its equipment ended up in the materiel reserve.

The RBS-23 BAMSE anti-aircraft missile system is designed to engage air targets at ranges up to 15 km, at altitudes from several tens to 12,000 meters. The RBS-23 BAMSE air defense system occupies an intermediate position between short- and long-range air defense systems, and can be used to cover air bases, seaports and destroy air targets to the point, where they can use conventional bomb weapons.

The complex is capable of detecting and destroying targets with a low effective scattering surface. Taking into account that the RBS-23 BAMSE SAM system has high mobility and short deployment time, it can be used for air defense of mobile army units.

The development of the complex for the Swedish Armed Forces was started in 1993, under the MSAM (Medium Surface-to-Air Missile System) program

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