![]() ![]() The last components were shipped in November 1938. It had a maximum speed of 60 kilometres per hour (37 mph) and a range of 200 kilometres (120 mi). It carried a radio and 3960 rounds for its machine guns. ![]() Its turret mounted two Swedish 8 mm (0.31 in) Ksp m/36 strv machine guns and sported a small observation cupola on its top. The vehicle was heavily modified with the driver's machine gun deleted and proved to be the heaviest and largest version of the AH-IV at 4.68 tonnes (4.61 long tons 5.16 short tons) and a length of 3.4 metres (11 ft), a width of 1.85 metres (6.1 ft) and 1.96 metres (6.4 ft) high. They were to be assembled in Oskarshamn with a more powerful 4.39 litres (268 cu in), water-cooled, six-cylinder, 85 horsepower (63 kW) Volvo FC-CKD gasoline engine and armor, up to 15 millimetres (0.59 in) thick, from Avesta, although ČKD supplied most of the other components after building one prototype. Sweden ordered forty-eight tankettes in 1937 as the Stridsvagn m/37 (Strv m/37) after a successful demonstration during winter conditions in the Krkonoše Mountains. Stridsvagn m/37 on display at Swedish Army Museum in Stockholm, Sweden. Only three were built and, despite being highly advanced for the time when World War II broke out, they were dug in as static bunkers. It was armed with a 37 mm Bofors gun and a light machine gun, and was equipped with 8–24 mm armor. ![]() The Stridsvagn m/31 (Landsverk L-10) tank was the next design and built by AB Landsverk. ![]() In 1929, five were rebuilt to create the Strv m/21-29 variant which was armed with a 37mm gun or two machine guns and was powered by a Scania-Vabis engine. Ten of these tanks were built, their armament a single 6.5 mm (0.26 in) machine gun. This article deals with the history and development of tanks employed by the military of Sweden, from the interwar period, and World War II, the Cold War and modern era.įollowing World War I, the Swedish government purchased parts for the German tank prototype LK II and then assembled in Sweden as the Stridsvagn m/21 (Strv m/21 for short), which was essentially an improved version of the LK II prototype. ![]()
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