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The Swedish Armed Forces Headquarters is the highest level of command in the Swedish Armed Forces. [33] It is led by the Chief of Defence (formerly the Supreme Commander of the Swedish Armed Forces) with a civilian director-general as his deputy, with functional directorates having different responsibilities (e.g. the Military Intelligence and ...
Arms of the Swedish Air Force Volunteers Association. The Swedish Air Force Volunteers Association (Swedish: Flygvapenfrivilligas riksförbund, FVRF), commonly known as the Air Force Volunteers (Swedish: Flygvapenfrivilliga) is a Swedish voluntary defence organization (an aviation auxiliary) formed in 1962 for both men and women according to the ordinance on voluntary defence activities ...
In January 2006, the organization changed its name to the Swedish Federation for Voluntary Defence Education and Training (Svenska Försvarsutbildningsförbundet, FBU) to mark that the organization should keep pace with the changes that have taken place in Sweden's defence and security policy and the development of the Swedish Armed Forces. The ...
Following a larger reorganisation of the Swedish Armed Forces in 1994, CA ceased to exist as an independent agency, and all of the Armed Forces was centralized under the Supreme Commander (ÖB). Instead, the post Chief of Army Staff (Swedish: Chefen för arméledningen) was created at the then newly instituted Swedish Armed Forces Headquarters ...
Swedish armed forces joined NATO for exercises on Monday, contributing troops, helicopters and fighter jets as the alliance carries out its largest set of military drills since the end of the Cold ...
This delivery of flatbed trucks from FMV to the Swedish National Guard (Hemvärnet) is the first in a series of deliveries around the country that will be completed in 2025. Pick up till hemvärnet: MC 810 Germany: Motorcycle: 100 Motorcykel 810, German BMW F800 GS, used by Military Police. [26] Special forces vehicles ACMAT Bastion France
Home Guard soldiers in Ystad during an exercise Swedish Home Guard soldiers Drummers of the Home Guard Band of Eslöv at the Royal Palace in Stockholm. The Home Guard with the national security forces are part of the Swedish Armed Forces' mission-based organization. The Home Guard is a unit and constitutes the basis for the protection of Sweden.
Sweden's armed forces said in a statement that Gripen jets were sent up to intercept the Russian plane, an SU-24, after it failed to respond to a radio warning by military air traffic controllers.