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The Swedish Armoured Troops (Swedish: Pansartrupperna, P) is the armoured branch of the Swedish Army. Since 2005, the Armoured Troops include the South Scanian Regiment (P 7) in Revingehed, Skaraborg Regiment (P 4) in Skövde, Norrbotten Armoured Battalion in Boden, and since 2018 also Gotland Regiment (P 18).
Armoured utility vehicle 241 Terrängbil 15, German Mercedes-Benz G-Class 6x6. [23] Iveco MUV Italy: Utility vehicle 400 (initial batch) Vehicle replacing the Tgb 11 and Tgb 13. [24] Initial order for 400 vehicles, as part of a framework agreement that covers the possible acquisition of up to 3,000 vehicles. Variants: [25] Troop Transport ...
Regiments were the highest organized organic units in the Swedish Army from the time of Gustavus Adolphus on to the Second World War. In 1949, the Swedish Army was reorganised, with the regiments being used as training units for conscripts during peacetime. The new main fighting unit was the brigade, only organised in wartime (with a few ...
This is a list of Swedish armoured regiments, battalions, corps and companies that have existed in the Swedish Army.They are listed in three ways, first by the actual units that have existed, then by the various names these units have had, and last by the various designations these units have had.
The Swedish Armed Forces Headquarters is the highest level of command in the Swedish Armed Forces. [31] 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 ...
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 ...
Wheeled armoured personnel carrier Xa-300 20 (341) 20 prototypes delivered end of summer 2023, 321 vehicles ordered, all to be delivered before 2030 [14] Pansarterrängbil 360 Finland: Wheeled armoured personnel carrier: 113: Bv 308/309 Sweden: Tracked armoured personnel carrier Bv 308
When the war broke out in 1939, Sweden had one armoured division consisting of merely 13 light tanks, only 3 of which were considered to be modern (the remaining 10 had been in service since the 1920s). In 1945, the number of tanks serving the Swedish army had increased from 13 to more than 800. Number of tanks pre-war: 14 Number of tanks in ...