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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 ...
The members, who were car-borne officers with tasks of mostly communications and courier service [5] committed themselves to having their cars stand to the Swedish Armed Forces' disposal. [4] Until the 1930s, people participated in various military exercises with their vehicles. From 1931, the operations changed.
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 ...
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. It has the task of operating over the entire conflict scale, from societal support during great strains in peacetime to armed combat in times of war.
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).
The Defence Staff (Swedish: Försvarsstaben, Fst) is the Supreme Commander of the Swedish Armed Forces' staff body and command resource for military strategic command, mission dialogue and reporting to the Swedish government, as well as being responsible for the war organization's capability, availability and combat readiness.
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 ...