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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 ...
Members of the Royal Guards. This is a list of Swedish regiments. Most formations have changed names several times during their existence. Listed here are commonly used names. 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 ...
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 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.
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).
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.