Landsverk Swedish Tank

[unbornproghost]

uMadBro?? 0:12

[VicariousReality7]

Sounds like a bloody tractor

[willethekiing1]

thumbs up if u are a STOLT SVENSK!

[Mattebubben]

Note the the web page in the last post just remove the Spaces in the name and it should work just fine.

Ps the website is swedish.

Im a swe aswell but i wrote on english for all to understand.

[Mattebubben]

(even more info)

But even then the Strv /m42 was continued in use but not as the main "heavy tank".

in 1957-1960 all twin engine Strv/m42s (in total 225) where rebuilt as the the Strv 74

with a new turret and a larger long barrel gun able to penetrate heavy armor to serve as a medium tank along side the Centurion (Strv 101).

The single engine variant of the Strv m/42 was also rebuilt but into the Ikv 73 a storm cannon / tank destroyer.

This info was taken from o i n t r e s . se/pansar.htm

[Mattebubben]

(will continue here as i ran out of letters)

I would say it was Equal to the Sherman or early Pz4/T34 (before 43)

It had a top speed of 45km/h.

The armor was as i said 9-55mm thick with the bottom probably being 9mm the front was 55mm and i would guess the sides and back somewhere between 30-45.

All in all it was a good tank and i think it would have been able to fight back in battle.

About 282 saw service and served as the swedish main battle tank untill the centurion was bought in the 1950s

[Mattebubben]

The Strv m/42 was a swedish design made by AB Landsverk during ww2. It was based on a developed version of the Strv L-60 that was sold to Hungary (under the name Toldi). it had a short barrel 75mm cannon and 2 machineguns in the turret and in total 4 mgs. It was put into production november 1941. Most of them had 2 Scania-Vabis 160hp engines with about 60 using a 380hp volvo engine. It had a Weight of 22,5 tons and it was 6.220 mm Long 2.340 mm Wide 2.585 mm High a 4 man crew 9 – 55 mm armor

[fvo911]

yep, it's an old tank, may be from WW2, but does swedish army use it? as an weapons for X day?

[lulle103]

@fvo911 Undrar du om vi använder den idag? Nej såklart, det är strv 122 som gäller. Landsverk-vagnarna ersattes av Centurion och S-tank 103 direkt efter kriget.

[GrecoSwede]

Ah, I see, an original design from the early 30s and ultimately copied in parts by the Russians and Germans. Interesting. (thank you Wikipedia). This I guess is the Irish one?

[GrecoSwede]

Is that built on a Panzer Mk II chassis? Or an original design?

[lillenkill]

Låter som min gamla Volvo.. Gud vad jag saknar min volvo...

Men det e klart... Kan ju ta den här istället!

[bearsfan97]

i would love to buy that

[mojodevirus]

Beautiful piece. Just beautiful.

[bearsfan97]

i bet it could beat a panzer anyday, well not a panzer 4

[bearsfan97]

i bet it could beat a panzer anyday

[Ferrarifanlellewtc]

looks like a sherman 

[200Hollow]

snygg som fan vart nån stans i sverige är det och är det ett museum där ?? skulle vara kul att komma å titta ! :)

[MoRsE2000]

why does the tank have 3 kill markings on the barrel?

[kingofqwerty]

@MoRsE2000 That's funny, 3 people asked the same question ;)

[MrDrakir]

@MoRsE2000

It hit three wood targets? XD

[porrsmurfen]

Do WANT

[uselesspve]

Wow, awsome looking

[keglevich558]

kinda looks like a crossing between a t-34 and a matilda with a hint of sherman xD

[Moerdarvalen]

@keglevich558 Haha indeed :P

[zorzerother]

@keglevich558 you are right, but I see more sherman and no t34 in it

[FacepunchChris]

I want one

[Notasthinkasudrunkim]

aaand fire

[filipgrimhage]

ser ut som en sherman tank.

[AdurianJ]

Our tanks couldn't keep up with the major powers during ww2 but i love how we always had dual machineguns coaxialy in the turret.

This tank is the m/43, it wasn't delievered untill 1944 and was obsolete by ww2 standards ut much better then what we had.

The gun is a short 7,5cm Bofors canon and 8mm m/39 licenced browning machine guns

[crossbow80]

really old ones hungary used somekind of this in ww2

[macman1138]

Yes it's old, but awesome!

Hello to everyone in Sweden!

[mooden94]

@macman1138 hello from sweden ;)

[mavibereli67]

ı can even ride this old baby :D

[zabbot93]

lol shoots 9mm :D

[SWEmanque]

Now that is one old tank!

[dedder15]

haha that tank is cool :D

[ImpreialGuard223]

i heard from somewhere that ireland bought these tanks as well?

[xkjdhdglksh]

and, its never been used!

[gamer5274]

man that's an old tank

[FishyMikeBravo]

@gamer5274 Yeah! Pre-WWII iron.

[copeab]

Based on the cannon barrel, probably a Stridsvagn m/42

[Skid00everest340]

early german tanks from ww2 had swedish scania tank chassie but now scania makes real bad ass trucks and nice ones to.

[Kdssow]

My country (Holland) would've got this tank if we didn't careless about the germans.

We just had 2 battalions of M36, M38, M39

The M.40 wasn't in production yet before the war in our country started, otherwise we could've lasted longer.

[bullenovitch]

Maybe you would have. But personally I think that if you had more tanks, then the germans would have used their luftwaffe more efficiently to get rid of your tanks.

Although, I dont know in what shape your airforce was prior to ww2, but you would have needed an awesome one to have withstanded the germen invasion...sadly :/

[noobmodeNL]

@Kdssow Hee dude

M36/M38 are dutch names for the Landsverk L180 armoured car ;)

the M39 was a (Dutch!) DAF Armoured vehicle made on the great DAF Trado chassis ;) with the L180 turret..

[SuperFinnish]

atleast you had some tanks, we got few old vickers tanks without guns.

[Kdssow]

@SuperFinnish

But youre from finnland?

The Finnish used tanks as well didn't they?

I was confirmed that you used your own version of the Russian T-26?

[SuperFinnish]

yes, but when the war started we didnt have battle ready tanks. and during the war Russia was our mainsupplier of weapons and military hardware :P

[R0bb89]

We had a modified self propelled arty piece called BT-42. We also bougth Sturmgeschutz IV and Panzer IV from Germany and used many captured russians tanks like T-26, T-34, KV1 & 2 and IS-152.

[SuperFinnish]

@R0bb89 yeah... the infamous bt-42, many of them broke down before they got to viipuri and then were destroyed in battles. remaining were taken out of use after that.

[Skid00everest340]

what does it run on diesel or gasoline

[BOROCKHARDJR]

Thats beatutiful!

[anilingus]

Three stripes around the gun barrel. On a German tank that would mean three kills, but on a Swedish?

[TiddlesNI]

Maybe the gun fired accidentally 3 times in its lifetime :)

[illeistheshizzle]

Aren't they circles, and the germans where stripes, but on the closest part of the gun  to the tower?

[swizzle92]

yeah that is cool as hell!

[ostsoppa]

Nice video! Very nice enginesound!

[jimmyn89]

I believe this is a Strv m/42

[chalenger42]

ooh check out the mine clearer in the back at 0:55.

[yellowtommytanker]

The mine clearer is a Churchill Toad mine clearer. A post world war 2 modification on the World War 2 Churchill tank. This vehicle was in outside storage for a few years at The Tank Museum, BovingtonEngland before being refurbished and joining the MVTF in the USA last year.

[chalenger42]

looks like a take on the T-34 perhaps.

[amfan12]

Got a slight misfire?

[PanzerAngriff]

Now THAT is cool.