Landsverk Swedish Tank

Landsverk Swedish tank

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Autos & Vehicles

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• Landsverk
• swedish
• tank
• tiger
• panther
• t-34
• german

[PanzerAngriff]

Now THAT is cool.

[willethekiing1]

thumbs up if u are a STOLT SVENSK!

[unbornproghost]

uMadBro?? 0:12

[VicariousReality7]

Sounds like a bloody tractor

[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

[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.

[fvo911]

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

[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?