Category Archives: Swedish Steel

Articles and reference material regarding the real thing, with a focus on hardware used by the Swedish military

SEP W1, a prototype AFV

The SEP was to be a family of armoured vehicles, developed by BAE Systems Hägglunds. From the beginning, two versions were envisioned, one fitted with tracks, the other with six wheels. Both platforms were to use a common role module, … Continue reading

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Artilleritraktor m/43

The Artilleritraktor m/43, or Volvo HBT (HalvBandTraktor) as it is also known, was used by the artillery as a tractor to pull Haubits m/39 or m/40. In 1942 Volvo was tasked with designing a slightly larger and heavier version of … Continue reading

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South Skåne Regiment 200 years celebration.

The south skåne regiment, P7, can trace it´s lineage back 200 years. This was celebrated on the 28th of august with a ceremony in which His Majesty the King Carl XIV Gustaf presented the regiment with a new regimental banner. … Continue reading

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Arsenalen – the new armour museum in Sweden

The 17th of june 2011 the new museum opened its doors for the public for the first time. We were there for the opening, and will cover the three days of opening activities in a separate report. We begin, however, … Continue reading

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the Swedish Air Force museum

Last weekend I spent an afternoon at the recently rebuilt air force museum in Linköping, Sweden. I thought I’d tell you what I think of the new exhibition. The museum is dedicated to the various aircraft used by the Swedish … Continue reading

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New book about the CV 90

The Swedish association Swedish Armour Historical Society (Svensk PansarHistorisk Förening, SPHF) has now released their book (Our book, I happen to be a member actually..) about the Combat Vehicle 90. The book is follow up on their earlier book about … Continue reading

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Arsenalen – the new military vehicle museum

We had the opportunity recently to visit the museum of military vehicles, Arsenalen, that is under construction outside Strängnäs in Sweden. Arsenalen is replacing two older museums, the armour museum at Axvall, that closed down permanently last summer, and a … Continue reading

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Stridsfordon 9040C walkaround

With the recent release of Academys Strf 9040B, the interest of the Combat Vehicle 90 series of vehicles is quite high among modellers (at least I hope that it is). So in our series of CV90-related articles we´ve now made … Continue reading

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Afghanistan part 2

Since I posted the last afghanistan gallery I received some more pictures. I hope you will enjoy them as much as I do! Thanks to our brothers and sisters in uniform trying to make the world a nicer and safer … Continue reading

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Afghanistan part 1

I recently received an email asking if I would be interested in hosting a few pictures from swedish soldiers serving in Afghanistan. I ofcourse said yes, and received a load of pictures showing the CV90 family in use there (Strf … Continue reading

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