Category Archives: Swedish Steel

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

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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Pbil m/31F, the BA-10 in swedish service

It is a little known fact that the soviet armored car BA-10 served in the swedish army during the second world war. Three BA-10 was given to sweden by finland, who had taken them from the soviets during the war. … Continue reading

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Building a swedish Piranha II

Background A few weeks ago I was participating the yearly meeting of SPHF, the swedish armour historical association. The meeting took place during a weekend, and as always there were activities involving armour of some kind on the programme. The … Continue reading

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Stridsvagn m/37

The strv (stridsvagn – “tank”) m/37 was bought from the czech firm of CKD in the later half of the 1930′s. A total of 48 tanks were ordered and all but two were assembled in the swedish town of Oskarshamn … Continue reading

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Stridsvagn m/40K, a swedish ww2 tank

In the late thirties the engineers at the swedish-german firm of Landsverk in Landskrona, Sweden developed a tank of welded construction and torsion bar suspension. It also had a radio and a periscope for the commander. Armed with a Bofors … Continue reading

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