Comments on: Swedish Tanks – Part VII: Strv m/42

By: European Tree part IV – Sweden | For The Record

European Tree part IV – Sweden | For The Record — Mon, 28 Apr 2014 11:36:27 +0000

[...] Medium tanks are a mess. There are enough lowtier candidates, which are generally unremarkable, apart from some having very comfortable depression. Neither the armor nor the guns are outstanding, mobility is generally mediocre. We covered the lowtier candidates in the FTR series already, with tier 1 being the Strv m/21-29, Strv m/38 is the Landsverk L-60 variant, tier 5 is covered by the Strv m/42: [...]

By: Meneldil

Meneldil — Fri, 18 Apr 2014 13:49:48 +0000

That’s no surprise though. The “modern tanks” developement started before the war.

The BT successor that would become the T-34 was on the rail in 37. At the same date, the Germans were trying to put together a giant heavy tank that would become the Panther, and the French were working on the Char G1, which had all the characteristics of a 44-45 medium tank.

When a breakthrough is made, it’s becomes easier for “smaller” or less rich nations to copy and reproduce it. This tank is cool, but in the end it’s a subpar late PzIV.

By: Monkeyfume

Monkeyfume — Fri, 18 Apr 2014 13:32:05 +0000

Looks like a T-50-2….

By: Panzer_Fenris

Panzer_Fenris — Fri, 18 Apr 2014 11:58:18 +0000

Another great article, keep them coming!

It really is amazing how modern these tanks were when the process started. Of course, they fell behind as the war industries of the giant nations geared up, but it compares very favorably to pre/early-war designs.

By: sp15

sp15 — Fri, 18 Apr 2014 11:38:52 +0000

Yes its a mk3 or 5 centurion. They were used by Sweden as strv 81 in the 1950s

By: AnusLover

AnusLover — Fri, 18 Apr 2014 11:30:20 +0000

The bridgelayer picture, Is that a Centurion I see in the background?

By: AnusLover

AnusLover — Fri, 18 Apr 2014 11:23:53 +0000

keep them coming.

By: xCaptainObviousx

xCaptainObviousx — Fri, 18 Apr 2014 10:39:50 +0000

Wasn’t there also a tank destroyer with a 10.5 cm gun and 15 degrees gun depression? That would be pretty sweet at t4 or 5

By: tiger61378

tiger61378 — Fri, 18 Apr 2014 10:28:38 +0000

Nice looking tanks….love the way they look, and they’d probably find a permanent spot in my garage if they came in. Esp. the Lago with that -15 gun depression…trolling ridgelines every day!

By: alex sonny

alex sonny — Fri, 18 Apr 2014 10:28:31 +0000

Nice! It seems interesting how the Swedish kept hanging onto the one-gun-two-machineguns front turret design. It looks very weird on the side with thwo MGs poking out.