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A History of Swedish Tanks
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Posted: Wednesday, August 17, 2016 - 08:28 PM UTC
Wargaming, the makers of the popular World of Tanks game, have created a nice overview of tank use and design in Sweden. Enjoy.

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Posted: Wednesday, August 17, 2016 - 11:35 PM UTC
Nice documentary but a small correction, we haven't been to war since 1814 so it is actually more than 200 years and not 100 years as they say in the documentary.
Strangely they describe the IKV 91 but forget to include CV 9040.

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Posted: Thursday, August 18, 2016 - 01:27 AM UTC
On note, one example of the surviving LK II is under restoration to full driving condition. The original plan was to have it finished in spring 2016, in time for the centenary, but as with all complex projects things have been delayed. A lot have been done and Volvo have contributed with a new engine, as an example. You could follow the restoration on this blog: http://blog.arsenalen.se/
Unfortenatly in swedish...
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Posted: Thursday, August 18, 2016 - 02:45 AM UTC
the game "world-of-tanks" the best on-line competition.
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Posted: Thursday, August 18, 2016 - 03:35 AM UTC

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Nice documentary but a small correction, we haven't been to war since 1814 so it is actually more than 200 years and not 100 years as they say in the documentary...

Mats


WoW...longer then Switzerland were the last was the civil war of Sonderbund the 3-29 november 1847!...that is nice record!
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Posted: Thursday, August 18, 2016 - 04:32 AM UTC
Has this site teamed up with Wargaming? Things that make you hmmmmm.........
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Posted: Thursday, August 18, 2016 - 08:44 AM UTC
Interesting to know the influences from Hungarian and Czech designs. Nice documentary.
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Posted: Friday, August 19, 2016 - 08:10 AM UTC

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Has this site teamed up with Wargaming? Things that make you hmmmmm.........


They were a network sponsor long ago. No I just thought this would be of some interest to you guys when I saw it.

And I didn't want to put "Video by Jim Starkweather" on this so I made a dummy account for them. So yeah don't PM them.

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Jim



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