Sweden has officially been a neutral country since the days of King Gustav XIV in 1834. But its non-alignment stance stretches back even further to 1812, amidst the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars.
Introduced in 1967, the Stridsvagn 103 broke all conventions in tank design. With no turret and a fixed gun, this Cold War-era machine relied on hull movement for aiming. Sweden created it not as an ...
The Stridsvagn 103 tank is just as odd as it looks: for a main battle tank, it had extremely short tracks, and an incredibly squat design — because it doesn’t ...