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Zitat:Sweden upgrades Leopard 2shttps://www.janes.com/defence-news/land-...leopard-2s
The Swedish Defence Materiel Administration (FMV) announced on its website on 10 October that it had signed a contract on behalf of the Swedish Armed Forces with Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW) for a major upgrade of the Stridsvagn 122 (Strv 122), Sweden's designation of its upgraded Leopard 2A5 main battle tank (MBT). Under the SEK3.5 billion (USD321 million) contract, 44 Strv 122s will receive their most extensive upgrade since they entered service in the early 2000s, according to the FMV.
Deliveries are scheduled to begin in 2026. Jonas Lotsne, director of the FMV's Land Systems, said that the war in Ukraine led to the conclusion that tanks will form “the backbone of the army's brigades for a long time to come”, with the upgrade extending the lifetime of the Strv 122 to at least the late 2030s. The upgraded tank will be designated Stridsvagn 123A.
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Zitat:Sweden commissions preliminary design work on its new CV90shttps://www.janes.com/defence-news/land-...-new-cv90s
The Swedish Defence Materiel Administration (FMV) and BAE Systems Hägglunds announced on 11 October that they had signed a pre-production contract on the preliminary design for the replacement of CV90 infantry fighting vehicles (IFVs) Sweden donated to Ukraine. The FMV gave a contract value of SEK36 million (USD3.3 million). The contract is the first step in defining the configuration and programme schedule for the replacement of 50 CV9040 IFVs Sweden donated to Ukraine, with the aim of signing a CV9035 Mk IIIC production contract in early 2024.
Confirming that Sweden's new IFVs' main armament would be 35 mm rather than the 40 mm guns of its current CV90s, a defence source told Janes on 11 October, “The turret is based on the CV90 Netherlands MLU [mid-life upgrade] turret. [...]
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