Among the many things we and the Swedes have in common is the ability to create insanely long words that are practically unpronounceable for Americans 😂😂👍 Greetings from Germany 🇸🇪🇩🇪
Maybe you need to be a swede (or german) but its not really that hard to just split up the word in its components to not just figure out how to pronounce it but also perfectly describe its function. Granat Kastar Pansar Band Vagn = Grenade Launching Armored Tracked Vehicle😀
The CV90 is a pretty sweet ride. I really hated sitting in the back of one as part of an infantry squad during my conscription, it was loud and cramped in the troop compartment, but then I saw how Russian BMPs and American Bradleys were and realized how good I had it.
@@Hammer1987 😂😂 I was a the AKAN shooter in the older PBV 302, my wagon was the Kompstri II. Our guys wasnt that cramped in the back. Anyone here who knows the difference between the CV90 and 302?
@@hunkenpunken Having just google what a PBV 302 is, the most obvious differences between it and the CV 90 are that the turret is larger and centered on the cv, and that instead of two doors in the rear there is only one. Otherwise the pbv looks very much like an older iteration of the same vehicle concept. Very interesting.
@@Hammer1987 The Pbv 302 is actually more akin to a slightly heavier m113 APC, swapping the .50cal for a turreted 20mm cannon and using spaced steel armour instead of aluminum.
I work in the swedish army with the GRKPBV 90 and have tried our old towed system, it's almost like they reinvented the wheel with this system. Really proud of this system and great video as always!
It's bullshit, pure and simple! I feel sorry for you that you have chosen the Armed-forces that reeks of gender studies and certification of all kinds. Nothing that would ever stop and incoming civil war! are you aiming for the police academy next, no i'm not talking about the comedy series!
For someone unfamiliar with the Swedish language your attempt at pronouncing Granatkastarpansarbandvagn is excellent. 👍 Nice vid as usual. I think, at the end, what you see is a target area. There are no specific targets there, just a general open area where you can land shots. For practice.
Funny, all these toys and no economy to drive or support them 🤣 Even the Jas 39 Griffon system are to be leased out. Sveriges försvar är ett enda stort jävla skämt!
@@igorjee German speaker her, and it sound very familar. > grenade "caster" (like "casting" a net > throwing) wuld be grenade thrower in german. Pansar is pretty obvious and the "band" most likely refers to a continous "band" of tracks. Shows how a lot of words get mixed and matched in multiple languages.
The CV90 family contains of several vehicles: 9040 is the standard vehicle used by mechanised infantry companies (with an automatic gun 40mm), Cv90 Lvkv is the air defence vehicle with an radar on top of the vehicle, it’s the same gun but it has more advanced rounds, CV90 Epbv is the forward observer vehicle with equipment to carry out shootings with artillery and grenade launchers, Stripbv90 is the Forward Command Vehicle, Bgbv90 is the armoured recovery vehicle , and last vehicle in the family is Grkpbv90 who is the armoured grenadelauncher vehicle (120mm) that is able to shoot the standard type of ammunition plus Strix ( a swedish made antitank grenade that is selfsteering and hit the tanks from above.
CV9040 is the standard in Sweden with the 40mm Bofors gun, most export models have a 30 or 35mm bushmaster and thus the standard in Norway, Finland, Estonia etc is the CV9030 or CV9035. Edit: there's also a rare export CV90120 with a 120mm main battle tank cannon
@@Jaggaraz218 There was the CV90120 which was the prototype The CV90120-T which is the completed version And right now there's the CV90120-Ghost which is still under development and freaking sexy None of these 3 are currently being used/bought at the moment as light tanks seems to be phasing out but BAE wants to prove them wrong using this tank only export version that comes to mind is the PL-1 which is based on the CV90120 but is a different tank and even that is just a concept that had a mockup in 2013, don't think it has led to anything yet
So it's a armored vehicle with twin 120mm mortar tubes. The tubes semi Auto Loaders are hand loaded, one round at a time from inside the vehicle, then the round is brought up by the auto loader and hung, then dropped by mechanical means, leaving the crew safe from counter battery inside the armored vehicle. Basically a self enclosed mortar carriage.
That more how I saw the platform. Mortar more than Grenade. I am wondering if it is designed to work in Bio/gas scapes and has any form of seal system for such, or plans at least. Counter battery problems could ensure if the reload system is struck by shrapnel incapacitating the whole vehicle or endangering the crew trying to clear it.
@@sqnhunter in swedish, a mortar is literally called "grenade launcher" and this is where I think the misunderstanding started, to begin with. The title shall rightly be written as Mortar in english and not grenade launcher, you are correct.
@@thekingofgoogle1404 This is a completely different weapons system. How's the Abrams going to provide indirect fire support to a target location behind a hill 5-10 kilometers away?
BAE is in origin a British company, but has become a multinational company group by bying alot of smaller companies into military industry, such as the Swedish company Hägglunds.
I was in a (120 mm) mortar platoon when I made my military duty. Mortars fire with high elevation which makes the grenades fall in from top. Terrain elevation is no problem at all. Grenade launchers (in our terminology) fires at a flat trajectory. Howitzers are somewhat in between, but they are all totally different weapons all together. Mortars and howitzers are indirect fire weapons where the mortars have the shortest response time, but far less range than the howitzers. I don't know how "far up" you must go to request a fire mission from each type, but I think the mortar platoon is "closer" to you as a company or platoon leader as far as command goes. Grenade launchers are a platoon asset, like "light" machine guns or designated marksmen.
12cm mortars are a battalion level asset, 2 mortar platoons to each battallion HQ company. Howitzers are brigade/division level iirc and gets allocated to prioritised sector commands by Army HQ
Granatkastare is the Swedish term for mortar. So this is just a self propelled mortar system. The 120mm mortar used is identical to the towed counterpart. What the Americans call grenade launcher we call Granattillsats and shoot in a much flatter trajectory. I hope that clear up some of the confusion
Regarding the vehicles looking well maintained, I can say that we have strong focus on cleaning and maintaining all equipment in the armed forces. A common saying is "The excercise is not over until the maintenance is done." That's probably why why can see 30-40 year old vehicles still rolling around swedish regiments, because they still work just fine;)
Could only concur, a lot of cleaning vehicles and towed 155mm howitzer, Ak4, boots, shoes, uniform, in the artillery in the early 80s we was not issued the normal uniform when we was working around the howitzer, we had older "working uniforms" that was used to be greyish, but dyed green. For other types of military training, we had the unigreen m/59.
The standard joke when i did my service in the mid 90's was "We're not wearing the vehicles down by use but maintaining them to death". Pretty much meaning that all the maintenance done was harder on the vehicles than the actual use of them.. :P
@@coggie76 Tillsyn före körning, daglig tillsyn, veckotillsyn, månadstillsyn och till slut, inlämningstillsyn. Något du känner igen med glädje? For those not familiar with Swedish, Check before driving,daily check, weekly check, monthly check and the last one, check before returning the vehicle to Storage, all done by checklist, only the check before driving was paperless, all other was to be filled in and sign and counter signed. But the Vehicles was well maintained.
@@dmg4415 Familiar with every part of that description part from paperwork, never signed a single piece of paper for vehicle maintenance and I had my "own" good old mid sized Volvo F611 (i think, was some 25+ years ago), predecessor to the later F6 series (for sure) for almost 10 months.. The checklists existed though, just never had to fill in any paperwork on them. Grovrengörning av underrede gjordes enklast med att att knuffa omkull en medelstor tall och köra grensle över den :P
Whilst It's kind of a shame that Sweden backed out of the AMOS, but it's understandable that they needed to outfit a much larger force for the given budget and decided go with this instead. Still a fantastic vehicle and plenty capable, just personally love the AMOS/NEMO system.
@@hampusfranzen7060 one Amos vehicle can shoot 12mortals which impact at the same time in the target. If three Amos vehicles do this it's 36 mortals in the target exactly same time. I have ordered once this kind of firemission and the first hit accuracy is insane. Ofc accurate indirect fire needs good firecontroll team. But anyways the deadliest impact is the first one before target gets into cover and having a 36 mortals to do the first impact is insane dunno can this Swedish system do the same but in the another hand it's cheaper.
@@sampov8498 And that is the exact reason why Sweden didnt buy AMOS. We already have a high end system, we didnt need another one. This is supposed to remove alot of 120mm that was carried/towed. And it excells at that, being able to go anywhere it's needed & the set-up/leave time is almost none if you compare to the towed versions.
Hey, that a pretty good pronunciation! 90% correct I'd say and 100% understandable by any Swedish citizen.. 👍👍 I can vouch for that! Thanks for taking an interest in our forces again! I actually didn't know we had these.. Nice pick! Next up, should be the "Bandkannon 1"!! Trust me.. you won't be disappointed! ; ) All the best from Livgardist B***, MC Ordonnans på Stadsskytte, 6:e kompani, Livgardet! (MC runner/orderly/dispatch-rider at City-Shooting(direct translation, lol!)/Urban-fighting-specialist-unit, 6:e company, Livgardet "The life guard" (hehe! Just kidding, but that's the direct translation, kinda. But actually and more accurately, "The bodyguard") Which refers to, the guarding of the Royalty and the capital of Sweden, i.e. Stockholm, as a whole.
The mouthful of a name translates literally to Grenade Launcher Armored Tracked Vehicle 90 (the 90 is because it’s based on combat vehicle 90, CV90). :-)
The absolut best with CV90 family is the terrain accessibility: roads, in forests, in deep snow or normal bogs do not pose a major obstacle for these vehicles, because the vehicle's trackes can be slackened during operation.
Hi, i think you would like more FDF Patria AMOS. It is similar system, but we here in Finland made it much easier to say out, AMOS = Advanced MOrtar System :) AMOS is dual 120 mm mortar system that can be mounted on wheeled, tracked, boats or fixed positions. AMOS was joint design with Finland and Sweden. At some point Sweden pulled out from project and they made their own version that we see here in this video. AMOS has also a single barrel version and I think it's called NEMO.
Yeah Sweden leaving the AMOS system was a shame. Due to the time the armed forces had a lousy budget and the AMOS sadly became a victim of cutting costs. Of course it quickly became obvious that we still needed this type of vehicle so we had to restart with a new vehicle (which became much simpler due to time constraints)
Just like the German naming sense for their military equipment. Love it! GRKPBV 90 = GRanatKastar Pansar BandVagn = *Grenade throwing Armored Tracked Wagon*
I was first introduced to BAE when I was 17/18 and joined the Reserves here in Ireland, I noticed the 5.56 we were issued on the range all came from BAE packaging. Up until then I'd always assumed BAE were just focused on their namesake, Aerospace. That first opened my eyes to the Military Industrial Complex in many ways.
The thing with this GRKPBV90 is the speed of which it was developed. In 2016 there were no plans, no developed product - in 2016 they got the specs for future development. Less than 3 years later conscripts are using the finished system. Thats super fast!
i just love the fact that it seems like they have xbox like controllers in the archers. i saw it once on a video from discovery and i found it really funny. but then it dawned on me that it was quite smart.. the people using it for sure is confortable with handkontrollers.
BAE are just the majority owners of different companies that manufactures military equipment. They like to put their company name in front of everything though. The platform for this mortar system for example is made and developed by a Swedish company called Hägglunds (lately acquired by BAE), the same company that makes the entire CV90 platform. Hägglunds also make the Sep/Thor used by the US marines, the BVS10 used by the Royal Marines and the legendary tracked articulated all-terrain vehicle bv206 (and its variants) which is used all over the world, especially in Arctic conditions.
They didn't miss. That was two infront with a delay with one in the back. So that when they land an the enemy are heading for cover the last one would hopefully catch some out pushing back.
If you liked this version that the Swedes settled with due to CV90 platform limitations, you should check the AMOS version that preceded it in joint development with Finns. Two 120mm barrel AMOS can shoot 6 rounds with 3 different trajectories to hit simultaneously to same target. Thus only 3 AMOS vehicles can have the effect of entire artillery battery, 18 rounds, while able to maneuver to another location before grenades even hit. This is the ultimate tool for modern mechanised warfare. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-aSQ6feimwuU.html
Basically Sweden got the budget-version because the wallet was too small. I think the AMOS might come eventually as a result of possible future NATO-membership.
@@andreassjoberg3145 as far as I've understood it from people working on the Swedish Amos prototype, it's breech loading system couldn't handle the STRIX guided anti tank shell. That said, the decision to pull out of the project instead of solving that issue was completely political
Your pronunciation of the grk pbv 90 was spot on (Swede here). But the most impressive is the CV90 mobility which is unparalleled in the world in terms of where you can drive. Lookup the comparison tests vs the Bradley which the Norwegian army did when selecting their platform. This vehicle was developed by Hägglunds in Örnsköldsvik in Sweden and BAE bought Hägglunds
This is what is needed in the British army we had mounted mortar teams in universal carriers in ww2 and then fitted inside the fv432 during the Cold War but for some reason we are getting “specialised” mortar wheeled boxer modules which is just the standard infantry module with straps on the inside to hold the disassembled mortar, so the boxer has to stop the mortar crew gets out and remove the mortar from the stowed position set it up and then fire then disassemble the mortar put it back in the vehicle then get in the vehicle themselves and then move all while the enemy counter battery is zooming in on their location.
They tested firing mortars from the back of warriors back in the 90’s ninety five percent broke the rear axles having fired one maybe two mortar rounds The British army just completely gave up on the idea. This is what should have happened years ago
I remember watching a video where some guy bought a probably century old swedish mauser surplus and said it looked factory new. Maybe that's just how they maintain stuff.
Thats swedish Mauser m96, it was used in the swedish army until 1995 or so. Ive used them myself. Kind of weird using a rifle made 1905 and its still like new. Swedish army sold them of in the 90s for about 45 dollars.
In the 80s, we used Gevär '96, as in 1896. A Mauser design that was produced for the army for 20-30 years, "ours" were all stamped with years between 1901 and 1908, I think Husqvarna made under license. The only thing that broke was the magazine spring, because it was an insanely idiotic design, a piece of folded springsteel. Guess how it broke? Yeah, where it was folded. 80+ years later. Still shot straight at 300m with iron sights.
120mm mortar system. Grenades may be different in translation. The AMOS and NEMO mortar systems from Patria are also excellent automatic systems that have TOT capability. TOT allows the mortar to fire about 3-6 rounds that can hit the target at same time. This is done with a computer system, adjusting the elevation and using different propellant charges. This gives the enemy very little time to take cover. The mortars can also fire guided rounds with HEAT warheads to destroy armored vehicles. The AMOS has long, twin barrels. The systems have also been adapted for boat. Sadly these weapons systems are very expensive. A few million dollars each. The rounds can have a range of 10km. At very long range TOT is not possible. These are devastating NLOS systems. 40mm grenades are far less deadly. If they kill you they are just as deadly from your perspective. But 120mm rounds carry much more explosives and shrapnel over a wide area. They can also fire phosphorus incendiary rounds and rounds with proximity fuses. Proximity fuses can detonate a shell before it hits the ground. At a meter or two above ground shrapnel can damage a much wider area and also into trench systems more effectively. Phosphorus rounds are incendiary weapons that can also be used to create smoke or mark targets. Smoke and marking shells are legal if they are not being used to kill people. Because phosphorus is a chemical, many people consider it to be a chemical warfare weapon. There are international agreements not to use it as a weapon. Phosphorus is certainly a very horrific weapon. But is it an incendiary weapon or a chemical weapon? With a guided HEAT round, the 120mm mortar can be an excellent anti tank weapon.
That´s a long work for us Swedes too, and it is actually four, or five..words combined.. Something often used in the military really. And it is to describe the thing for what it is.
Wow! You absolutely nailed that super long name! Hägglunds (from my home town Örnsköldsvik!), together with Bofors for the weapons systems, are the original developers of the CV90 platform since the 80's. Hägglunds are also famous for the Bandvagn 206 and the newer BvS 10. Short story of how Hägglunds ended up in the BAE conglomerate. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BAE_Systems_AB
You pronounced it pretty well. A rough translation would be "tracked, armoured mortar vehicle 90". 90 is the designation of the chassis, the same as combat vehicle 90 that you checked out in another video, but instead of the 40 mm bushmaster the grkpbv is equipped with two 120 mm mortars (obviously with some other changes as well).
BAE Systems plc. is British, having subsidiaries in many countries, of course the biggest in the USA. Swedish BAE Systems AB (AB = Ltd/Inc) is mainly a hub between the British BAE Systems plc and BAE Systems Bofors AB (mainly canons/weapons / Archer etc) and also BAE Systems Hägglunds AB (mainly vehicles / CV90 etc ). Bofors and Hägglunds cooperate a lot, and you can find that what vehicle or weapon each of them has made, the other has a part in it. Bofors and Hägglunds are legendary in the Swedish military industry. Bofors originates from the Iron mill 1646. In the 1870s they started to experiment with canons. Not until 1878 a prototype worthy a presentation to the Swedish military, and 1884 Bofors and the old canon producer Finnspångs Bruk shared an order for the Swedish military. Since then they have been a loyal supplier to the Swedish Defense. Hägglunds has an interesting history with twists and turns, also many different owners through the years. They started making wooden furniture just over 100 years ago, went on to making bodies to buses and cars just a few years later. (The bodies were mainly made from wood back then.) Some turns later they produced airplanes, electric engines and trains. (That part was later incorporated into ASEA) In the 1950s they took some baby steps to develop vehicles to the Swedish Army, started with a reconstruction of a combat tank to Bandvagn 301. They produced many other metal things too, anything with hydraulics or electric engines. They developed Infanterikanonvagn 91, and 1969 the prototype was delivered to the Swedish Army. In the 1970s they developed Bandvagn 206/208, the Swedish Army ordered totally 4500 of them. Bofors was owned mainly by Alfred Nobel (dynamitthe Nobel Prize) between 1894 to 1896, when he died. In 1898 they began to produce unpowder and explosives too. "GRANATKASTARPANSARBANDVAGN" Granat kastar pansar bandvagn Grenade launcher armored tracked vehicle (To have a laughter, the literal translation: Grenade thrower armor band wagon.)
Granatkastarpansarbandvagn just translates to Grenade Throwing Band Wagon. In Swedish new words are created by just stacking old words together in a row. It's very convenient as one can accurately describe practically anything with just one word - but with the disadvantage that the words may become quite long. The Swedish army then abbreviates these long words into something like GRKPBV. This creates a lot of abbreviations like, for example, GRBR describing the color "gråbrun" (gray brown). This goes on and on and military jargon just becomes a long row of abbreviations.
Makes perfect sense to Swedes who already have been using the contractions "GRK" and "PBV" ("mortar", "armored tracked vehicle ") for decades. They just put them together.
@@Akm72 Not for a Swede used to written abbreviated military lingo. At least we dont use Cyrillic scribble. Maybe we should have gone with the Younger Futhark.
the 90 is most likely for the year they decided that it would work, swedish military works according to a overall plan like the swedish base 90 for the airforce wich made the distributed airfield system to be fully operational at 1990. so the plan was most likely for the GRKPBV 90 to have been induced into the 90 rework of the swedish military plans, it wasnt feasible until long after that but still is included in the 90 moniker.
Basically means Grenade-throwing armored tracked vehicle. We don't usually put four words together in Swedish. It's much more common in german. Two words together is normal in Swedish. Three happens. In this case you have two combined words put together. 2+3, Granat+kastar+pansar+band+vagn. And the two combined would be granatkastare which means grenadethrower and pansarbandvagn armored tracked vehicle.
I was in the mortar section of an armored infantry company in the Royal Danish Army in the 1980s. We drove M125, which were essentially M113 with a slightly different configuration. In the back was a 81 mm mortar, so quite a bit smaller than this. It was comparable in many ways, yet a lot less sleek. However, we had the same ability to move around and get in firing positions really quickly. The target time from being on the move to be ready to fire from a two pipe position was 90 seconds, but once we had the drill down, we routinely did it in about a minute.
Mjölner is a turreted twin 120 mm mortar version of Combat Vehicle 90 - Granatkastarbandvagn 90120 (Grkpbv90120). Mjölner/Mjölnir is the hammer of the thunder god Thor in Norse mythology.
its a 120mm mortar system mounted on the CV 90 vehicle platform. unfortunately we never went with the AMOS system, developed in the late 90s dual barrel auto mortar system. in short this was a cheap sneak design, a so called quick n dirty solution. the AMOS was a joint venture with finland, sweden negged out due to budget cuts while finland procured it. it was designed to even be mounted on small fast attack ships like the CB90
BAE is a British company, but they have bought some Swedish companies like Bofors (artillery, canons etc.), Hägglunds (vehicles) and C-ITS (simulations, educations)
So nice to see so much clips from my regiment/battalion (Black patches, P7) 😍 Also credit to the "old" GRK people, they are awesome and had insane speeds when setting up all that gear manually....
Your pronunciation is very good, and the rough translation actually is tracked armoured mortar vehicle 90, modern mortars are named granatkastare, which also translates to grenade launcher, but the vehicle fires mortars (the 90 coming from the chassis being that of the CV-90, combat Vehicle 90)
20 more was ordered a month or so ago and more will probably be ordered in the future as Sweden goes to 10 Armored and Machanized battalions instead of five. Mikael Frisell one of the guys in the video from FMV is active on Twitter and has commented that other CV90 version will also be ordered to meet our current defence needs. The regular CV90 fleet is currently undergoing a modernisation to the D version.
BAE systems is Brittish and nowadays owns both Bofors that makes the Archer howitser and Hägglunds that makes the CV90 and also Dockstavarvet witch makes the Combat boat CB90
Grenade Launcher (Or Minethrower/-launcher in WW1) is an old word still used for mortar. Not to be mistaken with your MK19 (automatic) Grenade Launcher...
This is cool. You should also look at the Patria AMOS system, that is quite a bit more advanced than this one. The main benefit is faster and more reliable reloads as it doesn't have the external load mechanism.
Downside is it is more expensive. But it is a breech loading 120mm mortar auto loaded from the inside, has a faster rate of fire, and can fire in the direct fire mode. Brilliant system, been out a number of years.
It's a 120mm dual mortar, manually loaded chosen because it was cheaper and "more reliable" than the AMOS system. The AMOS was able to carry out direct fire as well as indirect fire missions
Mortar units work moving all the time. 120 mm are used in a sector about 1.5 km square with multiple prepared shooting positions. Otherwise they are mobile in the sense they follow the front and position at a distance that allows good coverage ot the front line without getting exposed to counterbattery fire, this also implies movement. The solution now is the mobile mortar unit such as Amos by Patria, Cobra by RUAG or the swedish proposal as in this clip.
There are so many variants to the CV90s right now and you got a few more being planned/worked on One of my favorites would probably have been the CV9040/56 which would have been equipped with anti-tank missiles but sadly if never made it past the prototype stage as there was some issues that were never fixed For this variant of the CV90 I think it came from another idea the CV90 AMOS which was a joint project with finland for a mortar system on vehicles and while it was tried on the CV90 none ended up being purchased and I think it later turned into the one in the video Plenty more variants are probably gonna be made with it becoming even stronger each time, looking forward to it
With text added to the video, at 7:47 the soldier speaking on the video says (wrongly translated) "During the winter, the play is not really affected by the climate, which makes it very reliable...". Here the Swedish word "pjäs" has two distinct translations. The first is indeed "play" meaning a theater play about something, but the second meaning is some sort of heavy ordnance, weapon or heavily built thing, etc. So, keep that in mind.
Just for anyone curious about the long weird name: Granatkastarpansarbandvagn in a fairly literal translation = Grenade-thrower-armored-tracked-vehicle. Or a more free and casual translation would be to call it a Grenade launcher tank, so the long and weird name is not just a random mess of gibberish.
Sort of reminds me of the Archer self-propelled gun that the swedes also make on the same principle: take a field gun, stick it on an armoured carriage and make it so no one has to leave the vehicle to load or fire the weapon.
BAE Systems AB is a Swedish defence company and a subsidiary of BAE Systems Land & Armaments, whose ultimate parent is the British defence contractor BAE Systems. The company is a holding company for Land Systems Hägglunds AB and BAE Systems Bofors AB, and has no products of its own. BAE Systems Hägglunds AB Hägglund & Söner was founded in 1899 by Johan Hägglund in Gullänget, Örnsköldsvik, Sweden. The company was divided in 1988, one part being Hägglunds Vehicle AB, the military vehicles business. In October 1997 the British company Alvis plc acquired Hägglunds Vehicle AB to form Alvis Hägglunds AB. Alvis expanded its military vehicle business in 1998 with the purchase of GKN's armoured vehicle division in 1998 and Vickers Defence in 2002 to form Alvis Vickers. In September 2004 BAE Systems acquired Alvis Vickers and merged it with its RO Defence ordnance division to form BAE Systems Land Systems. Hägglunds was renamed Land Systems Hägglunds. In June 2005 BAE Systems acquired United Defense and reorganised its land systems businesses into BAE Systems Land and Armaments, with Land Systems and Land Systems Hägglunds as subsidiaries of this U.S. based operating group. BAE Systems Bofors BAE Systems Bofors AB, located in Karlskoga, Sweden, is a Swedish subsidiary of BAE Systems Land and Armaments. Its corporate heritage goes back to Bofors, which was founded in 1646 and entered the Defence business in 1883. In 1999 Saab purchased the Celsius Group, the parent group of Bofors. In September 2000 United Defense Industries (UDI) purchased Bofors Weapon Systems from Saab (the tube artillery interests), while Saab retained the missile interests. In 2005 BAE Systems purchased UDI and re-organised all its land systems businesses into BAE Systems Land and Armaments. As part of acquisition Bofors Defence was renamed BAE Systems Bofors. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BAE_Systems_AB
Today it's not about not being able to be detected, it's about not being there when the return fire comes in. Have no clue about the American system, but the artillery radar in Sweden is really good. Edit: Oh, and another feature is that it has a staggered salvo capability. I don't recall the exact number of grenades, but it can fire e.g. 6 grenades with different elevation e t c that all lands at the same time.
So the cv 90 platform which the GRKPBV 90 is based on is produced by Hägglunds. Hägglunds was aquired by BAE Systems and now operates as the BAE Systems Hägglunds subsidiary.
Grenade Launcher is what really any propelled grenade is called in Swedish. Even our Rocket Launchers in a fire group are shorthand Grg which stands for Grenade Rifle. Grkpbv 90 is an armoured self-propelled mortar carrier based on the CV90 chassi.
The fact that it loads outside makes me think it's not thoroughly integrated, but it really is cool and looks like a propeller hat guy has designed it.
The manual loading mechanism means there's a lot less stuff to break and a whole lot more robust. Even if the vehicle's engine and batteries are knocked out it can still fire the rounds as long as someone is alive.
It’s basically an automated mortar. Still gotta a load it but that can be done in clips behind the lines then pull up to the lines loaded ready to fire.
Armoured "half-automatic" 120mm mortar vehicle on the CV90 chassis. Made in Sweden by Hägglunds (& Bofors). "The poor man's AMOS 😉", still better than the widely used 120mm mortar on the M113.
BAE system is an English company that has bought up or bought into all important Swedish weapons and equipment companies that may be able to export to Argentina. Due to the Falklands War, UK want to stop important weapons systems end up there.They were called Hägglunds before BAE system bought them.
