The Strv m/42 has had many strange modifications and one-off experimental additions to it over the years it was active, i suggest we compile them all into one vehicle, the Strv m/42 EV!
With my expert photoshop super skillz i have manged to create how it would look like below, behold…
When converting the Strv m/42’s to Ikv 73’s, a one-off prototype Strv m/42 was equipped with a single engine and a Volvo gearbox, thereby creating the EV, it was scrapped afterwards as it was not needed.
One test experimented with fitting an m/42 with smoke launchers, none were equipped in service.
One test equipped an m/42 with side skirts, no irl image exists, only blueprints, but it is said to have been done, was also not accepted into service.
A few Strv m/42’s were equipped with mountings on the back for an granatkastare m/84 mortar similar to the Strv m/40K.
The 8mm aa machine gun was actually equipped on many different M/42’s well before they were turned into the Ikv 73, but id add it here too!
All in all we have a horrifying amalgamation of different m/42’s in one vehicle, since Gaijin doesn’t seem to accept one-off additions like smokes as modifications to tanks they can add them all into this instead!
What’s your source on a single engined m/42 being equipped with a Volvo gerbox (I assume the same one as on the m/42 TV)?
Is there any source on any m/42 actually having mounting points for mortars like the m/40K, or is it only based on that photo? If it’s the latter, it may well be a case of one being loaded for transport or as some form of field improvisation. The mortar mounting on the m/40 is rather visually distinctive and I’ve never seen anything like that on an m/42. Also, I’m pretty sure you’re thinking of the 8 cm grk m/29, the strv m/42 had been out of service for many years by the time the grk m/84 arrived
My source for the EV is good ole Rickard O. Lindström from Ointres se on his piece on Ikv’s 72 - 103, great place for info on Swedish vehicles but even he only mentions it once (Translated)
“In parallel with the introduction of the Ikv 102/103, 56 of the 57 Strv m/42 EH (with an engine and hydromechanical gearbox) were also rebuilt as Infanterikanonvagn 73 (an EH vehicle was used in trials with a mechanical gearbox and was scrapped in 1954)”.
As for the mortar i have the word of Sp15, generally knows his stuff, also the source of the image. You are probably right about the mortar though, variant wise, i would be surprised if you could just slap a mortar on the engine deck and fire without causing some form of damage.
F-18C, as Finland uses it, and it’s the next probable step in the American line, so give it to Sweden (Finland) as well to fill the hole at the end of the Finn TT.
Oh god, wait, I forgot, if the Americans complain about German tech going to Sweden (Königstiger) then they will be very unhappy when we get their tech, lmfao, wouldn’t surprise me though.
Yeah, all tech trees are going to end up with similar vehicles at top tier, if not from direct purchases of foreign vehicles then by sub-trees like Finland.
