Do we know anything about the autoloader mechanism? I’ve looked into it and I can’t find a specific method. I know it was hand loaded during the firing trials.
Hard agree!
I for one am all for adding these unique vehicle ideas and tests that Sweden has conducted, especially given it is a smaller tree than say USSR, Germany and USA. These quirky vehicles are very interesting and it feels like it would be such a shame to never implement them, even with something like the STRV 2000, like sure it was never built but vast majority of the parts existed in a usable state or in a state where they needed slight modification, only a couple things were missing. We’ve seen way faker vehicles been added before so I say why not!
There were 5 versions of the Strv 2000, none of them had both a 140mm cannon and 40mm cannon. The versions with the 40mm autocannon had a 120mm main gun, not a 140mm.
“Beväpning” means armament in Swedish.
Think they just copy pasted it and simply forgot that it was changed after doing the T120B
As far as i’m aware, the 140/40 in the name is specifically because it’s using a 140mm alongside the 40mm
Thats why you’d also find mentions directly below that screenshot of yours that said:
- T120 Bedömdes inte uppfylla kraven på verkan
- T120/40 Bedömdes inte uppfylla kraven på verkan
- L120 (30 ton) Uppfyller inte skyddskraven (endast splitterskydd)
You can take a guess why these had 120 in the name rather than 140
Also looking at the mock-up, it does seem like the barrel was a tad bit big for a 120mm, makes more sense if it was meant to be a 140mm
Alongside numerus drawings that depicted the 140 alongside the 40mm
On the same website, you can find few drawings they had of those other versions, with the text saying that they were 140mm alongside the 40mm
If i remember correctly, the whole reason they wanted the 40mm added was because of the increased shell size of the 140mm, compared to that of the 120mm, which meant less overall ammo
So the 40mm was meant to be used for targets that wouldn’t require as much firepower
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After gathering more information about the Strv 2000 Project, I realized I made several mistakes in my previous post. Apparently the only the T 140 and the T 140/40 are Strv 2000 concepts, the rest are completely other concepts.
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