Comments by "SonsOfLorgar" (@SonsOfLorgar) on "Matsimus" channel.

  1. When it comes to well designed mortars, our Finnish sibblings are simply the best in the world without competition. 🇸🇪🤝🏻🇫🇮
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  2. Less than 10% vehicle losses and no crew losses over 2 years of active frontline service in Ukraine for the oldest retrofitred vehicles in the family is one hell of a sales argument for a "light" AFV...😊
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  3. Mat, as a conscript trained Swede with exp. of both the CG and AT4, I would presume that telescopic front brace of the NLAW was added, not for supporting the weight of the weapon itself, but to prevent unintentional depression of the tube as the missile is launched and it's weight in the tube shifts forward during launch as that's the main source of shorted shot misses on the CG and AT4, both of which lacks that kind of brace.
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  4. During the Congo crisis back in the 60'ies a Swedish UN contingent came to relieve a Brittish commonwealth one. When the Swedes arrived, the Brittish troops had sand bag trenches to move in between their buildings for fear of Baluba militia that took potshots at them daily with SMGs from the nearby jungle. When the Commonwealth unit returned a couple of weeks later, the Swedes were sunbathing on the restored lawn in front of the barracks and couldn't belive their eyes. When they asked how the Swedes could relax so openly, a Sgt showed them the CG's and a pile of the spent brass with the explanation that the Balubas got irritating quick on the first day as they tested the fresh Swedes, but they lost all apetite real quick when the Swedes had started replying in kind with 84mm HE, round for round every time the UN compound got fired upon... (Retelling from memory after the story told by a Swedish Congo vet., so details in my retelling may differ from the actual event. There are more reliable written sources.)
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  5. Never trust Spanish quality control on anything that isn't vegetables or fruits... Just put the Ajax turrets on Warrior or CV90 hulls?
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  6. Love the "community applied city cammo" version XD Also, it was nicknamed Stalins sowing machine...
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  7. Only thats a Swedish Strv122 variant of the Leo2 and the washing facility is also Swedish standard pattern...
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  8. Swedes never claimed to be sane 😉😅
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  9. Yup, the CV90 is far more quiet from the front than an AFV has any right to be. You feel it through the ground many minutes before you hear it, which is unnerving as you don't know where it comes from until it's too late, and that's the A/B version with steel tracks on bare ground. On thick snow (it effortlessly traverses up to 1m deep snow), it's even more quiet, and the vibrations are dampened out...
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  10.  @alangordon3283  umm... the logistics already changed with this system. A towed mortar system carries at the most 10-20 rounds/piece of which at least a quarter is smoke shells and all in crates or plastic quivers. That towed mortar platoon also requires at least one flat bed 4x4 or 6x6 cargo truck for hauling the rest of the ammo on cargo pallets. The GrkPbv90120 can carry twice the ammount of a towed system just in it's ready racks, and then that ammount again in secondary storage, effectively eliminating the need for ammo trucks in the unit itself as one Mjölner platoon can go back to batallion ammo depot to fill up when down to <30% while the other platoon covers the line companies of the batallion in it's absense until relived. This along with the fact that the mortars are using the same chassi as the mech inf companys CV9040 IFVs, CV90ARV, CV9040FCV and CV9040FOV as well as the CV9040AAV of the Batallion AA section means the logistics chain of the entire formation has been reduced by an entire link. On top of that, the towed m1941D/E 12cm mortars the Mjölner replaced was towed either by unarmored 50year old Volvo tgb13 utility trucks(Civ designation volvoC306) or just as old unarmored Hägglunds Bv206 utility tractors... Both of which just aren't capable of keeping up with CV90/Strv122 battle speed even if the towing vehicles had been factory fresh... which they aren't, the newest were built in the late 1980ies and has been driven around in every weather in every terrain all year round by 18-20yo conscripts, enlisted soldiers and officers both in Sweden and wherever in the world we sent expeditionary contingents under UN or EU command. While the fact that many of those utility vehicles still serve with tens of thousands of miles on their meters is a true mark of excellence on the quality of their design and the dilligence of Swedish army maintenance procedures, those utility vehicles are like that pair of old, super comfortable sneakers that are litterally falling apart and beeing held together more by ductape, dried sweat and nostalgia than the fabric, glue and rubber they were made of.
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  11.  @ShahjahanMasood  genocide on Armenians was what the Turks/Ottomans attempted back in the 1910s
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  12. Direct hits would be devastating. Misses by as little as 1.5m would at worst damage tracks and external systems.
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  13. If that's the case, and not you falsely implying correlation is causation from a sexist conservative bias, then something is seriously messed up in how the US army administration and training officers is handling the issue. Because afaik. Israel never had that issue with women *conscripts*, and neither does Sweden... And both countries has had women in all branches of their respective armed forces for decades.
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  14. If any jet is more tolerant of shitty airstrips than the SAAB Viggen and Gripen, it's the Russian jets with variable front/top air intakes.
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  15. That's the worst crime of that debacle imo.
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  16. Basic routine of field fortification work in the Swedish army when I did my conscript training was for one member of the two man fire team to work while the other prepared a snack for the one working as well as inspecting the work for potential improvements and provide encouragement until it was time to switch.
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  17.  @Brakvash  not really. The strategic value of Sweden to Russia isn't our resources, it's the way we are an obstacle to accessing the North Sea from the Baltic sea and the way our country is a key to successfully deny NATO ability to reinforce it's Baltic member states by air or sea. The main attacks would come towards Gotland, Blekinge as well as southern/western Scania With secondary attacks towards Stockholm to decapitate the government and press on towards Oslo, and in the North to seize the big hydro power plants, iron mines and press on to Narvik. (And capturing or asassinating the civilian government won't matter much to the defense efforts as Sweden isn't centrally governed top-down, the constitution doesn't mandate the government to negotiate surrender while under invasion, and the military chains of command and organisation are separate from the civilian government in everything but budget and legislative framework. Plus the fact that Swedish defense doctrine explicitely advocates flawed initiatives above inaction on every level down to individual soldiers as long as those initiatives are aligned with the intent and purpose of the latest recived orders. And that every soldier manual, the civilian crisis/war booklet and every single public phone book from 1940 until they stopped printing the phone books in 2010, stated: EVERY MESSAGE SUGGESTING THAT RESISTANCE SHOULD CEASE IS TO BE DISMISSED AS FALSE!
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  18. ​ @Akansha-c7z  ~50 CV9040C IFVs donated to Ukraine in late summer 2022, less than 5 vehicles lost with no crew casualties afaik.
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  19.  @omaral-maitah181  this was designed for peer level combat. In this context, the enemy has located the firing unit down to a 500m radius by the time the first round fired from a new position peaks it's trajectory. By the time the second round fired peaks, the enemy radars have the firing position coordinates down to a 10m radius and issending those coordinates on to their own counter artillery systems. 60 seconds later, those counter artillery systems are completing the final checks on bearing, elevation and ammo settings before loading. 3minutes after the mortar battery fired it's first round, enemy shells are beeing fired towards the mortar battery position. 4 to 5 minutes after the first mortar round left the tube, an enemy artillery barrage arrives at the firing position. A towed mortar unit would, at that moment, at best, still be where the enemy shells starts raining death as they jump into their vehicles to move out after packing up their gear... A Mjölner unit would be 50-100meters away from the firing position the enemy aimed at, moving away at 40-70kph AND protected by the armor of their vehicles.
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  20.  @EP-bb1rm  1) the hull, drive train, suspension and layout of the CV90 is tried and tested for both weight capacity, upgrade potential, crew comfort, ease of training ease of maintenance, ease of repair, adaptability and survivability by multiple, independent nations. It was, after all, designed to be operated, maintained and repaired by 18-20yo conscripts fresh out of school... 2) The company that designed and builds it has been owned by BAE for decades and has already provided the Brittish army with several other long serving vehicles. 3) The CV90 hulls, suspension, tracks and drivetrain could likely be licence built in Brittish factories, ensuring parts availiability in a crisis.
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  21. More like a Frankentank of an Strv 103 mated with an M60A2 "Starship"
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  22. That Humvee towed mortar system looks really cumbersome and slow to handle compared to the towed old (entered service in Sweden in 1941) Finnish made 120mm mortars that the Mjölner replaced.
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  23.  @slobodanstojanovic5521  roflmao! Your system is so bulky and bloated it's offroad capacity is practically non existant and too big to hide from enemy aircraft. It also needs a lot more crew, isn't fully protected and crew has to dismount to deploy. Please explain to me how that's better than a system with better armor, fully protected crew, the offroad capability of a mountain goat and a fully automated gun mount that doesn't require any of the crew to leave the seats they ride in during transit between firing positions? Even if NORA had the same or even better deployment time, self defence and fire control capabilities the Archer has, NORA would still be a worse system for the reasons already listed.
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  24.  @N330AA  but wrecks hit by DU penetrators and the area around them for at least 50m is coated with microscopic grains of uranium dust and salts from the impact as the penetrator rod burned and sheared it's way through the armor, dust, that while heavier than other particles of the same size, can still easily be swept up by gusts of wind, dust devils and any other human or animal activity that disturbs the surface, such as walking or digging.
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  25.  @mukklan.  not to mention that he's probably just whining because those three women decided they didn't like his entitled Karen attitude and told him to go home and give himself a hand job instead of bothering them...
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  26.  @HalfdanHelgrim  Swedish regulations for the starshell rounds states it must be fired from a berm with a slope or ledge behind the venturi to prevent that splashback effect from flat ground.
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  27.  @demonprinces17  volvo cars was bought by Geely in the early '00s Volvo BM that builds the heavy vehicles and Volvo aero that licence builds and improves the turbine engines for the SAAB military aircrafts are both Swedish/western world owned.
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  28.  @williamzk9083  my point was more that since the Swedish training manual for the AT4 and the CG both notes that it's very common for a shooter to unintentionally droop the tube forwards as the weight of the munition moves, it makes sense that the design of a successor/compliment system incorporates a means to eliminate that possibility from the get go, regardless of any features included in the munition guidance system. Especially when the typical intended user was going to be either an 18-19yo conscript at the end of no more than 3(basic) to 7.5(mech inf privates) months of infantry training. Or a drafted 20 to 45yo with a few odd weeks of refresher training every few years after their initial conscript training.
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  29.  @deffington6627  of course ;) That's what Swedish engineers do, they take something Germans overengineered, then add another few layers of Norse technomancy on top ;)
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  30. ​ @hullutsuhna  when I did my conscript training in a mortar platoon 2003/04, we were shown a promo video of the AMOS on CV90 in the regimental film hall as our captain had been part of the Swedish prototype test crew 😁 Before our govt gutted the defense budget and forced the army to choose between keeping AMOS OR Archer...😢
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  31. It's a puurfect mix for ambush tactics.
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  32. And until the russians have learned to quit bullying or actually mass produce the advanced tanks they design, and make sure the real capability match the paper specs. and to not drive in tight columns, this tank could entertain it's crew with competitions of how many lined up T-wagons it can punch out with a single shot...
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  33. The lack of ego is due to the fact that they have nothing to proove, they can just exist and do their job.
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  34.  @reika1104  ten to twelve rapid slashing/grabbing claws, on two articulated front leg mounts and eight to twelve stabby retention claws on articulated rear leg mounts as well as quad armor penetrating incisors in a gimball mounted front turret. It also has a highly flexible rear stabilizer and communications device connected to an automatic flight stabilization gyro and threat level display. It's a quick, light, stealth melee walker with extreme biomechanical jump capacity.
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  35. Better than flopping around like a fish on bare ground.
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  36.  @teodorogerald  only in games. A 16" HE shell will flip over a tank and turn it's crew into mystery meat through spalling no matter where it hits in a 15ft radius from center mass of the tank...
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  37. And that white hot metal spray inside the confined space of a tank quickly superheats the air inside to far beyond comfortable and, as air expands with rising temperatures, as well as any additional combustion gasses generated by everything combustible getting hit by droplets of molten, burning steel, will be trying to make room for that extra volume one way or another...
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  38. My experience of Swedish MREs tends to be the opposite... where you do all you can to contain the gasses until you get to the toilet, because you can't trust your sphincter to release only the gas...
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  39.  @thatothersanecustodian8034  artillery caused more than 60% of the combat casualties in both world wars.
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  40.  @EP-bb1rm  the platform is...
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  41.  @ginNjus  240mm mortars have no role on the current modern battlefield as there's nothing it can do that a 155mm howitzer or multirole combat aircraft can do quicker, with more reliability accuracy, and with faster follow up shots if the first one doesn't do the trick.
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  42.  @exurgemars  imo, there's no such thing as a hollow death threat, and the context of those of your countrymen makes it worse in my eyes as I view jingoists as terrorists by default. Finally, you have no obligation to cover for criminal arseholes just because they live in the same country as you.
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  43.  @jockwood2398  or more accurately, erase every trace of hostile forces along with reducing the rest of the landscape to so much gravel and sawdust...
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  44. And on the other end of the radio chain, in case the data link doesn't work, there's someone like me taking notes, reading back the data and passing the form to the ballistics computer operator when confirmed correct.
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  45.  @florkiler6242  FN2000 uses the same 5.56x45 rounds and mags as the AR ;)
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  46. JustA KidBornPatriot well... how many Browning M2 HMGs do you think can be found on tatooine?
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  47. Your reflection on time and resource constraints bringing a more professional and problem solving attitude was very interesting from a Swedish perspective. It brought the Swedish reputation for professionalism in international peace keeping/ peace forcing operations into a new context. The new context beeing that the Swedish armed forces are built around a system of cadre officers who in peace time are serving a level below their rank and station than when mobilised along with compulsory conscript selection and compulsory training if selected for everyone at 18 since 2017 (it used to be compulsory for boys until 2006 and optional for girls between 1990 and 2006). The conscript training lasts 7.5months for privates, 10months for squad leaders and specialists, 12 and 15 months for platoon and company NCOs respectively. Navy does things differently in service length. Also, the equipment used used to be rotated mobilisation stores, which meant limited availiability and anything that broke should be repaired in the field if possible or handed on to repair techs when back at base. And considdering that those 18yo conscripts, less than two weeks out of high school who's drivers licences are so fresh the ink is barely dry on the temporary slip issued while the actual licence is made (driving age is 18 in Sweden), should be fully trained for every role assigned within those time frames, from grunts to sonar operator, attack divers, combat medics, tank commanders and strike aircraft controllers... Under those conditions, there's little to no time for faffing about with anything that isn't absolutely essential to the service at hand.
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  48. Never enough Dakka.
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  49. Not to mention the fact that killing or knocking out the driver doesn't stop a T-34 due to how it's drive train and driving controls are designed.
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  50. Looks like a good way to get a posthumous Darwin award...
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