Pansarbandvagn 301
Appearance
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Type | Armoured personnel carrier |
Place of origin | Sweden |
Service history | |
In service | 1961–1971 |
Production history | |
Variants | slpbv 3011, epbv 3012 |
Specifications | |
Mass | 11.7 t (11.5 long tons; 12.9 short tons) |
Length | 4.66 m (15 ft 3 in) |
Width | 2.23 m (7 ft 4 in) |
Height | 2.64 m (8 ft 8 in) |
Crew | 2 (commander/gunner, driver) + 8 (passengers) |
Armor | 8–50 mm (upper front: 20 mm at 55°) |
Main armament | 20 mm (0.8 in) automatkanon m/45B |
Secondary armament | None |
Engine | Svenska Flygmotor B44 gasoline 160 hp (120 kW) |
Power/weight | 13.68 hp/tonne |
Suspension | Leaf spring |
Operational range | 300 km (190 mi) |
Maximum speed | 45 km/h (28 mph) |
Pansarbandvagn 301 (pbv 301), was a Swedish armoured personnel carrier used by the Swedish Army. It was a typical "battle taxi",[citation needed] armed with a 20 mm Bofors gun from scrapped Saab 21 fighters with room for transporting 8 fully armed soldiers.
The pbv 301 was an interim solution, built on the chassis from the obsolete Stridsvagn m/41 (in service since 1942). It was introduced in 1961 and removed from service in the late 1960s and early 1970s when the replacement pbv 302 came into use. The pbv 301 replaced the open-topped KP-bil armoured car as the armoured troop transport in the Swedish Army.
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Variants
- Pansarbandvagn 301 - personnel carrier, 185 produced
- Stridsledningspansarbandvagn 3011 (slpbv 3011) - command vehicle, 20 produced
- Eldledningspansarbandvagn 3012 (epbv 3012) - Forward Observer vehicle, 15 produced
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