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Luftvärnsrobotvagn 701

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Place of origin
  
Sweden

Used by
  
Swedish Army

Weight
  
9.7 tonnes

In service
  
1980s - 2000 circa

No. built
  
49

Type
  
self-propelled anti-aircraft vehicle

Luftvärnsrobotvagn 701 (abbreviated lvrbv 701) is a Swedish self-propelled anti-aircraft vehicle armed with the locally produced short range RBS 70 surface-to-air missile system. The lvrbv 701 is not NBC-protected and has no night vision equipment. Except for the armament, lvrbv 701 is identical to the Pansarvärnsrobotbandvagn 551 ATGM carrier. Both vehicles were built from the chassis of obsolete Infanterikanonvagn 103 self-propelled guns (some Pansarvärnsrobotbandvagn 551s used the Infanterikanonvagn 102 chassis instead). Conversion to the lvrbv 701 was done during the 1980s and the vehicle was taken out of active service around the year 2000.

References

Luftvärnsrobotvagn 701 Wikipedia