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Pansarbandvagn 301

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Place of origin
  
Sweden

Variants
  
slpbv 3011, epbv 3012

Length
  
4.66 m (15 ft 3 in)

In service
  
1961 - 1971

Weight
  
11.7 tonnes

Pansarbandvagn 301

Type
  
Armoured personnel carrier

Pansarbandvagn 301 (pbv 301), was a Swedish armoured personnel carrier used by the Swedish Army. It was a typical "battle taxi", armed with a 20 mm Bofors gun from the scrapped J21-fighters and 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, 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.

Variants

  • Pansarbandvagn 301 - personnel carrier, 185 produced
  • Stridsledningspansarbandvagn 3011 (slpbv 3011) - command vehicle, 20 produced
  • Eldledningspansarbandvagn 3012 (epbv 3012) - Forward Observer vehicle, 15 produced
  • References

    Pansarbandvagn 301 Wikipedia