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5 unusual facts about Swedish Armed Forces


7.5 cm tornpjäs m/57

In the late 1990s, the Swedish Armed Forces decided that some 7.5/57 units were to be disbanded.

Fallskärmsjägarna

FJS is organized under Livregementets husarer at K3 but under the command of Överbefälhavaren, the Supreme Commander of the Swedish Armed Forces.

Fallskärmsjägarna (English: "Parachute Rangers"), also known as Fallskärmsjägarkåren (English: "Parachute Ranger Corps"), is a Swedish military special operations unit.

MONARC

The feasibility of using even the unmodified PzH 2000 with unguided "dumb" rounds to attack naval targets had been proven previously by the Swedish Coastal Artillery with tests performed in May 1996.

Swedish Armed Forces

The Supreme Commander is a four-star general or flag officer that is the agency head of the Swedish Armed Forces, and is the highest ranking professional officer on active duty.


Baltic Storm

Based on the book Die Estonia: Tragödie eines Schiffsuntergangs by German journalist Jutta Rabe, the film focuses on the confirmed transport of defense materials by the Swedish Armed Forces, and alleged cover-up of the true cause of the disaster.

Birger Nerman

In 1925 the Swedish Armed Forces published his The Rise of the Swedish Realm (Det svenska rikets uppkomst) in which Nerman argued that the formation of the Swedish state had been completed by the 8th century, that it was the direct continuation of the "powerful Svea kingdom" mentioned by Tacitus, and that Sweden with its history of two millennia held senior rank among the existing nations of Europe.

Julian Harston

Harston lectures all over the world to distinguished military and civilian audiences,and takes a leading role in War Games and Exercises for NATO and for the UK, Swedish, Canadian and Ugandan armed forces.


see also

Fentanyl

United States Air Force Pararescue and Swedish armed forces combat medics uses lollipops with fentanyl.

Syrén

Håkan Syrén (1952-)Supreme Commander of the Swedish Armed Forces from 1 January 2004 to 25 March 2009, and was the first Supreme Commander to come from the Navy.