The Swedish Tank Museum Arsenalen (Försvarsfordonsmuseet Arsenalen) is a museum specializing in armoured fighting vehicles that opened on 17 June 2011. It is located about 6 km from
Strängnäs, Södermanland, Sweden. There are 75 vehicles on site in the museum and the museum owns 375 vehicles. The Museum is operated by a private, non-profit foundation.
Exhibits
The Vehicle Hall is the main building containing vehicles, simulator, Figure Museum, and temporary exhibits.
Vehicles
Vehicles at the museum include:
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Stridsvagn m/21-29
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Renault NC-31
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T-37A
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Panzer I
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Stridsvagn fm/31
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Stridsvagn m/31
Stridsvagn m/31 (Landsverk L-10) was a Swedish World War II era light tank built by AB Landsverk. It was armed with a 37 mm Bofors gun and a coaxial 6.5mm Ksp m/14-29 machine gun, and was equipped with 8–24 mm armor. The tank had advanced desi ...
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Stridsvagn m/37
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Stridsvagn m/38
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Stridsvagn m/40L
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Stridsvagn m/41
Stridsvagn m/41 (Strv m/41) was a Swedish medium tank. A license-built version of the Czechoslovak TNH medium tank, it served into the 1950s.
History
Since 1937, the Swedish army had been interested in the Czechoslovakian TNH tank. In March 194 ...
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Stridsvagn m/42
Stridsvagn m/42 (Strv m/42) was a Swedish medium tank in service in the World War II period. Known by its manufacturer AB Landsverk as Lago II-III-IV, it fielded a 75 mm L/31 gun, the first of its size in a Swedish tank. It entered service ...
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T-34
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Sherman Vc Firefly
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Centurion
A centurion (; la, centurio , . la, centuriones, label=none; grc-gre, κεντυρίων, kentyríōn, or ) was a position in the Roman army during classical antiquity, nominally the commander of a century (), a military unit of around 80 ...
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T-55
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Stridsvagn 74
Stridsvagn 74 (strv 74) was a Swedish tank in use with the Swedish Army from 1958 to 1984. It was a modification of the older Stridsvagn m/42, which was phased out of service in the early 1950s. Instead of scrapping the vehicles altogether, the ch ...
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Stridsvagn 103
The Stridsvagn 103 (Strv 103), also known as the Alternative S and S-tank, is a Swedish post-World War II main battle tank, designed and manufactured in Sweden. "Strv" is the Swedish military abbreviation of ''stridsvagn'', Swedish for chariot an ...
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T-72M1
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Infanterikanonvagn 91
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Stridsvagn 104
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Leopard 2K
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Stormartillerivagn m/43
Stormartillerivagn m/43 (Sav m/43) ( en, Assault artillery carriage model 1943) was an assault gun
Assault gun (from german: Sturmgeschütz - "storm gun", as in "storming/assaulting") is a type of self-propelled artillery which uses an infantry s ...
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Infanterikanonvagn 103
The Infanterikanonvagn 72 (Ikv 72) is a light assault gun vehicle developed by Swedish firm AB Landsverk in the early 1950s.
History
In early 1949, the Swedish Army initiated a project for an assault gun was to provide direct fire support for ...
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Bandkanon 1
15,5 cm bandkanon 1 (15,5 cm bkan 1, pronounced "b-kan"), meaning " tracked cannon 1", was a Swedish self-propelled artillery vehicle in use with the Swedish Army from 1967 to 2003, developed by Aktiebolaget Bofors. Its product name was () ...
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StuG III
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Marder II
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Jagdpanzer 38(t) "Hetzer"
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Pansarvärnskanonvagn m/43
The Pansarvärnskanonvagn m/43 (Pvkv m/43) was a tank destroyer developed by Landsverk.
History
As the use of tanks became more and more important during the Second World War, fighting them became more and more urgent. The German Wehrmacht had ...
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Pansarbil fm/29
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Pansarbil m/31
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Pansarbil m/39
The ''Pansarbil'' m/39 (or Lynx) and ''Pansarbil'' m/40 were Swedish 4x4 armoured cars of World War II.
History
AB Landsverk, who had developed the Landsverk L180, L181 and L182 family of armored cars, began developing the ''Pansarbil'' m/39 i ...
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M8 Greyhound
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Terrängbil m/42 (KP-bil)
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Ferret armoured car
The Ferret armoured car, also commonly called the Ferret scout car, is a British armoured fighting vehicle designed and built for reconnaissance purposes. The Ferret was produced between 1952 and 1971 by the UK company Daimler. It was widely ...
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Humvee
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Luftvärnskanonvagn fm/43
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Luftvärnsrobotbandvagn 701
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Universal Carrier
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M113
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Pansarbandvagn 301
Pansarbandvagn 301 (pbv 301), meaning roughly ''armoured tracked carrier vehicle 301'',), are instead only called wagons (chassis description) to denote that they are tracked but more specialized and less universal. was a Swedish infantry fighting ...
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Pansarbandvagn 302
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Bandvagn 208
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Ford Model T
The Ford Model T is an automobile that was produced by Ford Motor Company from October 1, 1908, to May 26, 1927. It is generally regarded as the first affordable automobile, which made car travel available to middle-class Americans. The relati ...
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Kübelwagen
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Willys MB
The Willys MB and the Ford GPW, both formally called the U.S. Army Truck, -ton, 4×4, Command Reconnaissance, commonly known as the Willys Jeep, Jeep, or jeep, and sometimes referred to by its List of U.S. military vehicles by supply catalog ...
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Volvo TPV
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Volvo TP21
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Trabant
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Alvis Stalwart
The Stalwart, formally classified by the British Army as Truck, High Mobility Load Carrier (HMLC), 5 Ton, 6 x 6, Alvis/Stalwart and informally known by servicemen as the Stolly, and by former RCT as the Stally, is a highly mobile amphibious m ...
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Pansarvärnspjästerrängbil 9031
References
External links
Swedish Tank Museum Arsenalen website (English)
Tank museums
Museums in Södermanland County
Military and war museums in Sweden
Strängnäs Municipality
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