Eastern Suburbs Scale Modelling Club

.: Ken Noble's 1/35th Swedish S Tank

Stridsvagn 103, commonly known as S-tank, was developed in the late 1950s by Bofors to meet requirements of the Swedish Army. Strv 103 is unique in that the 105 mm gunis fixed in the glacis plate and is aimed in traverse by pivoting the vehicle on its tracks, and in elevation by adjusting the hydropneumatic suspension from -10° to +12°, with driver acting as gunner. It is armed with a automatic loaded 105 mm gun firing anti-tank rounds (APFS/-DS), HE (high explosives) and smoke rounds, empty cartridges cases being autmomatically ejected from the rear. It has three 7.62 mm machine guns (two parallell with the main gun, and one on the commander's cupola), Model 58. Normal range for firing the gun is up to 2,000 m and rate of fire is 10 rounds/min.

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