Pics from the swedish armed forces. 56k, begone!

[Stavka]

http://www.mil.se/int/images/local/maj17_pistol_liten.jpg
One of many weapons seized on a daily basis by swedish KFOR soldiers.


http://www.mil.se/int/images/local/maj16_strid1.jpg
http://www.mil.se/int/images/local/maj16_strid2.jpg
http://www.mil.se/int/images/local/maj16_strid3.jpg
Combat drill with our norwegian brothers on a training field north of Pristina, Kosovo.

http://www.mil.se/int/images/local/maj16_strid4.jpg
A few yanks tagged along. Here a norwegian instructor shows off the MG3.

http://www.mil.se/int/images/local/maj14_med1.jpg
Hey! Its my company commander from the Army! Give it up for Major Hansson! woot

http://www.mil.se/int/images/local/maj14_med2.jpg
Medals ceremony

http://www.mil.se/int/images/local/maj14_med3.jpg
These 4 were awarded for extraordinary steps taken during the riots a few weeks ago.

http://www.mil.se/int/images/local/maj13_san2.jpg
http://www.mil.se/int/images/local/maj13_san3.jpg
Swedish NBC-team clears an area of teargas shells.

http://www.mil.se/int/images/local/maj12_msu_stor.jpg
Visit from the french gendarmerie. Bonjour mes copains francais ;)

http://www.mil.se/int/images/local/maj5_dr1.jpg
http://www.mil.se/int/images/local/maj5_dr2.jpg
http://www.mil.se/int/images/local/maj5_dr3.jpg
http://www.mil.se/int/images/local/maj5_dr4.jpg
Combat drill along with a few yanks that got to try out some swedish equipment. **** SUSAT sights...

http://www.mil.se/int/images/local/la01-v419-avvapn2.jpg
Rebels in Liberia surrender their equipment.

http://www.mil.se/int/images/local/la01-v419-avvapn1.jpg

I have had enough. I want to surrender my weapon and go to school.


http://www.mil.se/int/images/local/la01-v416-4-freddyw.jpg
http://www.mil.se/int/images/local/la01-v416-4-soldat3.jpg
http://www.mil.se/int/images/local/la01-v416-4-soldater1.jpg
No dice in Liberia if we cant bring along our Irish Leprechauns ;). They served in teh Congo with us during the 60s and why change a winning concept?

http://www.livgardet.mil.se/images/local/kent-edberg-o-finska-mp.gif
Joint exercise with finnish MPs.

http://www.mhsk.mil.se/yop/images/local/2004_3218b.jpg
http://www.mhsk.mil.se/yop/images/local/2004_3246b.jpg
http://www.mhsk.mil.se/yop/images/local/2004_4007b.jpg
http://www.mhsk.mil.se/yop/images/local/2004_4105b.jpg
http://www.mhsk.mil.se/yop/images/local/2004_3072c.jpg
http://www.mhsk.mil.se/yop/images/local/2004_1138b.jpg
http://www.mhsk.mil.se/yop/images/local/2004_1172b.jpg
http://www.mhsk.mil.se/yop/images/local/2004_2089b.jpg
http://www.mhsk.mil.se/yop/images/local/2004_2040b.jpg
Miscellaneous pictures from Officer Cadet training.

http://www.k4.mil.se/images/local/opatrull_800_600.jpg
http://www.k4.mil.se/images/local/pa_spaning_800_600.jpg
http://www.k4.mil.se/images/local/frr_oplfac_800_600.jpg
FAC's (Forward Air Controller) in training.

http://www.amf4.mil.se/images/local/040422_olof.jpg
http://www.amf4.mil.se/images/local/040422_backe.jpg
http://www.amf4.mil.se/images/local/040422_glada.jpg
Swedish marines trying to deserve the green beret.


I cant be arsed to post any more pics right now. Anyway, enjoy!

[MolliG]

Nice, good quality pictures! woot

[ZeroPositive]

excellent photos I am well impressed by the Swedish camo looks the dogs nuts :D
sweet mate cheers

[moughoun]

Ya the Leprechauns and the swede's are forming one of the EU's battlegroup's so we'll be going to all the best ****hole's together, Viking and Celt's :bash: :bash: woot

[Marmot1]

YAY I See CHICKS on Photos!!!

BTW Very rusty AK-47 I Wonder if it was still working... but probably YES :lol:

[Eagle]

Great....Beatiful!

[Javehn]

Great pictures , mate . Can you tell please couple of things ?

1)How does women incorporate within operational units ? There is high percentage of them amongst combatant units , that deployed in UN forces throwout the world ?
2)What are the weapons you guys are using ? I see in the picture AK-5 and KSP-90B . Are they any differenence between it and Minimi ? What is the sight on AK-5C ?

[FDF_Hemppis]

http://www.livgardet.mil.se/images/local/kent-edberg-o-finska-mp.gif

Care to share some of your thoughts about this exercise? Did you find Finnish MP's to be any good? (;)) What did you practice?

The second Finnish soldier from the right is the commander of the Guards Jaeger Regiment, btw. (or at least he sure looks like him...)

[Falco]

Cool pics woot

[Stavka]

Great pictures , mate . Can you tell please couple of things ?


1)How does women incorporate within operational units ? There is high percentage of them amongst combatant units , that deployed in UN forces throwout the world ?

I dont have any statistics on the matter, but women are not barred from any service by gender, nor is there any form of (official) preferrential treatment apart from women being issued a small sum of cash on entrance to the armed forces. This money is intended for the purchase of whatever the ladies need in forms of brah's and tampons and so forth as the SDF does not supply this.
Female conscription is entirely voluntary as opposed to the mandatory basis for men, but as soon as a female has applied for military service, she is bound by law in the same way as for male recruits.
This has been applied since 2001, before that, the ladies had the option of terminating their military service within a month of its beginning, however this system is no longer put into practice.
There are women serving abroad in UN-related units, but they are very very few.


2)What are the weapons you guys are using ? I see in the picture AK-5 and KSP-90B . Are they any differenence between it and Minimi ? What is the sight on AK-5C ?

Yes, there are differences. All weapons supplied by Fabrique Nacional have in different ways been adapted to demands set by our rather unique sub-arctic climate, so some work has been done on materials used and tolerance levels for extreme cold and so forth.
As for operative differences, check out these two pics:

http://www.soldf.com/images/s_ksp90.jpg
Ksp 90 (Minimi)

http://www.soldf.com/images/s_ksp90b.jpg
Ksp 90B
The differences are basically the stock and a slight shortening of the barrel.

As for the second part of your question:
That is an AK5B, not AK5C. The sight on that weapon is a pretty standard SUSAT L9A1 sight. These are successively being phased out and will be replaced with the AK5C, which will be equiped with a rail for pretty much any sight you want. Ill check in later to see if I can score some pics on the new Aimpoint RD sight we have developed.

The AK5C is not featured in these pics as far as I can see, but I am in a hurry right now.

[Stavka]

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Care to share some of your thoughts about this exercise? Did you find Finnish MP's to be any good? (;)) What did you practice?

I have no idea, I wasnt part of that particular excercise. But from what I gather, the finnish MPs held up their pretty good rep.

I have a friend that was part of a similar excercise that simulated peacekeeping in an unmentioned country. 2 actors created a scenario where 2 patrols succesively stumbled upon a rape in progress.
The swedish guys did it all professionally and efficiently, arrested the culprit, and got a pretty good evaluation on it.

Our suomi brohters however, took the situation beyond seriousness and the transport that was to come pick up the culprit found him unconscious, wrapped around a tree and secured with insane amounts of gaffa tape.
One soldier in particular took a shine to the "victim", and when the exercise was called off, he offered to escort her home, "just in case that m0f0 shows up again..."

[moughoun]

[img]
Care to share some of your thoughts about this exercise? Did you find Finnish MP's to be any good? (;)) What did you practice?

I have no idea, I wasnt part of that particular excercise. But from what I gather, the finnish MPs held up their pretty good rep.

I have a friend that was part of a similar excercise that simulated peacekeeping in an unmentioned country. 2 actors created a scenario where 2 patrols succesively stumbled upon a rape in progress.
The swedish guys did it all professionally and efficiently, arrested the culprit, and got a pretty good evaluation on it.

Our suomi brohters however, took the situation beyond seriousness and the transport that was to come pick up the culprit found him unconscious, wrapped around a tree and secured with insane amounts of gaffa tape.
One soldier in particular took a shine to the "victim", and when the exercise was called off, he offered to escort her home, "just in case that m0f0 shows up again..."

Lesson learned, don't pissoff a Finn :bash:

[DirtyBilly]

Are some of the pictures from Karlbergs "chefens övning"? And if so, is it this years exercise and are there any more?

[Thor]

Great pictures , mate . Can you tell please couple of things ?


1)How does women incorporate within operational units ? There is high percentage of them amongst combatant units , that deployed in UN forces throwout the world ?

I dont have any statistics on the matter, but women are not barred from any service by gender, nor is there any form of (official) preferrential treatment apart from women being issued a small sum of cash on entrance to the armed forces. This money is intended for the purchase of whatever the ladies need in forms of brah's and tampons and so forth as the SDF does not supply this.
Female conscription is entirely voluntary as opposed to the mandatory basis for men, but as soon as a female has applied for military service, she is bound by law in the same way as for male recruits.
This has been applied since 2001, before that, the ladies had the option of terminating their military service within a month of its beginning, however this system is no longer put into practice.
There are women serving abroad in UN-related units, but they are very very few.

To my recollection only 1-5 percent of all military personell are women. That's pretty few compared to many other countries.




2)What are the weapons you guys are using ? I see in the picture AK-5 and KSP-90B . Are they any differenence between it and Minimi ? What is the sight on AK-5C ?

Yes, there are differences. All weapons supplied by Fabrique Nacional have in different ways been adapted to demands set by our rather unique sub-arctic climate, so some work has been done on materials used and tolerance levels for extreme cold and so forth.
As for operative differences, check out these two pics:

http://www.soldf.com/images/s_ksp90.jpg
Ksp 90 (Minimi)

http://www.soldf.com/images/s_ksp90b.jpg
Ksp 90B
The differences are basically the stock and a slight shortening of the barrel.

Ksp 90B = Minimi Para.

[ikurinturbiini]

http://www.mhsk.mil.se/yop/images/local/2004_4007b.jpg

Nice non-regulation gloves :D Reminds me of the stuff we have in store for reservists, a far cry from the state of the art stuff paraded in manoeuvres...

[FDF_Hemppis]

[img]
Care to share some of your thoughts about this exercise? Did you find Finnish MP's to be any good? (;)) What did you practice?

Our suomi brohters however, took the situation beyond seriousness and the transport that was to come pick up the culprit found him unconscious, wrapped around a tree and secured with insane amounts of gaffa tape.
One soldier in particular took a shine to the "victim", and when the exercise was called off, he offered to escort her home, "just in case that m0f0 shows up again..."

LMAO! rofl rofl

Hehe...Kaarti's MP's are a bit nuts. They aren't exactly know to be gentle, i.e. when I watched their POW-practises, I sometimes felt a bit sorry for the guy who played the POW. They're efficient above all.

He was propably in a so-called "sissilukko" around that tree. It's a kinda freaky, you put a guy to sit in a certain way around the tree, and he has like 2mins before his legs go numb, and after that he ain't going nowhere. It's extremely difficult to get off from the "sissilukko", even with your hands free, let alone, if tied up... ;)

[Dalleer]

Great pictures!

And nice going on handling that "rapist"....

[Marsuitor]

Excellent pictures Stavka!

[Guttorm]

Great pic's !

http://www.mil.se/int/images/local/la01-v416-4-soldat3.jpg

These guys look the ****! Guy on the left is about to go VanDamme on the photographer... :D

[Adam Wilhelm]

Interesting, i´ve never spotted this one before.

The blue helmet cover is camouflage on the inside.
I thought it was just blue.
So when in need you can go all green! :D

[Thor]

Interesting, i´ve never spotted this one before.

The blue helmet cover is camouflage on the inside.
I thought it was just blue.
So when in need you can go all green! :D

Lessons learned from Bosnia I would say.

[stimpy]

Interesting, i´ve never spotted this one before.

The blue helmet cover is camouflage on the inside.
I thought it was just blue.
So when in need you can go all green! :D

Lessons learned from Bosnia I would say.

Eh?, it's just a cover that that slips on over the helmet. just like the DPM ones.

[stimpy]

Interesting, i´ve never spotted this one before.

The blue helmet cover is camouflage on the inside.
I thought it was just blue.
So when in need you can go all green! :D

Lessons learned from Bosnia I would say.

Eh?, it's just a cover that that slips on over the helmet. just like the DPM ones.

[oldsoak]

http://www.mhsk.mil.se/yop/images/local/2004_4007b.jpg

Nice non-regulation gloves :D Reminds me of the stuff we have in store for reservists, a far cry from the state of the art stuff paraded in manoeuvres...

Gardening gloves - smart bloke. Went on exerercise in an area where you had nettles, brambles, gorse, briars - everything in Europe that has a thorn or stings. My issue goretex lined leather gloves were useless - my mates gardening gloves performed better as well as being better for razor wire.
rgds

[Thor]

Interesting, i´ve never spotted this one before.

The blue helmet cover is camouflage on the inside.
I thought it was just blue.
So when in need you can go all green! :D

Lessons learned from Bosnia I would say.

Eh?, it's just a cover that that slips on over the helmet. just like the DPM ones.

Yeah I guess. See in Balkans they used helmets that were painted blue.