strv 103 mbt

I never thought about it before but that is a good question. I was looking at my model and some reference pictures and I am not certain where the spent shells come out of the tank. My guess is from one of the hatches on top of the vehicle.

From the below cut-away view, it looks at though it ejects out the circular port at the top center of the rear hull, just like a spent shell casing from a howitzer.

The one Heavyarty is talking about would be the one in the middle with the yellow dots around it on the pic. I don't if it really is the one, but it looks right to me.

man, i sure said "thing" a lot in that post...

thanks for the info. i found a web page with a link to some video of the tank firing (and so on) but it didn't work.

QUOTE: Originally posted by goatmonkey what i was wondering is what it looks like when the empty cartridges are ejected out the back.

My understanding is that they jump straight into the air, do a triple lux, pirouette, wait for applause, then disappear in a puff of smoke.

QUOTE: a friend of mine suggested the go flying like empy pistol cartridges and i'm pretty sure it's not the case ( for one thing it'd be a hazard to surrounding infantry support )

Infantry? Who cares about those critters? They should stay away from the fight if they can't stand having an empty casing or two fall on them!

I'd suggest you try Missing Lynx. I think there are some guys in the Swedish service who post there and can give you first-hand accounts of the workings of the vehicle. They didn't retire the Strv all that long ago.

Larry, what did they replace it with?

QUOTE: Originally posted by Duke Maddog Larry, what did they replace it with?

Their suped-up Leo 2A5, called the Leo 2(S). They may have upgraded the 2(S) to 2A6 standard, I don't remember.

Cool, thanks for that info Larry. I'll do a search to see what pics they have of that beast in Swedish colors. Could be interesting...

Well here is a link with some good information on swedish armor while we are on the subject. It also has some photos of Swedish Leopard 2s also.
http://come.to/swedisharmor

 Egads, it's been two years since an S-Tank thread?

[Edit: Found another one from last month. Oh well]

Trumpeter's B model. Tracks suck. Had to cast a new barrel shroud. 

NTM

Manic Moran wrote:

Egads, it's been two years since an S-Tank thread? [Edit: Found another one from last month. Oh well] Trumpeter's B model. Tracks suck. Had to cast a new barrel shroud.  NTM

Man that's GORGEOUS! What a unique finish!

I was shocked to see the "real thing" picture as well! I guess that, somewhere in Sweden, they have yellow-and-blue forests?!

the doog wrote:

I guess that, somewhere in Sweden, they have yellow-and-blue forests?!

Painted to represent the Swedish flag. My guess would be that it was done for some dog & pony show. I believe I've seen a Warrior painted like a British flag, somewhere, but I may be confusing it with Austin Powers' car...

No, everyone knows that blue and yellow together make green. All they needed to do was take advantage of the turbine's speed and drive around really quickly so that the colours become blurred into each other, thus creating green camo.

 OK. Actually it was painted up to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the regiment.

NTM