Sweden Aka Swedish Tanks On Parade (1939)

[@pyrrosdimas5798]

These tanks wow

[@joakimberg7897]

Yes

[@TheWalterKurtz]

Tankettes.

[@marcusgustafsson9558]

The other nations were a bit lucky that the fury from the North did not hit them. We were more busy keeping our tradelines open so that we could create more Marabou chocolate. Arne Beurling tried to make steel chocolate shortly after he cracked the Geheimschreiber, but found it was hard to chew.

[@joakimberg7897]

Huh

[@TheWalterKurtz]

Well. Yes. Tradelines with the Nazis.

[@halla359]

@@TheWalterKurtz And relaying information to the allies, Helping Finland with a 3rd of our airforce, 10 000 volounters and alot of equipment. We had alot of ongoing operations saving people from concentration camps. We played both sides to stay out of the conflict as good as we could.

[@TheWalterKurtz]

@@halla359 ; A good number of Sweds were in the SS. I realize WW2 history is complicated.

[@halla359]

@@TheWalterKurtz bro, Google says that historians estimate between 100 and 300 Swedish SS soldiers. That is practically nothing and most other European countries had more

[@Pencilvester-u2t]

Swedish tank development was sudden but fast if you look at their tank development.

[@j3nax528]

En får fan löpa i infantriet!

[@jdewitt77]

Those tanks wouldn't have lasted 5 minutes against the German panzers. Look at them. They're small and only have machine guns. It's a good thing for the Swedes that the Germans never invaded them.

[@ArandomPerson7996]

Thats Tankettes, germany’s also used machine guns, our M42’s were even bought by germany.

[@_Ello]

It's important to remember that by 1939, a vast majority of german tanks were still panzer 1s and 2s. When tankettes became obsolete, different L60 variants, Strv m/41, and later the Strv m/42, were in production. The 37mm bofors cannon on swedish light tanks was still a capable gun against panzer 3.

[@reshuram4353]

This footage is from 1939. By the end of the war we had much better equipment.

[@j3nax528]

@jdewitt77 I must assume you're french xd