World of Tanks - Kranvagn: A Swedish Experiment

What is the Kranvagn? Simply, it’s an experimental Swedish tank built to counter Soviet vehicles like the IS-3. Why was its development so turbulent? What was the solution? What on earth does Kranvagn mean? Watch our video to find out!
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[@austinduong-van6071]

Next up: A Swedish arty with a 48-second reload and has a 14-round clip. seems legit

[@Ludde_]

with 150 damage...... Onlt way to balance it tho!

[@copythat9040]

And balanced

[@Sover1gn]

.5 intraclip reload

[@gerlock22_84]

Just let it be like sweden built it. It were built to shoot nuclear shells (Bandkanon 1C)

[@MTRBR-mp7wj]

Just came from that video

[@crumb6332]

This proves that video games can be educational. :P

[@roy3643]

Yes BIG points

[@GabsARV]

@@roy3643 massive points

[@PrinzEugen39]

Humongous points

[@orikario582]

Large points

[@prvt.harumi6821]

Here have a upvote

[@johanmetreus1268]

The main problem with the 15 cm cannon wasn't the gun itself, but the ammunition. Kinetic penetrators (KP) was considered a thing of the past given the rapid development of the HEAT-technology, which was the natural choice for a brand new tank system (hence the large calibre, as the power of the HEAT-round is a direct function of the diameter) to be built. HEAT-rounds have some problems though: * In order to detonate properly at a target, the fuse must be exact enough to ignite the hollow charge at a precise distance from the armour. This is getting increasingly difficult with higher projectile speeds, so the Vo (velocity measured when the projectile just clears the muzzle) deliberately had to be kept low (500-800 m/s) for the fuses to function. * This in turn means that for longer distances, the trajectory becomes much higher than for a faster projectile, meaning the flight time becomes much longer than the mere difference in Vo between a KP and a HEAT-round suggest. Long flight times makes it a lot harder to hit a moving target...which everyone playing derp-gun and artillery can confirm. * Finally, the HEAT-rounds (just like HESH) doesn't like getting spun around, or rather, the centripetal forces will lower the penetration. This causes severe problems in a gun relying on spinning the shell for stabilisation. The Swedish military naturally wanted a reliable shell with good penetration, precision and short flight time at a reasonable cost per shell. These simple demands proved to be insurmountable for the Bofors engineers. If the flight time was to be kept short, the velocity had to increase, which made the fuses unreliable. Getting good penetration with a rifled gun was difficult due to the spin, and with a smooth bore gun the lack of stabilisation made the precision suffer. Improving the fuses and adding a ball-bearing allowing the outer casing to rotate around the inner HEAT-charge and stabilise the projectile while giving full penetration would have made the shells prohibitorily expensive (15-50 times the cost of a normal HEAT.shell) to stock for war time use, never mind exercises. Without a working shell, the gun couldn't go into final design, nor could the auto-loading system. Those in turn were the determining factor for the final design of the turret, so hence it was never made. Bofors could of course have made a more realistic mock-up, but that would just have been a waste of resources as all machinery would have to be re-tooled once the final designs were in. In short, this is the kingdom lost due to the lost horse-shoe nail.

[@biker5719]

Johan Metreus well explained thank u

[@johanmetreus1268]

Glad someone took the time to read it :-)

[@nosoynadaoiga4144]

Johan Metreus too many words,my brain is now on smoke....

[@expliteronboom3075]

You should be a preacher

[@CarlosMendez-tn5zi]

That was surprisingly well explained, thank you

[@russianspy5307]

The kranvagn: a tank wargaming didn't pull out its ass

[@russianspy5307]

For once

[@TheNameTooSexyToShow]

Actually they only pulled the turret out of their asses, there was no turret made for the Kranvagn. So this tank is somewhat half assed by WG.

[@russianspy5307]

I suppose they gotta pull something out their ass

[@johanmetreus1268]

The turret wasn't pulled out of the ass either, there was just no sense in building one since the gun wasn't finalized due to the ammunition not being ready.

[@hamidchakri2560]

Da Komrade! this tank is good one of the best of the heavy tanks

[@mrsaussissonsec1054]

05:05 "150mm gun" Imagine the kranvagn with 4 750 alpha shot 🤣😨

[@ICCUWANSIUT]

MrSaussissonSec waffle e100

[@awoowie_nate]

Fv 183: Finally, a worthy opponent

[@juusto7171]

Waffentrager E-100 2.0

[@user-sg9ql8nk1u]

actually we having 1 coming,the new italian td :D

[@mrsaussissonsec1054]

@@user-sg9ql8nk1u they do not have 150mm or 750 alpha tho

[@tobiasbraun346]

Can't wait for Swedish arty's:P

[@aimforace2368]

A arty that fires 14 shots per 48 seconds like WTF hahahahahahaha love to see the hate on that one and a autoloder nice

[@SonsOfLorgar]

Aim for Ais an autoloader with what was essentially gigantic 14round N-block clips on top of that rof. each clip of 14 rounds stored on a standard wooden cargo pallet (same as modern EU-pallet) in the ammo depots, ready for beeing rolled out by fork lift onto the ammo resuply trucks and then lifted directly into the autoloader magazine as a single unit with the ammo truck's hydraulic crane, Each ammo truck carrying up to six pallets/clips (6x14 155mm one-piece rounds) Full reload took 2 minutes/SPG and was done as part of the regular battery relocation between fire missions. (fire-move to reload-move to next firing location-repeat until enemy retreats)

[@aimforace2368]

SonOfLorgar OMG OP hahahahahahahahahahaha System tanks for explaining it ^-

[@readytodie7355]

Sweden doesnt have 10 different own artys

[@icewings6506]

@@readytodie7355 so it may be unable to make a tech tree for that arty. How sad!

[@HOrseshoeM]

IS-3 was Overrated by whom? Not by Soviets that's for sure 'cause they deemed it obsolete less than one year after the Berlin display!! While Soviets were building MBTs of various shapes and forms, Western countries were building tanks and SPGs (TDs) to counter possible IS-3s swarm invasion for more than 20 years! And that's HILARIOUS!!

[@austerlitzonblitz6219]

SPGs are artillery self propelled guns. Just to know i didn.t say that meanful. I just wanted to make sure u know the difference. Cheers :)

[@austerlitzonblitz6219]

Actually lemme show. Self | Propelled| = spg =artillery Guns |

[@Optimaloptimus]

Did you know that they kept developing heavy tanks like the IS-3 past 1945?

[@toastpulver3422]

the point is that the soviets kinda were a bully and saw the Geneva Convention more as the Geneva suggestions

[@ICCUWANSIUT]

Austerlitz On Blitz it’s also correct in the way they used it though. Take a look at multiple documents and tales about tank destroyers and they are sometimes recognized as Self Propelled Guns, even if this is an incorrect title nonetheless in history it has been used in the context for tank destroyers.

[@waffy6222]

I swear to God WG if you put that Swedish Arty even arty players would hate arty players.

[@sarook530]

If aiming time is high its useless

[@mhplayer]

@@sarook530 just auto fire in the ennemy base, you'll sure hit something and insta kill every arty in the game (unless the e100 which could resist a shot which lands close to it thanks to its side skirts)

[@cloud6254]

Arty players would hate their own kind

[@notafrog2040]

funny bandkannon noises

[@weirdunknownperson2916]

Wg: amx50 100 has good front armor at its time Me: *bro what*

[@aleksandarvujanic7914]

Yes in game armor is like carboard

[@fuckinantipope5511]

@@aleksandarvujanic7914 real life one was too. It's the same layout as in game

[@aleksandarvujanic7914]

@@fuckinantipope5511 Armor is what makes tank powerfull, but Amx is the only tank in my opinion that makes it different. Armor is weak, but that gun with 3 clips and mobility with that big turret smile, is the best thing.

[@adrian_myuser8483]

Me: laugh in 183 milimeter FV

[@CasperKersten]

Hey WG, can we get a Centurion tank in the Swedish tech tree?

[@stefannilsson2406]

that would be pretty cool :)

[@RetroMotiveAdventures]

Casper Kersten that would be awesome I would totally buy that premium.

[@SonsOfLorgar]

Strv 104 would be cool as tier 8 or 9 premium tank :)

[@christossimos3426]

Tugberk Elibol . Isn't it a hack??

[@jabben00]

kiko simos its most likely spam

[@soup3339]

This is just me deciding on what tech tree I should play, chill guys.

[@angelosoaresgiroto7458]

That Swedich arty looks so bad ass! Please add! =D

[@DurgeshKumar-kb4hr]

So sad,the tank line I'm grinding could not even see it's existence

[@stefantanket8735]

4:23 no he didn't just mop the floor with ur OP rusky IS7 !

[@thomasleonard2564]

FOX 455m to bad it does not have it's 145 mm

[@bobfjoeg9977]

I can't wait for this to be released in blitz

[@lllz9800]

Wait 4 more months...

[@zairkarim3448]

@@lllz9800 40 months

[@2pop39]

Well it’s here yeyeyeyeyey

[@civiltrack3583]

@@2pop39 and it sucks

[@MrTryAnotherOne]

I love the videos on tank development. Keep up the good work!

[@NiklasAdv]

As a Swede im triggered everytime in every video people pronounce "kranvagn" as "Kran WAGEN"

[@panzerknackerauto8227]

NiklasAdv you made me spit out my soup

[@russellwen1410]

kran wagen

[@tenkgurlowo135]

And I want to see the kranvagn being built, seems like a very cool tank

[@user-sg9ql8nk1u]

well we only had it hull,which still exist till this day in a museum,prob to em for keeping it :o

[@smogdanoff7053]

Bandkanon 1 is absolutely huge, trust me ive seen it, twice..

[@nikovarano1741]

These videos are all so good

[@hansivarlie9125]

NO ONE IN SWEDEN MAKES A TANK AND CALLS IT THE CRANE WAGON WITH A CANNON, BUT WITH A CRANE

[@tha_tram_man]

ture man it woulde have code name cv(insert nubmer here)

[@MrJohanBD]

While what they said about Sweden lacking behind is true for tanks its far from true when it comes to the air planes. Sweden had some very cool ww2 planes and while being such a small nation still had some 900 bombers & some 800 Fighters in active service by 1945 not to mention the ground breaking jet planes they built during the 50s and 60s.

[@barnstar2077]

More videos like this please!

[@orokushi5953]

Im sad for the engineers who had years of their work scrapped.

[@voyagerdust]

:( uuuh jajaj

[@Matriisius]

A brilliant and informative video, very nice to watch content like this from WG, goob job!

[@johanmetreus1268]

If it wasn't for the factual errors, it would been a great video.

[@unnecessaryammorack]

@@johanmetreus1268 what factual errors

[@johanmetreus1268]

@@unnecessaryammorack Back to the gun, the same issue that plagued the 15 cm gun would have made the 12 cm gun fail: there was no proper HEAT-shell already developed, and as seen, creating a shell both capable to hit and penetrating the target proved impossible.

[@damonstr]

IS-3 was the most overrated tank of its time... it was exactly the opposite of what the Red Army wanted and needed, and was plagued with countless problems that would make it unacceptable in the West. They finally (dis)proved how much they were worth in the deserts of Sinai.

[@Omen_Seven]

It had to make the Brits happy when they finally realized how the hull took shots. They were so worried that the L7 on the Centurion wouldn't be able to punch through the IS-3, that they actually started a program to try and mount the L1 120 mm on the Centurion (the FV4202). Later, they realized that when the IS-3's hull was hit by rounds fried from the L7, it just split open like an egg.

[@SuperCookiemonser]

What caused this? I thought the pike nose was quite stronk.

[@Omen_Seven]

Duncan Cook It was the welds where the armor plates were joined together. They weren't strong enough so when the tank took a hit, "POP!" The welds broke and the crew suddenly had windows.

[@SuperCookiemonser]

Ah, well that makes sense.

[@damonstr]

Yeah it turned out Russia steel was not so stronk after all. They also slowly fell apart after a few years due to those same shoddy welds.

[@jonasplett172]

So WG made this tank historically accurate, by making it’s gun handling trash😂

[@Shamnolya]

I love the shape of the turret in game

[@twinkyplays1564]

mark my words comrades..one day wg will put a swedish tech tree for SPG'S..

[@NiklasAdv]

The most horrific part is that it could more then likely happen due to the fact its possible with the tanks that existed and those that was blueprints.

[@williamaftonpizzeria]

Soap Mactavish pooooh im from future and there is no arties in swedish tech tree yet

[@sytricka3318]

@@williamaftonpizzeria And there will never be any new SPG's in wot. WG confirmed they wont add any SPG's

[@williamaftonpizzeria]

@@sytricka3318 welp.... I left the game but thanks for informing me

[@teochifor2017]

Still no swedish arties!

[@benji6105]

I love the concept : know the origins of the game’s tanks ! Its totally insane to know that all tanks of WOT are reals and was developed by army

[@civiltrack3583]

Of course they were you thought all of wots tanks were fake?

[@user-sg9ql8nk1u]

@@civiltrack3583 not all were real.

[@ned1033]

Makes every 50B owner regret their life

[@jacobtanjinghong]

Not really, the Kranvagn in game has such terrible soft stats and a shitty autoloader that the 50b still has its place

[@panzerknackerauto8227]

Tan Jing Hong Jacob bs

[@WiardiVK]

Panzerknacker Auto this was before the buff of the kranvagn, and before the buff it was true

[@panzerknackerauto8227]

WiardiVK oh nvm

[@user-sg9ql8nk1u]

@@jacobtanjinghong 5 yr later... how abt now?

[@akhilpillay4262]

Love these

[@lisko4038]

oh man it could be so good

[@marundiir4241]

No, I think it could be designed in extreme condition too. Then WG will have to nerf it.

[@lisko4038]

jeah thats true better hull then the is7 ^^ to op man

[@markozacar]

they probably decided to give up after nerf :)

[@stefannilsson2406]

lol

[@five5105]

Honestly with the reworked artillery, that Swedish SPG could actually be a very feasible artillery, so long as the damage was lower that the other artillery.

[@austinduong-van6071]

The Kranvagn: better than ikea meatballs

[@timcuencaaarum2690]

VAGN NOT FUCKING WAGEN!

[@wargamingrefugee9065]

It looks like somebody is a bit whiny and needs a little cruise missile love.

[@providence5384]

North Atlantic Terror Organization der kommunist ATGM wants to make love with your tank

[@TheNameTooSexyToShow]

I don't give a shiit, it's a motherfuucking Wagen.

[@timcuencaaarum2690]

Bada Bing Bada Boom Not even close. Dissapointing they cant prenounce something as easy as vagn wich is prenounced vangn, SIMPLE AF

[@TheNameTooSexyToShow]

No it's not. It's pronounced wagen.

[@alphabeta2589]

In wot this is the strongest hull down tank. Respect served right

[@reallybadaim118]

looking forward to the spg now

[@Biggus_Nickus]

swedish spg line confirmed

[@agentwhite1]

the front turret armor is soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo SMOOTH

[@ThomasMyers]

They should complete the kranvagan it's beautiful tank

[@Edario]

I wonder what was/were the technical problems for that turret.

[@markowasowskii181]

hold up… the Kranvagn historically would habe 140-160 mm of front body armor???? So why is it 110 then in the game…

[@m4t3matix73]

No for real: imagine they arty in the game with shots that do almost no DMG and stun for 5sec max. He would be a pure support and very skilled players could go for the tracks.

[@ICCUWANSIUT]

M4T3matix and would render the French obsolete in all aspects

[@EpicThe112]

nice and if this tier 10 swedish heavy tank was produced and in-service up to 2016 it's frontal turret & side armour would have explosive reactive armor similar to tier 10 medium tanks that are in service in 2016 Russian T-62 American M48 & M60 French AMX-30 German Leopard 1 & British Centurion & including the Russian Tier 9 medium Tank T-54 / T-55 all of these tanks have explosive reactive armor installed with countries that still use them. For the Kranvangn if it's still in service in 2016 the 120mm rifled Gun would be replaced by a 120mm smoothbore gun to take on Russian T-90, T-72 , and T-80 tier 11 medium Tanks & T-14 Armata tier 11 heavy tank if wargaming it puts in present-day tanks

[@tenkgurlowo135]

Love Swedish tanks :D so creative

[@Leman_Russ04]

Anybody knows the track playing after 9:00?? It's awesome

[@_Jompan_]

Bandkanon 1 PLZ!!!!!

[@lewistreadwell7006]

an SPG with 14 shots every 48 seconds... don't even think about it wargaming

[@lolibote2352]

imagine a sweden spg with siege mode.

[@tomaszosiewicz4084]

Hmm wait in the film was talk of artillery possible that in the future the Swedish tree will altylerja

[@aleksandarvujanic7914]

I like this smiley tanks like Amx.

[@CelestyWarfare]

120mm gun and 140mm of armor for 28t and a 150mm gun for more than 40t -> in game 44t for 120 mm gun and 90 mm for armor WOT could you explain this ?

[@Asghaad]

"balance" ...

[@lifesimulator3964]

I want dat spg! 14 shots for 48s! (About 1 shell every 12s, then the reload time 😂😂😂)

[@aimiliosmilidakis2571]

So an IS 8 in tire IX in better than the tire X heavy swidish tank?

[@frekohd3417]

Wargame Europe if i open wot, my sream flares and I can't play !!! how can i fix it?

[@Zimonov]

Bandkanon 1 and IKv 91 when!?

[@no00ob]

that arty tho I don't wanna see it in game...

[@Zero-ye2dk]

It's not going to have its massive clip, it'll just be another Lorraine 155

[@no00ob]

Timothy Taliercio ok :P

[@Nicmadis]

I'll reinstall wot if I can have that. But probably it will come after they add the Schwerer Gustav.

[@Laxper]

Wow Is Coming in World of Tanks Blitz!!! OMG

[@lolibote2352]

Sweden: They destroy you from the other side of the map that'll make you ricochet or you have to pen 420+ mm of armour on a ridge line.

[@bastienrolle8221]

Wargaming next tank swiss one is a good idee

[@RedDeadPigz]

Bastien Rolle the Panzer 58 is Swiss..

[@bastienrolle8221]

MarschallRommel but in the game he is german and swiss can have light-medium, spg and td branche

[@dariomasi9]

Swiss tanks and not italians? Next what brazilian tanks?

[@KING_ROMANSI]

I want to see an Italian line

[@Fish-kz8xw]

Through those failures that they've been through , the Strv 103 was it's only thing that Sweden becomes a successor.

[@smrdutyopossum9718]

Vysvětlí mi někdo, proč se v "dokumentu" k projektu nevyjadřují Švédi?

[@TX2673XA]

this tank is OP in WOT

[@emberke7902]

if it would have the historical parameters....

[@mrboo31]

Ye

[@grandmagertrude6358]

sweden: 1 make a tank 2 try to make the best tank 3 realise you cant make the best tank 4 buy tanks from brittain

[@Merecir]

Repeat the same thing in the 90's. Tries to make Strv2000, buys tanks form Germany instead.

[@hermankopsch2929]

wait, this was in the fifties?

[@livelydeath7968]

What happening with subilites

[@necolombus5949]

Brought To You By Ikea

[@JohnSapato]

A tank built to destroy soviet tanks, just what I need.

[@kentoreskalwolf4726]

Ps4, Xbox one swedish tanks???

[@christossimos3426]

wargaming, please help me. i can't run my test server 3days. it's a restart??

[@olafs9997]

kiko simos the test server is down, because the live version now has 9.17. Test server will return when 9.18 comes out

[@christossimos3426]

Ok thanks.

[@CHRoOMAX]

Why do you use an interpreter? As a dane, I might actually understand some of what he's saying! Darn you WG;P

[@stabilisedchaos]

Dat Arty,Make it war gaming ,make it now!

[@crispybaguette8670]

0:07. STRV m/42

[@admiraljk4652]

This tank gonna be added in Blitz

[@jellychicken9010]

It did, and im getting it

[@user-sg9ql8nk1u]

@@jellychicken9010 uh... so after u got it... happy with it?

[@akaristeez]

im from finland btw.

[@a.l.1643]

is this the tier 6 premium tank in game?

[@Eyeless_Camper]

Aliakyn Kersbaumer Tier 8-10 heavy tank.

[@atloos]

Eyeless_Camper medium tank...

[@Eyeless_Camper]

Freie Kekse The tier 8-10 are heavy tanks, not mediums.

[@fn-vq7xf]

lol this is a tier10 heavy tank and its not premium

[@cloud6254]

When france and soviet russia makes out they get sweden

[@TheFinnViking]

But kran means a tap, like, a faucet, the water thing?

[@ET92]

True, but the word also means crane. As in a crane that lifts things. (dont ask me why since this clearly wasnt designed to lift things xD )

[@Asghaad]

same reason german "maus" is named after small harmless animal rather than some dangerous cat like the others - to mislead spies

[@cagataykantarc1302]

thıs tank OP!!!

[@theopdiamond8349]

I'd like to see this shit IRL.

[@mcaroonpl949]

can you add swedish artillery?

[@MrGibsn]

The Cranvagen is a Good Tank in wot

[@peterbillings9244]

Whye can't the swedish arty be in the Game also..155 mm Gun..20 mm armory...53.000 kg..And abel to empty it's clipp off 15 shots in 45 sec. Sweden built 26 off these arty.

[@cerberusrex5275]

I doubt that it had better armour than the IS7 and on top of that was deemed '''not strong enough'' :/

[@atomicastronaut5183]

cerberus rex x bro how the fuck would u know? Yes the is7 has a heap of armour in the upper plate but the krv could be stronger or is stronger and it's more angled

[@cerberusrex5275]

I know because I have common sence. The Kranvagn has 90mm sloped; Is7-150 sloped..... In addition Im certain they didnt put the Kranvagn's armor to the test. If they had they would have said what guns it was able to withstand. The IS-7 was able to withstand the Jagtiger's 12cm and it's own 13cm guns. They are basically saying it should be as good but it simply isnt

[@naruhodo9206]

cerberus rex x Actually in the video its 145mm thicc frontally for the krv, they just put the thickness down in the game so it wouldnt be more OP than the IS-7. jk its obviously for balancing reasons

[@cerberusrex5275]

Yes you are right but still- 150 is more than 145 even if its just 5mm and the IS7 sports the more effective type of pike nose(it has the better armor angling).

[@boanil7948]

cerberus rex x Russian Steel vs Swedish Steel.... Quality wise the Sweden wins 10/10... 5mm more butter still won't be as good as the Swedish steel

[@kajcsa]

OP shit

[@panzerhund2349]

pls replays on the weak pls team battle i thing epic wins maybe 3vs1 situations ?

[@yingli2171]

Me watching people playing wot at max graphics and going to play wot at low graphics

[@hm-dd7mx]

Let this tank come in the World of tanks blitz

[@arvelos76]

Please please please please please i want that swedish Arty. Preety please.

[@eemeli6706]

i love sweden ps:im finnish

[@nokurdedanielek]

Kranik

[@hyunwoo1375]

자막에 한국어도 지원해주세요

[@ivanblack7450]

If it's 140mm hull armour more effective than IS-7, why is it week green armour in game? Any why no 150mm gun? T57 was supposed to have 155mm too so why not two gun options on both tanks in game? Kranvagn so bad it the first and only Tear 10 I ever sold! It needs to be reworked. Gun penitration accuracy and reload is useless and so is hull armour. BUFF IT!

[@akhilpillay4262]

AHH but you forget Russian bias for IS-7

[@weirdunknownperson2916]

*GIVE US THE KRANVAGEN IN BLITZ ALREADY-* oh well would you look at that

[@user-sg9ql8nk1u]

and now uh... u happy with the result? 😀

[@atloos]

World of tanks is only Crashing in the new update...

[@seth1987]

World of Fantasy tanks.