The Weirdest Main Battle Tank

The Swedish tech tree in War Thunder is host to a plethora of very strange vehicles, with the best example being the Strv 103 tanks. Also known as the S-Tank, it has no turret and heavily angled armor. It isn't very meta, but I managed to get a nuke with it anyway.

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The Weirdest Main Battle Tank

[Spookston]

Gonna see if I can get another historical video done for next week :)

[djnotnice]

This guy has gone from just a dude I watched occasionally to one of my favourite YouTubers. His humour has taken over my friend group

[brosefmalkovitch]

The bars were actually a form of APFSDS defense. Even at the speeds the darts are moving, any disruption to their flight-path will cause the round to tumble a little when they hit the main armor, potentially greatly reducing the penetration of any dart that hits a bar.

[Cosmetic_Cat.]

The strv 103 is a very funny tank. But the unfortunate thing about it in warthunder is that if your engine gets shot out, you cant move. Unlike in real life, you could use the two engines separately, which is unfortunate.

[MrBananaPeace]

Fun fact: the reasonning behind this vehicle unconventional design was that the Swedish military needed a new tank, but they realized that if it was to get invaded, they would be in inferior numbers therefor on the defensive, which in that scenario this tank works very well.

[Shaun_Jones]

To be fair about that anti-HEAT fence being classified, the actual secret part was probably the gaps in the bars, which I bet are the exact space apart to de-fuse Soviet HEAT rounds.

[corwinhyatt]

"You more or less find an alleyway and sit there" which is more or less what the Strv 103 was designed to do. That and camp behind dugouts or berms, falling back and setting up again two lines back to keep grinding down an invader.

[Iron_Blood_Enjoyer]

Ireland made a vehicle combining British & Swedish technology, the Headless Coachmen.

A Comet hull with the turret removed & a new open mount armed with the 90mm Pansarvärnspjäs 1110 recoilless rifle, but was cancelled due to lack of available funds.

[miss_bec]

The Swedes really made a tank-sized robot from Battlebots and it actually works. I was half expecting it to have a flywheel hidden somewhere for melee.

[Lillspratt]

Since shaped charges dont really work like they do in game, the fence was really usefull. Since it destroyed the shaped charge, making it not blow up at all.

[lohenriksson]

Probably one of my favorite tanks for how specialized for the exact imagined fighting conditions of sweden it was.

[patrioticmilkman]

everyone's gangster till the door wedge starts speaking Swedish

[hellono]

Spookston: Conqueror on Friday or Sunday
Also Spookston:



WE NEED SUFFERING

[Ziphoroc]

3:24 'Broken Arrow' is a term for an accident involving a nuke, typically when one is lost or missing. It does not refer to dropping artillery on top of your current position, the closest term would be 'Danger Close'

[No-one-you-know]

It’s good for protection but you end up just staring at your enemy when they engine hit you

[kilianschoenauer]

13:16 sweden has many other vehicles with 103 parts like the bandkanon it has a longer 103 chassis with a 155 mm canon at 6.7 also can you play the bandkanon.

[pepse]

what I find coolest about Sweden is that even though this is one of the most bizarre things in the game, it can be considered "normal" compared to other things in the Swedish tech tree

[Stridsvagn-PanzerKommandant]

This thing is shockingly survivable, though painful due to constantly getting your engine and trans wrecked

[pokeydude]

The 103 was also a solution to a problem of the time, maximizing the efficiency of the autoloader, autoloaders would force the gun to return to a base position which severely limit its efficiency, thus they sought to solve this problem, two solution were thought up, the oscillating turret (Kranvagn/EMIL Project) and the unmoving turret/hull-aim (Strv 103)

[hris]

You should try DF 105, it's very fun to play with 400mm of pen and 5 second autoloader.