Sweden's Insane 'Mjolner' Double-Barrel Mortar Vehicle

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[vexrmedia]

You may be worried that this could break down easily, but don't worry, each unit comes with an engineer named Bjorn already included.

[TomFynn]

Naming a weapon Mjölnir, a hammer that returns to its owner is flirting with disaster.

[mycookiehasnoname]

"The full name is insane...." *literally just called grenadethrowing tank*

[vahidmoosavian]

At first I thought "that's the helldivers' mortar turret😳"!
Then I saw the guys loading the mortars and went "nevermind😅"

[HrHaakon]

Grenade throwing armoured belted vehicle? What a name, I wonder what sort of thing it is!

[EnRandomSten]

A requisition tale as old as time. The military needed a self propelled mortar carrier so the joint project got started with Finland to fit the AMOS mortar system to a CV-90 hull. Almost at the end of the project, an inquiry got called and the military were forced to scale down its costs and being told to axe any projects that were too expensive, this being one of them.

Cut to a couple of months later when the military comes back saying they still need a vehicle like this since they got nothing from the amos deal and a new project is started (instead of aquiring the now finished AMOS system) which resulted in the Mjölner; a cheaper alternative with worse preformance than the original idea with a combined cost 3 times that of what it would have been had the peoject just been allowed to be completed in the first place.

[yourfabuloushappymann]

Swedes have always made elegant weapon systems.

[myfaceismyshield]

"Grenade launcher armoured personnel vehicle" isn't that insane of a name. It's just a compound word in Swedish, just like it would be in German or even Finnish... not that complex.

English assumed the lack of compounds from the French. Hell, back in Greco-Roman times all text was written like that because they hadn't invented leaving a space between words yet. And technically when you have a specific thing you're talking about, without using adjectives, that's one word. So in English we put spaces inside words, if those words consist of multiple words.
Many languages just don't do that.

The name isn't complex, this is just a difference between languages.

[GRTrollio]

They took a side by side shotgun to the next level. I love it

[Battlemode-lp]

Thor is obsessed with this type of hammer😂

[greenteaooga]

Bro were getting the siege tank from starcraft 2 before gta 6 😭

[michaelbryant]

I've studied out of auto loading mechanisms and let me tell you that's a really really interesting one to say the least. In my eyes that looks very effective too, now there is the risk of mechanical failure but if BJORN is included then we have no reason to fear of mechanical failure failure is not an option to bjorn

[jheyagev]

now make a bigger version and name it "Siege Tank"

[GLOBALHEAT]

знал что их создадут я был прав, я краз размышлял о них, думал, были бы такие, и вот они появились, красивые, мне нравиться они

[jussi]

its cool and all but for me the AMOS is sexier

[yevgenijvorotov]

Нормальный самоходный миномёт! Шведы военную технику развивают успешно!

[TheArklyte]

Now combine it with guided mines(mortar shells are called mines btw) and FPV drone observer.

[zszempty]

Man - that looks so cool.. Im sure all 5 of the ones you will produce in the next 10 years will be absolutely amazing at weapons shows :)

[Юрий-ыгу]

Он же сложный, как Швейцарские часы, как такой чинить то в поле, или в лесу?

[Rashed]

I find it funny that in the Helldivers 2 episode of experts react, Jonathan Ferguson, keeper of firearms & artillery at the Royal armories museum in the UK, said something in the lines of “why would you do this instead of a breach loading system?”.
Here’s Sweden doing it so there must be a good reason for it =3