Sweden sends eight Archers to Ukraine – sells fourteen to the UK – Cornucopia?

Today the government submitted a proposal to decide on sending eight Archer tanks and ten Heinkel 122 Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine. In addition, 14 Archers were sold to Great Britain to facilitate the British donation of the AS 90 artillery system to Ukraine. The pieces are from 24 howitzers scrapped in Norway, which raises the question of where the last two went.

Thus the government confirmed the rumors that Britain was going to buy Archer, and it was not about new personnel but 14 of the 24 wheeled howitzers scrapped from Norway. Eight of them are being sent directly to Ukraine, while those sold to the British will be a temporary solution until the British can send AS 90 tracked howitzers to Ukraine.

Sweden is also sending ten Leopard 2 and air defense robots to the HAWK system, which has been fielded before.

Today’s announcement is primarily a bilateral artillery partnership with the UK and part of an additional adjustment budget. The government stated that it had decided on 11 military support packages worth SEK 16.9 billion, of which SEK 6.3 billion is included in the current adjustment budget. According to a press release.

What happened to the last two riflemen of the Norwegian 24th was left as an exercise. Many Ukrainians insist Archer has been in Ukraine since last summer, in which case he ended up there as the third package of government aid prior and classified to the country. Addendum: To Aftonbladet, the Minister of Defense said that the last two pieces will be used to develop the Archer system.

This declaration means that Sweden will have to order another 24 The new archer To the rearmed Swedish Defense as previously reported, he will get 72 pieces, of which 48 are already there, although not all of them are cursed yet. This means that more Swedish people will go to the new yet-to-be-determined vehicle platform, which is usually assumed to be a heavy military armored truck rather than the current Volvo dump truck, which seems to have been discontinued. However, Volvo has other dump truck models.