The Swedish army has ordered a new batch of Grkpbv90 Mjölner self-propelled double-barreled mortars

The Swedish army plans to increase the number of self-propelled mortars to 80 units, the country's Ministry of Defense has signed a new contract for the supply of a new batch of 120-mm Granatkastarpansarbandvagn 90 (Grkpbv90) self-propelled mortars.

The contract for the supply of 20 Grkpbv90 Mjölner (Thor's Hammer) was signed between BAE Systems and the Swedish Armed Forces Material Support Agency (FMV). The agreement worth 30 million dollars implies the delivery of the entire batch by 2025. Production will take place at BAE Systems Hagglunds in Örnsköldsvik, Sweden.

The 120-mm self-propelled mortar Grkpbv90 (Mjölner - Thor's hammer) was developed by order of the Swedish army by the Swedish divisions of BAE Systems as a replacement for the previously planned purchase of 40 automated 120-mm double-barreled mortar systems AMOS (Finland) also based on the CV90 infantry fighting vehicle. The army received the first pre-production vehicles in 2019.

The Grkpbv90 Mjölner self-propelled mortar is a simple double-barreled smooth-bore mortar with "conventional mortar type" barrels with recoil devices and muzzle loading, mounted in a manually operated rotating turret. The mortar is capable of firing at a distance of up to 13 km, the mines are fired one at a time with a short interval. Carried ammunition - 50 min. Crew of four - commander, driver and two loaders. The calculation during firing is in the fighting compartment in a standing position in full growth.

Grkpbv90 Mjölner - the first self-propelled mortar in the Swedish army, before that the Swedes used only towed mortars, in particular, the Finnish 120-mm GRK m / 41 mortars of the 1941 model.

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[credo]

And in the photo it looks like a four-barrel.

[Zoldat_A]

Quote: credo

And in the photo it looks like a four-barrel.

It looks like it's some sort of studs.

[PAM]

it says "usual mortar type" with recoil devices and muzzle manual loading

[spektr9]

This is such a loading system from under the armor, and not the upper barrels

[blackGRAIL]

Pipes four. Through the two upper "pipes" mines are fed from the head to the muzzle of the lower barrels and the loading mechanism takes place loading the mines from the muzzle (classic mortar). Phrase muzzle manual loading is misleading - manual is only the supply of mines from the turret niche to the mine receiver (all this is inside the turret), the rest of the process is fully automated.

https://vcdns.valka.cz//attachments/3583/grkpbv90-axr01.jpg

[smart ass]

The range of mortars is ridiculous, the ammunition load is small, I'm afraid not for modern warfare

[Zoldat_A]

Grkpbv90

Try to say it out loud...

The Swedes, after all, are a unique people!

[your1970]

Quote: Zoldat_A

Grkpbv90

Try to say it out loud...

The Swedes, after all, are a unique people!

Well, they also made original tanks

[olgherd]

Quote: Zoldat_A

Grkpbv90

Try to say it out loud...

The Swedes, after all, are a unique people!

Well, yes, yes ...

[Zoldat_A]

Quote from olgherd

Well, yes, yes ...

Yes, I don’t say anything - we have enough jokers -

NIIOMTPLABOPARMBETZHELBETRABSBORMONIMONKONOTDTEHSTROMONT

It is unlikely that anyone could not pronounce, but even remember.

The office that really existed at the Union was the "Research Laboratory for Concrete Reinforcement Operations and Reinforced Concrete Works for the Construction of Prefabricated Monolithic and Monolithic Structures of the Technology Department of the Construction and Installation Administration of the Academy of Construction and Architecture of the USSR."

And I heard a lot of different Western European words - my wife and mother are fluent in German and a compound word of three or four, which is written together and consists of 25-30 letters, is a common thing.
But there are vowels...
And how to "chew" "Grkpbv" - I do not know...

[Zoldat_A]

Quote from olgherd

Well, yes, yes ...

In pursuit.
Accidentally stumbled upon. Still, the Swedes know a lot about the magic of combining consonants.

Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmncssqlbb11116
- a name whose registration was denied to the child's parents in Sweden in 1996.
The parents, Elisabeth Hallin and entrepreneur Lasse Diding, named their child, born in 1991, with the very common Swedish name Albin, but they refused to register their son's name until 1996. They explained this as their protest against the increasing interference of the state in the private lives of citizens and, in particular, against the Swedish Names Act, which has been in force since 1982 and is much more stringent than it was before, regulating the names that are permissible to give children.
After the child was five years old, in May 1996, the district court of the county of Halland in the city of Halmstad imposed a fine of 5 crowns (approximately 550 euros) on parents for refusing to register the child's name. In response, they asked permission to name the child Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116, arguing that it was "a meaningful, expressionistic combination of letters that we regard as a work of art"). The court, however, refused to register the name as "obviously ridiculous".

[Mavrikiy]

Quote: Zoldat_A

Grkpbv90

Try to say it out loud...

It's not for pronunciation... but for thinking or writing.

[blackGRAIL]

This abracadabra also stands for "Granatkastarpansarbandvagn" - "armored tracked vehicle firing grenades."

[Skeptic3]

Curious car.
As I understand it, the range of the mortar is small, which means that the vehicle will be near the LBS and vulnerable.
Isn't a "manual" mortar better, which is not so noticeable on the ground and cheap (the loss is not so big when it is defeated)? What do you think?

[spektr9]

Isn't a "manual" mortar better, which is not so noticeable on the ground and cheap (the loss is not so big when it is defeated)? What do you think?

Well, for modern means of counter-battery combat, a hand-held mortar is very noticeable. And since it has neither armor nor mobility, it’s also easy to destroy ...

[Bingo]

Quote: Skeptik3

Isn't a "manual" mortar better,

The terrain is such that you can’t drag it by hand, and you don’t really ride on wheels ... He. go, also floating - it’s just useful for them

[Mavrikiy]

Quote: Skeptik3

As I understand it, the range of the mortar is small,

13 km - a trifle? Don't talk like that in polite society. The usual range of 120 mm mortars is 5-6 km, and this one seems to be active-reactive bullets.

[Skeptic3]

I myself compared it with an Archer-type howitzer. Which also hits targets from above, but much further.
I think the meaning of the mortar is in a relatively low cost, they can be made more.

[cold wind]

Not only in price. Self-propelled mortars should go directly behind the attacking armored vehicles with direct communication with the lead vehicles. Working on tank-dangerous infantry, creating interference. Moreover, the second is more important and not only smoke. Modern aerosol and heat trap mines can create a wall impenetrable to lasers and thermal ATGM seekers, which turns them out of combat and allows armored vehicles to pass through a dangerous area.

[bk316]

The usual range of 120 mm mortars is 5-6 km,

It is you

Don't talk like that in polite society.

I explain: the firing range weakly depends on the mortar, rather on the mine.
For example, 2B23 with a 3VOF53 mine shoots at 6 km and with a 3VOF55 mine at 12.

[epicurean]

In my opinion, it would be easier and much better to put a couple of mortars on the Toyota tundra

[Skeptic3]

Well no. Here is a tracked chassis and armor. Near the LBS, security and patency are the most important things.

[akropin]

And caterpillars on it to make it all-terrain)

[Petr_Koldunov]

The strange name is Mjölner. For Swedes, the uncharacteristic ending -er. And even more so, this is not a Hammer.
Although I lived in Sweden for a long time, I remember that they are characterized by the endings -ar -are -arn. Type - Mjolnar. But this is also not the Hammer at all. Mjöl, Mjölen is flour. Accordingly, Mjölnar is the one who grinds flour. A flour mill, that is.
Maybe in the original this prodigy is called the grinder? Well then it sounds menacing, to be honest :))

[Arsen1]

Mjolnir is the name of Thor's hammer from Norse mythology.

[Petr_Koldunov]

Quote: Arsen1

Mjolnir is the name of Thor's hammer from Norse mythology.

Ahh .. Semyon Semenych, well, of course ... but I even forgot that he was called that. I remember Durandal, I remember Altekler, I remember Excalibur, I remember Skofnung... but I forgot this one! Years, you know... :))
Thanks for the reminder, you're right... But in any case - he's Mjolnir :)) MjolnEr he could be, say, the Germans or the Celts.

[KSVK]

Quote: Skeptik3

What do you think?

120 mm "manual" will not get it, it's heavy for the hands. 82 mm and even then two fighters are carried disassembled.
And here 2 barrels is a high rate of fire, plus self-propelledness - the ability to quickly change position. Not a bad concept. He arrived, got up, quickly “threw” gifts and dumped before the answer arrived.

[Bogalex]

The Grkpbv90 Mjölner self-propelled mortar is a simple double-barreled smoothbore mortar with "regular mortar type" barrels with recoil devices and a muzzle manual loading, installed in a rotating tower with a manual drive.

What is stupidity? There is no "manual loading" in this mortar. Mines are lowered into the barrel in the classical way (from the side of the muzzle) using a feed mechanism serviced by the loader from inside the fighting compartment. No one throws mines into the barrel with their hands.

[single-n]

squalor. Purely cut the dough. Our military-industrial complex is another matter
https://topwar.ru/209975-pokazana-rabota-minometa-vasilek-v-mobilnom-ispolnenii.html