Danish TO & E

[Palle]

Five years and we have finally decided.

The Danish Army has bought 15 Nexter 8x8 CAESAR systems. It kan be seen on Hærens Kamp- og Ildstøttecenter's home page.

We have also purchased 15 CARDOM 120 mm mortars from ESL to be built into our Piranha 5s and 900 Scania lorries of various sorts.



A part from that, we still have some very fine soldiers, but cutbacks has reducer their effective numbers severaly and there is an exodous of young officers.

[DRG]

Originally Posted by Palle

We have also purchased 15 CARDOM 120 mm mortars from ESL to be built into our Piranha 5s .....

[cbo]

The Army is also expecting to update the Leopard 2A5-DK at Krauss-Maffei, 38 tanks in all, The update is supposed to keep them running until 2035. Piranha IIICs are also to be updated to last until 2030. The CV9035 DKs are also to be updated in comming years. The current ARV - Wisent 1 - is to be kept running for another 5-10 years before replacement and the army expects to buy a number of "armoured engineering vehicles".

There is nothing new on what the updates might include.

[DRG]

Originally Posted by cbo

. The current ARV - Wisent 1 - is to be kept running for another 5-10 years before replacement and the army expects to buy a number of "armoured engineering vehicles".

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I just found out about the PNMIRK. I will be working on an Icon for that

[cbo]

Came across these, showing the UK 17-pdr anti-tank gun in use with the Danish Army in the 1950ies.

For someone who spends most his time studying WWII, there is something interestingly odd with these postwar combinations of US and UK equipment, sometimes even mixed with Danish and Swedish items.

17-pdr firing:





17-pdr being towed by a GMC. When the guns first arrived from the UK in 1945/46, they were towed by M5 half-tracks.



Anti-tank unit ca. 1955: