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First exercise with tanks at P 18 in 21 years

Gotland regiment (P 18) – 24 September 2021 kl: 13.35

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"A tank regiment should have its tanks”. Ulf Hamberg, head of the 181st Tank Battalion, is content as he comments the first exercise with tanks at P 18 in 21 years.

The new Gotland Regiment has now started reconstructing the tank capability after a twenty-year gap. Next year’s conscript training will focus on tanks and in 2025, the tank company Lärbro will be fully manned.

”The tanks are a considerable reinforcement of the capability of my unit. We have now secured the capability needed for training the next generation, starting next summer” says Ulf Hamberg, head of the 181^st Tank Battalion.

During an exercise in the last two weeks of September, the tanks were reintroduced as part of the battalion and 20 September, the Gotland Regiment exercised live-firing with tanks for the first time since May 2000. The tanks were partly manned by temporarily employed personnel trained in Skövde, with wartime postings in Gotland.