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From the Editor-in-Chief: It hurts 2 June 200810:00 AM

"Can you understand what it’s like, every fourth year, to worry about tearing up the children from pre-school and school, selling up and starting over somewhere new, without any social network,...

A Baptism of Fire 2 June 200810:00 AM

When Nordic Battlegroup was launched in autumn 2007 an intense debate broke out in the media concerning the Armed Force's capacity to take care of severely injured soldiers. In time for the launch of...

"The spy has never been decommissioned" 2 June 200810:00 AM

There are agents working for the intelligence agencies of foreign powers. Active. In Sweden. Today."Levels of activity are about the same as they were during the Cold War. As regards interception of...

Helicopters – popular on mission 2 June 200810:00 AM

With squeaky clean new hangers and new training facilities, Helicopter Wing Malmslätt is prepared for the latest generation of helicopters. All twelve of model hkp 15 light helicopters are in place,...

Head of Chad mission gives his perspective on leadership 2 June 200810:00 AM

Lieutenant Colonel Peder Ohlsson is head of the TD 01 force currently stationed in Chad. For a week in spring he was back home in Sweden in order to meet with the friends and family of the soldiers...

Rapid reaction unit sent on a mission 29 May 20089:57 AM

At the end of last week, a platoon from a rapid reaction force trained at P 4 deployed to Afghanistan as a reinforcement for the existing Swedish force there. The platoon deployed is part of IA07 – a...

Fire Unit 23 delivered 26 May 20081:17 PM

A ceremony in Halmstad, home of the Air Defence Regiment Lv 6, has been held to mark the delivery by manufacturers Saab Bofors Dynamics of Fire Unit 23, also known as Bamse, to the Swedish Armed...

Restricted areas may be abolished 22 May 20082:18 PM

Military restricted areas may be abolished and military vehicles may be made 'protected objects'. These are among the proposals put forward by the so-called Protective Law Commission in its report...

Helicopter unit ready for action 21 May 20081:35 PM

The Swedish Armed Forces will from now on be better equipped to make use of helicopters in carrying out military and humanitarian missions. Heli Unit 01 consists of HKP 4 and HKP 10 helicopters and is...

The dynamic in our immediate vicinity 21 May 20081:15 PM

"Even though the direct military threat to Sweden is today judged to be small, the future security environment may contain significant risks and uncertainties." This is how the Armed Forces put it in...