SAV 20.12.48

The SAV 20.12.48 was a prototype, developed by the swedish company AB Bofors under its own initiative in the late 40’s, but it was not accepted into service by the Swedish army due to its high cost. An 8 cylinder petrol engine was installed allowing the vehicle to reach a maximum speed of 52 km/h with a significant reverse speed of 20 km/h. The SAV 20.12.48 is armed with a shorter version of a 120 mm naval gun with an explosive mass of 2.25 kg of HE shells. It was also able to use SAP shells and was equipped with three smoke grenade launchers. In addition, thanks to the autoloading mechanism, the tank has an extremely high reload speed of 1.2 seconds for the first six rounds of each magazine, which, in combination with its other characteristics makes it a very dangerous opponent on the battlefield.