Strv 103-0

This page is about the gift Swedish medium tank Strv 103-0. For other versions, see Strv 103 (Family).

Strv 103-0

Strv 103-0

Sweden

V Rank

Battle rating:

AB	RB	SB
8.0	8.0	8.0

Class:

PREMIUM

Medium tank

Purchase:8 380

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Description

The Stridsvagn 103-0 is a gift rank V Swedish medium tank with a battle rating of 8.0 (AB/RB/SB). It was introduced in Update 1.95 "Northern Wind".

General info

Survivability and armour

Armourfront / side / back

Hull40 / 30 / 30

Turret0 / 0 / 0

Crew3 people

Visibility73 %

With a superbly sloped front hull armour, incoming kinetic rounds are prone to harmlessly bounce off, though chemical rounds will typically do some damage. Side, rear and top armour of the vehicle are weak, most aircraft can penetrate the roof, especially if they have 20 mm rounds or larger. With a total of three crew members, survivability after taking hits tend to be slim. However, the Strv 103 series are the only tanks that can operate with only one crew member! A major drawback is without transmission/engine you can no longer manoeuvre the hull to aim left or right. Check out the Strv Family here

Armour	Front (Slope angle)	Sides	Rear	Roof
Hull	40 mm (77°) Upper Glacis 40 mm (74°) Lower Glacis	30 mm +10 mm Upper 30 mm Lower	30 mm	20 mm
Cupola	35 mm	35 mm	35 mm	20 mm

Notes:

• Main gun - 25 mm
• Machine guns - 10 mm
• Tracks - 20 mm
• Suspension - 15 mm
• The crew compartment is lined with 10 mm RHA
• Storage boxes - 10 mm

Mobility

 

Controlled suspension

It is possible to adjust the ground clearance or more complex suspension positions

Speedforward / back

AB56 / 49 km/h

RB and SB50 / 44 km/h

Number of gears7 forward

6 back

Weight35.0 t

Engine power

AB1 030 hp

RB and SB540 hp

Power-to-weight ratio

AB29.4 hp/t

RB and SB15.4 hp/t

Game Mode	Max Speed (km/h)		Weight (tons)	Engine power (horsepower)		Power-to-weight ratio (hp/ton)
	Forward	Reverse		Stock	Upgraded	Stock	Upgraded
Arcade	56	49	35	732	1,030	20.91	29.43
Realistic	50	44		478	540	13.66	15.43

Modifications and economy

Repair cost

AB2 897

RB3 301

SB4 496

Crew training10 000

Experts550 000

Aces1 300

Research Aces1 550 000

Reward for battleAB / RB / SB

2 × 140 / 200 / 240 %

2 × 202 / 202 / 202 %

Modifications

Mobility	Protection	Firepower
Tracks Suspension Brake System Filters Transmission Engine	Improved Parts Improved FPE Crew Replenishment	Adjustment of Fire 105mm_usa_HESH_ammo_pack 105mm_us_M416_Smoke_ammo_pack Laser rangefinder Artillery Support 105mm_sweden_APDS_ammo_pack

Armaments

Laser rangefinder

Reduces the error and increases the maximum measurable distance of the rangefinder

Main armament

105 mm L74 cannon

Autoloader

Automatically feeds projectiles into the breech. The speed does not depend on the skills of the loader

Ammunition50 rounds

Reload4.0 s

Vertical guidance-10° / 12°

105 mm L74					Turret rotation speed (°/s)					Reloading rate (seconds)
Mode	Capacity	Vertical	Horizontal	Stabilizer	Stock	Upgraded	Full	Expert	Aced	Stock	Full	Expert	Aced
Arcade	50	-10°/+12°	N/A	N/A	67.2	67.2	81.6	90.2	96.0	4.0	4.0	4.0	4.0
Realistic					42.0	42.0	51.0	56.4	60.0

Ammunition

Penetration statistics
Ammunition	Type of warhead	Penetration @ 0° Angle of Attack (mm)
		10 m	100 m	500 m	1,000 m	1,500 m	2,000 m
slpprj m/61	APDS	303	302	296	277	257	252
slpprj m/62	APDS	260	258	250	240	231	222
slsgr m/61A	HE	23	23	23	23	23	23
slspgr m/61	HESH	127	127	127	127	127	127

Shell details
Ammunition	Type of warhead	Velocity (m/s)	Projectile Mass (kg)	Fuse delay (m)	Fuse sensitivity (mm)	Explosive Mass (TNT equivalent) (g)	Ricochet
							0%	50%	100%
slpprj m/61	APDS	1,500	4	N/A	N/A	N/A	75°	78°	80°
slpprj m/62	APDS	1,450	4.5	N/A	N/A	N/A	75°	78°	80°
slsgr m/61A	HE	680	14.4	0.1	0.1	1,830	79°	80°	81°
slspgr m/61	HESH	760	14.85	0.4	0.1	4,780	73°	77°	80°

Smoke shell characteristics
Ammunition	Velocity (m/s)	Projectile Mass (kg)	Screen radius (m)	Screen deploy time (s)	Screen hold time (s)	Explosive Mass (TNT equivalent) (g)
rökgr m/61	330	18.7	20	5	25	50

Ammo racks

Full ammo	1st rack empty	2nd rack empty	3rd rack empty	4th rack empty	5th rack empty	6th rack empty	7th rack empty	8th rack empty	9th rack empty	10th rack empty	Visual discrepancy
50	46 (+4)	41 (+9)	36 (+14)	31 (+19)	26 (+24)	21 (+29)	16 (+34)	11 (+39)	6 (+44)	1 (+49)	No

Ammo racks of the Strv 103-0

Machine guns

2 x 7.62 mm ksp 58 machine gun (coaxial)

Ammunition1 000 rounds

Belt capacity250 rounds

Reload8.0 s

Fire rate600 shots/min

7.62 mm ksp 58
Mount	Capacity (Belt)	Fire rate	Vertical	Horizontal
Coaxial	1,375 (250)	500	N/A	N/A
Coaxial	1,375 (250)	500	N/A	N/A

Usage in battles

The STRV 103-0 is a heavily angled tank offering 40mm sloped at 77 degrees able to bounce almost any Kinect round in the game from the front. However a HEAT-FS round will penerate right though the armour. It also lacks any ERA or composite protection, it’s rear and sides are not angled with only 10mm of protection meaning any type of round could penetrate and knockout the tank, even a .50 bullet.

In-order to stay alive, it is important to always have your front pointing towards the enemy. It’s 105 mm L74 cannon is able to offer a maximum penetration of 303 mm. It may seem low compared to other tanks ingame, however with a skilled commander who utilise the map and who can stay stealthy is able to become the Tanker version of the legendary Viking called Erik the Red.

One of the great advantages of this tank is it’s pure survivability, it’s crew is all located behind the engine & transmission. However one of the weakness is also this crew survivability, any shot that is able to penetrate from the side will knockout the engine and transmission, worse case causing fires or disables the tank in combat allowing the enemy tanker to flank to the rear or sides and fire a single shot into the Strv 103-0 ammoracks or crew compartments.

The ideal playstyle is to play the tank as an ambusher, stay in the bushes then pop out and fire, reverse and locate then move to another location. With the idea being to press the attack from their rear and cause mayhem.

Pros and cons

Pros:

• The gun has good penetration and damage
• Four second reload time makes it much easier to dispatch enemy tanks
• The frontal armour is heavily sloped, which makes it quite tough even though being only 40 mm thick
• Has a tiny profile, making it much easier to hide in realistic and simulator battles
• Because the engine is located at the front most shots will not go through the whole tank if it penetrates and will simply be absorbed
• Has a 10 mm gun shield that will block most shrapnel.

Cons:

• The sloped frontal armour becomes redundant if faced with an enemy above it
• Very thin side and rear armour, any gun larger than a machine gun can go thro
• The turret is fixed to the hull and cannot swivel
• APDSFS and APDS shells will go straight through the front, most of the time no matter the angle

History

Strv 103-0 is the prototype series before the head series with Strv 103A got delivered to the Swedish army. After the trial of the two trial vehicles S1 and S2 in 1961, Sweden ordered 10 pre-series Strv 103 which would become the 0-series. They were not finished until 1963, where they were put on trial to be combined with different vehicles to see how to efficiently utilize the tank system in squad and organization attempts. These attempts would have a great impact on how the Strv 103 would be shaped and molded and so the evaluation of the Strv 103 began that would last from 1963 till 1966. It only took half a year before it was decided that the Strv 103 "S" would become Sweden's new tank.

The trials with the 0-series worked well, the test results from the field testings, squad and organization attempts were favourable for the Strv 103-0 and it was not until 1964 that Sweden placed an order in a total value of around 500 million kr (SEK) which would total in 70 Strv 103 being produced to the first main series Strv 103 which would be designated Strv 103A. The main series tank order delivery started by 1967 giving the 0-series to be put to trials until the end of 1966.

Devblog

In the immediate postwar years, Sweden began looking for a replacement to the Centurion tanks, then in service with its army. The most straightforward solution was to once again look into the export market for potential candidates, although engineers were already working on a domestic design - the Kranvagn. While this process was ongoing, an engineer by the name of Sven Berge came up with a radical new tank design in 1956.

This new vehicle featured a turretless design with a cannon fixed to the hull, which would be trained onto its targets with the precise use of an adjustable suspension system. The design was based on results from a study on tank crew casualties during WWII and the Korean War, which showed a correlation between tank height and hit probability. As such, the 'S-Tank' was kept very small in dimensions and low in profile, while also utilizing some innovative new engineering solutions, such as a mixed power plant consisting of a diesel engine and a gas turbine.

In 1959, the Swedish government approved the construction and testing of two prototypes. In 1960, a pre-production batch of 10 vehicles of the '0-serie' was ordered for field trials, which went on into the mid '60s. Generating more than favorable test results, the vehicle was formally ordered into production and procured as the 'Stridsvagn 103'.

Despite its original purpose being to replace the Centurion tanks in the Swedish Army, the Strv 103 ended up serving alongside it for a number of decades, until it was ultimately decommissioned in the late 1990s. By that time, 290 Strv 103s were built, spanning over five variants.

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The Shooting Range #179 - Pages of History section at 05:25 discusses the Strv 103.

See also

Links to the articles on the War Thunder Wiki that you think will be useful for the reader, for example:

• reference to the series of the vehicles;
• links to approximate analogues of other nations and research trees.

External links

• [Devblog] Strv 103-0: Last Man Standing