Centurion 70 years in Sweden | Arsenalen Swedish Tankmuseum

I primarily remember the Centurion in the vinter of 1978-1979 in the southern Denmark (Lolland), I was 6 or 7 years of age. We where snowed in. M113s where sent out to aid the population, with supplies, other forms of aid AFAIR even evacuations. One of those M113 got stuck (In a ditch, drainage ditch or snow or something like that) a few hundred meters from where I was staying with my family and a Centurion was sent out to pull it free from the snow.

Thankyou Stefan,your talks are always interesting. I think the Centurion was one of the best ever English tank designs,and the fact that both you and the Israelis managed to upgrade it significantly proves what a good basic tank it was! Happy birthday to the Swedish Centurion!

First real MBT. Probably the best in terms of use against overwhelming odds.

Thank you Stefan and everyone at the museum! The Centurion upgrades made it look even better.

Very good talk thank you Stefan. I look forward to hearing more on the Strv 105. 👍

Many thanks for Stefan for delivering such a good, thoughtful talk in what is not his native language - great stuff. I absolutely love his deadpan Swedish humour too.

He is back!

Tack sa mychet!. Still have my Dinky Toy metal model of one with working rubber tracks.70 years?. Almost as old as myself. Visited Sverige many times including the now remilitarised Gotland. Very glad to now have you as an ally in this troubled new world. 👍🏻🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇸🇪

The Cent my all time number 1 tank.

This video together with the talk at Pansarträff 23 at SPHF was an very nice info of the Centurion, thank you Stefan!

Im so glad I found this channel some months ago, I love how you talk about every single detail about the vehicles. Thank you for making al this content :D

I made my military service in a strv104 in the late 80s, but we did not have any add-on armour or reactive armour on the tanks we trained on. We were shown one tank in a storage once but was told by an officer that the reactive armour that it had was a secret and we shouldn't talk about it to anyone.

Brilliant video, Stefan. The story here is that a Government department thought that other nations should not have our most advanced technology, and blocked the sales. Then realising that we were still paying off the cost of WW2 (last payment in 2006), the department was overruled and sales of military vehicles increased. The precision engineering factory my family owned tried to buy new lathes and other machines during the 50s. They were told by the machine manufacturers that they could only buy "seconds" (not top quality) as the best were only allowed to be sold for export.

🎖️🙏🇺🇲💪🏆🤗 Thank you for sharing

Bra video! Kan ni göra någon video om hur det var tänkt att Centurions och Strv 103 skulle användas i Sverige och vilka olika roller de skulle fylla?

Great stuff Stefan 👍 The Centurion was the best tank in the world in its day and the fact that so many countries bought them and upgraded them later shows how good the original design was. Thanks

His fondness for this amazing machine is infectious!

Nice video, thanks Arsenalen!

there's an old swedish folktale that claims that if you whisper 'centurion' 5 times quickly with a swedish accent, a wild Stefan materializes and tells you what a good tank it was.

Great talk Thank you Stefan