Same here, for me he is by far the best War Thunder youtuber not that other creators are bad, but I find Spookston’s content the only one with a perfect balance of both genuine humour and informative gameplay, aka, he is my first choice whenever I wanna see if a tank’s good before grinding it, having fun watching him struggle playing bad tanks or just playing rare vehicles
The bars were actually a form of APFSDS defense. Even at the speeds the darts are moving, any disruption to their flight-path will cause the round to tumble a little when they hit the main armor, potentially greatly reducing the penetration of any dart that hits a bar.
APDS, not APFSDS. Don't mixt the two. They are very, very different and it's an important distinction to make. The armour was strictly designed to defuse HEAT, but they did find in testing that it could shatter or disrupt the trajectory of APDS when it impacted the bars as a bonus.
@@Ragedaonenlonely Actually, it was found that it worked against both APDS (called underkaliber) and APFSDS (called "pilprojektil" in Swedish, and noted in the original findings to be effective against Pilprojectil and Underkaliber, so yeah... effective against both. (but originally made to combat HEAT, as you said)
The strv 103 is a very funny tank. But the unfortunate thing about it in warthunder is that if your engine gets shot out, you cant move. Unlike in real life, you could use the two engines separately, which is unfortunate.
In that case it would be more OP than it is. Its fire rate is almost like machine gun, frontally almost unpenetrable and very low profile with good speed... I hate facing this thing, its disgusting.
The Swedes really made a tank-sized robot from Battlebots and it actually works. I was half expecting it to have a flywheel hidden somewhere for melee.
Ireland made a vehicle combining British & Swedish technology, the Headless Coachmen. A Comet hull with the turret removed & a new open mount armed with the 90mm Pansarvärnspjäs 1110 recoilless rifle, but was cancelled due to lack of available funds.
Fun fact: the reasonning behind this vehicle unconventional design was that the Swedish military needed a new tank, but they realized that if it was to get invaded, they would be in inferior numbers therefor on the defensive, which in that scenario this tank works very well.
To be fair about that anti-HEAT fence being classified, the actual secret part was probably the gaps in the bars, which I bet are the exact space apart to de-fuse Soviet HEAT rounds.
"You more or less find an alleyway and sit there" which is more or less what the Strv 103 was designed to do. That and camp behind dugouts or berms, falling back and setting up again two lines back to keep grinding down an invader.
@@Ragedaonenlonely I've literally been in one and talked with the drivers. It is primarly made for defense tactics. It can be used in offensives. But it was designed to be a sneaky forest dweller waiting for prey. Hence the low profile. If it was to be like any other tank it would have a turret.
@@markusburstrom3485 Then you haven't read the manual, because there is literally no difference in operational doctrine between it and the Centurions. You're very wrong.
@@Ragedaonenlonely Ok what is the positive of not having a turret? Because it isnt ability to aim better when travelling through difficult train with a lot of obstacles. No you can only aim at your enemy then you can only go backwards or forwards. Which is a big minus in manuvrability while engaging. The low profile lets you hide way more easily than in comparison to other tanks who tower over you. It is better for entrenching positions. If you actually look at the video you will see what it is good at. A wall where other tanks turret would peak up it is invisible. You want to take a position and hold it. But most of all I'm gonna trust the actual Swedes I've talked with.
@@markusburstrom3485 Positive of not having a turret? Many, many things. Smaller profile. Less weight. Ability to slope the armour heavily. Easy use of an auto-loader (it doesn't have to account for the rotation of the turret or be limited by the available storage space of ammuntion), less crew because of the aforementioned turret, the ability to have a very stable mounting solution for the main gun, assisting accuracy and allowing for an increase in barrel length. If you actually READ about it you'll learn that the whole inspiration for its design came from documentation showing that most shells statistically hit the turrets of tanks and by deleting that you can make a more survivable vehicle. It's effective in a defensive position, but it's no less effective on the offense either where a smaller profile is nevertheless still very, very useful and it was not supposed to operate any more defensively than the Centurions. It design allows it to take advantage of Swedish terrain effectively, but that doesn't preclude it from doing other things too. All Swedish tanks were designed with that in mind, even the turreted ones. Hence the high levels of gun depression almost across the board.
Since shaped charges dont really work like they do in game, the fence was really usefull. Since it destroyed the shaped charge, making it not blow up at all.
what I find coolest about Sweden is that even though this is one of the most bizarre things in the game, it can be considered "normal" compared to other things in the Swedish tech tree
i've had someone fire a ridiculous amount of shells into it without so much as tickling my crew, managed to finish repairing and get on target right as the match was ending
The 103 was also a solution to a problem of the time, maximizing the efficiency of the autoloader, autoloaders would force the gun to return to a base position which severely limit its efficiency, thus they sought to solve this problem, two solution were thought up, the oscillating turret (Kranvagn/EMIL Project) and the unmoving turret/hull-aim (Strv 103)
13:16 sweden has many other vehicles with 103 parts like the bandkanon it has a longer 103 chassis with a 155 mm canon at 6.7 also can you play the bandkanon.
3:24 'Broken Arrow' is a term for an accident involving a nuke, typically when one is lost or missing. It does not refer to dropping artillery on top of your current position, the closest term would be 'Danger Close'
Attempt number 2 of asking Spookston to play the RU-251, the faster and smaller mini-Leopard 1 at a lower BR that gets scouting. It's one of my all-time favourite tanks in the game (my other favourite was the standard American M41 Bulldog before it got nerfed into oblivion), has suffered some BR changes recently but it should still be great.
Yup. The VEAK-40 also uses the same driveline fun fact. Initially it was intended to develop a MBT, SPG, SPAAG and APC all based on the 103's driveline to be parts interchangeable, but in the end they only made the 3 former and only 2 of those actually entered service.
The mere two notes of World Beater were enough to send my sides into orbit. It's internet law now that you HAVE to play World Beater whenever a Bradley is on screen.
6:20 Technically correct but technically not. The STRV 103C was supposed to make use of the natural terrain and defensible positions to prevent breakthrough attacks. It's why it has hull aiming and the variable transmission, it's so it could lift itself up over berms to shoot at incoming armor. There's definitely a lot more complicated stuff that goes into its design than that, but it was never meant to function the same way as how we think the Abrams or T-90 tanks function. The Swedes prioritized a defensive front over an offensive one, which heavily influenced battle tactics, vehicle design, and even the way they constructed bunkers. The whole idea was to make Sweden a defensive fortress the likes of which no enemy would ever want to invade, and would cost the enemy terribly even if they did, with the hope being that their home forces could hold out long enough for NATO to reinforce them. Reminder, the STRV was designed at the height of the Cold War, with big bad Russia right on the doorstep. Like everything during that time period, it had a major influence on design mentality, and Sweden wanted to ensure its neutrality by force. Again! This is a very surface level dig into the entire situation, and I'm not an expert in any capacity, so I could absolutely have interpreted certain things incorrectly or misunderstood certain sources, but to the best of my knowledge, this is what I am aware of when it comes to the STRV 103's MBT designation.
Funny how you're calling him wrong when that was EXACTLY how it was meant to function. It used the exact same operational doctrine as the Centurions. It was not intended to be used any differently at all. The only thing is they used a staggered advance when operating offensively.
@@Ragedaonenlonely Operational doctrines differ by country and military. That's why I said "technically correct, technically not." rather than just saying he was wrong. Because he's not. It's just a different implementation vs what would be someone's first thought.
@@foolishsparky It's still wrong though. Because the Centurions and 103's share the same doctrine. Ergo they weren't designed to operate as defensive vehicles, they were just designed to operate as tanks the same way the Centurions were. Neither were they designed to not go on the offensive. Sweden never intended to carry out offensive wars, only defensive ones, however even defensive wars still require you to go on the offense to retake lost territory. Ergo the idea that the 103's were designed as defensive vehicles isn't any more correct than saying the Centurions were. In the Swedish military they just operated like tanks, same as any other.
I’ve been binging Spookston’s videos over the past few weeks. The humor and gameplay is continuously entertaining. Thanks for the countless hours of entertainment Spookston, hope you’re doing well man.
I just love the fact that this tank can be operated by a single crew if they have to, just goes to show how much thought they put in and they want to make the most out of it Of course if you're on the offensive this is a horrendous tank for that role, but for defensive, it's do the job pretty damn well
yeah i sold the recent swedish top tiered wheeled event vehicle and picked up the lower br premium strv 103 since i knew it was broken, and i knew i could quickly grind the swedish tree with it. ended up getting 2 nukes in a row after about 10-15 matches in it, almost all the matches i have had in it have been fun, which is insane. if you have been playing this game for years and are struggling to still have fun, pick this thing when its on sale and give it some back ups. its just high enough in br to where it gets all the good gadgets but low enough to where you aren't fighting in the terrible top tier.
M60A1 RISE(P) is actually good with the BR changes, I was surprised after my original experience with it and I think you will be too. (It gave me my first nuke friday despite being stock.)
I've spaded the RISE, now I started the TTS that got the round of the abrams plus thermal, but I always use them as a back up vehicle cause the grind is a pain in the ass since they are slow, at that BR I start with the XM803 which is cool
Im happily suprised the comment section for once when talking about the strv103 wasnt filled with mouthbreathers saying "iTs A tAnK dEsTrOyEr". As far as i understand we have the world of tanks game to thank for that particular group of flatearthers. Also it wasnt designed to be a turretless tank. The conlusion was more along the lines "turret bad. turret reason for many dead tanks" but what if we just stuck the turret on tracks....
You should play the SU-85. It’s a soviet casemate TD that has incredible penetration at its 4.0-4.3 BR range, and for a casemate, only having an 8 second reload is a godsend for having around 145mm pen. Easily became one of my favorite vehicles to grind with in the soviet tree
@@sundhaug92 Correct. They had 3 alternatives for coming up with the next MBT intended to replace the Centurions (though it never really did). Alternative A was an Anglo-American design, alternative T was a German-Franco design and alternative S was a new Swedish design of tank, aka the S-tank. The 74 was never intended to replace or serve as a MBT, more so as a light tank to give light support to the infantry brigades and it was already in service when the 103 was projected.
It becomes even more insane when you dive down the rabbit hole of the S tank development, recently they were being refurbished and modernised and even rebuilt to be remote controlled drones, sadly when most of the work done and most tanks ready it was just scrapped. As with so much when it comes to military spending😢
Nope, the remote control model was just a one-off prototype with some cameras strapped to it. Not at all a ready product. And it wasn't recently, it was in the 90s. There was also one experimental mine clearing variant with a flail, the prototype is still around
Hilarious edits into the great gameplay! What I have been noticing is that people really look mostly for turrets in war thunder. If you aren't moving especially people just don't see you. Seems like the case with this too. Those super flat Italian TDs are great examples. I also wonder if people are blasting music too further adding to your stealth. Like hey team turn down the sabaton and listen ffs! I am not sure I will ever get to these upper tiers to play this but I really want to. I also didn't see the reticle bouncing that took 5 years to fix apparently. I am at 6.7 in US and Ger and like 5.7 in Sweden. GGs
Goblin bro made me lol XD Man I almost began the Swedish tech tree yesterday, but I was unable to gather the motivation to do so. Thanks for making and sharing your videos with us Spookston!!
Another reason for the weird design was the gun, sweden wanted rapid fire autoloaders but at the time that caused problems with loading guns while elevated so their solution was to either use an oscillating turret like the French which was the emil project, (not to be confused with the Sturer emil) or simply not use a turret and have hull aim, which became the strv 103 in order to move the entire loader with the cannon.
I would think the tank would do better if it didn't constantly shake like a maraca anytime you aim down sights and anything but solid concrete under your tracks
Love the S-tank from the first time I saw it. Its weirdness was so appealing and an excellent answer to the Soviet tanks of its day. I don't know that urban, knife fighting ranges favour the little guy, but I think in its natural environment out in the hills and fields it would have fared nicely. The Strv 103С was the final iteration of the -103 series of tanks. The Strv 1030 was the precursor model, lacking the fence and armour ribs of the C model while firing the slpprj m/61 & 66 APDS rounds. Your C model fired both APDS and APFSDS so you're fighting the most combat capable of the line.
Day 17 You should play a tank with hydropneumatic suspension (recommend the MBT-70) But the catch is you have to drop the suspension as low as it can go for the whole match.
The most frustrating thing about this tank is the freakishly long repair time when you're down to 1 crew member to the point that I feel like J out and change to another fully functioning tank is the more efficient way to play
I would be intresting to see you play the TAM. The 8.7 tech tree version. It feels like a super mobile tank that still has as much firepower as any mbt
They need to add the kranvagn, 12 round autoloader 2 second reload time, 320-380 mm of pen with a unique heatfsds round, designed to provide high velocity with lower barrel wear and I theorise that it also provides a shorter propellant bag for volume, which I suspect makes it easier to autoload and it makes the shell a bit simpler with more aerodynamic fins that don't need to fold or anything, 160-180 mm of armour at 45° over most of the front with the hull an IS3 style pike nose. 60mm of side armour and 20mm of back armour and to wrap up this godly beast, 900hp and a 60kmph top speed. I think br 8.7 just for the obscene fire rate but maybe 8.3 due to the dependence on heat warheads and total lack of laser rangefinder or stabiliser.
The one vehicle I absolutely respect. I died to the exact same guy 2 times due to spawn camping, all I had left was my Wiesel 1A4, I scouted and warned my team, This guy was my last hope to get my revenge, he popped up, got shot on the side by a different guy, and it was 3 spawn campers, all I could do was scout and hope. Mad lad killed all 3, I got to see the guy who killed me explode, and saved our spawn point.
One thing I recommend as a Strv 103 enjoyer is to still run a full ammo rack since I have had multiple games where I've fired 30+ shots and also because the only times I've been ammo racked I would have been killed anyway because I was getting flanked.
I bound the hull aim button to left control, I find it helps a bit. I also find that the hull aim tends to under-elevate by a bit, so I set my range to 300m the instant I spawn in. With those two down, I find I can be as nimble and responsive as any other unstabilized MBT, while also having great armour and a 4s reload. Also, fun fact, the S-tank is the only tank in game that can survive on one crew, and the only tank that can traverse it's hull mid repair, which is SUPER useful if you get your barrel taken out.
Fun fact. It is supposed to have a faster reload. IRL it could fire, reload and fire again in 2.8 seconds if the gunner was holding the fire and reload buttons.
hey, as a swedish main, it hirts to see you having normal HE instead of HESH which is very funny to troll people with by shooting their roof, and it works exactly like normal he against open tops and paper targets
I love this thing for 3 main reasons, 1 it is wierd and unique, 2 it actually worked despite being a wierd and unconventional vehicle, 3 it was brilliant for the intended role of being an ambush vehicle hidden in ditches and snowdrifts to rapid fire away at russian convoys using main roads. It was an excellent vehicle in that it would have been great at the job it was intended for and it was also a unique unconventional design, I love it.
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Gonna see if I can get another historical video done for next week :)
Thank u man for the awesome content over the years
Bruh the Strv got 33% but the get a nuke with a low tier vehicle got 35%
could you play AMX M4 in the 6.7 french line up ?!
you will have a lot of fun
Could you play the XM-1 (gm), it is very ratlike and a unique MBT.
What happened to the video on the Conqueror?
This guy has gone from just a dude I watched occasionally to one of my favourite TH-camrs. His humour has taken over my friend group
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Same here, for me he is by far the best War Thunder youtuber not that other creators are bad, but I find Spookston’s content the only one with a perfect balance of both genuine humour and informative gameplay, aka, he is my first choice whenever I wanna see if a tank’s good before grinding it, having fun watching him struggle playing bad tanks or just playing rare vehicles
The bars were actually a form of APFSDS defense. Even at the speeds the darts are moving, any disruption to their flight-path will cause the round to tumble a little when they hit the main armor, potentially greatly reducing the penetration of any dart that hits a bar.
It truly does work in game, they were making my m774 rounds Bounce when normally they'd pen with no trouble
Reason why I aim a bit lower. Thankfully I mostly encounter strv 103s when their engine is down, at their flanks, or I'm at the low ground.
APDS, not APFSDS. Don't mixt the two. They are very, very different and it's an important distinction to make. The armour was strictly designed to defuse HEAT, but they did find in testing that it could shatter or disrupt the trajectory of APDS when it impacted the bars as a bonus.
@@Ragedaonenlonely Actually, it was found that it worked against both APDS (called underkaliber) and APFSDS (called "pilprojektil" in Swedish, and noted in the original findings to be effective against Pilprojectil and Underkaliber, so yeah... effective against both. (but originally made to combat HEAT, as you said)
why are so many leaking classified documents in this reply section? (obvious joke)
The strv 103 is a very funny tank. But the unfortunate thing about it in warthunder is that if your engine gets shot out, you cant move. Unlike in real life, you could use the two engines separately, which is unfortunate.
In that case it would be more OP than it is. Its fire rate is almost like machine gun, frontally almost unpenetrable and very low profile with good speed... I hate facing this thing, its disgusting.
@@jirinavratil6232so the Urbanmech of War thunder.
At least the correctly implemented the ability to use it with just 1 crew member alive, which is cool.
It was possible to use it without engine for some time, but aiming was horrible :(
@@jirinavratil6232 it's explodes from anything hitting it's lower front plate....
The Swedes really made a tank-sized robot from Battlebots and it actually works. I was half expecting it to have a flywheel hidden somewhere for melee.
Ireland made a vehicle combining British & Swedish technology, the Headless Coachmen.
A Comet hull with the turret removed & a new open mount armed with the 90mm Pansarvärnspjäs 1110 recoilless rifle, but was cancelled due to lack of available funds.
that thing looks so dumb
reminds me of the crusader self propelled gun
Looks like a tractor, It'll be great at pulling a plow
This would more likely than not be a premium for the British tree.
I believe we also purchased our Comets without any HE, only AP.
Because y'know, ALL the biggest tank battles occurred in Ireland, don't you know?
Fun fact: the reasonning behind this vehicle unconventional design was that the Swedish military needed a new tank, but they realized that if it was to get invaded, they would be in inferior numbers therefor on the defensive, which in that scenario this tank works very well.
To be fair about that anti-HEAT fence being classified, the actual secret part was probably the gaps in the bars, which I bet are the exact space apart to de-fuse Soviet HEAT rounds.
Yea but Gajin would see the fact it could defuse Soviet heat and just go "nah". Then let HEAT go through it.
They also were anti APFSDS with the idea that it would absolutely penetrate the fence but put tumble into the round.
I thought Sweden was neutral during that time.
@@andyfriederichsen They sure were, they bought equipment from the USSR... but they definitely would be on western side (culture) if they had to.
@@andyfriederichsenneutral but still fearing soviet invasion
"You more or less find an alleyway and sit there" which is more or less what the Strv 103 was designed to do. That and camp behind dugouts or berms, falling back and setting up again two lines back to keep grinding down an invader.
Not really. It was designed to operate like any other tank, including on the offensive. They used staggered movement when operating offesively.
@@Ragedaonenlonely I've literally been in one and talked with the drivers. It is primarly made for defense tactics. It can be used in offensives. But it was designed to be a sneaky forest dweller waiting for prey. Hence the low profile. If it was to be like any other tank it would have a turret.
@@markusburstrom3485 Then you haven't read the manual, because there is literally no difference in operational doctrine between it and the Centurions. You're very wrong.
@@Ragedaonenlonely Ok what is the positive of not having a turret? Because it isnt ability to aim better when travelling through difficult train with a lot of obstacles. No you can only aim at your enemy then you can only go backwards or forwards. Which is a big minus in manuvrability while engaging. The low profile lets you hide way more easily than in comparison to other tanks who tower over you. It is better for entrenching positions. If you actually look at the video you will see what it is good at. A wall where other tanks turret would peak up it is invisible. You want to take a position and hold it.
But most of all I'm gonna trust the actual Swedes I've talked with.
@@markusburstrom3485 Positive of not having a turret? Many, many things. Smaller profile. Less weight. Ability to slope the armour heavily. Easy use of an auto-loader (it doesn't have to account for the rotation of the turret or be limited by the available storage space of ammuntion), less crew because of the aforementioned turret, the ability to have a very stable mounting solution for the main gun, assisting accuracy and allowing for an increase in barrel length.
If you actually READ about it you'll learn that the whole inspiration for its design came from documentation showing that most shells statistically hit the turrets of tanks and by deleting that you can make a more survivable vehicle. It's effective in a defensive position, but it's no less effective on the offense either where a smaller profile is nevertheless still very, very useful and it was not supposed to operate any more defensively than the Centurions.
It design allows it to take advantage of Swedish terrain effectively, but that doesn't preclude it from doing other things too. All Swedish tanks were designed with that in mind, even the turreted ones. Hence the high levels of gun depression almost across the board.
Since shaped charges dont really work like they do in game, the fence was really usefull. Since it destroyed the shaped charge, making it not blow up at all.
Probably one of my favorite tanks for how specialized for the exact imagined fighting conditions of sweden it was.
what I find coolest about Sweden is that even though this is one of the most bizarre things in the game, it can be considered "normal" compared to other things in the Swedish tech tree
It’s good for protection but you end up just staring at your enemy when they engine hit you
i've had someone fire a ridiculous amount of shells into it without so much as tickling my crew, managed to finish repairing and get on target right as the match was ending
The 103 was also a solution to a problem of the time, maximizing the efficiency of the autoloader, autoloaders would force the gun to return to a base position which severely limit its efficiency, thus they sought to solve this problem, two solution were thought up, the oscillating turret (Kranvagn/EMIL Project) and the unmoving turret/hull-aim (Strv 103)
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13:16 sweden has many other vehicles with 103 parts like the bandkanon it has a longer 103 chassis with a 155 mm canon at 6.7 also can you play the bandkanon.
3:24 'Broken Arrow' is a term for an accident involving a nuke, typically when one is lost or missing. It does not refer to dropping artillery on top of your current position, the closest term would be 'Danger Close'
This thing is shockingly survivable, though painful due to constantly getting your engine and trans wrecked
yeah, every time I play that 54 second time always come up at least once unless I snipe across the whole map.
I maxed my crew's repair stats before anything else because of this tank.
everyone's gangster till the door wedge starts speaking Swedish
You should try DF 105, it's very fun to play with 400mm of pen and 5 second autoloader.
lol
Then the SK105 is more fun. APFSDS with a 4 second reload, thermals and a LR.
@@casperreininga3253but it's at 8.7
Feel like ppl are sleeping on it.
Lol the word "unfortunate" has become part of my daily vocabulary just from your content.
Same
Spookston Sweedish videos are always a pleasant watch
"This is the worst version of it" Proceeds to get a nuke
Attempt number 2 of asking Spookston to play the RU-251, the faster and smaller mini-Leopard 1 at a lower BR that gets scouting. It's one of my all-time favourite tanks in the game (my other favourite was the standard American M41 Bulldog before it got nerfed into oblivion), has suffered some BR changes recently but it should still be great.
gaijin try not to nerf US vehicles challenge impossible
14:27 wow, an M2 failing, that's a rare one.
You could play the ab 41 at like 5.7 to show the true italian ww2 experience (pain included)
the strv103 wasn't actually made to be a mbt but more of an ambush tank as sweden rely more on a defensive strategy when it comes to war
Ooh yeah. The forbidden cheese wedge. The silly door stopper. The only tank that has brought me two nukes in a row.
Spookston upload to watch right after work? Yes
I will never stop asking for T-35
13:09 Bkan 1C
Though it uses the same powerpack
Yup. The VEAK-40 also uses the same driveline fun fact. Initially it was intended to develop a MBT, SPG, SPAAG and APC all based on the 103's driveline to be parts interchangeable, but in the end they only made the 3 former and only 2 of those actually entered service.
13:22 Don't think we didn't appreciate that.
The mere two notes of World Beater were enough to send my sides into orbit.
It's internet law now that you HAVE to play World Beater whenever a Bradley is on screen.
Day 19 of asking spookston to play the arl 44 tank destroyer
Petition to make Stridsvagn Sunday, where spookston uploads a video on a Swedish tank every Sunday
6:20 Technically correct but technically not. The STRV 103C was supposed to make use of the natural terrain and defensible positions to prevent breakthrough attacks. It's why it has hull aiming and the variable transmission, it's so it could lift itself up over berms to shoot at incoming armor. There's definitely a lot more complicated stuff that goes into its design than that, but it was never meant to function the same way as how we think the Abrams or T-90 tanks function. The Swedes prioritized a defensive front over an offensive one, which heavily influenced battle tactics, vehicle design, and even the way they constructed bunkers. The whole idea was to make Sweden a defensive fortress the likes of which no enemy would ever want to invade, and would cost the enemy terribly even if they did, with the hope being that their home forces could hold out long enough for NATO to reinforce them. Reminder, the STRV was designed at the height of the Cold War, with big bad Russia right on the doorstep. Like everything during that time period, it had a major influence on design mentality, and Sweden wanted to ensure its neutrality by force. Again! This is a very surface level dig into the entire situation, and I'm not an expert in any capacity, so I could absolutely have interpreted certain things incorrectly or misunderstood certain sources, but to the best of my knowledge, this is what I am aware of when it comes to the STRV 103's MBT designation.
Funny how you're calling him wrong when that was EXACTLY how it was meant to function. It used the exact same operational doctrine as the Centurions. It was not intended to be used any differently at all. The only thing is they used a staggered advance when operating offensively.
@@Ragedaonenlonely Operational doctrines differ by country and military. That's why I said "technically correct, technically not." rather than just saying he was wrong. Because he's not. It's just a different implementation vs what would be someone's first thought.
@@foolishsparky It's still wrong though. Because the Centurions and 103's share the same doctrine. Ergo they weren't designed to operate as defensive vehicles, they were just designed to operate as tanks the same way the Centurions were. Neither were they designed to not go on the offensive.
Sweden never intended to carry out offensive wars, only defensive ones, however even defensive wars still require you to go on the offense to retake lost territory. Ergo the idea that the 103's were designed as defensive vehicles isn't any more correct than saying the Centurions were. In the Swedish military they just operated like tanks, same as any other.
Funny you posted this. Been playing 8.0 Sweden and have really enjoyed diving back into the S-tank
“Who knew you could get so far by just…being a roadblock?”
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I bestow Spookston with the highest award I can think of: always being my background for when I need to eat 🙏
14:59
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I’ve been binging Spookston’s videos over the past few weeks. The humor and gameplay is continuously entertaining.
Thanks for the countless hours of entertainment Spookston, hope you’re doing well man.
15:20 most competent nuke deployment.
Fun fact: the STRV 103 is the only tank that can be operated by a single crew member.
The strv is the definition of smooth brain activity
I just love the fact that this tank can be operated by a single crew if they have to, just goes to show how much thought they put in and they want to make the most out of it
Of course if you're on the offensive this is a horrendous tank for that role, but for defensive, it's do the job pretty damn well
1:34 Begleitpanzer? more like BEGONEpanzer!
yeah i sold the recent swedish top tiered wheeled event vehicle and picked up the lower br premium strv 103 since i knew it was broken, and i knew i could quickly grind the swedish tree with it.
ended up getting 2 nukes in a row after about 10-15 matches in it, almost all the matches i have had in it have been fun, which is insane.
if you have been playing this game for years and are struggling to still have fun, pick this thing when its on sale and give it some back ups. its just high enough in br to where it gets all the good gadgets but low enough to where you aren't fighting in the terrible top tier.
Y'know what the best MBT is? The AS-42/47.
Got my first nuke ever with this tank. Unconventional but ridiculously effective when played right. Thanks for playing this guy!
M60A1 RISE(P) is actually good with the BR changes, I was surprised after my original experience with it and I think you will be too. (It gave me my first nuke friday despite being stock.)
I've spaded the RISE, now I started the TTS that got the round of the abrams plus thermal, but I always use them as a back up vehicle cause the grind is a pain in the ass since they are slow, at that BR I start with the XM803 which is cool
LFG new spookston vid, only TH-camr I actually check for new vids from
Would love to see a video on the M43 75/46 please
Im happily suprised the comment section for once when talking about the strv103 wasnt filled with mouthbreathers saying "iTs A tAnK dEsTrOyEr". As far as i understand we have the world of tanks game to thank for that particular group of flatearthers.
Also it wasnt designed to be a turretless tank. The conlusion was more along the lines "turret bad. turret reason for many dead tanks" but what if we just stuck the turret on tracks....
hate to be a beggar but day 91 of ask for pantsir
Yeah we’re the pantsir at?
It’s never gonna happen dude he hates top tier
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@@Average_Nordic_Guy does he hate it more than cas though?
@@ThunderDanger0u know spookston is gay right?
You should play the SU-85. It’s a soviet casemate TD that has incredible penetration at its 4.0-4.3 BR range, and for a casemate, only having an 8 second reload is a godsend for having around 145mm pen. Easily became one of my favorite vehicles to grind with in the soviet tree
The STRV 103 is honestly the more normal S tank than the Strv 74
The 74 isn't an S-tank, the S-tank name came from it being the Swedish alternative in a competition
@@sundhaug92 Correct. They had 3 alternatives for coming up with the next MBT intended to replace the Centurions (though it never really did). Alternative A was an Anglo-American design, alternative T was a German-Franco design and alternative S was a new Swedish design of tank, aka the S-tank. The 74 was never intended to replace or serve as a MBT, more so as a light tank to give light support to the infantry brigades and it was already in service when the 103 was projected.
This is my favorite tank in history (besides its proposed modernisation package though that never entered service) thanks for covering it.
It becomes even more insane when you dive down the rabbit hole of the S tank development, recently they were being refurbished and modernised and even rebuilt to be remote controlled drones, sadly when most of the work done and most tanks ready it was just scrapped. As with so much when it comes to military spending😢
Nope, the remote control model was just a one-off prototype with some cameras strapped to it. Not at all a ready product. And it wasn't recently, it was in the 90s. There was also one experimental mine clearing variant with a flail, the prototype is still around
Day 17 of asking for a Cromwell v rp3 video
Hilarious edits into the great gameplay! What I have been noticing is that people really look mostly for turrets in war thunder. If you aren't moving especially people just don't see you. Seems like the case with this too. Those super flat Italian TDs are great examples. I also wonder if people are blasting music too further adding to your stealth. Like hey team turn down the sabaton and listen ffs! I am not sure I will ever get to these upper tiers to play this but I really want to. I also didn't see the reticle bouncing that took 5 years to fix apparently. I am at 6.7 in US and Ger and like 5.7 in Sweden. GGs
I listen to Sabaton, but yeah, I have started stopping because it makes it harder to hear enemies.
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STRIDSVAGN MY BELOVED
This dude is my favorite TH-cam creator because he shows the game and nothing more but still makes me get asma from wheezing 😂❤
Your humor lines right up with the entire friend group, we’ll collectively screen share watch 30 videos at a time
definitely the funniest war thunder video ive seen so far , editing on point
Goblin bro made me lol XD Man I almost began the Swedish tech tree yesterday, but I was unable to gather the motivation to do so. Thanks for making and sharing your videos with us Spookston!!
I would love to see spookston play the swedish leopard 1a5
Another reason for the weird design was the gun, sweden wanted rapid fire autoloaders but at the time that caused problems with loading guns while elevated so their solution was to either use an oscillating turret like the French which was the emil project, (not to be confused with the Sturer emil) or simply not use a turret and have hull aim, which became the strv 103 in order to move the entire loader with the cannon.
10:30 I've had cars eat KE-W before and gaijin still doesn't bat an eye. not to mention trees/busges only falling into my line of sight
I would think the tank would do better if it didn't constantly shake like a maraca anytime you aim down sights and anything but solid concrete under your tracks
The riff at 13:22 absolutely killed me
6:49 my guy incuring all the grudges in the domaz kron rn
Spookston favorite word "unfortunate"😂
Love the S-tank from the first time I saw it. Its weirdness was so appealing and an excellent answer to the Soviet tanks of its day. I don't know that urban, knife fighting ranges favour the little guy, but I think in its natural environment out in the hills and fields it would have fared nicely. The Strv 103С was the final iteration of the -103 series of tanks. The Strv 1030 was the precursor model, lacking the fence and armour ribs of the C model while firing the slpprj m/61 & 66 APDS rounds. Your C model fired both APDS and APFSDS so you're fighting the most combat capable of the line.
"How am I not dead yet?"
Well that's the S tank experience for ya, it's absolutely ridiculously survivable.
Day 17 You should play a tank with hydropneumatic suspension (recommend the MBT-70) But the catch is you have to drop the suspension as low as it can go for the whole match.
no way, a spookston video where he doesnt flame german mains for existing?
The most frustrating thing about this tank is the freakishly long repair time when you're down to 1 crew member to the point that I feel like J out and change to another fully functioning tank is the more efficient way to play
Strv 103: flat boi
Strv 74: squished boi
That helicopter in the last match was the most Call of Duty cinematic thing I have ever seen in War Thunder.
I would be intresting to see you play the TAM. The 8.7 tech tree version. It feels like a super mobile tank that still has as much firepower as any mbt
"Drop the bomb"... tosses it up and forwards, good to see physics is still working...
Spook: "The T-55AM-1 is a tank I will never feel bad for killing. Never ever."
Me/Patrick: "Never ever forever never ever ever?!"
Spookston's going into the Swedish book of grudges for this one
A personal favorite. Thanks for the video.
Spookston, heed my beggin, bush up the Sturmtiger to an absurd degree and troll around.
I have now watch all of your videos you are my favourite TH-cam channel and I hope to see more videos soon😊
They need to add the kranvagn, 12 round autoloader 2 second reload time, 320-380 mm of pen with a unique heatfsds round, designed to provide high velocity with lower barrel wear and I theorise that it also provides a shorter propellant bag for volume, which I suspect makes it easier to autoload and it makes the shell a bit simpler with more aerodynamic fins that don't need to fold or anything, 160-180 mm of armour at 45° over most of the front with the hull an IS3 style pike nose. 60mm of side armour and 20mm of back armour and to wrap up this godly beast, 900hp and a 60kmph top speed. I think br 8.7 just for the obscene fire rate but maybe 8.3 due to the dependence on heat warheads and total lack of laser rangefinder or stabiliser.
I deleted the game yesterday.
But anyway, I too think this is one of the coolest tanks ever made.
Day 99 of asking Spookston to play the Type 90s
This man has started as explaining if war thunder was historically accurate to my favourite youtuber
I never get over listening to the C&C Generals music in your vids hahha
The one vehicle I absolutely respect. I died to the exact same guy 2 times due to spawn camping, all I had left was my Wiesel 1A4, I scouted and warned my team, This guy was my last hope to get my revenge, he popped up, got shot on the side by a different guy, and it was 3 spawn campers, all I could do was scout and hope. Mad lad killed all 3, I got to see the guy who killed me explode, and saved our spawn point.
One thing I recommend as a Strv 103 enjoyer is to still run a full ammo rack since I have had multiple games where I've fired 30+ shots and also because the only times I've been ammo racked I would have been killed anyway because I was getting flanked.
I bound the hull aim button to left control, I find it helps a bit. I also find that the hull aim tends to under-elevate by a bit, so I set my range to 300m the instant I spawn in. With those two down, I find I can be as nimble and responsive as any other unstabilized MBT, while also having great armour and a 4s reload. Also, fun fact, the S-tank is the only tank in game that can survive on one crew, and the only tank that can traverse it's hull mid repair, which is SUPER useful if you get your barrel taken out.
Fun fact.
It is supposed to have a faster reload.
IRL it could fire, reload and fire again in 2.8 seconds if the gunner was holding the fire and reload buttons.
I will never be a decent War Thunder player but it's still a lot of fun to watch your content. Great stuff!
Ngl i think the tank looks pretty good
1:01 Spookston finally fight a SEA server player
Like wtf, they either hunt you like you owe him money or just completely clueless
i swear, one day Spookston is gonna add the HL2 Stalker scream into one of his videos and im not gonna expect it
hey, as a swedish main, it hirts to see you having normal HE instead of HESH which is very funny to troll people with by shooting their roof, and it works exactly like normal he against open tops and paper targets
I love this thing for 3 main reasons, 1 it is wierd and unique, 2 it actually worked despite being a wierd and unconventional vehicle, 3 it was brilliant for the intended role of being an ambush vehicle hidden in ditches and snowdrifts to rapid fire away at russian convoys using main roads. It was an excellent vehicle in that it would have been great at the job it was intended for and it was also a unique unconventional design, I love it.