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Hybris
02-07-2010, 01:42 PM
Its now possible to buy your ex Swedish Ex East German MTLB.
The price is about 13000 USD each.

http://www.blocket.se/sodermanland/Pansarbandvagn_401_23052432.htm

This company bought around 30 of them.


Need one?
pmulcahy11b
02-07-2010, 06:32 PM
Antenna, can't you engineer us a discount? I can't pay $13,000, but I might be able to scrape up $13...
jester
02-07-2010, 08:31 PM
Dang, I was saving up for my own BRDM I saw on ebay. So none of you bid on it ta drive the price beyond what I can afford.
pmulcahy11b
02-07-2010, 09:15 PM
OK, $20 and a $20 Starbucks Card!
chico20854
02-07-2010, 09:30 PM
OK, $20 and a $20 Starbucks Card!

Paul, did you mean for the MTLB? You might be able to only use it at one place in Sweden - the Stockholm airport (http://www.arlanda.se/en/Information--services-to/Traveller-information/News/Swedens-first-Starbucks-at-Stockholm-Arlanda/). No actual word on the website if it's open yet...

It's a shame really. Sweden is a great place to visit!
pmulcahy11b
02-07-2010, 11:23 PM
OK, $35 and an old LCD monitor (still working and kept as a backup) -- but they have to throw in the commander's machinegun.
pmulcahy11b
02-07-2010, 11:25 PM
It's a shame really. Sweden is a great place to visit!

I've come to the conclusion I will probably never leave this city again, except possibly as a corpse (I'm going to donate my body to science). Shortage of funds.
Legbreaker
02-07-2010, 11:58 PM
...but they have to throw in the commander's machinegun.

I'd rather a load of spare parts. You just know you'll need them...
pmulcahy11b
02-08-2010, 12:31 AM
I'd rather a load of spare parts. You just know you'll need them...

San Antonio is notorious for its traffic snarls. I'd rather have the machinegun! But I can throw in an extra Linksys router and a bunch of spare CAT5 cables I have for a load of spare parts.
Hybris
02-08-2010, 02:34 AM
I'd rather a load of spare parts. You just know you'll need them...


According to the rumour mil Sweden bought about 800-1000 of witch they immediately scrapped 200-400 to get spare parts.

So am quite sure there are spare parts. Sometimes u can see people selling a MTLB motor in almost mint condition.
Legbreaker
02-08-2010, 02:37 AM
With that legendary Russian workmanship and precision engineering......
headquarters
02-08-2010, 02:53 AM
I think they are actually quite good vehicles for difficult terrain and so on -I couldnt say anything about the workmanship though...

probably a bombproof design.Maybe some of of our Swedish friends here have heard anything about them in use from "lumpen" ( conscription ) ?
Several batallions must have been set up with these