Strv 104

Stridsvagn 104 Lynx
Acrean Strv 104A5
Type	Main Battle Tank
Place of origin	Acrea
Service history
In service	1965-Present
Used by	Acrea Ruvelka Shalum Cacerta
Production history
Designer	Landrut Landsystemet GmbH Landsverk AG Maybach AG Kobalt-Zeiss GmbH & Co KG Thyssen AB
Designed	1955-1961
Manufacturer	Landrut Landsystemet GmbH
Produced	1965-Present
No. built	approx. 15,000
Specifications
Weight	44 tonnes
Crew	4
Armor	Composite
Main armament	KvK m/55 105mm smoothbore tank gun
Secondary armament	Coaxial 7.62mm MG 59 Various Top-Mounted 7.62mm and 13mm guns
Engine	Thyssen-Maybach MTU K0-60 V12 Turbocharged Diesel
Operational range	500 km
Speed	75 km/h (Road) ~50 km/h (Cross-Country)

The Stridsvagn 104 Lynx is a main battle tank developed by Landrut Landsystemet in the 1960s for the Acrean Armed Forces.

History

Development

The development of Strv 104 can be fully traced back to the deployment of Strv 92 in the final years of the Eracuran Great War. One of the first true successful main battle tanks, Strv 92 featured a more powerful engine, main gun stabilisation, and more advanced infrared technology than its predecessors. Very well armed and well protected for its weight, the Strv 92 was by far the most effective of the new generation of vehicle designs introduced at the end of the war. Strv 91, derived from captured Azurlav vehicles and tested in limited numbers in late 1945, was considered unsatisfactory and frequently described as "cobbled together" by end users in the field and Armoured Corps testers alike. The Strv 73, while far more successful in its respective light tank role, was not considered suited for combatting the swathe of heavy tanks being deployed by Azurlav forces at the end of the war. Strv 92 would not enter service until mid-1946, and would only see a few months of combat before its end, but proved to be a substantial improvement in the capability of those armoured units equipped with them over earlier, older tanks.