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"... imagine it for yourself. You apply for a job as an accountant.  But on your first day on the job you’re told that you are to be a technician instead, and, what’s more, you’re to move to the other...

A lot of the attention that the Armed Forces have received recently in the media has focused on our financial difficulties. The debate on our finances has been mainly conducted in the media, and it is...

The Swedish Armed Forces are in the process of losing a part of their capability to operate in a winter environment – snow, darkness and cold. Can it really be that bad? Yes, replies Magnus Ståhl,...

Following the recent media debate on the military’s financial "black hole" Supreme Commander Håkan Syrén intends to make himself clear: "We can’t go on like this anymore. Our politicians have to start...

The Government has reached a decision on Swedish participation in the multinational Strategic Airlift Capability (SAC) which gives Sweden access to three Boeing C-17 heavy transport aircraft.

The Gripen crash at Vidsel last April was caused by the shape and positioning of the ejection handle. That is the conclusion reached by the Swedish Accident Investigation Board in their report of the...

The Swedish Armed Forces have given FOI, the Swedish Research Agency, the task of re-analysing the tapes of sound recordings made during the submarine hunt in and outside Hårsfjärden bay in the...

Last week the Swedish Armed Forces submitted a detailed paper to the Government setting out the consequences that would follow from a redistribution of funding between the different allocations and...

The Swedish Armed Forces have decided not to continue development of the Modular Armoured Tactical System known in Sweden as SEP. The reason for this is the lack of an international collaborative...

The role of the Nordic Battlegroup as a part of the EU's crisis management capability was the main focus of a seminar arranged by the Swedish Defence Research Agency, FOI, on Thursday morning.