The Swedish Army Armoured Center (Swedish: Arméns pansarcentrum, PaC) was a center of the Swedish Armoured Troops within the Swedish Army which operated in from 1991 to 1995. The staff was located in Skövde Garrison in Skövde, Sweden.
| Swedish Army Armoured Center | |
|---|---|
| Arméns pansarcentrum | |
 | |
| Active | 1991–1995 |
| Country |  Sweden |
| Allegiance | Swedish Armed Forces |
| Branch | Swedish Army |
| Type | Armoured Troops |
| Role | Center |
| Part of | Western Military District (1991–1993) Southern Military District (1993–1995) |
| Garrison/HQ | Skövde |
| March | "Pansarkamrater" (Green) |
| Insignia | |
| Branch insignia m/1963 |  |
History
editThe Swedish Army Armoured Center was established on 1 July 1991. This was done as a direct result of the Army Staff's reorganization when the branch divisions were relocated from Stockholm, to be part of the respective branch school. The traditions and thus tasks and organization at the Swedish Army Armoured Center thus built on the Army Staff's Armored Department – the Armored Inspectorate (Pansarinspektionen) – and the Swedish Armoured Troops Combat School (Pansartruppernas stridsskola, PS) with its closest predecessors the Swedish Armoured Troops School and the Swedish Armoured Troops Cadet and Officer Candidate School.[1]
The Swedish Army Armoured Center was located at Klagstorp manor and the Swedish Armoured Troops Combat School, which was organized in the Swedish Army Armoured Center, moved to the same location as Skaraborg Regiment (P 4). The Swedish Army Armoured Center operated in two places; in Skövde in adjacent to the establishment around Heden, operated the Course Sections 1, 2 and 3 and the Trial Troop (Försöktruppen); at Klagstorp old manor there the LT section, the development sections and the Armored Staff (Pansarstaben) operated.[2] There were four training sections with different goals ranging from basic officer training to training of brigade and battalion staffs. Two sections worked on development, one of materiel, the other of tactics and combat technology. Service to the school was provided by two trial companies with conscripts and materiel. The Armored Inspector, the head of the Swedish Armoured Troops Combat School and the chief of staff were based at Klagstorp.[2]
On 1 July 1995, the Swedish Army Armoured Center in Skövde and the Swedish Army's Infantry and Cavalry Center (Arméns infanteri- och kavallericentrum, InfKavC) in Kvarn merged into one organizational unit, the Swedish Army Brigade Center (Arméns brigadcentrum, BrigC). The reason for the merger was an increased mechanization of the infantry, which began to blur the boundaries that existed between the armoured units and the infantry units.[3]
Heraldry and traditions
editCoat of arms
editBlazon: "Sable, an arm embowed and vambraced, in the hand a sword, all or".[4]
March
editWhen the center was formed on 1 July 1991, the unit march, "Pansarkamrater", was taken over from the Swedish Armoured Troops Combat School (Pansartruppernas stridsskola, PS). The unit march was taken over in 1995 by the Combat School South (Stridsskola Syd, SSS). From 1999, it is used as a unit march by the Land Warfare Centre.[5]
Heritage
editThe Land Warfare Centre continues the traditions of the Swedish Army Armoured Center.[6]
Commanding officers
edit- 1990-07-01 – 1993-09-30: Senior colonel Stig Edgren[2]
- 1993-10-01 – 1995-06-30: Senior colonel Alf Sandqvist[2]
Names, designations and locations
edit| Name | Translation | From | To | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arméns pansarcentrum | Swedish Army Armoured Center | 1991-07-01 | – | 1995-06-30 |
| Designation | From | To | ||
| PaC | 1991-07-01 | – | 1995-06-30 | |
| Locations | From | To | ||
| Strängnäs Garrison/Klagstorp | 1991-07-01 | – | 1995-06-30 |
See also
editReferences
editNotes
edit- ^ Catoni 1992, p. 21
- ^ a b c d "Arméns pansarcentrum" [Swedish Army Armoured Center] (in Swedish). National Archives of Sweden. Retrieved 11 March 2022.
- ^ Johansson 2013, pp. 31–32
- ^ Braunstein 2006, p. 43
- ^ Sandberg 2007, p. 34
- ^ Handbok: parad 6: traditionsvård 2017, p. 61
- Braunstein, Christian (2006). Heraldiska vapen inom det svenska försvaret [Heraldry of the Swedish Armed Forces] (PDF). Skrift / Statens försvarshistoriska museer, 1101-7023 ; 9 (in Swedish). Stockholm: Statens försvarshistoriska museer. ISBN 91-971584-9-6. SELIBR 10099224.
- Catoni, Mac, ed. (1992). Pansartrupperna 50 år 1992-10-01 (PDF) (in Swedish). [Stockholm]: [s.n.] SELIBR 9958126.
- Johansson, Robert (2013-05-27). "Införandet av Stridsfordon 90 – Rätt taktik på rätt plats?" [The introduction of Combat Vehicle 90 - The right tactics in the right place?] (PDF) (in Swedish). Swedish National Defence College. Retrieved 14 March 2022.
- Sandberg, Bo (2007). Försvarets marscher och signaler förr och nu: marscher antagna av svenska militära förband, skolor och staber samt igenkännings-, tjänstgörings- och exercissignaler (in Swedish) (New ed.). Stockholm: Militärmusiksamfundet med Svenskt marscharkiv. ISBN 978-91-631-8699-8. SELIBR 10413065.
- Handbok: parad 6: traditionsvård : H PARAD 6 2016 (PDF) (in Swedish). Stockholm: Försvarsmakten. 2017. SELIBR 22459606.