LAST EDITED ON Sep-28-18 AT 07:58 AM (EDT)
 
>>Having served in the Swedish military, I've used many things with the
>>Husqvarna markings. SMGs, AR(battle rifle)s, off-road bike, cooking
>>utensils, you name it, and machine tools galore.
>
>I assume the m/40 was a bit before your time?

Having only just now SEEN this, I decided to answer it, even though the post is rather not recent by now. And the answer is....that depends.

m/40, much like M1 in the US military, is a designation that has been attached to quite a few things, among them:

A 105mm Field Howitzer
A 152mm Naval Defense Gun
A 20mm Autocannon(the kid sibling of the famous 40mm Bofors)
A .45 Submachinegun, the equally famous Thompson
Armored Car m/40, known abroad as the Lynx
The Kar98K, rechambered for the Swedish 8x63mm
The m/40 handgrenade
The personal "one-man kitchen", alcohol burner, utensil-set, etc.
and the Strv m/40 tank.

Anyway, no, the m/40 had been replaced by the time I got into service, if only by a few years. The New Hotness was the Pistol 88, in civilian terms better known as the GLOCK 17. GLOCK ended up getting the contract because it was the gun best able to handle the notably...harsh, shall we say, treatment the m/39 9mm round inflicts on gun-barrels. That same harshness was also one of, if not the primary, reasons for the replacement...the m/40s were starting to develop cracks in the frames, which is generally seen as "bad". This also led to a brief return of the Pistol m/07, the gun that preceeded the m/40. Which, incidentally, wasn't actually chambered for .32 ACP. That would be the Colt Model 1903 Hammerless. We rocked the FN Model 1903, in 9x20 Browning. This also led to all sorts of fun shenanigans with the SMG-procurement for Sweden, something I've been thinking about writing something about.

But, the 152mm was still in official service when I did my time, though in another branch. The 20mm autocannon was in use as a secondary back-up for anti-air units. And I had my own little cooking unit.

See there, more information than you ever wanted.

>(One thing I forgot to mention in the original post is that I've seen
>a couple of mentions of a nickname the Swedish forces had for the
>m/40, which was a bit bulkier and heavier than the L-35 because of the
>different grade of steel they used. If these accounts are to be
>believed, they called it "the iron stove". I could find no solid
>indication of whether that was affectionate. :)

No. :) There was nothing at all affectionate about it. It was generally accepted to be a miserable pain.

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