Key facts
- Type
- Infantry fighting vehicle
- Place of origin
- Sweden
- In service
- 1994–present
- Used by
- See Operators
- Wars
- War in Afghanistan United Nations Mission in Liberia Russo-Ukrainian war
- Designer
- Hägglunds/Bofors
- Designed
- late 1980s
- Manufacturer
- BAE Systems AB
- Produced
- 1993–present
- Number span no built
- 1,400
- Mass
- 23–38 tonnes (Mk 0 to Mk IV)
- Length
- 6.8 m (22 ft)
- Width
- 3.2 m (10 ft)
- Height
- 2.8 m (9 ft 2 in)
- Crew
- 3 (commander, gunner, driver) 7–8 troopers
- Armor
- front against 30 mm APFSDS, all-round protection against 14.5 mm AP rounds, integration of Iron Fist APS
- Main armament
- 40 mm Bofors L/70 autocannon or 35 mm/50 Bushmaster autocannon (export models Mk III and Mk IV) or 30 mm/40 Bushmaster autocannon (export model Mk I & Mk II) or Cockerill XC-8 turret with 105 mm/120 mm cannon or 120 mm mortar
- Secondary armament
- 7.62 mm Ksp m/39 machine gun or 7.62 FN MAG machine gun and 6 × 76 mm grenade launchers Spike LR anti-tank guided missile
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- infantry fighting vehicle
- Operator
- Ukrainian Ground Forces
- Country of origin
- Sweden
- Manufacturer
- BAE Systems AB
- Image
- Swedish CV9040.JPG
- Height
- 2710
- Width
- 3170
- Length
- 6550
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- armament
- Bushmaster III
- Commons category
- Hägglunds Combat Vehicle 90
- service entry
- 1993-01-01
- total produced
- 1000
- ride height
- 450
- powered by
- diesel engine
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Encyclopedic overview
The Combat Vehicle 90 (CV90) (Swedish: stridsfordon 90, strf 90 or Stridsfordon 90) is a family of Swedish tracked armoured combat vehicles designed by the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration (FMV), Hägglund & Söner and Bofors during the mid-1980s to early 1990s, before entering service in Sweden in the mid-1990s. The CV90 platform design has continuously evolved from the Mk 0 to the current Mk IV with technological advances and changing battlefield requirements.
The Swedish version of the main infantry fighting vehicle (IFV) is fitted with a turret from Bofors equipped with a 40 mm Bofors autocannon. Export versions are fitted with Hägglunds E-series turrets, armed with either a 30 mm Mk44 or a 35 mm Bushmaster autocannon. Over time, the involvement of Hägglund & Söner has been superseded by Alvis Hägglunds (from 1997) and BAE Systems Hägglunds (from 2004).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Combat Vehicle 90” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.