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This war has been an eye opener for me in many ways.
I did my military service in 1980-81in the coastal artillery regiment 3 (KA3) on the island of Gotland, the closest we had to the Soviet /Warsaw pact border.
I served in something called ”rörlig spärrbataljon” I don’t know how to really translate that, but it would be something like ”mobile stopping batalion”. Our job was to, together with other parts of the armed forces, stop a soviet invasion, in our case to shoot and sink the soviet landing ships coming at us from the Warsaw pact.
We had some damn good cannons to do that with, and I was manning a AA gun unit whose job it was to provide close air security for those cannons.
In 1992 I was recruited to the then newly formed Marine Home Guard.
My job would be to do what I was to do in case of war, namely manning a AA gun unit, in a ”Fast spärrbataljon” that translates to something like ”fixed stopping batalion”. Basically the same as before but not mobile. By that time the warsaw pact was no more and the only remaining enemy was the Russian Federation, however, in my mind, and in many peoples minds, that pretty much still equated to the old soviet union/Warsaw pact, it was just some kind of default setting in our brains.
And that default setting didn’t change until the Russians attacked Ukraine and I started really looking at the map and realized that Russia only has one port from where they can do a landing operation on Sweden and that is Königsberg/Kaliningrad, instead of all the Baltic states, Poland and East Gemany as it used to be.
The cannons were scrapped when the Swedish government decided, around 2002 that the eternal peace had come, and the coast was defended by missiles instead, namely the Rbs 15.
As it dawned on the government that Russia had not turned in to a peaceful democracy more and better missiles were made.
And what I finally realized was that we now have enough of these missiles to sink every landing ship and escort that that the russians can send towards us from Kaliningrad.
And with an air force about the size of the Ukrainian air force and 30 planes in storage, but with much better jets and state of the art missiles, especially the Meteor, the Russian air force in this region would not be a big problem for us.
In other words, I have recently realized that Russia is not a real threat to Sweden, and that feels good.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RBS_15
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteor_(missile)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_Coastal_Artillery#Cold_War
My barracks, named Ankaret (the anchor) from the back.
I did my military service in 1980-81in the coastal artillery regiment 3 (KA3) on the island of Gotland, the closest we had to the Soviet /Warsaw pact border.
I served in something called ”rörlig spärrbataljon” I don’t know how to really translate that, but it would be something like ”mobile stopping batalion”. Our job was to, together with other parts of the armed forces, stop a soviet invasion, in our case to shoot and sink the soviet landing ships coming at us from the Warsaw pact.
We had some damn good cannons to do that with, and I was manning a AA gun unit whose job it was to provide close air security for those cannons.
In 1992 I was recruited to the then newly formed Marine Home Guard.
My job would be to do what I was to do in case of war, namely manning a AA gun unit, in a ”Fast spärrbataljon” that translates to something like ”fixed stopping batalion”. Basically the same as before but not mobile. By that time the warsaw pact was no more and the only remaining enemy was the Russian Federation, however, in my mind, and in many peoples minds, that pretty much still equated to the old soviet union/Warsaw pact, it was just some kind of default setting in our brains.
And that default setting didn’t change until the Russians attacked Ukraine and I started really looking at the map and realized that Russia only has one port from where they can do a landing operation on Sweden and that is Königsberg/Kaliningrad, instead of all the Baltic states, Poland and East Gemany as it used to be.
The cannons were scrapped when the Swedish government decided, around 2002 that the eternal peace had come, and the coast was defended by missiles instead, namely the Rbs 15.
As it dawned on the government that Russia had not turned in to a peaceful democracy more and better missiles were made.
And what I finally realized was that we now have enough of these missiles to sink every landing ship and escort that that the russians can send towards us from Kaliningrad.
And with an air force about the size of the Ukrainian air force and 30 planes in storage, but with much better jets and state of the art missiles, especially the Meteor, the Russian air force in this region would not be a big problem for us.
In other words, I have recently realized that Russia is not a real threat to Sweden, and that feels good.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RBS_15
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteor_(missile)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_Coastal_Artillery#Cold_War
My barracks, named Ankaret (the anchor) from the back.