Deliveries by Scandinavian countries of anti-tank grenade launchers to Ukraine

The original was taken from a colleague andrej_kraft in Scandinavian grenade launchers in Ukraine

BMPD colleagues posted in Telegram screenshot from the video from March 6:

The first photo of a Ukrainian serviceman with a Swedish disposable Saab Bofors AT4 hand-held anti-tank grenade launcher (in the original Swedish version of the m/86). Earlier, the Swedish government announced the transfer of 5,000 of these RPGs from the storage of the Swedish army to Ukraine as military aid.

...and another image for March 8:

As usual, everything is not so clear here…

After the 24th, the governments of the Scandinavian countries continued to work, despite the weekend, and on Sunday, February 27, they reported on plans to provide military assistance to Ukraine. We won't touch any financial means there, helmets, vests, foam mats, dry food and even MANPADS yet, we will focus on RPG.

The issue of transferring lethal weapons to Ukraine has been discussed several times in the Norwegian government and Parliament. However, the politicians considered it impossible to violate the amendment to the Constitution adopted in 1959 on the refusal to supply weapons and military equipment to countries at war or about to fight. Therefore, at first they made a palliative decision - not to supply themselves, but to allow buyers of Norwegian-made ammunition to transfer them to Kiev.

Denmark immediately announced the planned delivery to Ukraine of 2,700 units of single-use RPG M72 manufactured by the Norwegian company Nammo from the Raufoss plant.

Sweden - on the transfer of single-use RPGs of national production, including 5000 NLAW and 5000 AT-4 LAW. At the same time, they immediately stressed that such a decision is the first case after the Soviet-Finnish Winter War in 1939 when Sweden transfers weapons to a country in a state of armed conflict.

Finland announced the transfer of 1.5 thousand rubles to Ukraine. so-called "anti-tank weapons". Like bmpd colleagues, many believe that this is also an M72 RPG, but there may well be RPG-7s, which in the 2010s still remained in the storage of the Finns in mobzapas.

And finally, on the morning of February 28, after a lengthy debate, Norway still decided to donate 2,000 of its disposable M72 RPGs to Ukraine from the presence of its country's army, in order to deliver weapons as quickly as possible.

Soldiers of the 2nd Light Infantry (Arctic) battalion of the mechanized brigade north of Norway on exercises (Ren camp, 2015) © Anette Ask / Forsvaret

In general, the law on the prohibition of the supply of lethal weapons to military conflict zones, which has existed for more than 60 years, has ordered to live for a long time. And on Thursday morning March 3 pallets with two thousand RPG M72 was loaded aboard a C-130J Super Hercules "Frøya" (No. 5699) 335 squadron, almost 10:00 local time (12:00 GMT), he flew from the capital's airport Gardermoen and two and a half hours at 12:15 (124:15 GMT) landed on the Polish Rzeszow airport 90 km from the Ukrainian border. According to the AFU, on the same day in Poland, the weapons were handed over to the Ukrainian authorities.

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Interestingly, Denmark also made two flights of its C-130 Hercules to Rzeszow a day earlier, on Wednesday, March 2, delivering 2,700 M72 to Ukrainians.

And already on March 4, Belgium provided Ukraine with another 200 RPG units of the same type, and Canada decided to get another 4,500 M72 from itself.

And on the same day, an active discussion of this screenshot from the video that appeared on the 3rd evening began in the Scandinavian press:

It was immediately considered completely impossible that this M72 was supplied by the Norwegians, and it is unlikely that the Danes - there is too little time to transfer them from Poland to the LBS in Kiev. Local experts carefully examined the blurred image as best they could, coming to the conclusion that the RPG is more like an old-style M72, which means it is not from Nammo, but most likely produced by MKEK in Turkey under a US license.

And finally, on March 7, heavy artillery in the person of Nammo engineers joined the discussion:

Well, it became pointless to discuss it further, because images of much better quality appeared. In addition to the top photo, here's another one, for example, taken a couple of days before the 8th:

Ukrainian soldiers prepare for a Russian attack in Irpen, west of Kiev on Sunday, March 6. In the picture we see three M72s manufactured by Nammo at the Raufoss factory. The fighter on the right has a beret with the emblem of the Marine Corps, albeit an old-school non-statutory black color © Marcus Yam

But the RPGs lit up in these pictures can be from both Danish and Norwegian supplies. And now it remains only to decide on the type of RPG donated by Finland.