Beside the regular order, we made this interim order to secure the potential gap that would arise, says Jonas Lotsne, chief of army materiel at the Defence Materiel Administration (FMV), to the channel.
The Swedish Armed Forces' current automatic carbine AK5 and other firearms have done their job and are to be replaced. In 2023, FMV signed a ten-year framework agreement with Finland to acquire new weapons from Sako.
Since the Finnish weapons cannot be delivered at a sufficient rate, FMV decided last autumn to also make an order from the USA, according to SVT. It's about thousands of automatic carbines of the type Colt M4A1. The price tag is unknown.
We ended up in a situation where we were forced to do it that way, says Lotsne.
