Bandvagn 206

Development of the bv 206 all-terrain articulated tracked carrier began in 1974. Three batches of trial vehicles were delivered by Hägglund & Söner between 1976 and 1978. The first production examples were delivered to the Swedish Defence Administration in 1980.

In 1997 the military vehicles business of Hägglund & Söner was acquired by Alvis plc, becoming Alvis Hägglunds. In turn, in 2004, Alvis became part of BAE Systems, with the business becoming BAE Systems Hägglunds.

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Like its predecessor, the Volvo Bv 202, the bv 206 is designed to carry troops and equipment through snow and bog-lands in northern Sweden. The low ground pressure enables the bv 206 to cope with a wide range of difficult conditions. It is fully amphibious, with a speed in water of up to {{convert|4.7|km/h|mph}}. Over 11,000 units have been produced and they are used in more than 37 countries worldwide.

The total load capacity is {{convert|2250|kg|lb}}. A trailer of up to {{convert|2500|kg|lb}} gross weight can be towed behind the second compartment.

The bv 206 is referred to as a Small Unit Support Vehicle (SUSV) pronounced "susvee" in United States service. U.S. military variants include the standard model (M973), a tactical operations center variant (M1065), an ambulance variant (M1066) and a flat-bed cargo carrier (M1067). U.S. military models are fitted with a 6-cylinder Mercedes diesel engine and a non-halon fire suppression system since 1997 due to several cases where the front car caught fire and burned to the frame.

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Users include the American and Australian Antarctic research organizations and British, Icelandic and Canadian search and rescue services. They are also used for search and rescue services in the Austrian alpine region. The bv 206 was used in combat by the Canadian Army during Operation Anaconda. The Singapore Armed Forces uses the bv 206, and recently transferred several of them to the Singapore Civil Defense Force for use as a firefighting platform.

Decommissioned units have been purchased by private owners and rented as transports, particularly in Alberta, Canada, to access remote oil wells, as well as cut blocks which need to be reforested by tree planting.

The bv 206 is used in Antarctica, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Israel, Indonesia, Italy, Lithuania, Latvia, Malaysia, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Pakistan, Singapore,{{citation needed|date=July 2013}} South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, Ukraine, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

File:US 5055th Range Squadron M973 SUSV.jpg through full-length, wide rubber tracks and a lightweight body. The two sections of the vehicle are articulated, allowing it to keep contact with the ground over broken terrain. The ground pressure is low enough that the vehicle can traverse loose snow without sinking. The vehicle is amphibious and propelled in water by its tracks.]]

The Bv 206A is an ambulance version, which is capable of carrying stretchers in the rear compartment.

The Bv 206F is a fire appliance variant.

The RaBv 2061 (RadioBandvagn 2061) is a Swedish Army communications/command version, fitted with radio equipment and workplaces for staff members.

The PvBv 2062 (PansarvärnsBandvagn 2062) is a Swedish Army anti-tank vehicle, an open top version of the Bv 206 armed with a 90 mm Pvpj 1110 recoilless anti-tank gun.

The PvBv 2063 (PansarvärnsBandvagn 2063) is another Swedish Army anti-tank vehicle, similar to the PvBv 2062, but fitted with the launch system for an ATGM, either the TOW (Rbs 55) or the Bofors BILL (Rbs 56).

Signalist version of the Bv 206 with radio relay capability. The vehicle is outfitted with mission specific equipment that allows it to fill different functions in the Swedish military telecommunications network Telenät 2000. It was used on the brigade and divisional echelons of the Swedish Army.{{Cite web |title=FHT Armén Sb Telenät 2000 Enheter |url=http://www.fht.nu/armen_sb_telenat_2000_enheter.html |access-date=2023-09-24 |website=www.fht.nu}}

The Bv 206S is an armoured personnel carrier variant of the bv 206, which provides protection from small arms fire for the occupants. It is in service with the armed forces of France, Germany (379 bv 206D/S ordered), Spain, Netherlands, Italy (158 units), Sweden (93 units), Greece (Bv 208) and Singapore (300 units), which has replaced it with the Bronco All Terrain Tracked Carrier.

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Using a Steyr M1-"Monoblock" engine (6-cylinder, 130 kW),{{cite web |url=http://www.steyr-motors.com/automotive/applications-gallery/bae-land-systems-haegglunds-bv206-m16-tci-hd-162/ |title=BAE Haegglund bv206 M16 TCI HD |website=Steyr Motors GmbH}} the vehicle can carry the driver and 12 combat-equipped troops — four in the front compartment and eight in the rear. The bv 206S can be underslung and airlifted by Boeing CH-47 Chinook and Sikorsky CH-53E Super Stallion helicopters or carried in the C-130 Hercules airplane, amongst others.

Canadian troops taking part in Operation Anaconda in Afghanistan made good use of this vehicle, riding over rough mountainous terrain with full combat gear, allowing the men to avoid the exhaustion they would have felt moving on foot at such high altitudes and in such conditions.

The UK is looking to replace its bv 206Ds by 2020.{{cite web |url=http://www.janes.com/article/59281/uk-seeks-bv-206d-replacement |title=UK seeks Bv 206D replacement |first=Christopher F. |last=Foss |date=5 April 2016 |website=IHS Jane's 360 |access-date=14 June 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160408045043/http://www.janes.com/article/59281/uk-seeks-bv-206d-replacement |archive-date=2016-04-08}}

Produced in Russia under license from Hägglunds by the GAZ Group at the Zavolzhsky Plant Of Caterpillar Tractors. Uses a 6-cylinder Steyr M16 turbodiesel engine.{{cite web |url=https://www.drom.ru/bmsh/2015/ticket/568/ |title=Двухзвенный гусеничный снегоболотоход "Лось" (ГАЗ-3351) |date=April 22, 2015 |website=Drom |language=ru |access-date=March 23, 2021}}{{cite web |url=http://www.gaz-34039.ru/gaz-3351.htm |title=Гусеничный снегоболотоход вездеход ГАЗ-3351 Лось (аналог BV 206) |website=Gaz-34039 |language=ru |access-date=March 23, 2021 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190615155447/http://www.gaz-34039.ru/gaz-3351.htm |archive-date=2019-06-15}}{{Failed verification|reason=Not a word about licensed production, only mentioned to be similar or a copy|date=March 2021}}

=== BvS 10===

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The BvS 10, not to be confused with the bv 206 or bv 206S, is a much larger but still fully amphibious armoured vehicle based upon the characteristic twin-cab, articulated steering system typical of Hägglunds all-terrain vehicles. It is equipped with a 6-cylinder Steyr M1 engine with 200 kW.{{cite web |url=http://www.steyr-motors.com/automotive/applications-gallery/bae-haegglunds-se-bvs10-m16-sci-181/ |title=BAE Haegglund BVS 10 M16 SCI |website=Steyr Motors GmbH}} It was originally designed for the British Royal Marines Commandos and named All Terrain Vehicle (Protected) - ATV(P) VIKING.

It is in service with the Royal Marines Armoured Support Group and the Royal Netherlands Marine Corps. The French Army have recently ordered 130 Bvs10s. The Austrian Armed Forces 32 BvS10AUT represents the most modern variant with full vehicle and crew protection and a 12.7 mm remote-controlled weapon station. It is also planned for the Italian Army.

The BvS 10 Beowulf is essentially an unarmored version of the BvS 10 Viking.

Other variants exist including mortar carrier, cargo carrier, fuel carrier, radar and command post. The units can easily be customized to meet customer requirements.

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• Engine: 2.8L 99 kW Ford Cologne V6.
• Gearbox: MB W 4A-018 automatic transmission
• Weight: {{convert|4500|kg|lb}}
• Cargo load: {{convert|2240|kg|lb}} - {{convert|630|kg|lb}} in front unit and {{convert|1610|kg|lb}} in trailer unit)
• Length: {{convert|6.9|m|ft}}
• Width: {{convert|1.87|m|ft}}
• Height: {{convert|2.4|m|ft}}

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• {{flagicon|Argentina}} Argentine National Gendarmerie
• {{flagicon|Austria}} Austrian Armed Forces
• {{flagicon|Brazil}} Brazilian Marine Corps
• {{flagicon|United Kingdom}} British Armed Forces
• {{flagicon|Canada}} Canadian Army – (78)
• {{flagicon|Chile}} Chilean Marine Corps
• {{flagicon|Estonia}} Estonian Defence Forces
• {{flagicon|Finland}} Finnish Army
• {{flagicon|France}} French Army
• {{flagicon|Germany}} German Army
• {{flagicon|Greece}} Hellenic Army – Used with ARTHUR counterbattery radar.
• {{flagicon|Indonesia}} Indonesian Army — Used by 2nd Group of the Kopassus special forces.
• {{flagicon|Ireland}} Irish Defence Forces{{Cite magazine |url=http://www.dfmagazine.ie/site-assets/uploads/Vol._69_No._4_-_May_2009.pdf |title=Track-Able |first=David |last=Nagle |date=May 2009 |magazine=An Cosantóir |volume=69 |number=4 |pages=14–15 |access-date=26 January 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150910172552/http://www.dfmagazine.ie/site-assets/uploads/Vol._69_No._4_-_May_2009.pdf |archive-date=10 September 2015 |url-status=dead}} – (7) Fitted with GIRAFFE Mk IV radars.
• {{flagicon|Israel}} Israel Defense Forces
• {{flagicon|Italy}} Italian Army (about 110 BV-206; 112 BV-206S7 and 46 BV-206S)
• {{flagicon|Latvia}} Latvian Land Forces
• {{flagicon|Lithuania}} Lithuanian Land Force
• {{flagicon|Malaysia}} Malaysian Army - (80)
• {{flagicon|Netherlands}} Netherlands Navy
• {{flagicon|Norway}} Norwegian Army – (1000)
• {{flagicon|Singapore}} Singapore Army
• {{flagicon|South Korea}} South Korean Army
• {{flagicon|Spain}} Spanish Army
• {{flagicon|Sweden}} Swedish Army – (4,500) Includes BvS 10 variant
• {{flagicon|Thailand}} Royal Thai Army
• {{flagicon|Ukraine}} Ukrainian Ground Forces
• {{flagicon|USA}} United States Armed Forces – Used in the United States Army by the 86th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, the 1st Infantry Brigade Combat Team and 2nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 11th Airborne Division. Also used by the United States Marine Corps.
• {{flagicon|USA}} United States National Guard

• {{flagicon|Armenia}} Ministry of Emergency Situations of Armenia
• {{flagicon|Australia}} New South Wales Ambulance{{Cite news |url=https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/anger-over-10hour-rescue-in-dead-of-night-20100803-114lj.html |title=Anger over 10-hour rescue in dead of night |first=Glenda |last=Kwek |date=3 August 2010 |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald}}
• {{flagicon|Canada}} Low Impact Inc.
• {{flagicon|Canada}} Soulang Auto Inc.
• {{flagicon|Canada}} Red Deer County Technical Rescue Task Force{{cite web |url=https://www.rdcounty.ca/251/Technical-Rescue-Task-Force |title=Technical Rescue Task Force |website=Red Deer County |access-date=16 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181017001800/https://www.rdcounty.ca/251/Technical-Rescue-Task-Force |archive-date=17 October 2018 |url-status=dead}}
• {{flagicon|Canada}} Four Tracks All-Terrain Edmonton Alberta
• {{flagicon|Denmark}} LEGOLAND Billund{{Cite instagram |user=mgraatrud |postid=8YGfizrVyn |title=Høglunds #bv206 |date=3 October 2015 |access-date=18 August 2021}}
• {{flagicon|Estonia}} Estonian Rescue Board
• {{flagicon|Greece}} Hellenic Fire Service
• {{Flagicon|Iceland}} Icelandic Association for Search and Rescue
• {{flagicon|Indonesia}} Mobile Brigade Corps of Indonesian National Police{{cite web |url=https://news.detik.com/berita/d-2474635/polri-kirim-panser-hagglund-ke-lokasi-bencana-gunung-sinabung |title=Polri Kirim Panser Hagglund ke Lokasi Bencana Gunung Sinabung |language=id |date=22 January 2014 |website=Detik News |access-date=5 May 2022}}
• {{flagicon|Indonesia}} Indonesian Red Cross{{cite web |url=https://lumixindonesia.id/foto-kendaraan-hagglunds-untuk-merapi/ |title=Foto Kendaraan Hagglunds untuk Merapi |language=id |last=Kusumo |first=Dananjoyo |date=12 November 2020 |website=Suaramerdekakedu |access-date=19 June 2021}}{{Cite news |url=https://otomotif.kompas.com/read/2021/12/07/115056315/pakai-ban-tank-kendaraan-khusus-milik-pmi-hagglund-bv206-sukses-tembus-kaki |title=Pakai Ban Tank Kendaraan Khusus Milik PMI Hagglund BV206, Sukses Tembus Kaki Gunung Semeru |date=2021-12-07 |newspaper=Kompas |language=id |access-date=2021-12-14}}
• {{flagicon|Ireland}} Civil Defence Ireland
• {{flagicon|Italy}} Italian National Firefighters Corps
• {{flagicon|New Zealand}} New Zealand Antarctic Research Programme
• {{flagicon|Russia}} Several hundred ex-Norwegian sold and believed to have ended up in Russia.{{cite news |url=http://www.dagbladet.no/2015/11/05/nyheter/eksportkontroll/beltevogner/eritrea-lastebilene/sudan-beltevognene/41724436/ |title=Forsvaret solgte beltevogner til russere |first1=Tore |last1=Bergsaker |first2=Kristoffer |last2=Egeberg |name-list-style=amp |date=5 November 2015 |newspaper=Dagbladet |language=no |access-date=14 June 2016}}
• {{flagicon|United Kingdom}} Royal National Lifeboat Institution{{thin space}}{{Cite news |date=15 December 2020 |title=Nine lives on the line in a flooding spring tide |url=https://rnli.org/magazine/magazine-featured-list/2020/december/nine-lives-on-the-line |quote=... came out to meet the lifeboat in the station’s all-terrain launching vehicle, a Hägglunds Bandvagn (BV) 206.}}
• {{flagicon|United Kingdom}} Bay Search and Rescue Team
• {{flagicon|United Kingdom}} Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-tMAh_O3OA |title=Hagglund Off-Road Firefighting Vehicle Responding - Greater Manchester Fire And Rescue Service |date=3 October 2020 |website=YouTube |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211213/N-tMAh_O3OA |archive-date=2021-12-13 |url-status=live}}{{cbignore}}
• {{Flagicon|USA}} Massachusetts State Police
• {{Flagicon|USA}} Schlumberger{{cite news |url=http://www.dagbladet.no/2015/10/10/nyheter/sudan-beltevognene/nigeria-batene/utenriksdepartementet/forsvarsdepartementet/41422201/ |title=Hevder beltevognene er destruert |date=10 October 2015 |newspaper=Dagbladet |language=no |access-date=14 June 2016}}
• {{Flagicon|USA}} South Metro Fire Rescue in Parker, CO in the south part of Denver metropolitan area at Station 46.
• {{Flagicon|Norway}} University Centre in Svalbard{{Citation |last=|first=|title=Bandvagn 206 am University Centre in Svalbard |date=2013-11-02 |url=https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:University_Centre_in_Svalbard_(Bandvagn_206).JPG |access-date=2023-04-14}}
• {{Flagicon|USA}} Cascade Heavy Rescue in Bend, OR
• {{Flagicon|Czechia}} Fire Rescue Service of the Czech Republic.{{Cite web |date=2019-04-07 |title=Hasiči v Moravskoslezském kraji využívají dvojici pásových vozidel |url=https://www.pozary.cz/clanek/208227-hasici-v-moravskoslezskem-kraji-vyuzivaji-dvojici-pasovych-vozidel-hagglunds-bv206-pro-presun-v-nepristupnem-terenu/ |access-date=2024-09-09 |website=www.pozary.cz |language=cs}}

Similar vehicles with the bv 206 ATV include:

• Sisu Auto Sisu Nasu
• ST Kinetics Bronco All Terrain Tracked Carrier
• BAE Systems Hägglunds BvS 10
• Bolinder-Munktell (Volvo BM) Bandvagn 202
• World War II Germany's Raupenschlepper Ost

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• {{cite web |url=http://www.haggve.se/ |title=BAE Systems Hägglunds |access-date=14 July 2005 |archive-date=2 February 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070202062955/http://www.haggve.se/ |url-status=dead }} (previously Alvis Hägglunds, before that Hägglunds Vehicle, and in the very beginning Hägglund & Söner)
• {{cite web |url=http://www.operations.mod.uk/afghanistan/viking.wmv |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070609212054/http://www.operations.mod.uk/afghanistan/viking.wmv |archive-date=2007-06-09 |title=Video of British Bv S10s part of ISAF convoy in southern Afghanistan |website=British Ministry of Defence}}
• {{cite web |url=http://www.vteam.pl/dzial/szwendolaz.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061205231631/http://www.vteam.pl/dzial/szwendolaz.html |archive-date=2006-12-05 |title=The Polish owner and enthusiast of BV206 and BV202}}

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