Not having followed the Swedish defense industry in detail (or, really, at all), I had no idea this vehicle existed until a couple of months ago. Now, though, I’m a bit croggled as to why Free League neglected to include it in the vehicle listing for Twilight: 2000‘s fourth edition. To my knowledge, it hasn’t appeared in any previous edition of the game (though, of course, Paul Mulcahy has second edition stats for it).
The Infanterikanonvagn 91 is an amphibious light tank produced in Sweden in the first half of the 1970s, built in low numbers and used only by that nation’s military. It served as a tank destroyer and infantry support gun, with one 12-vehicle company assigned to each Swedish infantry brigade. Primary armament is a 90mm gun, supplemented by coaxial and pintle-mounted GPMGs.
In real-world history, the Ikv 91’s phase-out began in the 1990s. Two variants were proposed: an up-gunned version with a 105mm low-recoil gun, which was prototyped in the early ’80s under the designation Ikv 105, and a TOW ATGM carrier, which doesn’t appear to have progressed past the conceptual stage. Neither made it to production.
In my T2kU, both variants entered production in the late ’80s, spurred by increasing geopolitical instability. The Ikv 105 was intended to replace the Ikv 91, but production numbers never accommodated this, and even those Ikv 91s which had been retired were pulled from reserve stocks to replace combat losses. The ATGM carrier, designated Pvrbv (Pansarvärnsrobotbandvagn) 152, was intended to supplement and eventually replace the existing Pvrbv 551 (itself a TOW carrier built on the chassis of the Ikv 91’s assault gun predecessor).
With no official prior-edition stats1, converting this vehicle is a little trickier than the previous number-crunching I did on the LAV-75 and M88A1. Still, the publicly-available information does provide a basis for conversion while comparing the design to real-world equivalents:
The Ikv 91 and Pvrbv 152 are fully amphibious with no preparation required. The Ikv 105, due to increased weight from the larger gun, can be made amphibious with one stretch of preparations.
I’ve chosen to fit the Pvrbv 152 with the dual TOW II “hammerhead” turret also used on the American M901. The real-world Ikv 91 used the Swedish m/39 machine gun, but standardization on the Ksp 58 seems appropriate for vehicles that are being kept in service in the ’90s. Main weapon ammo load is 59 rounds for the Ikv 91’s 90mm gun, 50 rounds for the Ikv 105’s larger gun, and 10 TOW II AGTMs for the Pvrbv 152.
The 105mm gun and the TOW ATGM already exist in the fourth edition rules, so no conversion is needed. The base 90mm gun looks something like this:
And there we go.
Reference sources used for this post: Wikipedia, Military Today, Tank Nut Dave, Military Factory, Tanks Encyclopedia.
1 I respect Paul Mulcahy and his work immensely, but his stats rarely align with GDW’s baseline work. Also, I use his site only as an error-check or research guide to avoid accusations of plagiarism. In the interest of completeness, I’ll note that in addition to the Ikv 91 traits linked above, he’s also worked up the Ikv 105, which he designates Ikv 93.