Landsverk L-5 was one of the first

tank A tank is an armoured fighting vehicle intended as a primary offensive weapon in front-line ground combat. Tank designs are a balance of heavy firepower, strong armour, and battlefield mobility provided by tracks and a powerful engine; ...

s designed by the Swedish industrial company

Landsverk AB Landsverk (full name: Aktiebolaget Landsverk, ) was a Swedish heavy industry company, manufacturing a wide variety of tracked and wheeled military vehicles, such as tractor units, off-road vehicles and armoured vehicles, etc, most notably the ...

. It was first produced in 1929 as a series of experimental wheeled-and-tracked vehicles utilizing the wheel-cum-track system. It never entered service and the prototype remained uncompleted. The concept was revived in the

Landsverk L-30 Landsverk L-30 (Swedish Army designation: ''stridsvagn försöksmodell 1931'', abbr. ''strv fm/31'', "tank trial model-1931") was a Sweden, Swedish late interwar era medium tank constructed by AB Landsverk for the Swedish Army between 1930 and 193 ...

design a few years later.

References

*''Tanks of the World 1915-1945'' by Peter Chamberlain and Chris Ellis 1972/2002 p 159. * *https://tanks-encyclopedia.com/ww2-sweden-germany-rader-raupen-kampfwagen-m28-landsverk-5/ Landsverk vehicles Tanks of Sweden World War II tanks {{mil-vehicle-stub

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