Pansarbil m/39

The Pansarbil m/39 or Lynx was a Swedish 4x4 armoured car that AB Landsverk began developing in 1937 for the Danish Army.

Pansarbil m/39
Type	Armored car
Place of origin	Sweden
Service history
Used by	Denmark Sweden Dominican Republic
Wars	World War II Dominican Civil War
Production history
Designer	AB Landsverk
Manufacturer	AB Landsverk, Volvo
No. built	48
Specifications
Mass	7.8 t
Length	5.1 m
Width	2.28 m
Height	2.2 m
Crew	6
Armor	up to 13 mm
Main armament	Madsen 20 mm cannon or Bofors 20 mm m/40 cannon
Secondary armament	3 x 8mm Ksp m/39 light machine gun
Engine	6-cylinder petrol 135 hp
Suspension	4 x 4
Operational range	200 km
Maximum speed	70 km/h

The Lynx had a low slung body with well sloped, but thin, armour. The 140 hp Scania-Vabis petrol engine was in the middle on the left side. The crew consisted of six troops; a forward driver and hull machine gunner, two similar positions in the rear hull, and two crew in the revolving turret which mounted a 20mm Madsen cannon and a coaxial light machine gun.

Three vehicles were delivered to Denmark in April 1938, but a further batch of fifteen were still awaiting delivery to Copenhagen when World War II broke out in 1939. These were then confiscated by the Swedes who employed them as the Pansarbil m/39 and ordered a further thirty units for the Swedish Army. As Landsverk lacked the capacity, the new batch was manufactured by Volvo, and hence powered by a Volvo engine, designated Pansarbil m/40.

All Swedish cars were fitted with a Bofors 20 mm akan m/40 automatic cannon instead of the Madsen.

In 1956, 13 of the m/39s were sold to the Dominican Republic.