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Carl XVI Gustaf (Carl Gustaf Folke Hubertus; born 30 April 1946) is King of Sweden. Carl Gustaf was born during the reign of his paternal great-grandfather, King Gustaf V . He is the youngest child and only son of Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten , and Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha .
The Carl Gustaf 8.4 cm recoilless rifle (Swedish pronunciation: [kɑːɭ ˈɡɵ̂sːtav], named after Carl Gustafs Stads Gevärsfaktori, which initially produced it) is a Swedish-developed 84 mm (3.3 in) caliber shoulder-fired recoilless rifle, initially developed by the Royal Swedish Army Materiel Administration during the second half of the 1940s as a crew-served man-portable infantry ...
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim (1867– 1951), Finnish military commander and statesman; Carl Gustav Fleischer (1883–1942), Norwegian military commander; Carl Gustav Rehnskiöld (1651–1722), Swedish military commander; Carl Gustaf von Nieroth (died 1712), Swedish military commander; Carl-Gustaf Ståhl (1920–2016), Swedish military commander
Since acceding to the throne of Sweden in 1973, Carl XVI Gustaf has made a number of state and official visits. [1] He usually hosts one or two visiting heads of state each year. State visits abroad
Husqvarna 1900, later Carl Gustaf 1900, is a bolt-action rifle developed in Sweden in the 1960s by Husqvarna Vapenfabrik, which also produced the rifle from 1967 to 1970. [1] The rifle was produced in the variants Standard, Monte Carlo, Monte Carlo Lux and a sport model, and got a reputation for having a very high quality. [ 1 ]
The 1976 visit of King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden to the United States was the first state visit by a reigning Monarch of Sweden to the United States. The visit, planned as part of the United States Bicentennial celebrations and one of several from foreign heads of states, marked a warming in Swedish–American relations after the Vietnam War. [1]
Carl XVI Gustaf. On January 1 the King's official jubilee portrait was released by the court to mark the start of the Jubilee Year. The photograph taken by Thron Ullberg in the Hall of State at Stockholm Palace shows the King in front of Queen Christina's silver throne wearing an admiral's uniform.
The Kulsprutepistol m/45 (Kpist m/45), also known as the Carl Gustaf M/45 and the Swedish K SMG, is a 9×19mm Swedish submachine gun (SMG) designed by Gunnar Johansson, adopted in 1945 (hence the m/45 designation), and manufactured at the Carl Gustafs Stads Gevärsfaktori in Eskilstuna, Sweden. The m/45 was the standard submachine gun of the ...