A Skvader is a kind of fantasy animal with it’s front body like a hare and the back like a grouse.
No idea why they’re named after small mammals, though. Perhaps it sounded cool 
It is a military thing, and I think it goes way back to the viking-ages.
Like the plane named Vråken, the real plane is named JA 37 ‘Viggen’.
Here is some names on vehicles:
• Suggan = ‘The Sow’ (Volvo TP 21, Volvo RAPTGB 915 and the civil Volvo PV800-series)
• Galten = ‘The Boar’ ( BAE Systems OMC RG32M or TGB 16)
• Valpen = ‘The Puppy’ ( Personlastterrängbil 903 or Pltgb 903)
• Likkistan = ‘The Coffin’ (Scania Vabis Terrängbil m/42 KP or Skp m/42 or KP-bil)
Two vehicles that other contries call them:
• Lynx armored car = Pansarbil m/39 (Pbil m/39) from AB Landsverk
• In Germany they call them Husky, in UK they call them Viking = Hägglund Bandvagn 206. Now BAE Systems makes them and there are more versions of them I will not list here.
Standard version of Bv 206
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Well we have the plane JAS 39 Gripen (The Griffin). And sometimes names just happens 
@C_N66 I kind of figured it was probably something along those lines. I knew of an equivalent tradition from Germany (albeit mostly in reference to AFV’s, for example the Luchs, Marder, Hummel, and Grille from WWII and the Leopard and Wiesel from modern times), so I suspected it was something similar.
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Interesting. In that case, Skvadern does kind of fit with the theme. Also, the mythological aspect explains why I couldn’t find a translation and why I had no idea what it meant (I’m working on learning Swedish, but haven’t gotten anywhere near mythology yet).
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Alll those critters the bunkers are named after are burrowing creatures. The names are fitting.
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On that note, should anyone be interested, here are a couple of declassified photos of the warboard inside the once secret bunker Illern (“The ferret”):
And for good measure, a couple of pictures from the radar group central Bocken (“The billy goat”):
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Shush 
im sure i saw that in halo
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That is really cool, good find 
The Swedish Armes Forces doesn’t have thoes, thoes are from Halo.
From Fortifikation-Väst
Yup, great site for people interested in UrbEx, or just old military installations in general
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Also the runners are called Wolverines in Swedish (their name is written on the military versions Gas tank protection plate.
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That too. If you collect the robot blueprints, there you have all the names of the diffrent military grade robots (if you find the right blueprints of cours). But the tank name is the one I don’t get; “Resen” 
Rese is an old Swedish name for Giant so ‘Resen’ = ‘The Giant’
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Alright, thanks. I thought it was familiar, but I couldn’t place where I read it somewhere.
It kind of fits to the Tanks.
Hi, as beeing one of the Radarobservatör/Målobservatör (Radar Observer/Target Observer) at the RGC Minken back in the 70:s, I think that the names have to do with the tactical importance of the Command Bunkers /Stations. The more important Bunkers had names of Predators, for example Illern (The Ferret) and Minken (The Mink). Radar station of ”less” importance had other names, for example Renen (The Reindeer) and Laxen (The Salmon).
At least that was the case regarding F 21.
I’ll drop my coins here too.
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Yes, this is “military naming sence” alright, which usually based on associations and charades.
Prime example: NATO designations
Or american tanks bear generals’ names. M41 Walton Walker Bulldog, M1 Creighton Williams Abrams Jr., M3 - Robert Edward Lee, XM551 Philip Henry Sheridan, M46/48 George Smith Patton Jr., M4 William Tecumseh Sherman a.k.f. “War is Hell” and so on.
Mostly Soviet cannon artillery named after flowers. Legend says all that poetry bullshit comes from arty’s muzzle flash resemble these flowers’ blooms. 2S1 Carnation, 2S4 Tulip, 2S5 Hyacinth, 2S7 Peony.
But Rocket artillery named after weather: BM21 (“Hail”), BM27 “Hurricane”, BM30 “Tornado/Whirlwin”. Figures.
I can’t say any more “consistent” naming schemes off the bat, but it is there, in the every army of this worold.