Today's Situation
Swedish, Finnish and Norwegian defense forces use skis normally in cross country skiing but also by pulling squads of soldiers with tracked transport vehicles or snow mobiles. One or two ropes hang from the end of a tracked vehicle such as the famous Swedish Hägglunds Bandvagn 206 or the Finnish Sisu Nasu and troops hang on to the ropes with their hands and ski-poles.
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