tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86411984049110705442024-03-05T10:26:52.912-08:00World of TanksThe content of this page is mainly translated from the german Wikipedia. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08012943482633544940noreply@blogger.comBlogger49125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641198404911070544.post-64827249910352297852012-09-14T11:39:00.000-07:002012-09-14T11:39:00.243-07:00M7 Priest<b id="internal-source-marker_0.9946205329615623" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">M7 (Howitzer Motor Carriage)</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is a U.S. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">howitzer</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> , which was introduced in 1942 and in the Second World War and Korean War was used.</span></b><br />
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<b id="internal-source-marker_0.9946205329615623" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">M7 Priest </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></b></h2>
<b id="internal-source-marker_0.9946205329615623" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The M7 Priest was developed in 1941, because the U.S. Army a lightweight, all-terrain vehicle for artillery support was lacking. The Priest is based on the chassis of the M3 Lee / Grant . The main armament consists of a 105-mm gun, the standard gun of the U.S. Army. Due to its excellent ballistic characteristics of this gun could both artillery and for antitank be used effectively. Only a few pieces of artillery of World War II were suitable so good anti-tank, as the specially developed ammunition types mostly from fragmentation or explosive shells for use against infantry existed. These projectiles were not sufficient clout to destroy a tank. The 105-mm gun was among the few, for the armor piercing ammunition was available. In the direction to the right of the gun in a pulpit, a .50 caliber - (12.7 mm) - MG for air defense and local area defense installed. This pulpit owes his nickname M7 </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Priest</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> ( </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">German</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> : priests ) as they minister to the pulpit in the church remembers. The British Army has ordered 5,500 units that were not delivered in full, the U.S. Army about 3000.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><h2 dir="ltr">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">M7 Priest Kangaroo </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></h2>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">M7 Priest Kangaroo</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> was basically a kind of by-product proved, however, soon to be absolutely suitable for the intended tasks. It was developed in early 1944 by the Canadian army from standardized M7 Priest in the U.S. Army.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">He should be used to bring them safely through enemy infantry machine gun fire in order to sell them directly on site.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The vehicles in the howitzer and ammunition holders were removed and replaced by a former armor plate. In these times were still loopholes for guns or PIATs drilled. These changes were not planned by the developers. In addition, the side skirts have been increased and extended to the rear, to provide for the interior better protection against infantry fire. The characteristic MG pulpit remained.</span><br /><h2 dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Applications</span></h2>
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Kangaroo was intended purely as armored personnel carriers, but was used as a radio, ammunition and armored ambulance. When it rains a tarpaulin was pulled over the vehicle, which was attached to many eyes around the battle space to the interior of at least a bit to keep dry. A pole in the center of the vehicle should support the tarp so that rain water will not collect and tear the tarpaulin was, but expired at the sides.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Even with fitted tarp by a 15 to 20 cm wide slot between the vehicle and a complete Plane visibility and enemy combat was possible. Depending on the season there were three covers (autumn, summer and winter camouflage) are available to make an aerial reconnaissance. The entire tank was similar to some of the later U.S. military vehicles are completely camouflaged with different shaped plan. Most vehicles were but disguised as usual with color.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It was also thought convert the Kangaroo for the Pioneers. Similar to the "Sherman Crab" before the tank was a roller are mounted, should be attached to the number of chains.Rotating the roller, the chains on the floor and should hit the bottom lying mines to detonate. In addition, it should be equipped with machine guns and flamethrowers to attack enemy positions can. Such vehicles, the Western Allies had been successfully used in the Battle of El Alamein (North Africa 1943), Sicily, Italy and the landings in Normandy and southern France.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The "M7 Priest K Crab" was never built because the Americans ("Sherman Crab") and the British ("Churchill Crab") already had enough effective mine clearing. Moreover, they were after the war simply unnecessary.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There were also efforts to build M7 Priest Kangaroo with closed ceilings and two or more deck plates to increase the armor protection on. This, however, getting out of the vehicle would have been a lot more difficult and lengthy, so the plan was never implemented. While its use as a radio or observation tank would have been possible, but it was never included in the plans of the British Army.</span><br /><h2 dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Probation at the front </span></h2>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The first use of the Kangaroo was in August or September 1944 in France (mention The reports on five different data). In addition to the four-man crew (driver, radio operator, gunner, commander) were up to 15 infantrymen are transported with full riot gear, whereby the engine area was fully utilized after the battle space.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A footage from World War II (probably in January 1945, recorded on the Western Front) shows a Canadian M7 Kangaroo, which is a captured German 12cm grenade launcher fitted in the interior and in addition to the crew of four men, many infantrymen and numerous pockets of outside wearing. Attached he drags both a single-axle trailer full to the brim and a 105-mm howitzer with mounted gunners. This should probably be the armored personnel arrived at the limit of its capabilities.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As with the normal Priest also open up the interior was the Achilles heel of the tank, as it could easily be set by hand grenades out of action. The crews at the front fighting this problem by nets or tarpaulins (ponchos) about the vehicles clamped, which should throw back the grenades. This procedure was quite successful.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Despite some shortcomings, the Priest Kangaroo enjoyed due to its technical reliability and ease of maintenance of its high popularity among the Allied tanks and infantry troops.The Priest Kangaroo was not only by the forces of the Commonwealth used, but also by the U.S. Army, and of the exile forces of Poland and France.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><h2 dir="ltr">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">After the World War</span></h2>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">After the war, the M7 Priest was produced in series and then also in the Korean War used. One of the last "real" Kangaroos stands as a memorial at an army training ground in Scotland, another stood up to 2002 in a museum in southern England. He is currently on loan to the Russian Kubinka Tank Museum to visit. It is the last with original and complete interior and a complete gun.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At the post-war version were manufactured after 1954 (before there were conversions) made numerous changes. Among other things, the MG pulpit was increased by about 10 cm, as well as the side skirts. Even the front and rear armor has been reinforced.</span><br /><h2 dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Use in the Bundeswehr and other armies</span></h2>
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The M7 Priest was the first of the Bundeswehr and howitzer was introduced 1957th Even today, newer versions of the Kangaroo in some armies in Africa and South Asia in use, but still show the characteristics of the first type, for example the MG pulpit and the open-ended battle space. However, they should be put out of service by 2007, as their technology completely outdated and the ever-increasing demand for spare parts is no longer cover. Appearances on the Israeli side in the various wars are certainly a few years after the Second World War.</span><br /><h2 dir="ltr">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Specifications M7 </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></h2>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Long</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> : 6.02 m</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Breite</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> : 2.88 m</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Höhe</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> : 2.54 m</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Weight:</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> 22.967 tons</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Climbing ability:</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> 0.61 m</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Grave-border capacity:</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> 2.29 m</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Fording:</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> 1.22 m</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Climbing capacity:</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> up to 60%</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Engine:</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Air-cooled Continental R-975 9-cylinder petrol engine 340 hp; VVSS drive</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Speed:</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> 41.8 km / h on road / 24.1 km / h on road</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Range</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> : 135 to 200 km</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Crew:</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> 7 men (commander, driver, five men to operate the howitzer)</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Panzerung:</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> 12,7-62 mm</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Armament:</span></li>
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<li style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; list-style-type: circle; margin-left: -3px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">a 105-mm Howitzer M1A2, M2A1 or M2 with 69 shots, range: 10,973 m</span></li>
<li style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; list-style-type: circle; margin-left: -3px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">a 12.7-mm machine gun M2 Browning (Cal. 50) with 300 rounds</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Portability:</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> The IFV: 15 men, as sanitary tank: 11 men (5 to enter, 6 seated), as Ammunition: Up to 100 rounds of 105-mm ammunition (enough for almost 5 late "Sherman Howitzer" tanks with 105 - mm gun) and 4000 shot-gun ammunition (just as an example of the capacity of the M7)</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Baujahr:</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> 1942-1945</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">No. of items:</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> 4276 (all versions combined)</span></li>
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</b><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12207674066689705982noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641198404911070544.post-29934560828887345632012-09-13T11:21:00.000-07:002012-09-13T11:21:00.595-07:00Panzerbatterie (Traction battery)<br />
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<b>Tank batteries</b> are by armor plates covered or armor plates gun emplacements .</div>
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First introduced in 1869 Hermann Gruson such armored batteries in hard cast ago, inspired by Schumann's armor stand . This was later in France imitated.</div>
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The tank batteries translated mainly of post-and saddle plates in the front and from the overlying cover plates. The pillar plates are rounded and get off after the back to let slip enemy projectiles. The cover plates form the transition to the rear-mounted casemates .</div>
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The tank batteries, the colonel Vogl since 1885 when the fortifications of Tyrol built consisted of granite masonry with backward inclined front wall. Each gun emplacement was by a saddle plate from Compound steel ( composite closed), based on cast iron or cast steel blocks and assisted the transition was made to the vault through a steel cap.</div>
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Tank batteries have lost their relevance in the modern military system and are only used sporadically.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12207674066689705982noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641198404911070544.post-23904801364752053362012-09-12T11:12:00.000-07:002012-09-12T11:12:00.097-07:00Amoured train (Panzerzug)<b id="internal-source-marker_0.7783584932330996" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">An </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">armoured train</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is a train protected with armour. They are usually equipped with railroad cars armed with artillery and machine guns. They were mostly used during the late 19th and early 20th century, when they offered an innovative way to quickly move large amounts of firepower. Their use was discontinued in most countries when road vehicles became much more powerful and offered more flexibility, and because armoured trains were too vulnerable to track sabotage as well as attacks from the air. However, the Russian Federation used improvised armoured trains in the Second Chechen War in the late 1990s and 2000s.</span></b><br />
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<b id="internal-source-marker_0.7783584932330996" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The railroad cars on an armoured train were designed for many tasks. Typical roles included:</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><ul style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Artillery - fielding mixture of guns and machine guns</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Infantry - designed to carry infantry units, may also mount machine guns</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Machine gun - dedicated to machine guns</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Anti-aircraft - equipped with anti-aircraft guns</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Command - similar to infantry wagons, but designed to be a train command centre</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Anti-tank - equipped with anti-tank guns, usually in a tank gun turret</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Platform - unarmoured, used for any purpose from the transport of ammunition or vehicles, through track repair or derailing protection to railroad ploughs for track destruction.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Troop sleepers</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The German Wehrmacht would sometimes put a </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Fremdgerät</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, such as a captured French Somua S-35 or Czech PzKpfw 38(t) light tank, or Panzer II light tank on a flatbed car which could be quickly offloaded by means of a ramp and used away from the range of the main railway line to chase down enemy partisans</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Missile transport - the USSR had railway-based RT-23 Molodets ICBMs by the late 1980s (to reduce the chances of a first strike succeeding in destroying the launchers for a retaliatory strike). The US at one time proposed having a railway-based system for the MX Missile program but this never got past the planning stage</span></li>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Different types of armour were used to protect from attack by tanks. In addition to various metal plates, cement and sandbags were used in some cases for ad-hoc armoured trains.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Armoured trains were sometimes escorted by a kind of rail-tank called a draisine. One such example was the 'Littorina' armoured trolley which had a cab in the front and rear, each with a control set so it could be driven down the tracks in either direction. Littorina mounted two dual 7.92mm MG13 machine gun turrets from Panzer I light tanks.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><h2 dir="ltr">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">History</span></h2>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Armoured trains saw use during the 19th century in the American Civil War (1861–1865), the Franco-Prussian War (1870–1871), the First and Second Boer Wars (1880–81 and 1899–1902), and during the 20th century in the Mexican Revolution (1910–1920), the First (1914–1918) and Second World Wars (1939–1945) and the First Indochina War (1946–1954). The most intensive use of armoured trains was during the Russian Civil War (1918–1920).</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">During the Boer War, Winston Churchill, then a war-correspondent, was travelling aboard an armoured train on 15 November 1899, when it was ambushed by a Boer commando lead by General Louis Botha. Churchill and many of the train's contingent were captured, many others escaped, including wounded soldiers who had been carried on the train's engine.</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armoured_train#cite_note-ZalogaBryan-0"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0080; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></a><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In 1904 armoured trains were used by Russia during the Russo-Japanese War.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><h3 dir="ltr">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 17px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">World War I</span></h3>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">During World War I Russia used a mix of light and heavy armoured trains. The heavy trains mounted 4.2 inch or 6 inch guns, the light trains were equipped with 76.2mm guns.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Austria-Hungary also fielded armoured trains against the Italians in World War I.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A British Royal Navy armoured train, armed with four QF 6 inch naval guns and one QF 4 inch naval gun, was used in support of the British Expeditionary Force in the opening phase of the First Battle of Ypres in October 1914.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><h3 dir="ltr">
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Czechoslovak Legion used heavily armed and armoured trains to control large lengths of the Trans-Siberian Railway (and of Russia itself) during the Russian Civil War at the end of World War I.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Bolshevik forces in the Russian civil war used a wide range of armoured trains. Many were improvised by locals, others were constructed by naval engineers at the Putilov and Izhorskiy factories. As a result the trains ranged from little more than sandbagged flatbeds to the heavily armed and armoured trains produced by the naval engineers. An attempt to standardise the design from October 1919 only had limited success. By the end of the war the Bolshevik forces had 103 armoured trains of all types.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A total of five armoured trains were built during the Estonian War of Independence on the Estonian side. They were commanded by Johan Pitka.</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armoured_train#cite_note-5"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0080; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></a><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">After the First World War the use of armoured trains declined. They were used in China in the twenties and early 30s during the Chinese Civil War, most notably by the warlord </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Zhang Zongchang</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, who employed refugee Russians to man them.</span><br /><h3 dir="ltr">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 17px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">World War II</span></h3>
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Poland used armoured trains extensively during the Invasion of Poland. One observer noted that</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">"Poland had only few armoured trains, but their officers and soldiers were fighting well. Again and again they were emerging from a cover in thick forests, disturbing German lines"</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. One under-appreciated aspect of so many Polish armoured trains being deployed during the Polish Defensive War in 1939 is that when German planes attacked the railroads, it was usually the tracks themselves. As late as September 17, three fresh divisions in the east were moved westward by train. On September 18, three more divisions followed.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This in turn prompted Nazi Germany to reintroduce armoured trains into its own armies. Germany then used them to a small degree during World War II. However, they introduced significant designs of a versatile and well-equipped nature, including railcars which housed anti-aircraft gun turrets, or designed to load and unload tanks and railcars which had complete armour protection with a large concealed gun/howitzer. </span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Germany also had fully armoured locomotives which were used on such trains.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">During the Slovak National Uprising, the Slovak resistance used three armoured trains. The </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hurban</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">,</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Štefánik</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and Masaryk, which were built in the Zvolen railway factory, are preserved and can be seen near Zvolen Castle.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Soviets had a large number of armoured trains at the start of World War II but many were lost in 1941. Trains built later in the war tended to be fitted with T-34 or KV series tank turrets. Others were fitted as specialist anti-aircraft batteries. A few were fitted as heavy artillery batteries often using guns taken from ships.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Canada also (briefly) used an armoured train to patrol the Pacific coast and guard against a possible Japanese invasion.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Twelve armoured trains were formed in Britain in 1940 as part of the preparations to face a German invasion; these were initially armed with QF 6 pounder 6 cwt Hotchkiss guns and six Bren Guns. They were operated by Royal Engineer crews and manned by Royal Armoured Corps troops. In late 1940 preparations began to hand the trains over to the Polish Army in the West, who operated them until 1942. They continued in use in Scotland and were operated by the Home Guard until the last one was withdrawn in November 1944. A 6-pounder wagon from one of these trains is preserved at the Tank Museum. A miniature armoured train ran on the 15-inch gauge Romney Hythe and Dymchurch Railway.</span><br /><h3 dir="ltr">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 17px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Later uses</span></h3>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In the First Indochina War, the French Union used the armoured and armed train La Rafale as both a cargo-carrier and a mobile surveillance unit. In February 1951 the first Rafale was in service on the Saigon-Nha Trang line, Vietnam while from 1947 to May 1952 the second one which was escorted by onboard Cambodian troops of the BSPP (</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Brigade de Surveillance de Phnom Penh</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">) was used on the Phnom Penh-Battambang line, Cambodia. In 1953 both trains were attacked by the Viet-Minh guerrillas who destroyed or mined stone bridges when passing by. Fulgencio Batista’s army operated an armoured train during the Cuban revolution though it was derailed and destroyed during the Battle of Santa Clara.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Facing the threat of Chinese cross-border raids during the Sino-Soviet split, the USSR developed armoured trains in the early 1970s to protect the Trans-Siberian Railway. According to different accounts, four or five trains were built. Every train included ten main battle tanks, two light amphibious tanks, several AA guns, as well as several Armoured Personnel Carriers, supply vehicles and equipment for railway repairs. They were all mounted on open platforms or in special rail cars. Different parts of the train were protected with 5–20 mm thick armour. These trains were used by the Soviet Army to intimidate nationalist paramilitary units in 1990 during the early stages of theNagorno-Karabakh War.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">An improvised armoured train named the "Krajina express" (</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Krajina ekspres</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">) was used during the war in Croatia (part of the Yugoslav wars) of the early 1990s by the army of the Republic of Serbian Krajina (a self-proclaimed republic of Serbs living within Croatia that sought to remain in Yugoslavia). Composed of three fighting cars and three freight cars hooked to the front to protect it from mine blasts, the train carried a M18 Hellcat with a 76mm cannon, a 40mm Bofors, a 20mm cannon, twin 57mm rocket launchers and a 120mm mortar, plus several machine guns of between 12.7 and 7.62 mm. During the siege of Bihac in 1994, it was attacked on a few occasions with antitank rocket-propelled grenades and 76mm guns and hit by a 9K11 Malyutka missile, but the damage was minor, as most of the train was covered with thick sheets of rubber which caused the missile's warhead to explode too early to do any real damage. The train was eventually destroyed by its own crew lest it fall into enemy hands during Operation Storm, the Croatian offensive which overran the Srpska Krajina. The Army of Republika Srpska operated a similar train that was ambushed and destroyed in October 1992 at the entrance to the town of Gradačac by Bosnian Muslim forces that included a T-55 tank. The wreckage was later converted into a museum. The Croatian Army deployed a two-wagon armoured train built in Split with a shield composed of two plates, one 8mm and the other 6mm thick, with a 30-50mm gap filled with sand between them. The vehicle was armed with 12.7mm machine guns.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Towards the end of the Cold War, both superpowers began to develop railway-based ICBMs mounted on armoured trains; the Soviets deployed the SS-24 missile in 1987, but budget costs and the changing international situation led to the cancellation of the programme, with all remaining railway-based missiles finally being deactivated in 2005.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One armoured train that remains in regular use is that of Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il, which the former received as a gift from the Soviet Union.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><h2 dir="ltr">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Armoured tram</span></h2>
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Armoured trams also existed, although apparently not purpose-built as some of the armoured trains. The just-formed Red Army used at least one armoured tram during the fighting for Moscow in the October Revolution in 1917. The Slovak National Uprising, more well known for its armoured trains described above, also used at least one makeshift example.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></b>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12207674066689705982noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641198404911070544.post-91636665389565740022012-09-11T10:51:00.000-07:002012-09-11T10:51:00.511-07:00Marder III<b id="internal-source-marker_0.5101174167357385" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Marder III</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (Sd.Kfz. 138 and 139) was a tank destroyer of the German Wehrmacht in the Second World War .</span></b><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tank Destroyer Marder III</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Main Features</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">5.68 m (with tube)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2,15 m</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">10,5 t</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Armor and armament</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Plating</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">11–25 mm</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Main armament</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">7.5-cm-Pak 40/3 L/46, 7.62-cm Pak 36 (r)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Secondary armament</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1 × 7.92 mm MG 34</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mobility</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Drive</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Praga EPA TZJ </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">150 PS</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Top speed</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">32 km / h (road), 19 km / h (cross)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Power / weight</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">14.3 hp / t</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Range</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">210 km (road), 140 km (off-road)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">History</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></h2>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Like all the vehicles Marder series, they were a temporary measure to compensate for the lack of mobile anti-tank weapons.The Marder III was built in three main variants, all based on the chassis of the Panzer 38 (t) based.</span><br /><h3 dir="ltr">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 17px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Marder III Sd.Kfz. 139 </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></h3>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In the first series, first as </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Panzerjäger 38 (t) for 7.62 cm PaK 36 (r)</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> denotes, was captured in large numbers Soviet 7.62-cm field gun F-22 on the tub old armor (t) 38 set, but also partly on new chassis of the Ausf G. The gun barrel has been revamped so that both the 7.62-cm-Russian and the German 75-millimeter ammunition could be used. This required the combustion chamber to be extended. Due to the design the car was very high. The gun crew had. Their position above the engine compartment at the rear, where it was protected only weakly and it up and back was no armor protection Originally designed for the eastern front, the car has been well short of the German Africa Corps delivered. The British troops were from the Marder III so impressed that they believed it with the 8.8-cm Flak to have to do. There are 30 rounds of ammunition were taken.</span><br /><h3 dir="ltr">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 17px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Marder III Sd.Kfz. 138 </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></h3>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The later variant </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Marder III Ausf H</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> was how many Marder II , a German 7.5-cm PaK 40 as a main weapon. The design of protective armor for the gun was designed homogeneous and laterally enlarged considerably. Also could be the battle space down a little deeper. There are 38 rounds of ammunition were taken.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For the last production series was specifically designed for the now self-propelled guns redesigned chassis of the Panzer 38 (t) Ausf M used. The engine was moved to the middle of the battle space and on the ground at the rear of the tub. So also the splinter guard for the team has been improved because of the fighting compartment was closed now back up but it was still open. The redesigned front driver also offered better protection against fire. There are 27 rounds of ammunition were taken.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(Other sources speak of 975 pieces with 1143 pieces ) was now </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Marder III Ausf M</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> vehicle called the most produced version of the Marder series and proved to be in use on all fronts as effective but vulnerable tank destroyer. The production of the Ausf M ran from June 1943 to July 1944, to the production of a more efficient and better armored (t) Jagdpanzer 38 was switched to was also based on the chassis of the Panzer 38 (t).</span><br /><h2 dir="ltr">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Specifications </span><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></h2>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Engine: six-cylinder in-line engine Praga EPA TZJ with 150 hp</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Radius: 210 km road / 140 km Terrain</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Crew: four</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Armour: 11-25 mm</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Weight: 10.5 t</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Maximum road: 32 km / h</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Maximum area: 19 km / h</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></b><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12207674066689705982noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641198404911070544.post-79642902819525110162012-09-10T10:29:00.000-07:002012-09-10T10:29:00.219-07:00Sturmpanzer Grille<b id="internal-source-marker_0.8816494587808847" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">howitzer Grille</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> was a self-propelled gun with a 15-inch howitzer . She was of the Wehrmacht in the Second World War, used from 1942 until the end of the war.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">After the initial order for 200 units of the cricket, the new 38 (t) chassis (Ausf M) can be used, however, the production delayed at BMM (Bohemian-Moravian Machine Works Ltd.), so that t to the H-frame of 38 ( ) had to be used.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The first version of the cricket then the circumstances based on the half-Panzer 38 (t) Ausf H, the rear engine was installed. The tower was removed and moved forward by a structure with the 15-cm howitzer replaced (SIG 33). From February to April 1943 a total of 91 vehicles (including a prototype) were produced in BMM in Prague. The designation was " 15-cm heavy infantry gun 33 (Sf) on Panzer 38 (t) Ausf H "(Sd.Kfz. 138/1).</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The second contract section of the cricket was based on the Panzer 38 (t) Ausf M, the motor was in the middle. As with the first version of the tower was replaced by a building as a battle space that was located in this design at the rear end of the vehicle and was also armed with the 150-mm howitzer. From April to June 1943 and again from October 1943 to September 1944 282 vehicles and 120 ammunition carriers were manufactured. Lie was a cricket field maintenance troops could expand the howitzer and mount it on an ammunition carrier, regaining operational Grille was available.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In both variants quickly became apparent that the 15-cm howitzer too big and too heavy for the base and was too far back or too far forward stood. The vehicle was not in any case balanced. There was also an earth spade, so that there was a risk that the vehicle fell down to a low shot angle. The shooting was bad behavior (jumping the gun for every shot, hence the name "Cricket"). The thin armor offered no real protection and the cricket led to little ammunition. Nevertheless, 373 were built.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Datei:Grille_Aberdeen.00044ijk05.jpg&filetimestamp=20060908034257" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img height="325px;" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/4wY1-AvPHpcyF6pNrg7n2_mP1A-rCCtNvAxjkGKB32OlIjBqiW6I6vNQKfOVtFcpH2ZxbxSDuajGUd-A0lZ4F5enMBnakHIhZQlzMrFn24xbNfpT9oPC" width="411px;" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></b><br />
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Combat weight: about 12 t</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Length: 4.70 m</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Wide: 2.40 m</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Height: 2.65 m</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Engine: six-cylinder petrol engine, 125 HP</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Chassis: Chain 4 wheels, 2 support rollers</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Speed: 40 km / h</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Range: max. 250 km</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Armament: a 15-howitzer 15 SiG 33, a MG 34</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ammo: 45 rounds gun, gun shot 600</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Armor: 20 mm pan, fighting compartment 10 mm</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Crew: 5 men</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></b><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12207674066689705982noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641198404911070544.post-75848688314256482652012-09-09T10:01:00.000-07:002012-09-09T10:01:00.710-07:00Sexton<b id="internal-source-marker_0.423986412351951" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sexton</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> ( </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">sexton or gravediggers</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> ) was a British self-propelled gun in the Second World War .</span></b><br />
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<b id="internal-source-marker_0.423986412351951" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The British Army in early 1941 sought a suitable armored vehicle for the installation of the British standard 25-pounder cannon. The experience with the Bishop showed its poor suitability, so another solution had to be found. In the U.S. under the name T originated some 51 self-propelled guns, the M7 Priest . In some of the states lacked the capacity for mass production of the British artillery support.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The project received more attention, as of 1942 the construction of British armored forces was forced. It demands of the tank commanders were (in particular the fighting in North Africa) for mobile artillery that could keep up with the tanks, loudly.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Upon further search of the relevant committee met with Canada , where the Montreal Locomotive Works in Sorel with the Cruiser Tank Ram Mk I chassis forth from one to the M3 Lee / Grant built (like the M7 Priest) similar tanks. The Ram was already considered obsolete, so that its production capacity has been released. In this neatly polished chassis 1942, the British 25-pounder gun was set. An open structure provided a good side Richtsfeld and full increase, so that in contrast to Bishop, the gun could take full effect. In the construction of a lot of experience and advantages of the M7 Priest were processed. The combination was known as Sexton, which was used mainly as a field artillery weapon to support tank battalions. The vehicle was a total of 112 rounds of ammunition, which in addition to explosives and smoke grenades 18 tanks were explosive shells. Production began in 1943, by 1944 he had almost completely replaced the M7 Priest from the British Army. 1944 and 1945 the Sexton was also used in North West Europe. Until the end of 2150 total production pieces were built. The main variant is the purpose-built command tanks without the cannon, but with additional radios. As a reliable, robust and effective weapon of Sexton remained until the 1950s in the service of the British and Canadian army and until recently in the service of other nations.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></b><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Parameter</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Data</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Producer</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Montreal Locomotive Works</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Weight</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">25,85 t</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Crew</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">6 (commander, driver, gunner, loader, gunner and radio operator)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Arming</span><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Main weapon</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">a 25-pounder (87.6 mm) with 112 shots (page leveling range: left = 25 °, 40 ° right)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In addition to arming</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2 × 7.7 mm MG Bren mit 50 Magazinen, 2 × 9-mm- Sten-MPI , </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">12 Handgranaten , Signalpistole, 12.7-mm-MG Browning M2</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Motor</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">air-cooled 9-cylinder radial engine Wright Continental R975-4, 400 hp / 298.3 kW</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Top speed</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">42 km / h (road)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Range</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">290 km</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">up to 32 mm</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mass</span><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">6,12 m</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2,72 m</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2,44 m</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">0,81 kg/cm^2</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">0,61 m</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ford depth</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1,22 m</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Grave to overcome</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2,51 m</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Introduction</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1941</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1941 to end of 1945</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Quantity</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2150</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></b>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12207674066689705982noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641198404911070544.post-16289163866309038862012-09-08T09:41:00.000-07:002012-09-08T09:41:00.161-07:00Wiesel (military tracked vehicle)<b id="internal-source-marker_0.006883004680275917" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">weasel</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is a light armored tracked vehicle platform and exists in different variants for reconnaissance, command and control, efficiency and mutual benefit. Besides the different vehicle variants is a fundamental distinction between the smaller and the larger Wiesel Wiesel 1 second The Rheinmetall Land Systems GmbH - a subsidiary of Rheinmetall AG - tracked vehicle is produced only by the armed forces as well as robotic test vehicle in a small edition of seven vehicles of the U.S. Army used.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></b><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">upgraded with the Autonomous optronic target system (ADF 2000) for a better night fighting capability</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">3,31–3,55 m (Wiesel 1)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1,83–1,89 m (Wiesel 1)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">64 kW (87 PS) (Wiesel 1) 81kW (110 PS) (Wiesel 2)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">23-17 kW / t (t 23-31 hp /)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Development History </span><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></h2>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As replacement of the weapon carrier Faun </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kraka</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (carriers) of the airborne forces , the Bundeswehr 1977 developed a concept of a small and tracked armored vehicle. </span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This project saw a fast and easy luftverlastbares vehicle in front with a limited protection against small arms and artillery fragments.The origins of the design submitted to the year 1969 back to the initial ideas of the Ministry of Defense and the Army Office. Sun 1970 examined the company Porsche , the viability of appropriate vehicles. The former concept studies, however, had t gross vehicle weights from 6 to 7.5 tonnes, a transport only in a Transall C-160 and C-130 Hercules allowed. Then revised to the tactical demands (TAF) and made the following claims:</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><ul style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Armed with machine gun (MK) 20 mm anti-tank system HOT and 120 mm mortar</span></li>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">With this line-up looked Porsche optimize their concepts, but at the same time developed a study on an armored weapons carrier with 2.75 t weight. The advantages of a shipment of two weapons carriers at the same transport capacity have led to a limitation of the dimensions to a total length of 3.30 m and a height of 1.30 m of the tub.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">After the first presentation of the studies, the TAF has been changed again. Thus, the weapon system was PARS TOW with a supply of ammunition of 14 missiles for anti-tank, a crew of three men, a combat weight of up to 2.5 t, the possibility of air transport of two weapons carriers as internal load and a weapons carrier as an external load and the possibility of settling by elected last parachute.The demands for a version with 20-mm automatic cannon and 120-mm mortar was dropped.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On 5 July 1973 TAF was for the project </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">armorbearer LL</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> set by the Army Office in force and began the development of devices. It decided Porsche, Faun, Society for Technology (GST), IBH and Rheinstahl to develop draft and submitted their offers. Except for the company Faun, with a wheeled vehicle struck another way, all offers lightweight tracked vehicles through the Federal Office of Defense Technology and Procurement were evaluated (BWB). They decided on 18 April 1974 for the Porsche concept, which has been supplemented by a model with a 20-mm MK and ended the definition phase 27 June 1974, the contract between the BWB and the set as a general contractor company Porsche.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The planned series number was 270 vehicles, of which the 170th with TOW and 100 with MK 20, but this was in April 1975 increased by a further 230 weasel with MK 20 The total number thus amounted to 500 weapons carrier.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On 2 Porsche unveiled in October 1975 in collaboration with Keller and Knappich Augsburg (KUKA) the first wooden model at 1:1 scale, during the first six prototypes were produced. Back in October 1976 the first attempts began in the Porsche Development Center in Weissach , followed by technical trials in the WTD 61 in the period from February 1977 to May 1978. By the company and Techdok KUKA and the drafting of the technical service regulations but was in 1977 at the School </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Technical Force 1</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> will be started in Aachen and in the Old City with Luftlande-/Lufttransportschule troops trials.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In spring 1978 Porsche launched the BWB and the industrialization, however, the project was set in 1979 for financial reasons. To ensure the development results in the same year Porsche received a contract to final completion of the project armorbearer MK 20/TOW.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Just two years later showed, however, that the replacement of the Kraka was inevitable. So the BWB launched in June 1981, the project again armorbearer MK 20/TOW and examined 19 more proposals from domestic and foreign companies. Porsche to hire two prototypes of Wolverine was available, it was possible to have a working model of the TOW vehicle on 3 September 1981 on the occasion of Hammelburg </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">presentation armored wheeled and tracked vehicles in the KTS one</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> present (combat troops school).</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The new tactical demands of 11 March 1983 was again introduced a concept and definition phase for a weapons carrier MK 20/TOW. The market analysis of the BWB was the weasel and an armored wheeled vehicle based on the Mercedes G-model in close selection. However, there was no decision of a contract, which the Army Office and the Federal Office of Defense Technology and Procurement, caused the concept study in office area to perform with industry participation in own contribution. They defined the following requirements for the purpose of feasibility to the start of the 1989th</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><ul style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Air transportability of two vehicles in the CH-53G</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Shoot the MK 20 in single shots, rapid fire and single short bursts</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Off-road capability in the area of the VW Iltis</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Using commercially available gasoline or diesel engines</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Use of an automatic</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Features of the MK-carriage with a thermal imager and ability to change to 25 mm ammunition</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Conversion to TOW 2</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Installation of the radio family SEM 80</span></li>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In May 1984, we presented a model under the name </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">MK 20 closed-top</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> , but this prototype was still too high. Thus, a second alternative solution with a weapon and aiming device was next to each other favors in the turret, which brought significant benefits during loading and unloading in the CH-53G and better ballistic protection, better visibility and a greater elevation range of MK 20th Could result in a decree on fighting vehicles only diesel engines are installed. Therefore, a 2-liter 5-cylinder turbo-diesel engine from Volkswagen and an automatic transmission were of ZF Friedrichshafen (then Zahnradfabrik Friedrichshafen) installed. These changes have led to a huge increase in weight, which was compensated by new lightweight and armor steel.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">After the Army Office, the BWB and the material of the Army Office had completed their evaluation, the concept was </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">weapon carrier Wiesel</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> imposing on the airborne troops recommended. Were listed as the reason</span><br /><ul style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ballistic round protection</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">small size and therefore low silhouette</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">low combat weight</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">low ground pressure</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Luftverladefähigkeit as internal and external load</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Transport of two weasels on a truck 10 t</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">high road and off-road capability</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">low noise</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Unit chassis for both variants</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">commercial building components</span></li>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Following the adoption of the phase document "Military-Technical and Economic demand," short MTWF, and the share of the budget in April 1985, the development contract was awarded to Porsche. In March 1986, depending on a weapon system for testing and system testing at the WTD was 91 (Bundeswehr Technical Center for Weapons and Ammunition) and WTD 41 ( Bundeswehr Technical Center for motor vehicles and tanks passed). The chassis followed the end of June 1986.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Because of the long development phase prior the tests ran without major problems, what the schedule troops attempt </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">tactics and logistics</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> allowed the fall of 1986, and thus the production stage until September 1987. The procurement contract was signed on 21 Signed in December 1988.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mass production and the company Krupp MaK took (since 1992 a part of Rheinmetall Land Systems GmbH), who applied next Krauss Maffei and Thyssen Henschel. The total number amounted to 343 vehicles, including 210 with TOW (including 24 tanks driving school) and 133 20th with MK The delivery took place in the years 1990 to 1992. Another seven vehicles were in the United States delivered.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Already in 1981 already indicated several concept studies of Porsche points to the expansion of the weasel-1-platform. Thus, for example, for a recovery vehicle angedachtes the trough of the Wiesel 1 is significantly increased.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At the beginning of the 1990s also saw the army the growing importance of air-transportable armored vehicles. To meet this demand, the company MAK developed in ownership the first prototype of the future Wiesel 2.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The prototype was developed as a personnel carrier and saw a nearly doubled interior volume compared to weasels before the first This course is prolonged, the vehicle hull and it was added a fourth wheel. Due to this change in vehicle dimensions can only be transported in one of the two weasels CH53. Along with the increase in the total weight of the engine (production-based 1.9-liter was TDI engine from Volkswagen ) changed, as was a new gearbox, which now also allows you to turn around the vertical axis. The cabin is air conditioned, so a use in many climate zones. In addition, NBC protection guarantees.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This development took place at the required carrier approval. Thus, on the basis of the new vehicle light air defense system has been implemented and delivered in 2004 to the customer. Other vehicle versions followed.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The state of the vehicle development that is currently in the production MrsKpfSys represents Due to a further weight increase of the maximum weight of the vehicle was the tub extended again and inserted a fifth wheel. Because of the, in comparison of Wiesel 1 on Wiesel 2, lower technological advancement this vehicle variant is still counted in the Wiesel 2 platform.</span><br /><h2 dir="ltr">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Concept of Operations </span><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></h2>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Wiesel 1 is a light armored combat-capable night and luftverlastbarer weapons carrier. It was developed primarily for the paratroopers, but finds after the restructuring of the armed forces also use a fleet of fighter force and Mountaineer . Used the weasel in monitoring terrain sections and objects to monitor and back up at checkpoints, reinforcing forces as protection of property and, contrary to his concept, even as a convoy escort and convoy protection. The Wiesel 1 has a top speed of up to 80 km / h The reason for this is to be seen in the weight-power ratio. This is when Wiesel 1 about 23 kW / ton, a value which is called for tracked vehicles to be very good. By a base pressure of 3.5 N / m of weapons carrier has even under unfavorable soil conditions, good off-road capability, combined with speeds of about 50 km / h Its small size favors the use and makes it easier to obtain covered positions. This can be seen as part of passive protection. As a rule, always work together at least two weapons carriers that back each other.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Another advantage is the air movement . Thus, a CH-53G two weasels 1 (a weasel 2) as an internal load or a weasel transported as an external load. During transport planes like the C-160 Transall , the number rises to four, with the American Lockheed C-130 can accommodate only three weapons carrier.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Another way to land the weasel, was dropping by parachute load. This possibility was rejected after four weapons carriers were damaged during the testing and sank the tactical importance of this discharge type.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The weasel was and is of the Bundeswehr in international assignments ( UNOSOM II , IFOR , SFOR , KFOR , TFH , ISAF used).</span><br /><h2 dir="ltr">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Structure </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></h2>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">From the relevant specification, the transport to weasel in a CH-53, was the weasel much attention to lightweight construction.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The weasel is a self-supporting tray tank steel sheets of different thickness. It offers limited protection against fragments of the crew and infantry ammunition. Therefore, it is not a weasel when armored vehicle, but a weapons carrier chain, from the low stances brings his weapons against enemy forces used. All weasels lacks the usual smoke grenades at armored vehicles agent system that provides protection against optronic reconnaissance systems.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As with the Leopard family of engine, automatic transmission, air-filters, the exhaust system and the groups and steering gear are combined in one block. This engine block is located in the left front area of the vehicle. By rapid change of the separation points, the entire engine in ten minutes is possible. The military drivers sitting right next to the engine room geschotteten. The crew and the corresponding conversion kit located in the rear of the vehicle. Welded to the tank, so-called for the lashing on the helicopter Heißösen or in the transport aircraft.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Like all components of the stoat the drive is also a lightweight construction. It is driven by the drive wheel at the front end of the vehicle. Depending on vehicle type, there are three (Wiesel 1) or four to five torsion bar suspension rollers (Wiesel 2). At the rear end of the vehicle are the large rollers, which both carry a part of vehicle weight as responsible for the tension of the chain. At the top of the drive make a (Wiesel 1) or two (Wiesel 2) supporting roles for the return of the chain to the rear wheel. Exceptional was the endless rubber track from Kluth, but this was later replaced with a classic steel Endverbinderkette the Diehl.</span><br /><h2 dir="ltr">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Wiesel 1 </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></h2>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 17px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Wiesel 1 MK 20 </span><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></h3>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The main weapon of the Wiesel 1 consists of a 20-mm automatic cannon (MK) MK 20 Rh 202 by Rheinmetall. The MK was in a one-man turret E6 II A1 KUKA defense installed (since 1999 a part of Rheinmetall). The mechanical straightening drives allow one side directional range of 110 ° and an elevation range of -10 ° to +45 °. The side of the weapon and thus outside, two ammunition boxes with 60 cartridges are armor-piercing armor piercing ammunition (AP) left and 100 cartridges explosive ammunition (HE) on the right. By a Doppelgurtzuführer the quick switch from AP to HE or vice versa is possible. By the image intensifier </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">PERI Z-59</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> MK Wiesel's night fighting capability.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In the context of combat performance upgrades from February 2002, the night fighting capability has been improved. That is why 76 weapons carrier received the new designation </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Wiesel 1A1 MK</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> optronic target the Autonomous System (ADF 2000) of STN with laser rangefinder, thermal imager and fire control.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Under the symbol </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Wiesel 1A2 MK</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> from 2006, a total of 53 vehicles with the Zielperiskop </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">PERI Z17 BM48 WBG</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (day vision channel with 4 - and 8-fold magnification, and the third generation thermal imager) equipped by Rheinmetall. With the introduction of the Command and Control Information System for the Army changed the name of the converted Wiesel 1 to </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A3 Wiesel 1 MK</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (AOZ 2000 with FüInfoSys) and</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Wiesel 1 MK A4</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (PERI Z17 with FüInfoSys). </span><a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiesel_(milit%C3%A4risches_Kettenfahrzeug)#cite_note-KWS_Wiesel_a-2"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0080; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></a><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Configurations:</span><br /><ul style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Wiesel 1 MK A0 - production version with 20-mm machine cannon</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Wiesel 1 MK A1 - upgraded with an optronic target Autonomous System (ADF 2000) for a better night fighting capability</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Wiesel 1 A2 MK - upgraded with the PERI Z17 BM48 WBG for a better night fighting capability.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Wiesel 1 MK A3 - Wiesel 1A1 Command and Control Information System Land Forces (Army command posts)</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Wiesel 1 A4 MK - Wiesel 1A2 Command and Control Information System Land Forces (Army command posts)</span></li>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 17px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Wiesel 1 TOW </span><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></h3>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The weapon system TOW was mounted on an adjustable mount. It consists of the launch tube, the optical block and which is designed for day and night vision thermal imaging device </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">AN / TAS 4</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> . The target area is 45 ° to the side as well as + / - 10 ° in the height. The maximum ammo is officially six TOW 2, five of them in the vehicle and an outside of the rear wall. By storing a missile into the weapons system that rises to seven.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As secondary armament includes the TOW Wiesel also an MG3 . Initially not equipped to the vehicles were converted to homemade troops and supplemented by a mount bracket in place of the loader. With the standard assumption changed the name to </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Wiesel TOW 1A1</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and for armor-bearer with the Command and Control Information System army to </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Wiesel TOW 1A2.</span><a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiesel_(milit%C3%A4risches_Kettenfahrzeug)#cite_note-KWS_Wiesel_a-2"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0080; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></a><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Configurations:</span><br /><ul style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This is a modified Wiesel TOW which was procured for airborne reconnaissance companies (LLAufklKp). The vehicle has undergone extensive changes. They removed the weapons situation continued, the vehicle roof above and built a hybrid navigation system, an autonomous Optronic target system (ADF 2000). With TV camera, infrared camera and laser rangefinder, the leadership, communication and information system FaKoM The reconnaissance optics is here on a Schwenk-/Neige-Einrichtung which is a mast up to three meters extended. To communicate with the scout car radios SEM 80/90 and HRM 7400 is equipped. As armament is an MG3 on Free Indicative carriage. In July 2001, Rheinmetall gave the troops attempt to pattern the 310th LLAufklKp A total of 16 reconnaissance vehicles exist in the army.</span><br /><h3 dir="ltr">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 17px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Wiesel 1 tanks driving school </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></h3>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For driver education more Wiesel 1 TOW have been modified. For this purpose, all vehicle bodies were removed as mount and rear hatches. Instead, an air-conditioned cabin is fitted with large glass windows on the rear of the vehicle. Herein lies the space for the instructor. This is similar to intervene in civilian driving school vehicles in the driving process.</span><br /><h3 dir="ltr">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 17px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Wiesel 1 concepts and prototypes </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></h3>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As with other German developments, the suitability of the weasel for various purposes has been investigated.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Wiesel 1 BTM 208</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Spähpanzer Wiesel as constructed had a one-man turret of the company SAMM. He was armed with a gun in 12.7 mm caliber.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Wiesel 1 BTM-263 mortar carrier</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This version also has a one-man turret of the company SAMM. It has been modified to accommodate a 60-mm mortar and a FN-Mag as armament.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Wiesel 1 FlaPanzer</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As antiaircraft tank, he was fitted with a directable to start the Pedestal Mistral anti-aircraft missiles.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Wiesel 1 ambulance</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A doctor armored troops. Similar to the concept of a mobile medical teams</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Wiesel 1 Bergepanzer</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The concept of an armored recovery he had a revolving crane and winch.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Wiesel 1 replenishment tanks</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">His concept was to use as ammunition against transporters.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Wiesel 1 tank destroyer</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">equipped with anti-tank weapon MILAN on a rotating twin gun mount.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Wiesel 1 with battlefield radar</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">equipped with the French-German artillery radar RATAC (artillery radar de l'tir de campagne) it should be used for battlefield surveillance, target acquisition and target classification, and for directing the artillery fire.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Wiesel 1 ATM HOT</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">He served as a universal weapon carriers for reconnaissance, anti-tank, monitoring and surveillance. For this purpose, it has a retractable universal platform thermal imager, goniometer with TV camera, laser range finder and camera surveillance for short range. He was armed with an M2HB and the anti-tank weapon HOT .</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Wiesel 1 RMK 30</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This testbed serves as proof of the possibility of the low recoil 30-mm automatic cannon </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">RMK 30</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> mount as armament. It was in November 2004 in </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hammelburg</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> presented (Bavaria).</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><h3 dir="ltr">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 17px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Specifications </span><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Designation</span><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Type:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">air landing usable weapons carrier</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">VW-5-cylinder TDI engine with turbocharger</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Displacement:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2000 cm ³</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Power:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">64 kW (87 hp)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cooling:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Liquid cooling</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">hydromechanical torque converter 3HP-22 with three forward, one reverse gear</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">torsion bar spring mounted support roller drive with three wheels, a supporting role, and a pulley per page</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">3.545 mm</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">3.310 mm</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">3.550 mm</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1.820 mm</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Height:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1.825 mm</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1.897 mm</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1.838 mm</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ground clearance:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">302 mm</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Fording:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">500 mm</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-Border capacity:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1.200 mm</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Climbing ability:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">400 mm</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Climbing ability:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">60 %</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bank:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">30 %</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Gross vehicle weight:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ca 3000 kg</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ca 3300 kg</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Maximum speed:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">over 70 km / h (road), 50 km / h Off</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Amount of fuel:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">80 l</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Fuel consumption:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Street: 28 liters per 100 km, area: 40 liters per 100km</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Driving range:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Road: 286 km Terrain: 200 km</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Armament:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1 Maschinenkanone MK 20mm</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">TOW -2-start system and MG3 (optional)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">MG3</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ammunition:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">400 rounds</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">5–7 TOW 2</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Crew:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">3</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Wiesel 2 </span><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></h2>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 17px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Wiesel 2 light air defense system (LeFLaSys) </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></h3>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Das Wiesel 2 leFlaSys ( </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Le</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> ichtes </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Fl</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> ug </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">a</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> bwehr- </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sys</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> tem) besteht aus den folgenden Fahrzeugen:</span><br /><ul style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Batterieführungs-/Unterstützungsfahrzeug (BF / UF)</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Reconnaissance and Feuerleitfahrzeug (AFF)</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Armorbearer ocelot (FlaRaWaTrg)</span></li>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Overall for were LeFLaSys 67 vehicles procured.</span><br /><h3 dir="ltr">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 17px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Wiesel 2 ambulance squad (SanTrp) </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></h3>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Wiesel 2 (SanTrp) is intended for assisting casualties in difficult terrain as well as the first aid on the spot. For this purpose, a wounded man lying, two injured people sitting and paramedics transported. The crew consists of a driver and a military medic. There were 33 ambulances were delivered to the Bundeswehr.</span><br /><h3 dir="ltr">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 17px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Wiesel 2 combat engineer reconnaissance (PiErkTrp) </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></h3>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The PiErkTrp is equipped for water exploration in a rubber dinghy. Additional material is entrained for blocking and blasting operations.There were eight PiErkTrp delivered to the Bundeswehr</span><br /><h3 dir="ltr">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 17px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Wiesel 2 Mobile Command Post (bewBefSt) </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></h3>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The bewBefSt serves as pace car of an Army unit at company and battalion level. For this purpose, it is equipped with an extensive radio equipment. There are 32 bewBefSt were delivered to the Bundeswehr.</span><br /><h3 dir="ltr">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 17px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Wiesel 2 Mortar System (MrsKpfSys) </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></h3>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The airmobile reconnaissance, command and Networked Advanced Mortar System consists of various vehicles on Wiesel 2 in different designs and features.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">light tank mortar (lePzMrs)</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The lePzMrs is the active component of the system group. Equipped with a return mounted 120-mm mortar muzzle, which is designed for both conventional ammunition at 8,000 m range and for endphasengelenkte ammunition, the weapons system is operated under ballistic and NBC protection and recharged. Through automatic direction, altitude and position determination and fully automatic correction of arms position from shot to shot a rapid fire readiness and high precision is ensured. This allows the Wiesel 2 lePzMrs for quick change of position can be used (Hide-hit-run-hide tactics). Due to an increase in weight to the other weasel-2-variants include the production vehicles over five sets of rollers. The prototypes are equipped differently with four sets of rollers.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Command Vehicles (FüFhz)</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The management of MrsKpfSys there are different functions, which are complied with specially adapted vehicle equipment. The Platoon Headquarters (ZgTrp) and Feuerleittrupp (FltTrp) perform a Mörserzug. Here reconnaissance data are analyzed, determines the next steps of the train passed and the corresponding target allocations to the fire control data to the subordinate lePzMrs. The company leadership group (KpFüTrp) leads the unit at the company level. The Joint Fire Support Coordination Team (JFSCT) is responsible for communication to higher levels of command.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Aufklärungsfahrzeug JFST (Joint Fire Support Team)</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Das Joint Fire Support Team (JFST) stellte die Aufklärungskomponente </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">im MrsKpfSys</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> dar. Es verfügt über eine ausfahrbare Beobachtungsausstattung mit hochauflösender CCD-Kamera, einer Wärmebildkamera der 3. Generation, einem Laserpointer (nur Boden-Luft-Variante BL) und einem Laserentfernungsmesser zur Gefechts und Einsatzaufklärung. Aufgeklärte Ziele werden über integrierte Führungs- und Feuerleitsysteme innerhalb des eigenen Systemverbunds sowie externen Kräften zur Verfügung gestellt.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In June 2009, with the Rheinmetall AG, a contract for the delivery of the first eight Wiesel 2 lePzMrs was completed, which will be delivered in 2011 to the German Army. In addition, two command vehicles in the variant are supplied as ZgTrp and FltTrp. The contract has a total value of € 61.5 million. As part of the reorientation of the Bundeswehr , the system is not purchased in full. </span><a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiesel_(milit%C3%A4risches_Kettenfahrzeug)#cite_note-4"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0080; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></a><br /><h3 dir="ltr">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 17px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Wiesel 2 concepts and prototypes </span><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></h3>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Testbed 1 (VT01)</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The first Wiesel 2 with four wheels as personnel carriers</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Wiesel 2 ATM HOT</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">He served as a universal weapon carriers for reconnaissance, anti-tank, monitoring and surveillance. For this purpose, it has a retractable universal platform thermal imager, goniometer with TV camera, laser range finder and camera surveillance for short range. He was armed with an M2HB and the anti-tank weapon HOT .</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Wiesel 2 Argus</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">observation and reconnaissance vehicle elevierbarer observation equipment. For long observation missions with ergonomic ausgelegtem interior and innovative operating concepts.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Wiesel 2 SYRANO</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Furthermore, the chassis of the Wiesel 2 was the basis for the experimental French </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">SYRANO</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> program ( </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sy</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> stems </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">R</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> obotisé d ' </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">cquisition pour la </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">N</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> eutralisation d' </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">O</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> bjectifs</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> ) used. This program explores the deployment of unmanned automatic combat vehicles.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Testbed 2 (VT02)</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The first Wiesel 2 with five wheels as a test vehicle. As a base, a vehicle of the type used </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">movable command point</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> was separated the bottom group and replaced by an elongated assembly having five pairs of rollers. Allows the ability of the Wiesel 2 was detected with five t rollers and a total weight of 4.78.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></b>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12207674066689705982noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641198404911070544.post-90453963294708927732012-09-07T09:15:00.000-07:002012-09-07T09:15:00.285-07:00Jagdpanzer VI Jagdtiger ( Heavy Tank Destroyer)<b id="internal-source-marker_0.09850275074131787" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"></b><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The German </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jagdpanzer VI Jagdtiger </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(Sd.Kfz. 186) was a heavy tank destroyer , as the modification of the Tiger II was created and during the Second World War by the Wehrmacht was used. The Jagdtiger is the world's worst ever serial built tanks .</span><div dir="ltr">
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<li style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: -24px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">6 received copies</span><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jagdpanzer_VI_Jagdtiger#Einzelnachweise"><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #0b0080; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></a></li>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">History</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></h2>
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Jagdtiger was developed after the troops demanded a super-heavy tank destroyer, which was to be armed with a 12.8 cm gun. On 22 February 1943, the Krupp company, division artillery construction in food, and the company were Henschel und Sohn in Kassel in charge of the Army High Command to develop. Thereby providing the Krupp took 12.8 cm KwK L/55 and Henschel, the development of the structure and the chassis . Henschel presented on 12 April 1943, two drafts before - one with rear and an engine with advanced front. To avoid a costly redesign and produce at lower cost, which ruled Heereswaffenamt on 5 May 1943, the chassis of the Tiger II to use it, this was the ideal base for Henschel's design with the rear mounted engine. The first scale wooden model called "Heavy Tank Destroyer with 12.8 cm KwK L/55 on Tiger II chassis" was Adolf Hitler on 12 October 1943 on the training ground Arys presented, the first two prototypes were in February 1944 for testing at the Army Ordnance Department in Kummersdorf delivered. One vehicle was a drive by Porsche with eight 700-mm wheels, and the other a drive from Henschel with nine 800-mm wheels. The drive of Porsche was to produce space-efficient and easier, and cheaper, and the tank was nearly 2000 lbs lighter. However it was not as robust as that of Henschel, only eleven vehicles with Porsche chassis were built.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">T with a total weight of 70 to 72, a 12.8-inch gun and a massive armor up to 250 mm of armor was a true giant. The Jagdtiger was the already known from the King Tiger Engine Maybach HL230 P30 equipped and was significantly underpowered. Nevertheless, he achieved a maximum speed of 38 km / h on the road and 17 km / h off. The fuel consumption was very high - the 865 liter tank capacity sufficient for about 170 km on the road and about 120 km off-road at cruising speed.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As Jagdpanzer provided he received no revolving turret, the gun was to swivel by 10 degrees to the right and left and the entire tank had to be therefore directed to the target. There are no reports that the frontal armor was ever penetrated in the war effort by an enemy grenade, most were hunting tigers from aircraft or infantrymen off or had to be abandoned by the crews.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As the Jagdtiger in autumn 1944 went into production, he could, for example, the armor of a Sherman penetrate to over three kilometers away at any angle. Its frontal armor of 250 mm was virtually impenetrable and the 12.8 cm gun excellent in their performances. But the weakness such as the enormous weight of the bad road capability and the size far outweighed heavier than the strengths. Also, the rate of fire was poor because the 12.8-inch shells were so heavy that the projectile and propellant are loaded separately needed.</span><br /><h2 dir="ltr">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Production</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></h2>
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Altogether, from February 1944 until the end of the war in the Nibelungen works near St.Valentin 88 Jagdtiger (including prototypes) made. Eleven of these vehicles (chassis number 305001 and 305003 to 305012) received the Porsche chassis, the rest of the Henschel chassis. Of the 14 produced in the last three months of the war vehicles some vehicles were equipped with the 8.8-cm PaK 43/3 L/71, this variant was designated </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Panzerjäger Tiger for 8.8 cm PaK 43/3 (Sf)</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> ( Sd.Kfz. 185). The exact number is not known, however, it was probably the last four by May 1945. With the chassis numbers 305085-305088 Due to the war situation in the last two months, it is possible that not all vehicles produced were fully equipped and ready for use.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><h2 dir="ltr">
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Elevation</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2,172 m</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ground clearance</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">56 cm (48 cm Henschel)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #ddddbb; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">0 </span><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">armament</span><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div>
</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 7px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /></td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Main armament</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">12.8-cm-Pak 44 L/55</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pipe length</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">7,02 m</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Secondary armament</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1 × 7.92 mm machine gun in a 34 Bug</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #ddddbb; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">0 </span><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Performance</span><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div>
</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 7px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /></td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Motor</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Maybach HL 230 P 30, 12-Cylinder-Ottomotor</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cooling</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Water</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Capacity</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">23 l</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bore / Stroke</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">130/145 mm</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">maximum speed</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">3000/min.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">PS</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">PS 700</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Motoreffektivität</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">30.4 PS / l</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Power to weight</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">10.0 hp / tonne</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Transmission</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">8V, 1R (eight courses)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Maximum road</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">38 km / h</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Maximum terrain</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">17 km / h</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Fuel storage</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">865 l</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Reach Road</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">170 km</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Range site</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">120 km</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Climbing ability</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">88 cm</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Gradeability</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">up to 35 °</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Fording</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">175 cm</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Grave excess capacity</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">250 cm</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #ddddbb; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">0 </span><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Panzerung</span><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tub / driver front 40 ° inclination</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">150 mm</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Wannenbug 40 °</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">100 mm</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When pages 65 °</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">80 mm</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When Rear 60 °</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">80 mm</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When ceiling</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">40 mm</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tower bezel</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">250 mm</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Turmfront 75 °</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">250 mm</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tower side 65 °</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">80 mm</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Turret rear 80 °</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">80 mm</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tower ceiling 0 °</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">45 mm</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ammunition</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></h2>
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Jagdtiger was 38-40 rounds are carried for the main armament. The machine guns are shot in 2925 were in the tank.</span><div dir="ltr">
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ammunition and penetrating power of the PaK 44 L/55</span></div>
</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 7px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 7px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 7px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /></td></tr>
<tr style="height: 0px;"><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 3px; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Nomenclature of ammunition</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tank shell 39/43 APC</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tank shell 40/43 APBC with ballistic hood</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">HE shell</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bullet weight</span></div>
</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 3px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 3px; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">28,3 kg</span></div>
</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 3px; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">28,0 kg</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Explosive charge</span></div>
</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 3px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 3px; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">0,55 kg</span></div>
</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 3px; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">3,6 kg</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Propellant</span></div>
</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 3px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 3px; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">15 kg</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">12,2 kg</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Length of the shell</span></div>
</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 3px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 3px; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">49,65 cm</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">62,3 cm</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Muzzle Velocity</span></div>
</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 3px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 3px; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">930 m/s</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">750 m/s</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Penetrating power of the PaK 30 ° angle of incidence</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">143 mm</span></div>
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<br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The penetrating power of the 8.8-cm PaK 43/3 L/71, with a few hunting tigers were armed was, in comparison to 500 m at an angle of incidence of 30 degrees, 185 mm steel armor with the tank shell 39 and 217 mm with the rarer Panzergranate 40/43. 1000 m from the firing range was 12.8 cm Pak with the APBC-kinetic energy projectile superior to 40/43 of the 8.8-cm Pak, however. For the 12.8 cm due to the already huge clout were no expensive hard core bullets (tungsten hard core) produced.</span><br /><h2 dir="ltr">
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<a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Datei:Destroyedjagdtiger.jpg&filetimestamp=20110424180041" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="176px;" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/bwIUhhGUjS-WVoKLCH8i4F_Kdh7NJOrj7vB-2Hf2O_jTh8G07jxHE2rufkJwHRDi8q-M-E3AfQ0leBnfl5CTycRMKy7CScADkdVTg6vlN_cy1utP9Sk" width="333px;" /></a><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Of the U.S. Army destroyed Jagdtiger, January 1945</span><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Datei:Jagdtiger_1.jpg&filetimestamp=20070802181648" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img height="251px;" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/ncjluj1iS79vGmP4a3RjQ3EFkHfdI5kza4aj2SCQQyyoQf4gWL2ttZjm2z-AqfnIRZ5swW8IMnV7n2wIggKVDdR49OGh2SpOZOzF_YvJPqqPt8IMhxM" width="333px;" /></a><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jagdtiger side view, on display in the </span><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">United States Army Ordnance Museum</span></div>
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The heavy tank destroyer units </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">512</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">653</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> are equipped with hunting tigers. These units fought on the Western Front : During the Battle of the Bulge , they stood in the reserve and in the space around Saarbrücken , the department was 653 at the Operation Nordwind involved. Parts of </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">sPzJägAbt 512</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> should also on the Eastern Front in the room Hungary fought. On 1 April 1945 23 ready-Jagdtiger were available that were probably all destroyed in the last weeks of the war or captured.</span></b>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08012943482633544940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641198404911070544.post-49098717094081961152012-09-06T09:06:00.000-07:002012-09-06T09:06:01.083-07:00Hummel (Howitzer)<b id="internal-source-marker_0.9460883520077914" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Howitzer "Hummel"</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> was a self-propelled gun with a 150-mm howitzer . It was created by the German Wehrmacht in World War II used from 1943 until the end of the war.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></b><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Howitzer Hummel</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Main Features</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Crew</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">6 men</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Long</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">7,17 m</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Width</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2,97 m</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2,81 m</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mass</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">24,4 t</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Armor and armament</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Plating</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">10–30 mm</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Main armament</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1 × 150 mm heavy field howitzer sFH 18/1 L/30 with 18 rounds of ammunition</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Secondary armament</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">MG 34 or MG 42</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mobility</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Drive</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Maybach HL 120 TRM V12 </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">300 </span><a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pferdest%C3%A4rke"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0080; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">PS</span></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (221 kW)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Suspension</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Leaf spring</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">History </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></h2>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 17px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Development and Production</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 17px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></h3>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Even before the war got the later Colonel-General </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Heinz Guderian</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> , who developed the armored force for independent branch of service, the demand for motorized and under armor protection artillery, the armored units into the </span><a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gefecht"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">battle</span></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> to follow, and they should provide the necessary artillery support. These plans could be realized due to the initial low production capacity of the tank industry until the 1942nd </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> After it was recognized that an initially planned special design of self-propelled guns with Rundumfeuerung was responsible to no longer due to the war, attempts were made to use existing chassis and weapons .</span></h3>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In 1942, developed vehicle-based, just like the Panzerjäger rhinoceros , on the gun carriage III / IV. This was a chassis of the Panzer IV to the drive train of a Panzer III , the engine was moved to the front to the rear to create a large space battle. As a weapon, the 150-mm howitzer was sFH 18 used a side directional field of 15 ° on both sides and had a 43-pound projectile a firing range of 13 km. Since the car was not designed for direct combat, protected only light armor against rifle fire and shrapnel. Then the structure had only one round of 10 mm armor. The development took place at Alkett and assembly in the German iron works in Duisburg. The official designation was "heavy howitzer 15 cm 18/1 on chassis Panzer III / IV (Sf)" (Sd.Kfz. 165). The "Bumblebee" came in May 1943 to the front until the summer were 85 pieces with the troops. </span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">By the end of the year, 227 pieces delivered. Total of 724 howitzers were produced, ten of which came from conversions. On 27February 1944 was accounted for by transfer of Adolf Hitler used the previously suggestive name "Bumblebee". In early 1945, the production of "Bumblebee" set. At this time, there were 335 "bumblebees", of which the majority was on the Eastern Front and suffered from the lack of fuel and ammunition.</span><a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hummel_(Panzer)#cite_note-4"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0080; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></a><br /><h3 dir="ltr">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 17px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Use </span><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></h3>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Howitzer "Hummel" was the organization of an armored artillery regiment Armored Division assumed. A regiment had three departments , with only one department was equipped with self-propelled guns. A Department consisted of three batteries . The first two batteries were with the howitzer "wasp" feature, and the third battery is standard with six "bumblebees" and two ammunition carriers. Although the vehicles were of a high lift and had no way to Rundumfeuerung, they proved themselves at the front. For a direct contact with the enemy was fighting enemy tanks in the direct aiming the gun possible, but this should be due to the low armor in the only emergency . done From autumn 1944, the First Department officially only an armored artillery regiment was equipped with self-propelled guns. Here too was the target features of the 3rd Battery six "bumblebees", where there were numerous differences due to the war, as the production could not keep pace with the losses. So they went alone in 1944 on the Eastern Front 240 howitzers "Hummel" lost.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 17px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ammunition carrier "Bumble Bee" </span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Since the Howitzer "Hummel" with 18 shots had only a limited amount of ammunition, and this is not sustainable over time sufficient fire support, even 157 ammo carrier "Bumble Bee" were built. This was around the same type of vehicle, which was used during the installation of the main weapon. Inside the still open-topped fighting compartment, additional ammunition brackets attached and closed conditional by the absence of major weapon gap in the frontal armor of the structure by an additional armor plate. The ammunition carrier could carry 90 grenades and cartridges.Although the vehicles were in its purchase relatively expensive, but placed them on the logistics of the heavy artillery units a considerable relief represents Thus the ammunition carrier same terrain as the howitzer, were better protected than those normally used in the replenishment scale Opel Blitz and it was not additional spare parts required. The conversion of such ammunition carrier to a howitzer "Bumblebee" was also possible. This had only opened a locked gun mantlet armor plate and a gun - that came for example from another damaged "Bumblebee" - can be installed.</span></b>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12207674066689705982noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641198404911070544.post-21072650570830856522012-09-05T08:59:00.000-07:002012-09-05T08:59:00.605-07:00Palmaria (Gun)<b id="internal-source-marker_0.2998604748863727" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Palmaria</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is one of the Italian firm OTO Melara developed from 1977 to 1981 Howitzer .</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">OTO Melara developed the Palmaria howitzer mainly for export and used here many components also for export Panzers OF-40 .</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></b><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">OTO Melara Palmaria</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Palmaria tower on a Argentine TAM</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Main Features</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">5 men</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">11,47 m</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2,35 m</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2,87 m</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">47 t</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Armor and armament</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">8 Zylinder Diesel Engine </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">559 kW (750 PS)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">11,9 kW/t</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Technical Description </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></h2>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Palmaria is a fully enclosed, heavily armored howitzer. The chassis and running gear is based on the OF-40. The tower had to be completely reworked to accommodate the heavy howitzer can. Of Palmaria is designed so that only small changes had to be made to the vehicle more difficult terrain and climatic conditions to adapt. Here OTO Melara aimed above all at the market in the Middle East, where the United Arab Emirates had already introduced the OF-40. This has the advantage for the buyer that many components can be easily replaced.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Palmaria is an extremely agile and fast car. There is also a high-road because the chassis was taken from a quick battle tanks. An unusual feature is the auxiliary engine for the tower. This allows for a faster rotation of the tower and saves the actual drive motor fuel. In this howitzer an automatic loading system was used, which every 15 seconds allows for firing.Palmaria is able to fire a large selection of different ammunition. These include:</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><ul style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">high explosive shells</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">highly explosive / Splitter</span></li>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1982 ordered Libya 210 Palmaria howitzers, another 25 went to Nigeria . Some of the Libyan howitzers were during the civil war in 2011 destroyed. In Argentina in 1986, the tower on Palmaria modified chassis of the Tanque Argentino Mediano installed. The thus formed 17 howitzers were called VCA 155 ( </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Vehículo de Combate de Artillería de 155 mm</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> ).</span></b>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12207674066689705982noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641198404911070544.post-41438336855070477692012-09-04T08:45:00.000-07:002012-09-04T08:45:00.214-07:00Bergepanther<b id="internal-source-marker_0.27109460160136223" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">mountains Panzer "Panther"</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (Sd.Kfz. 179), often called "Bergepanther" means, was to rescue other tanks upgraded version of the Panzer V Panther (Sd.Kfz. 171).</span></b><br />
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<b id="internal-source-marker_0.27109460160136223" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Development and Production </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></b></h2>
<b id="internal-source-marker_0.27109460160136223" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The idea of a mountain Panthers was 1943 due to problems in the recovery of heavy and medium tanks. The development was carried out by MAN. The hitherto used to recover half-tracks (eg Sd.Kfz 9th ) were rarely in a position, a panther or tiger salvage successfully towing with another tiger or panther was strictly forbidden, as this both in loss could lead tank. The converted to armored cars mountains Tiger did not meet the desired requirements.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In the first Bergepanther it was almost finished the Panther Ausf D, where the manufacturer MAN was the only tower omitted. Henschel, Daimler-Benz and DEMAG took later in sequence of production. The specially produced trough the mountains Panthers largely resembled that of the armored car Panther, with the end of 1944, the modifications were adopted for the Ausf. The crew consisted of at least three soldiers, the device of two soldiers in the vehicle has been serviced.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Where sat at the main battle tank of the tower, were now square wood and metal constructions, the hull of the tank was a winch having a longitudinal tensile force of 40 tons embedded. A large </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">earth spad</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">e</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> at the rear serving to support. Furthermore, the Bergepanther had a simple crane boom, the load capacity was 1.5 tons.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Bergepanther was quite reliable in their area and because of its armor used under enemy fire. Even the heavy Tiger and its variants could be easily recovered by a Bergepanther with winch.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">By the British in the Bergepanther was our experiments after the Second World War as a "usable" described.</span><a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bergepanther#cite_note-1"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0080; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></a><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In addition to board-MG, which was to support the right or left of the fighting compartment are attached, was the one Bergepanther Buglafette to accommodate a 20-mm automatic cannon. This, however, fell away in the course of 1944. With the conversion to the boat form of Panther G received the Bergepanther the usual MG-ball cover on the radio operator side. The MG-pillar on the driver's side so that also accounted for. </span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">From 1943 to 1945, some 339 Bergepanther all versions of the company MAN , Henschel , Daimler-Benz (the Berlin-Marienfelde) and DEMAG produced. </span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Specifications </span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Berge Panzer "Panther" (Sd.Kfz. 179) </span><a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bergepanther#cite_note-4"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0080; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></a><br /><ul style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Year: 1943-1945</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dimensions (with aprons and spur)</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Engine: 23.1 liter 12-cylinder Maybach HL 230 P30</span></li>
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<li style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; list-style-type: circle; margin-left: -3px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">46 km / h at throttle speed</span></li>
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<li style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; list-style-type: circle; margin-left: -3px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">in loose sand: 196 kN (20 t), with snow grippers: 264 kN (27 t)</span></li>
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<li style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: -8px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">nominal: 392 kN (40 t), measured in the experiment: 343 kN (35 t)</span></li>
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<li style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; list-style-type: square; margin-left: -5px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Total mountains with traction sheaves (via pulley ) to spur:</span></li>
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<li style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: -8px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">nominally: 1176 kN (120 t), measured in the experiment: 1098 kN (112 t) </span><a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bergepanther#cite_note-5"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0b0080; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></a></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></b><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12207674066689705982noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641198404911070544.post-78784818844976547132012-09-03T08:33:00.000-07:002012-09-03T08:33:00.189-07:00Biber (beaver)<b id="internal-source-marker_0.43855195632204413" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">beaver</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is an armored vehicle launched bridges from German production. It belongs to the group of combat support vehicles and is based on the chassis of the Leopard 1 .</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></b><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bridge Layer Tank with Quick bridge beaver</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Main Features</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">11.82 m (with link)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">4 m</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">3,55 m</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">45.3 Tonnen</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Plating</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Main armament</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">No, because Brückenlegepanzer</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">MTU MB 838 CA 500, 10 Zylinder,Mehrstoffmotor -Dieselmotor </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">830 PS (610 kW)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">18.35 PS / t</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Development </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></h2>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">With the introduction of the Leopard 1 and the requirement to use the chassis as a base, the company developed MaK in the 1960s for the army for a successor to the American Brückenlegepanzer A2 M48 </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Armored Vehicle Launched Bridge</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (AVLB).</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Total MaK delivered in the years 1973 to 1975 as a general contractor 105 Brückenlegepanzer the tank sapper companies of the Bundeswehr .</span><br /><h2 dir="ltr">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">General </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></h2>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The armored vehicle launched bridge with the eponymous tank Quick Bridge Beaver is designed to overcome in battle, depending on soil conditions and terrain cuts like waters and canyons to 20 meters wide. The tanks fly bridge is 22 meters long, 4 meters wide, and can be interpreted within 2 to 8 minutes under armor protection. Your weight is about 9.94 tons. The design is for the Military Load Class 60 and admitted to about 55 tons. The crew consists of two men, the driver and the commander. The Bridge Layer is unarmed, but has a smoke grenade .</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For rail transport, the bridge must be separated into two longitudinal halves. The tanks sapper companies of the Bundeswehr also feature a 3-axis flatbed trailer 15 tons of the company Kögel (Type 2300269) with special intermediate frame on which halved the tanks fly bridge (compact - like on the carrier vehicle), and disassembled (quartered) can be transported.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><h2 dir="ltr">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Laying operation</span><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></h2>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Unlike other bridge installers who move their bridge in the scissor method, the laying operation is carried out when the cantilever horizontal beaver. The advantage of this is to significantly lower laying silhouette, but this in turn must be paid for with a much more expensive equipment.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In transport position, each 11 meters long bridge symmetrical halves are placed horizontally one above the other on the main and tail boom of the vehicle. For laying the two elements to be lifted and moved, the lower half of the bridge to the front. After connecting the entire fixed bridge is placed by the main boom over the obstacle. The inclusion of the bridge takes place in reverse order. During the laying operation, the entire load is resting on the support plate located at the bow, which increases the stability.</span><br /><h2 dir="ltr">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Users </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></h2>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Apart from the German Bundeswehr armed forces use in Australia , Chile , Denmark , Italy (made 64 of OTO Melara), Canada , the Netherlands and Poland, the bridge layers. The total number amounted to 145 vehicles.</span><br /><h2 dir="ltr">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Future </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></h2>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">With the combat efficiency of the Leopard 2 to A5, A6 of the bridge layers also come to its limits. The Bundeswehr replaced their bridge layers with the new armored Quick bridge 2 on the chassis of the Leopard 2.</span></b>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12207674066689705982noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641198404911070544.post-75553831460295019932012-09-02T07:59:00.000-07:002012-09-02T07:59:00.766-07:00Hetzer (Jagdpanzer 38t)<b id="internal-source-marker_0.6679807030595839" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jagdpanzer 38 (t)</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> , often "hate preachers" called was a slight Jagdpanzer Czech origin of the German Wehrmacht inWorld War II , which was built in 1944 and 1945 as a special vehicle (Sd.Kfz) 138/2.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></b><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">6,27 m</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2,17 m</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">16 t</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">8–60 mm</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">7.5-cm-Pak 39 L/48</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">42 km / h (road), 16 km / h (cross)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">180 km (road), 130 km (off-road)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Development </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></h2>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Since the effective 7.5-cm PaK 40 (PaK 40) too heavy for the Mannschaftszug to be immobile on the battlefield, was charged in 1942 on the chassis of the Panzer II and Panzer 38 (t) in three different designs, both the 7.5-cm PaK 40 and captured and modified Russian 7.62-cm-tank guns mounted. The resulting PaK-self-propelled guns were as Panzerjäger Marder I , II and III referred. These successful expedients were replaced in summer 1944 by a similarly effective redesign, the Jagdpanzer 38 (t).</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Further produced proven chassis of the tank (t) 38 was chosen as the technical basis for a light tank destroyer. The trough had to be widened in order to make room for the gun. The structure of well-sloped armor plates was on the front page 60 millimeters, 20 millimeters thick at the side. Wider chains and a higher performance engine ensured sufficient mobility of the now 16-ton vehicle.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As a weapon, the 7.5-cm PaK 39 L/48 was with an enhanced brake pipe selected, a muzzle brake was no longer necessary.For short-range defense possessed the Jagdpanzer 38 (t) over a 7.92-mm machine gun (usually MG 34 , but also MG 42 ) on the roof, which the commander could remote control over a periscope and an extended withdrawal. These side armament had a pan range of 360 degrees and served as defense against infantry. Although the gun was fired from the protected interior, but it had only a small drum magazine. The reloading process had to take place without the protection of the tank. Since the Jagdpanzer was 38 (t) a relatively small vehicle, which was 380 mm offset to the right cannon sticking with theirSaukopfblende out considerably over the bow.</span><br /><h2 dir="ltr">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">"Agitators" </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></h2>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Whether the suggestive name "Hetzer" was used formally or informally during the Second World War seems controversial. Heinz Guderian claimed to Hitler , this is the nickname given to the soldiers for these tanks.</span><br /><h2 dir="ltr">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Use </span><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></h2>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In use, the proven Jagdpanzer 38 (t) Award. The low silhouette complicated its discovery and management, the form has been exemplary and its firepower equivalent to that of the Panzer IV and the hunting Panzers IV/48 . The sloped armor could bounce off the shells of many calibers easily.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">However, the Jagdpanzer was 38 (t) is not particularly popular among the crew because he had a small battle space and also the swivel range of the gun was only 16 degrees. Due to the asymmetric seat's main weapon was the swivel range 11 degrees to the right and 5 degrees to the left. To compensate for this, the entire vehicle had to be turned. The side armor was 20 millimeters with very weak, so many Jagdpanzer 38 (t) were shot down by the side.</span><br /><h2 dir="ltr">
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The manufacturer works ( Bohemian-Moravian Machine Factory (BMM) and Škoda ) were in the " Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia"(so that made the Jagdpanzer 38 (t) until the war ended in May 1945, about 2,600 copies Fahrgestell-Nr.: 321001-323000, 323001 - could be). The vehicles were from July 1944 to the units, first at the Army tank destroyer units 731 and 743 delivered.</span><br /><h2 dir="ltr">
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There were several on the Jagdpanzer 38 (t) constructive developments:</span><br /><ul style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Flame Panzer 38 (t) - (end of 1944, 20 produced, conversion)</span></li>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There were also attempts, the 7.5-cm KwK 42 L/70 the Panthers to integrate into the Jagdpanzer 38 (t) - a few copies were made of it.Because of the extreme heaviness these vehicles were not to be used but.</span><br /><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><h3 dir="ltr">
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">After the war, the Škoda works built on the basis of hunting Panzers 38 (t) additional models for the Czechoslovak army, 156 vehicles were on the </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Swiss Army</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> delivered where it under the name Panzerjäger G13 and 1973 </span><a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jagdpanzer_38(t)#cite_note-5"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></a><a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jagdpanzer_38(t)#cite_note-6"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">7</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> remained in the service.</span></h3>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The differences of the tank hunter G13 for Jagdpanzer 38 (t) were:</span><br /><ul style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<li style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 19px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Now the attached muzzle brake</span></li>
<li style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 19px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">the remotely-operable MG was replaced by a Rundblickperiskop</span></li>
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<li style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 19px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The petrol engines were gradually replaced by diesel engines.</span></li>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Technical data of the Jagdpanzer 38 (t) </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mass</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">16 t</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Long</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">6,27 m</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Width</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2,63 m</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Height</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2,17 m</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Gauge</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">212,3 cm</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Chain width</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">35 cm</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ground clearance</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">38 cm</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #ddddbb; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">0</span><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> armament</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Main armament</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">7.5-cm-Pak 39 L/48</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Secondary armament</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1 × MG 34 oder 42 mg</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">PaK: 40 </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">MG: 1200</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kaliberlänge (PAK)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">48</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Plating</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Front</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">60 mm</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pages</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">20 mm</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Heck</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">20 mm</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ceiling</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">8 mm</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ground</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">10 mm</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mobility</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">PS 1 Praga EPA AC/258 </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">7754 cm ³</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">160 hp at 2800 rpm</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Power to weight</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">11.6 hp / t</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Maximum road</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">42 km / h</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">16 km / h</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">320 l</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">180 km (road) </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">100 cm</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">4</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Quantity</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2584</span></div>
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<br /><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></b>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12207674066689705982noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641198404911070544.post-20875196399728938122012-09-01T07:45:00.000-07:002012-09-01T07:45:00.152-07:00Nashorn (tank destroyer)<br />
<b id="internal-source-marker_0.04638901841826737" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Panzerjäger "Nashorn"</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (Rhino) (Sd.Kfz. 164) was a German anti-tank gun on self-propelled gun of the Wehrmacht in the Second World War . The tank destroyer was originally in mid-1943 as a 8.8-cm PaK 43/1 (L/71) on Geschützwagen III / IV (Sf) with the nickname " </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hornet</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> "in service. In February 1944, Adolf Hitler forbade the use of this name, however, because he found it inappropriate for a combat vehicle. Then it was renamed the "rhino".</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></b><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Panzerjäger Nashorn</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Main Features</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Crew</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">5 (commander, gunner, loader, driver, radio operator)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Long</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">8,44 m</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Width</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2,95 m</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2,94 m</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mass</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">24 t</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Armor and armament</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div>
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<a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panzerung"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Plating</span></a></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">10–30 mm</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Main armament</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">8.8-cm-Pak 43/1 L/71</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1 × 7.92 mm MG 34</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mobility</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Maybach HL 120 TRM </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">221 kW (300 PS)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">250 km (by road)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Development </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></h2>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The high demand of German troops on the Eastern Front of mobile anti-tank led to the Alkett in 1942 the Panzerjäger "Hornet" developed. The series production of 494 vehicles (February 1943-March 1945) took place in the German iron works.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hornet / Rhino based on the gun carriage III / IV, a modified chassis of the Panzer IV with gearbox and final drive of the Panzer III . The engine room from the stern area was moved to the middle of the chassis, in order to create space for the gun receptacle. This design was later in the howitzer Hummel use.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The vehicle had with the 8.8-cm PaK 43 . although a fire powerful weapon that could put virtually every tank of the Allies out of action, but the armor was very thin and open up and back Especially with artillery as with MG fire at short range, the crew was at risk. In addition, the vehicle was very high, and the Unentdecktbleiben survival difficult in addition to the battlefield.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><h2 dir="ltr">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ammunition</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></h2>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Explosive shell 43</span><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">10,2 kg</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">7,3 kg</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">9,4 kg</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Muzzle Velocity</span><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div>
</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 3px; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1000 m/s</span></div>
</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 3px; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1130 m/s</span></div>
</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 3px; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">750 m/s</span></div>
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<tr style="height: 0px;"><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 3px; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Penetration at 30 ° incidence</span><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div>
</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 7px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 7px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 7px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></td></tr>
<tr style="height: 0px;"><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 3px; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">from 100 meters</span></div>
</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 3px; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">203 mm</span></div>
</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 7px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 7px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></td></tr>
<tr style="height: 0px;"><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 3px; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">from 500 meters</span></div>
</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 3px; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">182 mm</span></div>
</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 3px; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">226 mm</span></div>
</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 7px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></td></tr>
<tr style="height: 0px;"><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 3px; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">from 1000 m distance</span></div>
</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 3px; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">167 mm</span></div>
</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 3px; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">192 mm</span></div>
</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 7px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></td></tr>
<tr style="height: 0px;"><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 3px; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">from 2000 m distance</span></div>
</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 3px; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">139 mm</span></div>
</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 3px; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">136 mm</span></div>
</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 7px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></td></tr>
<tr style="height: 0px;"><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 3px; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Penetration at 60 ° incidence</span><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div>
</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 7px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 7px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 7px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></td></tr>
<tr style="height: 0px;"><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 3px; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">from 0 m</span></div>
</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 3px; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">198 mm</span></div>
</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 3px; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">265 mm</span></div>
</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 7px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></td></tr>
<tr style="height: 0px;"><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 3px; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">from 500 meters</span></div>
</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 3px; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">182 mm</span></div>
</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 3px; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">226 mm</span></div>
</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 7px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></td></tr>
<tr style="height: 0px;"><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 3px; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">from 1000 m distance</span></div>
</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 3px; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">167 mm</span></div>
</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 3px; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">192 mm</span></div>
</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 7px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></td></tr>
<tr style="height: 0px;"><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 3px; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">from 1500 m</span></div>
</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 3px; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">153 mm</span></div>
</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 3px; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">162 mm</span></div>
</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 7px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></td></tr>
<tr style="height: 0px;"><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 3px; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">from 2000 m distance</span></div>
</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 3px; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">139 mm</span></div>
</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 3px; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">136 mm</span></div>
</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 7px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></td></tr>
<tr style="height: 0px;"><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 3px; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">from 2500 m</span></div>
</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 3px; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">127 mm</span></div>
</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 3px; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">114 mm</span></div>
</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 7px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></td></tr>
<tr style="height: 0px;"><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 3px; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Penetration at 90 ° incidence</span><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div>
</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 7px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 7px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 7px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></td></tr>
<tr style="height: 0px;"><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 3px; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">from 0 m</span></div>
</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 3px; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">225 mm</span></div>
</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 3px; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">311 mm</span></div>
</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 7px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></td></tr>
<tr style="height: 0px;"><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 3px; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">from 500 meters</span></div>
</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 3px; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">207 mm</span></div>
</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 3px; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">274 mm</span></div>
</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 7px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></td></tr>
<tr style="height: 0px;"><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 3px; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">from 1000 m distance</span></div>
</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 3px; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">190 mm</span></div>
</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 3px; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">241 mm</span></div>
</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 7px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></td></tr>
<tr style="height: 0px;"><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 3px; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">from 1500 m</span></div>
</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 3px; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">174 mm</span></div>
</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 3px; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">211 mm</span></div>
</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 7px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></td></tr>
<tr style="height: 0px;"><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 3px; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">from 2000 m distance</span></div>
</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 3px; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">159 mm</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">184 mm</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">from 2500 m</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">145 mm</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">159 mm</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Use </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></h2>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The majority of the Jagdpanzer "Hornet / Rhino" was on the eastern front and - in small numbers - in Italy in the heavy tank destroyer units 88, 93, 519, 525, 560 and 655 are used.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Each division consisted of three companies, each containing 14 tanks and fighter had plus 3 reserve tanks a target inventory of 45 hunting tanks. The first mission took place in the summer of 1943 at the Battle of Kursk instead.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The structure of a tank destroyer company hornet were: </span><a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nashorn_(Panzer)#cite_note-0"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0080; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></a><br /><ul style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Company leadership group (1 officer, 7 NCOs, 8 teams):</span></li>
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<li style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; list-style-type: circle; margin-left: -3px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Company Commander / tank destroyer leader, gunner, loader, radio operator, driver (Panzer 01)</span></li>
<li style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; list-style-type: circle; margin-left: -3px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Panzerjäger leader, gunner, loader, radio operator, driver (Panzer 02)</span></li>
<li style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; list-style-type: circle; margin-left: -3px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Company troop leader, driver (on middle-terrain car)</span></li>
<li style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; list-style-type: circle; margin-left: -3px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">3 motorcyclist (2 motorcycles and 1 motorcycle with sidecar)</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">First Train (1 officer, 13 NCOs, 17 teams):</span></li>
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<li style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; list-style-type: circle; margin-left: -3px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Platoon leader, Sergeant observation, drivers (on light-terrain car )</span></li>
<li style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; list-style-type: circle; margin-left: -3px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Motorcyclist (on motorcycle with sidecar)</span></li>
<li style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; list-style-type: circle; margin-left: -3px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Panzerjäger leader, gunner, loader, radio operator, driver (Panzer 11)</span></li>
<li style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; list-style-type: circle; margin-left: -3px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Panzerjäger leader, gunner, loader, radio operator, driver (Panzer 12)</span></li>
<li style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; list-style-type: circle; margin-left: -3px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Panzerjäger leader, gunner, loader, radio operator, driver (Panzer 13)</span></li>
<li style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; list-style-type: circle; margin-left: -3px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Panzerjäger leader, gunner, loader, radio operator, driver (Panzer 14)</span></li>
<li style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; list-style-type: circle; margin-left: -3px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2 drivers (on 2 2t crawler trucks, open for ammo)</span></li>
<li style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; list-style-type: circle; margin-left: -3px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1 motorist (on truck 3 tons of ammunition)</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Second Train as above (carapace 21-24)</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Third Train as above (carapace 31-34)</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Repair group (3 sergeants, 15 teams)</span></li>
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<li style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; list-style-type: circle; margin-left: -3px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">10 tanks waiting</span></li>
<li style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; list-style-type: circle; margin-left: -3px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2 armored radio waiting</span></li>
<li style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; list-style-type: circle; margin-left: -3px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2 Weapons Master</span></li>
<li style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; list-style-type: circle; margin-left: -3px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1 motorist (on light repair cars, Kfz.2/40)</span></li>
<li style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; list-style-type: circle; margin-left: -3px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1 motorist (on truck 3 tons of spare parts)</span></li>
<li style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; list-style-type: circle; margin-left: -3px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1 motorist (on truck 3 tons for workshop equipment, equipment for Kfz.I Group)</span></li>
<li style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; list-style-type: circle; margin-left: -3px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1 tank warden / drivers (on 2t crawler trucks, open )</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Exchange group (2 sergeants, 5 teams)</span></li>
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<li style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; list-style-type: circle; margin-left: -3px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Panzerjäger leader, gunner, loader, radio operator, 2 drivers</span></li>
<li style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; list-style-type: circle; margin-left: -3px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Drivers (in truck 3 tons)</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Battle armada (6 sergeants, 14 teams)</span></li>
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<li style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; list-style-type: circle; margin-left: -3px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sergeant, drivers (on light-terrain car )</span></li>
<li style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; list-style-type: circle; margin-left: -3px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sergeant, armorer, assistant armorer, 4 student assistant , Sergeant devices, drivers (trucks to 3 tons for equipment)</span></li>
<li style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; list-style-type: circle; margin-left: -3px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2 drivers (t on 2 Carrier 4.5, for fuel)</span></li>
<li style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; list-style-type: circle; margin-left: -3px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2 drivers (4.5 t to 2 truck for ammunition)</span></li>
<li style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; list-style-type: circle; margin-left: -3px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Field Kitchen sergeant, field cooking, student assistant , driver (on truck 3 to, for big box cooker)</span></li>
<li style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; list-style-type: circle; margin-left: -3px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Medical orderly, hospital porters / drivers (on motorcycle with sidecar)</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Luggage Albatross (1 sergeant, 3 teams)</span></li>
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<li style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; list-style-type: circle; margin-left: -3px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Accounting officer, shoemakers, tailors, drivers (on truck 1.5 tons, for luggage)</span></li>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12207674066689705982noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641198404911070544.post-87937915566666524042012-08-31T06:14:00.000-07:002012-08-31T06:14:00.223-07:00Mark 1<b id="internal-source-marker_0.5915892152115703" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mark I</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> was a British </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">tank</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> of the First World War and is considered the world's first operational tank model.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></b><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mark I</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Crew</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">8</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Long</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">9,9/8,5 m</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">4,17 m</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2,44 m</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mass</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">28/27 t</span></div>
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<a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panzerung"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Plating</span></a></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">6–10 mm</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">two 6-pounder cannons (Male)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">four machine guns ("time"), and six machine guns ("Female")</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">78 kW (106 PS)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">no</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">6 km / h</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">All proposals of civilian specialists to introduce an armored fighting machine were rejected before the First World War. After the start of the war grave itself, the British officer Ernest Dunlop Swinton working to develop a similar concept. His plans, however, were in the first instance by the General Staff and the Minister of War Lord Kitchener refused. After Swinton had made his political influence, he was able to push through a test of a sample vehicle combination. This failed, however. So the tank development would probably come to a halt, if not later prime minister and former Navy Minister Winston Churchill had taken the initiative. The energetic politician described the armor design unceremoniously as </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">land ship</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and thus falling under the Department of the Navy. Sun Churchill trained naval officers and civilians, the </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Committee for country vessels</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> . From the 17th September 1915 built Lieutenant Walter Gordon Wilson, the final prototype , later, </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mother</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> called. As the technical concept of the machine took shape, the committee received in December 1915, the code name </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">for the Committee to provide tanks</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> , hence the English word use today </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">tank</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> .</span></b><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Which was still in development technology demanded the eight-man crew to the utmost.But the control of the tank was a difficult task. The wooden chassis was placed at the rear to control unfit and was omitted from the November, 1916. Keep using the chain brake the course proved to be superhuman task, since this forces more soldiers were needed. As the only way the decoupling showed each a chain via a secondary gear to rotate the tank in a given direction. But even that was difficult because the instructions of the commander could be mediated only by knocking of a hammer, for the engines of the war machine produced a noise that drowned inside every human sound. These heavy labor in the belly of the monster was to perform at temperatures up to 50 ° C, partly, the temperatures high enough to ignite the ammunition was. </span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Also exhaust fumes and powder penetrated the unprotected interior and made the work of the first tank crews even more unbearable. A demarcated space for ammunition and provisions were not provided, so that about slipping ballast posed a constant risk of injury. When shelling could splinter or rivets flying around inside, the tank crews were therefore protected with heavy leather helmets, coats and face coverings.</span><br /><h2 dir="ltr">
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The British armored doctrine of World War I put on a joint use of two versions. Armored type </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Male</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (Male) as a combined should MG / gun -carriers fortified positions of the enemy dig. The pure version of the MG-carrier </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">female</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (female) should thereby the necessary coverage against attacking infantry offer. Serious danger threatened the tanks mainly by the German artillery , which could combat firing over open sights, the tank effectively, but also machine-gun fire, which was concentrated at one point, could penetrate the armor.Therefore Swinton proposed as a new main task of their own guns before fighting enemy artillery positions. To this end, he also encouraged the bombing by Royal Flying Corps in which he is another element of the later Blitzkrieg concept vorzeichnete. However you measure yourself builder of the new weapon to only limited strategic value, thus characterized the British officer in the tanks of a study of 1916 as follows:</span><br /><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 16pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">" </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It seems that the tanks are an auxiliary force of infantry, so they must be expected to use in the infantry and are under the same command.</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> "- Swinton, ED: </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Eyewitness.</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hodder & Stoughton, 1932, page 214</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The first use - Flers 1916 </span><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></h2>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The newly formed tank weapon was used in the year of their appearance only twice, on 15 September for the first time, all 49 vehicles available at Flers . Contrary to the ideas of its creator, the new war machines were not held back until you in large numbers could launch an offensive and the gun was sufficiently tested. </span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Thus, the first use of many failures were characterized by mechanical damage. Even if the few tanks that could break through the German lines proved to be effective, they were for a decisive blow far too few. The German General Staff was indeed moved by the new weapon in considerable anxiety, but had the Entente </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Powers playful element of surprise.Since the tanks were up on another small bet a few days later no longer used in the same year, the Germans got time to adjust to the new technology of the opponent. British tanks were captured during the Battle of Reims in 1918 by the Germans, with their emblems used provided against the Allies.</span></b>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Weight</span><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">28 t</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">27 t</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Long</span><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">32 '6 "(≈ 9.9 m with steering wheel), 26' 5" (8.05 m ≈ without steering wheel)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">32 '6 "(≈ 9.9 m with steering wheel), 26' 5" (8.05 m ≈ without steering wheel)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Width</span><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">13 '9 "(≈ 4.17 m)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">13 '9 "(≈ 4.17 m)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">8 "(≈ 2.44 m)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">8 "(≈ 2.44 m)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">52 cm</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">52 cm</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ca. 6 km / h</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ca. 6 km / h</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">227 l</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">227 l</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">36 km</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Arming</span><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">two QF-6-pounder cannons and four .303 machine guns</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">six machine guns</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Plating</span><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">6–10 mm</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">6–10 mm</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Crew</span><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">eight men</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">eight men</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The only remaining Mark I is now at the Bovington Tank Museum . He probably served during World War II as a tank driving school.</span></b>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12207674066689705982noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641198404911070544.post-35390340808662754642012-08-30T06:30:00.000-07:002012-08-30T06:30:02.104-07:00Half-track (Halbkettenfahrzeug)<b id="internal-source-marker_0.9606835679151118" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">half-track</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is a vehicle that is both normal wheels as well as a chain chassis similar to a tank has. Mostly, these vehicles have a normal steered front axle and chassis instead of a chain of one or more rear axles . They are usually one of the tractors expected.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">By combining chain chassis and steering axis is greater off-road capability than the pure wheeled vehicle reached. Manufacture and technology are again simpler than for pure tracked vehicle .</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">High expectations were 20th in the first half of the Century set in this technique. The French manufacturer Citroën crossed with halftracks 1922, the Sahara , 1924/25 Africa ( Croisière Noire ) and 1931/32 Asia ( Croisière Jaune ). After World War II half-track vehicles have become quite rare, in some cases they are even to be found in agriculture in mountainous regions.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The German army used in the Second World War, many half-track vehicles, such as the armored cars of Hanomag , for economic reasons: A half-track is cheaper than a full-tracked vehicle, on the other hand, however, take a much larger payload than a wheeled vehicle. This pretty light on vehicle designs can even guns (anti-tank guns, anti-aircraft machine guns) are placed, the stop the vehicle even at short firing only moderately shaken. Artillery tractors, which did not have to drive very fast, could attract much larger trailer loads, which in turn allowed the carriage to be drawn from the guns to construct optimal. Especially heavy loads can attract as easier as a rear chain Chassis greater traction can be achieved.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Halftracks initially had no traction seitendifferenzierbare (those necessary for a full-tracked vehicle for steering), but were controlled only with the front tires. An exception was the German half-tracks of World War II, because the steering only by the front axle in the area turned out to be totally inadequate. The benefits that have been achieved through reduced material cost of manufacturing, lower fuel consumption and wear and tear, but was the more involved maintenance of the wheel / chain system in the field opposite.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Air Force used during the Second World War by the NSU built Kettenkrad as a tractor to move aircraft between shelters and waiting positions.</span></b><br />
<b style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Datei:Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-L25668,_Russland,_Kettenfahrzeug.jpg&filetimestamp=20090516104311" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img height="176px;" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/9Me7L8Ws11XHNkleY2VF5FfJcLp2TDlL0rp8zBDX3ks3sf-VJ-c31hJGf22xyl-GjuUqid8o-x9M5FfqOy561GCCLD6YXFe0ggUmy0X0X1-1CLa_qAI" width="293px;" /></a></b>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12207674066689705982noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641198404911070544.post-88877456553541688822012-08-29T19:07:00.000-07:002012-08-29T19:07:00.185-07:00Anti-aircraft cannon tank Gepard<b id="internal-source-marker_0.7782021663151681" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">anti-aircraft cannon tank Gepard</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (german for Cheetah) (FlakPz Gepard) is an autonomous, all-weather combat-capable FlaK tanks from German production.</span></b><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Antiaircraft cannon tank Gepard 1A2</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #ddddbb; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Main Features</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Crew</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">3 (driver, gunner, commander)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Long</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">7.68 m (length of the turret at 12 o 'clock position)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Width</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">3,71 m</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Height</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">3.29 m (radar stowed)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Weight</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">47,5 t</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #ddddbb; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Armor and armament</span></div>
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<a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panzerung"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0080; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Plating</span></a></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">conventional steel armor</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Main armament</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2 × 35-mm-L/90- Maschinenkanonen OERLIKON-kDa</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">mit 2 × 320 Patronen FAPDS</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Self-defense</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Drive</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">610 kW (830 hp)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Torsion bar</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cheetah B2 accompany Leopard 1 at the NATO maneuvers REFORGER 1985</span></div>
<br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The cheetah is primarily designed for the tactical part of the combined arms combat the moving armored and mechanized infantry troops of the Armed Forces protection against low-flying aircraft to enter and attack helicopters. He owns about his battlefield mobility and motor performance properties comparable to those used at the time, or standing in the developing tank Leopard 1 , Marder and Jaguar . The cheetah was also used for the physical protection of high-quality stationary targets such as airfields or bridges. According to the operational doctrine of the Cold War, he can under ABC's full protection can be used.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The selection of weapons into account in particular the fight against heavily armored attack helicopters such as the Mil Mi-24 "Hind" , its armor provides effective protection against projectiles up to a caliber of 23 millimeters (mm).</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The cheetah was on another NATO member states such as the Netherlands , Belgium and finally Romania delivered. The Russian equivalent of the cheetah would be the air defense ZSU-23-4 "Shilka" , which was developed a decade earlier, but not the performance in target acquisition, fire control and target engagement during the journey reached, the development Tunguska M-1from the 1980s and the more modern Panzir-S1 system, with the latter two, however, combined with systems constitute tube and missile armament. Even over 30 years after its first commissioning is found particularly in the western states no equivalent.</span><br /><h2 dir="ltr">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The development of the Cheetah goes on studies of "Flakpanzer 2" back to 1965. He was the U.S. M42 Duster , due to the lack of radar could replace only fight optically detectable targets directly.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1967/68 there were various studies and development projects, including from Bofors with a 40-mm twin cannon. With the model </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">hero,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> armed with two 30-mm cannons, Rheinmetall (Armament and tower), AEG-Telefunken (competedtracking radar and computer), Siemens ( search radar ) and Porsche (development and tower). A competitive model came from the group </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Oerlikon Contraves Albis</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and was equipped with a 35-mm twin cannon. Although the caliber of 35 mm was unusual at the time, stood in comparison quickly discovered that it had a lower risk of development and significant advantages in fire fighting by the larger caliber, also showed the Dutch army interest in 35-mm system. After delays in the development of the hero and because of the tight budget situation , it was decided in the Ministry of Defence on 25 June 1970, to discontinue the program Matador. The development was now based on the 35-mm cannon Oerlikon and the subsequent radar from the Matador project as </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">FlakPz 35 mm,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> of the 1973 officially in the army under name </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cheetah</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> renamed.</span><br /><h3 dir="ltr">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Production</span></h3>
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The tank was built air defense in a joint project with Krauss-Maffei general contractor responsible for the mass production and the chassis was. The development to series production of the entire system was in Zurich Oerlikon Contraves (now part of Rheinmetall ) transferred. Other companies manufacture components in the following work packages: Blohm + Voss in Hamburg delivered tower and hull casings, Siemens-Albis manufactured the fire control and radar equipment, and the fire-Contraves. Final assembly of the tower took Wegmann who delivered him to the final assembly of Krauss-Maffei.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">First, four prototypes were (designation </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">B</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> built), the subsequent fifth prototype (label </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">C</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> ) was destined for the Netherlands and was equipped with a Dutch search radar. The German Army ordered 1,973 additional twelve pre-production models (designation </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">B1</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">B2R</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> ) of the cheetah, the modified radar equipment had (another search radar and pulse Doppler tracking radar), and in the same year 420 Series models (designation </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">B2</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> ). On 16 December 1976, the first cheetah was the army air defense troops passed the Bundeswehr. Overall, from 1976 to October 1980 432 FlakPz Cheetah delivered to the German Army, which, eleven antiaircraft regiments fitted out with 36 FlaKPz. The regiments were then shooting of six batteries of six tanks.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Koninklijke land power (the Dutch army) 1973 ordered five more pre-production models (name </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">CA</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> ) with a modified search radar (made by Philips ) and then 95 series models (designation </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">CA1</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">CA3</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> ), which were delivered by 1977 to 1979.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In April 1973, decided the Belgian armed forces , not the Dutch version of </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">CA1</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> to buy, but the cheaper German version </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">B2</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> . On 21 May 1973 gave Krauss-Maffei, the tender documents, on the 19th December adopted 1973rd On 4 April 1974 saw the appointment of 55 Cheetah in the configuration of the army, without ever having given their own prototype. 27 of which were equipped with laser range finders. The deliveries took place from December 1976 to February 1980.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The complexity of the cheetah with its electronics, radar and fire control systems will significantly compared to the purchase price of a Leopard 1 A4, in 1976 about 1.7 million DM , while that of the cheetah B2 cost DM 5.4 million.</span><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 13pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">From 1988, 206 by the Bundeswehr with a laser rangefinder equipped and were designated </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">B2L.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> During 1997 to 2000 it was 147 FlakPz a life extension (NDV) is subjected, after the combat efficiency for </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cheetah 2</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> turned out to be too costly. The Netherlands also participated with 60 vehicles on the NDV, which is identical except for radar, radios as well as the guidance system.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It included in the army installation of improved digital computer for the fire control system, measures to ensure the supportability, the connection to the army air defense reconnaissance and battle-management system ( HFlaAFüSys ) with scaffolding improved data radios type SEM 93 (transmitter / receiver, mobile 93) , and in particular the provision of the new FAPDS ammunition with much greater range and higher muzzle velocity.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Is this a </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">FlakPz Gepard 1A2.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> According to the structural design in the German army, the Indian valley below a reduced number of still 85 FlakPz 1A2 was provided as the core of the air defense over the year 2015, until the planned </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">system of air defense</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is introduced to the troops.</span><a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flugabwehrkanonenpanzer_Gepard#cite_note-4"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Due to the saving of the Bundeswehr was the "phase-out", ie with the decommissioning, as early as 2010 began.</span><br /><h3 dir="ltr">
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Prototype SR: X-Band, integr. MTI, FR: Pulse Doppler X-Band</span></div>
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<br /><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">SR = Suchradar, FR = Folgeradar, MTI = Moving Target Indication</span><br /><h2 dir="ltr">
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cheetah engine with davit, in the foreground, the exhaust system with air infiltration</span></div>
<br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The cheetah is based on a slightly modified chassis of the battle tank Leopard 1, of the complete drive unit with the 37.4 liter big 10-cylinder multi-fuel engine (type: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">MB 838 CaM 500 </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">) from MTU with two mechanical chargers were taken . The as-built V-engine with a cylinder angle of 90 degrees engine develops 610 kW at 2200 1/min (830 hp) and consumes according to the nature of the surface and depends on the driving style around 150 liters per 100 kilometers (l/100 km). To ensure a steady supply of oil even in difficult terrain and under extreme skew, the engine has a dry sump forced lubrication equipped. The gear (type: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">4 HP-250</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> ) of ZF Friedrichshafen and the exhaust system with air infiltration, reducing the infrared signature were adopted from the Leopard first</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At the site of the second ammunition magazine of the battle tank was installed, however, the FlaK Panzer Front left in the tub the supplementary motor (CM) for the power supply system (EVA). The 4-cylinder diesel engine of Daimler-Benz (Type: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">OM 314</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> ) is also designed as a multi-fuel engine, with a displacement of 3.8 l 66 kW (90 hp) and consumes depends on application status of the carapace between 10 and 20 liters per hour (l / h). ZM is coupled with a transfer case in which at different speeds five generators are operated: Two Metadyn machines in tandem with mass (which is used as energy storage at the acceleration and deceleration of the tower) for the power supply of the vertical and lateral lining drives, two 380 - Hz - AC generators with a capacity of 20 kVA for ventilation, fire control and radar systems, as well as a 300-A-28-V dc generator for the onboard power supply. The tank capacity is 985 liters of the cheetah and sufficient for a combined operating time of approximately 48 hours.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The chassis and the track were taken directly from the Leopard first It's a torsion bar spring mounted support roller drive with seven pairs of rollers. They are connected to the torsion bars on swing arms, whose deflection is limited by volute springs. The shock , however, were modified to achieve better stability during fire fighting. The chain is one of the company Diehl made rubber mounted with chain pads fitted, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">living Endverbinderkette</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (Type: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">D 640 A</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> ), ie, the chain links with a certain prestress interconnected by the bolts, with which the individual elements are connected to each other are molded with rubber into the sockets.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The modification of the well is clearly among others in a modified roller distance (8 cm increased distance between the third and fourth roller) and the shift of additional batteries in battery boxes at the stern. The batteries and thus the electrical system work with 24 volt DC power .</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The tub itself is made of welded steel armor and has only a single layer armor . While the front armor is 70 mm thick and corresponds to the 30 degree inclination of a breakdown length of 140 mm, the sides, bottom and rear armor is only between 20 and 30 mm thick. The fight and the machine room, for reasons of fire safety separated by a transverse bulkhead of each other. Due to the use of an original for a main battle tank developed trough the armor in the pan for an FlaK-tank still is unusually strong, which is the relatively high overall weight considerably, which is still above the Leopard first</span><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 13pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Driver's hatch closed driver backrest, three periscopes and the MLC-labeling</span></div>
<br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The driver of the cheetah sitting in the front right corner of the tub. Does the cheetah with open hatch and driver protection screen, for security reasons, the rotation of the tower is blocked, but the driver has the best overview. With enclosed operator guard the visibility for the driver is limited, but the cheetah is fully operational. With a closed hatch to the driver via three angle mirror orientation. The mean angle of the mirror can be through an image intensifier to be replaced, what enables the cheetah in a position at night without dipped headlights or Tarnlicht to be laid.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">From the driving position, the filter of the NBC protection and ventilation system are available, which are installed in space before the auxiliary motor in the tub. Ventilation sucks the outside air and passes it through various filters (including active carbon ) in the interior. The protection system generates in the tank one pressure to prevent the uncontrolled flow of potentially contaminated outside air, and enables a service life of up to 48 hours under NBC full protection. The ventilation system was in the life extension complemented by a 10-kW air conditioning, which can be used up to an ambient temperature of 46 ° C.</span><br /><h3 dir="ltr">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tower</span></h3>
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The configured as 2-man turret tower weighs just over 15 tons of ammunition. It is lightly armored and protects against shrapnel and rifle ammunition, but of machine guns , shaped charge ammunition and kinetic energy projectiles penetrate easily. The tower bears the complete weapons and radar systems, the electronics with the fire control and the entire supply of ammunition.The commander (left seat) and the gunner (right seat) are seated in the driving direction right shoulder to shoulder, side by side.</span><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 13pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">View of the tower from the rear left with gun</span></div>
<br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Due to its use of task that involves, among other low-flying aircraft and helicopter combat, are the tower and the weapons very dynamic and are therefore no different than most tanks hydraulically but over Metadynen ( Ward Leonard converters ) of very strong electric motors driven. The transmission of electrical energy from the generators and control signals to the tower viaslip rings manufacturer slip ring and equipment .</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The tower is so in less than 2.5 seconds once rotated 360 ° and the weapon system in just 1.5 seconds pivoted 90 ° up or down. As commander and gunner sit almost directly on the axis of rotation of the tower, they feel the fast rotation inside and hardly be unaffected in the precise and fast operation of the systems. Through the tower is accessed by a secure on safety door switch inside the armored tank to the driver of the cheetah (only at 12 o 'clock position of the tower possible) and the emergency hatch in the tank bottom, which is located behind the driver's seat. The safety switch blocked while the rotation of the tower and protects the tank crew from being crushed when passing through the door to be.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Most of the controls for the turret crew takes on five control panels, one in the middle panel (panel 3), mainly from the screen of the search radar and console 4 taken at gun-view the result of the radar.</span><br /><h3 dir="ltr">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Radars</span></h4>
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For target reconnaissance, the cheetah has a fold-down on the turret rear omnidirectional radar with six selectable frequencies and high data rate (60 rpm). In the army of the products manufactured by Siemens type </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">MPDR 12</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> in the S-band and with horizontal polarization , side lobe suppression and integrated secondary radar (type: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">MSR 400 Mk XII</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> ) for the Friend or Foe </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(English Identification Friend Foe / IFF)</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> used; The range is 15 kilometers. The search radar can also be operated during running of the tank, so as to ensure the monitoring of the air space in the transfer.</span><br /><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 13pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">erect search radar in the version of the German and Belgian Cheetah</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tracking radar of the cheetah with mounted laser rangefinder</span></div>
<br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Centered on the turret front, the tracking radar is located (in the army in the Ku-band ) with a range of 15 kilometers, two frequencies and phase detector. It is designed as a monopulse antenna, which means that under the radome four </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">horns</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> are that emit the signal. The following radar swings for target acquisition independently and after the fight again to the bullet-sensitive radar antenna and the laser rangefinder to the top of the sequence radar is mounted to protect. As with the tower or other rotating devices, the transmission of power, signals and other media is (for example, compressed air) through slip rings, in the case of the sequence radar a 225-way slip ring. Both radars operate completely independently of each other, have, because of the interpretation as Pulse-Doppler radar is a very good noise suppression against echoes </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(English Clutter )</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and electronic countermeasures </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(English Electronic Counter Measures / ECM)</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and are self-diagnostic systems ( </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">BITE</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> equipped = built in test equipment) for the electronics and radar. The display panel on the search radar is part 3 on a 15-cm radar screen and is as PPI Scope executed.</span><div dir="ltr">
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Suchradar</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">DE / BE</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">NL</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Frequency band</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">S-Band</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">X-Band</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Range</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">15 km</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">15 km</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">RPM</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">60 1/min</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">60 1/min</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Attenuation</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">60 dB</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">43 dB</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Antenna gain</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ca. 23 dB</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ca. 23 dB</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Polarisation</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">horizontal</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">circularly</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">selectable frequencies</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">6</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">6</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Secondary Radar</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Folgeradar</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">DE / BE</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">NL</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Frequency band</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ku-Band</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">X / Ka-Band</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Range</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">15 km</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">13 km</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">selectable frequencies</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">6</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Clutter suppression</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Optical reconnaissance</span></h4>
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Alternatively destinations are targeted via two optical Panoramaperiskope, such as failure of the subsequent radar or to intrude on a target, without betraying by the emission of radar radiation to their own location. By the two independent periscopes , it is also possible to combat a target, and at the same time to follow a further object or optically monitor the airspace and ground during the follow-up and control. The periscopes can range from 1.5 - to 6-fold magnification ( field of view 50 ° and 12.5 °) are switched and have defogger reticle illumination and wipers with washer system.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The tracking radar is further coupled to the periscopes of the commander and the indicative gunner, in the target collection, over is radar periscope of the gunner first automatically aligned to the target, the target tracking in addition to monitor visually or to the goal at fault for the IFF system identify.</span><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 13pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mouth of the cannon left with v 0 -spee</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Fire control system and calculator</span></h4>
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Because of the ballistic trajectory of the ammunition and the possible long distance to fast-moving aerial targets a precise calculation of the weapon system for effective fire fighting is required.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Starting from the above gyroscopes determined spatial position (inclination angle and direction) of the tank and the distance to the target is calculated the angle of rotation of the fire control of the tower and the angle of elevation of the weapons. In dependence on the determined speed, flight path, altitude and the distance of the flight destination of the required article and derivative determined. To improve the accuracy further, meteorological parameters such as air temperature and pressure, wind speed and direction are input current.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">By measuring the muzzle velocity (v 0 ) is a current average speed of projectiles, it is determined and included in the Feuerleitrechnung corrects weapon orientation accordingly. This adjustment is necessary because with every shot, the gun barrels are made warm and small variations in the ammunition, leading to different rates. To keep the calculation stable, the weapons computer will assume that the next bullet fired behaves very similar to the last.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The fire control for up to six different operating modes with up to three sub-modes, which depends on the threat situation, such as helicopters, and the technical status, as in the failure of a computer or the weapons radar can be selected. For example, in the mode will </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">helicopter</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> the laser rangefinder is activated, and thus simplifies the Feuerleitrechnung accelerated and fired more ammunition to combat the immediate threat of a rising above the treetops attack helicopter.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Target data can also be received from an external fire control and fed into the fire control. Determining a distance up to 5500 meters using the laser (Laser Type Nd: YAG laser ) is possible since version B2L and increases the accuracy of Feuerleitrechnung because the distance calculation is more accurate than the radar.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As part of the NDV to Version </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1 A2</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> of the cheetah, a new digital, was of EADS sophisticated weaponry computer installed. The computer uses 32-bit -68020 processors from Motorola with coprocessor and provides an interface for Command, Control and Communications (C3), that is a connection to military infrastructure systems. Was also a GPS -system (Type: PLGR 95) is installed, which supports the vehicle navigation system and the antenna was placed on the tower.</span><br /><h3 dir="ltr">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The 35-mm twin cannons </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">KDA L/90</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Oerlikon are the only offensive armament of the tank represents the type used is a gas-operated with the shot rigidly locked action and a gauge length of 90, which means that the tube is 3150 mm long (3710 mm with v 0 -gauge).</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The ignition of the cartridge is done mechanically by a firing pin . The entire weapon system is lafettiert the sides of the tower and non-stabilized, whereby a fire during the drive leads to a greater variation in the target, but in principle is possible. The elevation range of the weapon is -10 ° to +85 °. Each gun can be enabled, be stretched and relaxed to interference with the one weapon, such as ignition or feeding to continue firing at the other can. The weapon system disorders occur most often with blank ammunition, while the weapon system with combat ammunition is very reliable.</span><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 13pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Left arms case with ejection for the chord members (top center) and the magazine cover for the soil target ammunition (in front of it)</span></div>
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In normal operation of both weapons are fired in the burst in the equal exchange (right-left-right-left, etc.) to achieve a higher level in the target concentration and thus increase the probability of a hit. This leads to slightly perceptible lateral vibrations of the tower, but these have no effect on the point of impact. Therate of fire of 550 rounds per minute per gun, resulting in a total rate of fire of 1,100 rounds per minute. The cheetah would thus be in a position to complete the supply of ammunition in less than forty seconds sustained fire to use up. The output of the chord members is effected laterally upwardly over two ejector while the cartridge cases are ejected into the gun downward. To avoid that these cartridges jammed between turret and hull, thus hindering the turret rotation, the cheetah is equipped around the tower with Hülsenabweisblechen to reduce the gap size.</span><br /><h4 dir="ltr">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ammunition</span></h4>
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The combat ammunition against air and ground targets is slight in Endless Zerfallgurt (Type: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">DM70</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> ) stored in two separate containers for weapons munitions in the tower region, which is located within the well, and therefore is well protected. The two ammunition bunkers are separated from the fighting compartment with removable lids and take the ammo in S-shaped loops. They each hold 320 shot destination ammunition sufficient normally to fight more than 25 destinations. The ammunition against heavily armored ground targets (</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0b0080; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">HVAPDS T</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> ) is located on the other hand in an unarmoured magazine on the outside of each weapon and take 20 shots each. She is rolled when Resupply spiral. For the full Resupply the cheetah itself requires a well-rehearsed team about 15 minutes to an hour, as well as opening the ammunition trains (eight cartridges) and the new chord members for connecting the endless belt is necessary.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The switching of the ammunition flight between target and ground target ammunition takes the gunner. Means of a simple toggle switch, the ammunition feed is switched electromechanically in the weapon. This takes less than a second. As against Gefechtsmix destinations in the army, including the version B2L was a mix of </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">explosive incendiary ammunition</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (HEI) and </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">armored explosive incendiary ammunition</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> ( SAPHEI ) Taped 3 to 1. These types of ammunition had a muzzle velocity of 1175 meters per second (m / s) and a combined charge-delay fuse with self-destruct to avoid collateral damage , that is, the ammunition exploded automatically after a preset time when the detonator was not triggered otherwise. The engagement range was 3500 meters. At the time of decommissioning used the German Gepard 1A2 new FAPDS ammunition that a V 0 reaches of at least 1400 m / s. The effective range against air targets has been increased so significantly and amounted up to 5000 meters and 3500 meters altitude.</span><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 13pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For self-protection, the German Gepard has a pulse-controlled 76-mm smoke grenade from Wegmann with eight tubes. While four tubes are attached to both sides of the tower. In the army next to the personal equipment of the crew (two pistols are P8 and a submachine gun M2 ) in use even hand grenades and two thermite carried to the armor and the weapon system necessary to render it unusable.</span><br /><h3 dir="ltr">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Other</span></h3>
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The cheetah is without any additional equipment is able to cross water. To achieve the Tiefwatfähigkeit required crew about 10 minutes. After turning on the hydraulic submersible, switching the air supply for the drive and the inflation of the seals of the tower, he can dip so until almost to the bottom of water bodies and weapons they traverse. During this phase, it is no longer able to carry the fire fighting. The Flakpanzer, in contrast to Leopard 1 and Leopard 2 with additional equipment not disappear completely.</span><br /><h3 dir="ltr">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Developments</span></h3>
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Krauss-Maffei Wegmann , today as a merged company of the two original main producer is developing a missile system as additional armament for the cheetah. The system is based on the U.S. FIM-92 Stinger missile, which is already being used in the combined use of the army air defense troops. A twin Stinger system should do to be mounted laterally to the right 35-mm cannon.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In addition, the cheetah can today via an external control center can be remotely controlled for asset protection. The </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Smart Fort</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> called system offers full access to the system and allows the cheetah fight fire remotely from behind cover (for example, a bunker ).</span><br /><h2 dir="ltr">
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Practice ammunition 35 mm in girth</span></div>
<br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The effectiveness of using the Cheetah is based patient education by the radar and fire control system on the trained good interaction between the commander and gunner. Between the two there is a clear division of tasks and work that is already defined by the spatial arrangement of the panel parts and controls. The commander leads the tanks and the fire fight, the fault displays and monitors during tracking the environment and the search radar. He is also for the operation and monitoring of consoles 1 and 2, which take up the system power, the motor control of the ZM, all fault indicators and the radar selector, responsible. The gunner assumes the detection of the target and identifies the target in addition to optics, to the extent permitted visibility; moreover monitor the tracking radar and target tracking, the console of the weapons system operated (panel 5) and unlocks the guns. On the orders of the commander he fires the weapon, what happens on a floor pedal with safety lever.</span><br /><h3 dir="ltr">
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cheetah in flight target practice at the shooting range in the schedule is not guaranteed Todendorf</span></div>
<br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The cheetah clarify its environment through its search radar or two periscopes. Alternatively, it can receive data via radio the target data from an external radar. The gunner then marks on the orders of the commander the target with a type of joystick. The marking of the destination of the next triggers the swinging radar, which starts automatically to scan the area of elevation, since the search radar initially applied only the information on the azimuth angle. It is usually just the tower tracked. With detection of a target is the connection of the series and in addition the radar PRF, which is displayed on panel part 4. The fire control begins calculating and aligns the weapons. By the same date in modern aircraft are radar detectors respond and indicate to the flight crew so that they are in the beacon of a follow radars located. The cheetah is endangered from that date, as its location this can be well informed and bridged the aircraft tank with an anti-radar missile, such as the AGM-88 HARM or AS-17 Krypton could fight. Even the introduction of other remedies such as the dropping of chaff or evasive maneuvers, then more difficult to track and control.</span><br /><h3 dir="ltr">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Combat</span></h3>
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To fight against all enemies, there are different rates of fire . Planes are usually with fire selector </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">NORMAL</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> fought. Here, the fire control computer determines what number of cartridges is fired perfectly, maximum twelve rounds per gun. With limited ammo is with fire selector </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LIMITED</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> fired (ten rounds per gun). drone (UAV) with fire selector </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">SHORT</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> fought. Furthermore, these kinds of flames </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">TIME,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> which is used only in exceptional cases, and </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ONE</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> for the fight against ground targets are available.</span><br /><h3 dir="ltr">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Use against ground targets</span></h3>
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The fight against ground targets such as tanks or wheeled vehicles, is in the operation of the Feuerleitrechnung kept much simpler because the target lock is not possible through search and tracking radar. The acquisition and tracking is purely visually by one of the periscopes for the commander or gunner. The distance setting for the weapons is done manually, since neither can dissolve the search nor the tracking radar ground targets and the laser rangefinder in the operation </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ground targets</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is not provided.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ground targets, either in fast single shots or short bursts of fire fighting. Depending on the target species is either the destination or hard core ammunition used. Since the distance is estimated at a ground target, it makes sense in this case, tracer ammunition to use to correct after the first shot, the distance setting. A disadvantage of this method is greatly facilitated the elucidation of the tank through the enemy.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The cheetah is not normally able to destroy a modern battle tank, this can as much damage (for example, the sensors and the drive) that he himself can not escape the direct threat. Because of the relatively large caliber of the guns, the higher than those of most armored lies, he can, however lightly armored vehicles such as armored personnel carriers, armored vehicles and other air defense destroy easily.</span><br /><h2 dir="ltr">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Gepard 1 A2</span></h2>
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(Details to the last version of the Bundeswehr)</span><br /><ul style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<li style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: -5px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Crew: 1 driver, 2 man weapons operator (commander and gunner)</span></li>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dimensions and weight</span><br /><ul style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<li style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: -5px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Length: 7.76 m</span></li>
<li style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: -5px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Width: 3.28 m</span></li>
<li style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: -5px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Height: 4.22 m (with unfolded search radar)</span></li>
<li style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: -5px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Weight: 47.5 tonnes, of which 32 tons for the chassis and 15.5 tonnes for the tower;</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0b0080; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Military Load Class</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (MLC): 52</span></li>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Gepard 1A2</span></div>
<br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Power and Performance</span><br /><ul style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<li style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: -5px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Drive motor: 10-cylinder multi-fuel engine with 610 kW (830 hp) / Capacity: 37.4 liters,</span></li>
<li style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: -5px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Manufacturer: MTU , type: MB 838 CaM 500, consumption around 150 l/100 km</span></li>
<li style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: -5px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Additional motor (CM) for the power supply system (EVA): 4-cylinder diesel engine with 66 kW (90 hp) / Capacity: 3.8 liter,</span></li>
<li style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: -5px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Manufacturer: Daimler-Benz , Model: OM 314, consumption is around 10-20 l / h</span></li>
<li style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: -5px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tankvolumen: 985 l</span></li>
<li style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: -5px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Suspension: torsion bar spring mounted support roller drive with living Endverbindergleiskette</span></li>
<li style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: -5px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Top speed: approx 65 km / h</span></li>
<li style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: -5px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Driving range (road) about 550 km</span></li>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Primary armament</span><br /><ul style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<li style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: -5px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2 × 35 mm Zwillingskanone </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">KDA L/90</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> von Oerlikon Contraves GmbH</span></li>
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<li style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: circle; margin-left: -11px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Rate of fire: 550 rounds per minute per gun</span></li>
<li style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: circle; margin-left: -11px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Length of tube: 3150 mm (90 caliber length), length of the pipe with v 0 -gauge: 3710 mm</span></li>
<li style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: circle; margin-left: -11px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Drallart: Progressive twist right (0 ° -6 ° 30 '), rate of twist: 2853 mm Number of trains: 24</span></li>
<li style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: circle; margin-left: -11px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ammunition (Bundeswehr): FAPDS (Frangible Armour Piercing Discarding Sabot) against air and ground targets (v 0 > 1400 m / s),</span></li>
<li style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: circle; margin-left: -11px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">HVAPDS-T (High-Velocity Armour-Piercing Discarding Sabot-Tracer) against more armored ground targets (v 0 = 1385 m / s)</span></li>
<li style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: circle; margin-left: -11px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ammunition (and other users of earlier versions): different sub-types and full caliber (HEI, SAPHEI, APDS), Air Burst munitions types (such </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">AHEAD</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> ammunition)</span></li>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Self-defense</span><br /><ul style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<li style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: -5px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">pulse-controlled 76-mm smoke grenade from Wegmann with 2 × 4 tubes (mounted on the tower)</span></li>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Other</span><br /><ul style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Education and training in the army</span></h2>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cheetah at target practice on air targets in Todendorf</span></div>
<br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The operation and use of the FlakPz place great demands on the crew. It was one of the qualifications for the gunner of the most demanding uses for the conscripts soldiers was provided in the armed forces because it was associated with the longest duration of training.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For training at the Cheetah until version B2L were various training systems and simulators are available: The basic training was at the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">training facility Flakpanzer (AAF)</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> . To her the basics of the system were conveyed such as the raising of the systems of the cheetah and the basics of combat flight destinations. The </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">scrimmage space (ÜKr)</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> asked the next level of education represents He made possible by a spatial approach to the real tower a more realistic training and was used mainly to practice the procedure for system failures during the fight (such as the failure of the subsequent radar for target tracking) and the individual operations of the fire control know. The highest level of training provided to the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">destination simulator (MFI)</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is where networking is a real tank with a simulation system and thus the reality next training was made possible. In the course of military training spent the gunner several 100 hours in one of the training systems, according to the commander of the training more.</span><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 13pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Training system simulator-aircraft battery (ASF)</span></div>
<br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For the cheetah 1A2 was the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">education system simulator-aircraft battery (ASF)</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and introduced the above abolished. For the Shooting with live ammunition with the Cheetah used the army air defense troops two shooting ranges on the Baltic Sea within the schedule is not guaranteed. The fight against aerial targets was on the air defense firing range </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Todendorf</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> practiced. For shooting at targets on the ground and combined air and Erdzielschießen the adjacent training area was </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Putlos</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> available. The flight destinations, mainly in the form of drag sacks of types </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">TGL-3C</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">TGL-3D</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and drag bodies of type </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">DO-SK6</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> , were for the army in the first place by the EADS subsidiary </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">company for aerial target</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> towed (GFD).</span><br /><h2 dir="ltr">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Use in foreign armed forces</span></h2>
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In the Belgian army used 55 cheetah had to be scrapped in 1994 because Belgium due to budgetary constraints no longer in a position to participate in the necessary life extension (NDV).</span><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 13pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Romanian Cheetah on a military parade</span></div>
<br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The cheetah was also in the Dutch army (95 versions of the CA1-3) under the official name </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">PRTL</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (Pantser Rups Tegen Luchtdoelen, armored with chains against air targets) was introduced, which was called by the soldiers "Pruttle". Traditionally, each vehicle of the Dutch army is given a name beginning with the company name, which in this case due to the delivery of the first of the Cheetah </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">C</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> -Company, a name with </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">C</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> was at the beginning. They chose </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cheetah</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> , the English term for the big cat cheetah. Cheetah as a term for the Dutch cheetah comes from a published photo of this tank, which had a name written on his tower. The international press picked up on this name, and the error was finding its way into the literature. In 2000, the Dutch army was under the measures life extension </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cheetah PRTL</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> the official name of the tank after the army was tired of explaining the whole story again and again and Pruttle also appeared as a little menacing name for a tank. From 2005, but the Netherlands began in the Structural Reform of the army with the phasing out, but wanted to keep some units still in use until 2015. In the meantime (as of January 2011) is the cheetah in the equipment no longer lists the "Koninklijke land power". The Cheetah PRTL differ by the beam-like search radar, the modified smoke grenade with 2 × 6 tubes and track skirts the very appearance of the German Gepard. In contrast to those of the Dutch armed forces have also cheetah is still no laser rangefinder.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In its support of NATO accession candidates, the Bundeswehr has 43 Cheetah the old type B2 from November 2004 Romania submitted. The delivery of the first two tanks from the Bundeswehr stocks were, however, already in 2000. With the decommissioning of cheetahs by the Romanian army, the Bundeswehr is that the last user of the carapace.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In October 2011, organized by the Brazilian armed forces air defense shooting competition on the training ground Formosa in Brazil is a mobile air defense system for their organizations to be determined. Fitted with the Leopard 1A5 State also showed interest in the family vehicle belonging cheetah. Krauss-Maffei Wegmann bought for this purpose a Gepard 1A2 (formerly Y-259 820) of the Bundeswehr. Soldiers of the army air defense force training center supported this manufacturer at the presentation of the weapon system in Brazil. As a model of an objective representation Deltaflügler served with about one meter wingspan, the radar cross section was described by stakeholders as sufficiently. Involved in the shooting competition were also the 40-mm Bofors gun and anti-aircraft missiles Igla used already in the armed forces. Since the day of the shooting 11 knots wind speed was measured at the bottom of both weapons systems miss the modeller. The shooting result of cheetah as a whole was three downed drone. Also fights were hard targets at 3000 meters.</span><br /><h2 dir="ltr">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In November 2001, there was between the then Minister of Defence Rudolf Scharping and the Minister of Foreign Affairs (Foreign Minister) Joschka Fischer to a controversy over exports of heavy equipment from the depot of the Bundeswehr. The Secretary of Defense had to the defense - attache at the German embassies of 53 countries sent a 46-page catalog with specific vehicles for sale. These included next to the main battle tank Leopard 1, the Howitzer M109 , the Marder and others, including 269 cheetah. The Foreign Minister then said the passing of the catalog to these states, among other things, because it is, and to countries outside the NATO the European Union acted (eg Nigeria and Egypt ) and the States are subject to special licensing requirements.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The year before, already the independent had Weizsäcker Commission recommended in addition to the reduction of other heavy equipment to halve the cheetah population to reduce overcapacity in the armed forces. In March 2010, the then Chief of the Army, General Hans-Otto Budde , announced that all 90 remaining systems to be shut down for financial reasons, with immediate effect.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As a successor system for air defense cannon tanks are mobile units of the range protection system MANTIS serve and provide an extended range. The system is currently still in development, and the actual date of introduction to the Bundeswehr is still unclear.</span><br /><h2 dir="ltr">
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08012943482633544940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641198404911070544.post-71411713816072777402012-08-28T13:28:00.000-07:002012-08-28T13:28:00.520-07:00IVF (Marder 2)<b id="internal-source-marker_0.8496422322932631" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The IFV (IFV) </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Marder 2</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> was a prototype and planned successor to the Marder armored . He should be in terms of combat power and mobility in the battlefield between the raccoon and Leopard 2 close the gap. At its introduction in 1991, he was considered the most modern armored infantry in the world.</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Steel armor</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> / adapted composite armor</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">35/50-mm-Maschinenkanone </span><a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rh_503"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Rh 503</span></a></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Development History </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></h2>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In the 1980s, recognized the leadership of the armed forces that the raccoon be combat efficiency potential would have reached soon. It was decided after long discussions the mid-80s, the re-tendering of a successor. Linked to the project</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">chariot 90</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> resulted in the following demands:</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><ul style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">become fully operational with the Leopard 2</span></li>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In June 1984, the tender was published with the demands. The tender saw between 1997 and 2001 before the procurement of 1,000 vehicles. After several concept studies we chose the 1988 proposal by Krauss-Maffei as a solution to the transport and combat vehicle PUMA could gain first experiences. Krauss-Maffei was general contractor (GC) for this contract. The company Rheinmetall from Dusseldorf was a subcontractor responsible for the subsystem tower with fire control and armament.Oerlikon Contraves with Heckler & Koch took over the ammunition supply.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">By the fall of the Wall in 1989, the political environment changed drastically. In the context of the new global political situation - in particular the collapse of the USSR - a new armored personnel was seen as out of date. Given the costs of German unification , the abandoned Defense into volume production.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On 17 September 1991, the - until then unknown in the IFV-development - company introduced the first experimental support VT 001 still, but despite extensive tests and trials, the project in 1992 with the conclusion "too heavy, too big and too expensive" adjusted. For insider this compact-looking vehicle was a "space saver" - but t with a total weight of 44.3. The original Marder remained for several more years (with combat performance upgrades) the backbone of the armored infantry units of the Bundeswehr.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The prototype of the Marder 2 has since then alternately in the Army Technical Study Collection Koblenz or in tank museum in Munster for illustrative purposes.</span><br /><h2 dir="ltr">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Technical Description </span><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></h2>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 17px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Armament </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></h3>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As the main armament, the engineers used the machine gun Rh 503 with Doppelgurtzuführung to achieve the required combat distance of 2000 m. Unlike the Marder 1 the weapon system was stabilized. The lateral and vertical alignment of the main and secondary weapon was implemented via an electric leveler. In emergency operation was directed mechanically by hand. The lining drives enabled one side leveling range of 360 ° and a height indicative range of -10 ° to +60 °. The cadence of the main weapon was continuously variable from 150 to 400 rounds per minute.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Through the design of a double-caliber machine gun, it was possible to shoot with only through a tube change without further changes in addition to the 35 × 228-mm ammunition and 50 × 330-mm cylinder cartridges. The tube change took about five minutes. The ammunition feed is secured by a transport system gurtgliederloses from both sides. Ejecting the sleeves was in the weft direction. The electric drive of the third gun was jamming and interference reduction and increased reliability. Faulty and unexploded cartridges were ejected automatically. Disadvantage was the function of the energy supply of the vehicle electrical system. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> By Doppelgurtzuführung were two types of ammunition of the same caliber are fired in rapid succession.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As ammunition for both calibers two varieties were available. The anti used against hardened targets KE ammunition was developed by Rheinmetall APFSDS-T projectile ( </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Armor Piercing Fin Stabilized Discarding Sabot-Tracer</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> ). It was an armor-piercing kinetic energy projectile with sabot and tracer . Against light-up (soft) unarmored targets an electronically programmable HE ETF floor (was </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">High Explosive Electronic Time Fuze</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> ) used. Developed by Diehl multipurpose ammunition was able on impact or at a distance of between 5 to 10 m above the ground to detonate. The settings have been made immediately before the firing. In addition, a 50 mm caliber tracer propellant charge was added. The designation was HE-ETF-T. The entire ammo was in the prototype 287 cartridges, equivalent to 95.7% of the required supply of 300 cartridges.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As the secondary armament was in the army already established machine gun MG3 . It was parallel installed to the right of the main gun. A smoke grenade in caliber 76 mm with five throw cups on the left side of the tower and three launchers right of the machine gun shield allowed the crew to evade in combat the eyes of the opponent or the infantry squad during Absitzphase cover. An anti-tank guided missiles as its predecessor was not the prototype of Marder 2 provided.</span><br /><h3 dir="ltr">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 17px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Optics, fire control and aiming equipment </span><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></h3>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Marder 2 disposal as well as a battle tank on a fire control system , which enabled the effective use of on-board weapons while driving. The pre-stabilized machine gun followed the values of the stabilized level of the optics of the gunner and commander. The Marder 2 was considered to be all-weather and night battle ready.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The main target of the device gunner , the PERI-ZTWL 128/45 was used as a laser rangefinder, a day vision channel and a thermal imager . The acronym stood for ZTWL aimer, day vision, thermal imaging and laser distance measurement component - the numbers 128/45 stand for the entrance pupil diameter of the optics. The commander of the PERI-RT 60 via a separate independent Rundblickperiskop with day vision channel. For night vision, it was coupled with a thermal imaging channel with the thermal sight of the gunner. The acronym stood for RT panorama facility and day vision. Both workstations were redundant and had color displays.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It also featured the driver and gunner and the commander of three four -angle mirror for battlefield observation "in Luke." The infantry squad was equipped with three-angle mirrors on each side and one basic block in the two rear doors.</span><br /><h3 dir="ltr">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 17px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Protective Equipment</span><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></h3>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The armor was designed modularly and consisted of the self-supporting body armor and additional armor. With the steel armor specific construction had a basic level of sides offered before hard-core bullets of caliber 7.62 mm and 155-mm artillery before splintering protection. The adapted additional armor increased to around protection against 14.5-mm, and at the front before 30-mm projectiles. The interior received a splinter shield to protect the crew in case of fire in front of the vehicle absplitternden parts of the armor. An NBC protection system also allowed for use in contaminated land.</span><br /><h3 dir="ltr">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 17px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Drive and drive </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></h3>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As drive chose Krauss-Maffei torsion bar sprung support roller drive, the suspension travel is limited by disk dampers and hydraulic stops. Each side it had six double tyred rollers. Due to the front-mounted engine to the drive wheel of the drive at the front. The track was as Endverbinderkette with replaceable chain cushions designed. The clearance was 440 mm, the bottom pressure 8.8 N / cm ². To facilitate the supply of spare parts and so the logistics, drive parts corresponded largely to those of the Leopard Series.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The diesel engine was developed by MTU Friedrichshafen and manufactured from the Leopard-1 -derived engine. The later in the Howitzer 2000 built MTU 881 Ka-500 delivers a maximum power of 735 kW at 2,700 rpm. The displacement of the engine is 18.3 liters, the maximum torque of 3000 Nm at 2000 rpm. Unlike his counterpart from the Leopard 1 is the engine of the Marder 2 not much substance capable . The total fuel level in the tank is 890 liters. On the road at speeds of up to 60 km / h were achieved in the reverse it was 27 km / h The power to weight ratio was 16.6 kW / t - that of the Leopard 2A4 20 kW /.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The power supply of 24 V electrical system was carried out by a liquid-cooled 20-kW generator. The battery system consisted of six batteries of 12 volts with 300 amp hours for the tub and four batteries of 12 volts with 90 amp hours for the tower.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The transmission was an automatic, hydromechanical transmission of Renk. Was coupled via a hydraulic torque converter with lock-up clutch. It also used in the howitzer 2000 HSWL-284-C-gearbox has four forward and two reverse gears. Through an integrated operating and parking brakes and through the integrated reversing and steering gear so that braking and steering was possible.</span><br /><h3 dir="ltr">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 17px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Crew</span><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></h3>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The crew of the armored personnel consisted of the three-person crew, and the seven-man infantry section in the rear. The driver sitting on the right in the vehicle and had access to the rear combat zone through a passage to the right past the tower. The commander and gunner were the right and left housed in the turret basket of two-man turret TS 503 by Rheinmetall. For the infantry squad two rows of seats were available for every three soldiers. The seat assembly was back to back. The seventh seat was located in the passage, and provided for the squad leader of the shooter squads. A hydraulically operated tailgate as the Marder 1 application found was not provided.The access to the combat zone was about two rear doors that open toward the vehicle center. According to the operational doctrine ofarmored infantry - the fast switch between on and abgesessenem fight - four hatches were available that allowed the, fight over the side '.</span></b>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12207674066689705982noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641198404911070544.post-76765723780375614042012-08-28T13:15:00.000-07:002012-08-28T13:15:00.430-07:00IFV (Marder)<b id="internal-source-marker_0.5910740797407925" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The IFV (IFV) </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">raccoon</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is the main weapon system of armored infantry units of the Bundeswehr . In use are the Marder 1A3, 1A4 and 1A5. As the successor of the Marder IFV is </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Puma</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> developed.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></b><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ausgerüstet zum Verschießen von </span><a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platzpatrone"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Manövermunition</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Allgemeine Eigenschaften</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">3 + 6 (ab Marder 1A1)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">6,88 m</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">3,38 m</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">3,015 m</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">33,5 Tonnen</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Panzerung</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">gewalzter Panzerstahl</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">20-mm-Maschinenkanone MK 20 RH 202</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">MG3, MILAN-Panzerabwehrwaffe,Nebelmittelwurfanlage</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Beweglichkeit</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">V6-90°-Viertakt-Dieselmotor MTUMB 833 Ea-500</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">441 kW (600 </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">PS</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ca. 65 km/h (Straße)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">15,6 kW/t (bis 1A2)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">13,2 kW/t (1A3)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">500 km Straße</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">History </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></h2>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The project was already marten in September 1959 during the incipient stage of the production HS 30 . The aim was to provide an "equivalent" to the armored Leopard 1 to develop. The ATV staff (training, engineering, testing) of the Armoured Troops School Munster created the military demands with the following features:</span><br /><ul style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Absitzstärke increased by 12 men</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">high potential for protection of the crew</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">high mobility, driving range Leopard a 1 equal</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">straightforward exchange between on-and abgesessenem fight</span></li>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Moreover, it was intended to create an armored family, on the Kanonenjagdpanzer, Jagdpanzer missiles, 120 mm mortar vehicle, armored ambulance, armored, Flakpanzer, FlaRakpanzer and the lead tank air defense should build. Due to the fighting style of the armored infantry were, however, technical problems with the concept of the armored personnel carrier, the same should be the basis for all other platforms. The development of hunting gun and missile tank destroyer was to continue separately and in 1967 successfully completed. In January 1960, the group were Rheinstahl (Rheinstahl Witten, Rheinstahl Hanomag, engineers Warnecke) and Henschel AG (Thyssen Industrie AG Henschel Kassel) with MOWAG charged with the development of seven prototypes. As a result, several approaches have been presented based on the HS 30th The prototypes of the first generation were the RU 111, RU 112 and RU 122 of Rhine steel. 1HK 2/1 and 1HK 2/2 from Henschel and vehicles HM HM 1 and 2 of MOWAG All prototypes had a combat weight of 16 tonnes.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Due to the influence of the NATO partners, who demanded a say, and through a variety of proposals from other departments of the Armed Forces to test ran but slow. An agreement between the U.S. and the Federal Republic of Germany, to develop a common armored, was discarded.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In 1963, the list of demands for the second generation has been adjusted. This prototype was made with a combat weight of 20 tonnes.Rheinstahl Group built the armored RU 214, RU 261 and RU 262 with front engine, improved tailgate, one-man turret with 20-mm machine gun and anti-tank guided missiles . MOWAG sat with their prototypes 2M1 / 1, 2M1 / 2 and 2M1 / 3 on a mid engine.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In 1964 came the third generation of the IFV with a new list of demands, adapt to the new needs of the Bundeswehr. The armored personnel carrier was longer and wider. In addition, the car got a heck-MG and ball covers on the sides for a weapons use under armor protection. As further recognition of the second generation showed that the one-man turret was not the right way. Suggest a two-man turret with scheitellafettierter was automatic cannon developed, which could be integrated without fundamental changes in the IFV.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In 1967, the last ten prototypes were developed and tested extensively in troop trials. The company MOWAG was eliminated in 1968, accounted for the boot device for a missile. After two years of successful tests of the 1969 series for the delivery of 2136 armored personnel carriers was signed. The first production vehicle was on 7 Delivered in May 1971 at the Panzer Grenadiers. Made the armored personnel were from the company Rheinstahl AG Maschinenbau Kiel (MaK).</span><br /><h3 dir="ltr">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 17px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Combat performance upgrades </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></h3>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">During his period of service IFV was improved on several occasions in military parlance combat capability increased .</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In the years 1977 to 1979 saw the first combat efficiency, the raccoon with all the anti-tank weapon MILAN were equipped. Their use was made on or sold. Due on carrying four missiles the Absitzstärke drops to six men</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In the same year with completion of the retrofit MILAN received all martens another combat efficiency. The upgrade included the installation of a Doppelgurtzuführers for the machine cannon for selective firing of explosive fire (English </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">High Explosive Incendiary</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (HEI)) - or armor-piercing discarding sabot ammunition (English </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Armour Piercing Discarding Sabot</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (APDS)). Another significant change was the installation of better passive optics of the first generation. The included image intensifier was less sensitive to the spotlight and floor bolts.674 Marder 1 was updated to version A1 (+). This meant that additional equipment with a monitoring device on the basis of a thermal imaging device. With this it was possible to detect enemy tanks and at greater distances than ever before. 350 armored vehicles were on the stage Marder 1 A1 (-) brought. This in turn meant that these models did not receive any heat image-based observation optics, but were modified so that a retrofit would have been possible in the shortest time. The remaining 1,112 copies called Marder 1 A1A received no corresponding device and were not intended. The entire conversion was completed 1982nd</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">From 1984 to 1989 there was a renewed combat efficiency. This included the installation of a thermal imaging device (WBG) for the gunner, the elimination of the rear mount, the installation of the new family of radios SEM 80/90, the retrofitting of operating the MILAN-infrared adapter (MIRA) in the anti-tank weapon MILAN and angle mirror wash for driver. As part of this conversion, the name changed for all models of the weasel family to Marder first The name of the converted vehicles was Marder 1A2.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The next upgrade was seamless in the years 1989 to 1998 and included the improvement of passive armor protection, as well as the redesign of the assault crew compartment. So the hull front was armored, the hatch behind the driver disappeared. The rear hull roof was also armored and additionally received only three hatches. The tower, its apex carriage and the thermal imager were also armored. The total additional armor was thereby damped shock adapted flush on rubber elements. The sides have been supplemented with additional storage compartments, resulting in the elimination of the ball aperture result. The machine gun tower moved from right to the left side.The installation of a more powerful 720-horsepower engine has been omitted for reasons of cost. The entire conversion extended to 2097 infantry fighting vehicles, the name changed to Marder 1A3.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Furthermore, given some Marder 1A3 one crypto- and SATCOM -enabled SEM 93 . They are named Marder 1A4, but are externally indistinguishable from the Marder 1A3. They serve the commanders of mechanized infantry battalions as the lead tank.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In 2001, another small improvement followed by Rheinmetall Land Systems. This includes rearranging the ejector the smoke grenade and the programming of the controller for full use of the six cups. Due to the construction only five of the six cups were used. So the bottom-right cup was prior to the change so aligned that he lifted up the body hit the fog machine cannon. The name did not change.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A year later, on 18 December 2002, the planned since 1996 to combat efficiency Marder 1A5 began, it included the installation of a mine protective equipment by counteracting pressure blast mines and projectile-forming mines . These measures led to a further loss of mobility , while a total of 37.5 tons of weight gain as well as a complete overhaul and redesign of the rear fighting compartment, the package plan for the equipment, and a revision of the engine cooling system. Rheinmetall delivered the first of a total of 74 vehicles to the German Army. The Marder 1A5 are used in missions abroad, as well as a training vehicle in the schools of the army.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In December 2010, the first 10 marten 1A5A1 were delivered. They have space cooling system, jammers and multispectral Tarnausstattung, this equipment was designed especially for foreign missions, such as the Afghanistan operation. The space cooling system reduces the high temperature stress, while the jammer and the Barracuda Tarnausstattung increases with heat transfer system survivability. Until August 2011 a further 25 Marder IFV been updated 1A5A1. </span><a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marder_(Sch%C3%BCtzenpanzer)#cite_note-1A5A1-2"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0080; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></a><br /><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><h2 dir="ltr">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Marder 1 </span><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></h2>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Marder 1 is a front driven full-tracked vehicle. It serves the armored infantry combat vehicle and as the lead tank. By Kit VB and called Marder 1A3 VB he was in serious companies of mechanized infantry battalions until its dissolution as observation tank for forward observers (VB) of the angle of fire component ( armored mortar used 120 mm) and replaced the Kanonenjagdpanzer . The kit contains a TZG 90 A1 (portable target locator), a fire control type / Mrs MRI 86 (military computers, portable) and two SEM 90 (transmitter / receiver, mobile) and SEM 80 . The assembly of the TZG on the marten is possible with a suitable mounting bracket instead of MILAN, but it can also be used deposed.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Since the authority to operate at 31 December 2002, the Marder 1A3 VB replaced until the introduction of the new observation vehicle for the </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Joint Fire Support Teams</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (JFST) based on the fennec fox and Boxer and the optronic observation tank artillery on the M113. Since the Marder 1A3 is in the artillery observation tank is not as necessary reconstruction measures and would be too costly, it serves merely as the artillery troop transport vehicle. The designation is 1A3/ArtBeob marten.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In addition, the tub in the execution 1A3 as the basis for the driving school Marder, in slightly modified form in the Argentine armed forces under the name Tanque Argentino Mediano ( ger "Argentine moderate armor"), Vehiculo de Combate Transporte de Personal ( dt used "vehicle for transporting people in combat"). The air defense missile tank Roland also used a modified tub of martens, resembling due to the side storage boxes the Marder 1A3, but was designed differently.</span><br /><h3 dir="ltr">
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The hull of the armored personnel carrier is made of several varieties rolled welded steel tanks and designed as a solid armor. When the front, the sides and the rear of the crew are beveled and offer limited protection against fire from 20-mm machine guns (frontal), grenades and infantry weapons (to 7.62 mm). In addition, it reduces the effect of radiation. The attached since the Marder 1A3 additional armor was as Schott armor running and increased resistance at the critical points against shelling out 30-mm machine guns. To protect againstNBC weapons has the armored an NBC protective ventilation system with a capacity of three cubic meters per minute. For night driving, the driver has an image intensifier-propelled device that can be used instead of the average angle mirror. The commander and gunner are against the Marder 1A3 equipped only with a common thermal imaging device, which the commander of a light tube (English </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">light-pipe</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">may use).</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Like the leopard family, the Marder 1 with a hydraulic submersible and is up to two meters tiefwatfähig .</span><br /><h3 dir="ltr">
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 17px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The armored has a </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">torsion bar spring mounted</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> support roller drive with hydraulic shock absorbers in the first, second, fifth, and sixth roller. He has a "living" </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Endverbindergleiskette</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> with replaceable </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">chain cushions</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> the company </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Diehl</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> . When driving in snow, on ice or to increase the grip of the chain, a part of the chain pads against cast iron snow grippers are exchanged.</span></h3>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Powered by a liquid-cooled V-6 four-stroke pre-chamber diesel engine of the type MB 833 Ea-500 with two turbochargers of the company, MTU Friedrichshafen , The engine reaches an output of 441 kW (600 hp) at 2200 rpm from 22.4 liters. It speeds up the Marder 1A3 from stage to a top official of 65 km / h The armored personnel to stage 1A2 reached contrast speeds of 75 km / h</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Like the Leopard main battle tank, the drive system is designed as a complete engine block, consisting of motor and flanged shift, reverse and steering gear, which allows changing the complete drive train with the assistance of a recovery vehicle in a short time. The supply lines to the vehicle are equipped with self-sealing quick disconnect couplings. The cooling system is located to the vehicle, due to the front engine and the trunk lid, the fans sit right and left upwards in the rear of the vehicle. The system voltage is 24 volts, equivalent to the standard in the Bundeswehr. Generator is a generator with an output of 9 kW.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As a hydro-mechanical transmission shift, reverse and steering gear (HSWL 194) used the company Renk. Equipped with a torque converter with lock-up clutch, gearbox, steering gear shift and it also has a built-hydrodynamic flow brake ( retarder ). Switched to the four forward and four reverse gears by hand or with automatic switch, the gearbox is controlled electro-hydraulically. For the brake system is a hydraulic dual-circuit brake system .</span><br /><h3 dir="ltr">
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The raccoon has a in the two-man turret housed 20-mm machine cannon (BMK) MK 20 Rh 202 , a turret machine gun (TMG) MG3 (7.62 mm) and a smoke grenade launcher with six throwing cups. Optional on the tower, a guided missile (LFK) type MILAN be mounted and fired.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The lateral and vertical alignment of the main and secondary weapon is via an electro-hydraulic straightening machine or mechanically by hand in emergency mode. They allow a page indicative range of 360 degrees and an elevation range of -17.5 degrees to +65 degrees. The recommended speed of the 3.2-ton tower is in normal operation, 180 ° for four seconds.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The main weapon to be used against unarmored targets up to a distance of 2000 meters. Here comes the explosive incendiary ammunition (HEI) is used. Against lightly armored targets at 1000 meters sabot ammunition (APDS) is used. The use against heavily armored targets is possible in good conditions below 600 meters. When fighting a battle tank is the aperture with HEI possible to allow the use of MILAN and the armored infantry. A fire with armor-piercing ammunition is unsuccessful. Against air targets the area of influence is limited, and it is used then only against directly attacking destinations. The maximum engagement range is up to 2000 meters in helicopters and jet aircraft up to 1200 meters.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The maximum range of the main weapon of the struggle lies unabhäng distances at 6,000 to 11,000 meters.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For maneuver , the entire tube is exchanged for a blank firing device (MDD). This is a lot thicker and visually resembles the tube for sharp weapons use, but is closed at the end of the tube. The safety zone in front of the weapon is to maneuver ammunition and blank firing device 10 meters, 70 meters without MPG.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The secondary weapon is tracked parallel to the main weapon. The modification to the Marder 1A3 MG3 sitting left outside the apex mount. Installed into a tank weapons the MG3 is fired electrically and used against infantry.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Furthermore, in the rear can battle space housed armored infantry from three hatches over the side with their hand weapons (G36, MG3,MP2A1 , Granatpistole 40 mm ) and can also be used to fight dismounted.</span><br /><h2 dir="ltr">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Occupation in the Marder 1A3 </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></h2>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Th</span><a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Marder_(Sch%C3%BCtzenpanzer)&action=edit&section=8"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">e cr</span></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ew consists of at the armored infantry: commander , gunner (b</span><a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richtsch%C3%BCtze"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">oth in</span></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> the tower), driver (the front of the tub), and six grenadiers in the rear combat zone, as follows: Troop Commander ( G36 ), co</span><a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/HK_G36"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">nta</span></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ctors 1 ( MG3 ), co</span><a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/MG3"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">nta</span></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ctors 2 (G36 + MILAN ), </span><a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/MILAN"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">conta</span></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ctors 3 (G36 + MILAN-loader), contactors 4 (G36, PzFst3 ),</span><a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panzerfaust_3"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Sagit</span></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">tarius 5 ( Sniper ).</span><a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scharfsch%C3%BCtze"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></a></h2>
<a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scharfsch%C3%BCtze"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The t</span></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ask of the commander is to manage the tank or the group. This he observed from the tower of the present site, and can engage with the turrets into battle. If the primary use in dismounted combat, he leads the infantry squad, while the squad leader takes his place in the tower.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The job of the gunner is to use the turrets to observe the surrounding terrain with the optics of the carapace, and the radio traffic perform.For directing the turrets have commander and gunner via one Periskopvisier dual and six times magnification and on the common thermal imaging device. The operation of the tower is carried out via hydraulic</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> motors which ar</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">e powered by a 108-bar-hydraulic system. In the event of failure of the hydraulic system allows the gunner set the tower on winches and build a hand pump hydraulic pressure for additional functions.</span></b>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12207674066689705982noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641198404911070544.post-38656434598097448822012-08-27T13:45:00.000-07:002012-08-27T13:45:00.743-07:00Badger (armored) (Dachs )<b id="internal-source-marker_0.873964871512726" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Badger armored engineering 2A1</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> or </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pionierpanzer badger</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> belongs to the group of combat support vehicles and is the successor to the pioneering Tank 1 . He is an armored pioneer work unit and is based on the Leopard 1 chassis. His responsibilities include: the recovery of damaged vehicles, the manufacture of entries and exits as well as entrances and exits to water crossings or steep and muddy coastal waters, the Befahrbarmachen the water bottom and the donning and removing obstacles and barriers on the battlefield. Used the vehicle with the pioneers and pioneers of armored army the army and in theCanadian armed forces under the name </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Badger - Armoured Engineering Vehicle (AEV)</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> . He also is used in the Chilean army.It is the first pioneer by the Bundeswehr, which has been optimized specifically for the applications of the pioneers.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></b><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">MTU MB 838 CA-500, 10-Zylinder-</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mehrstoff</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> -Dieselmotor </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Torsionsstab ( </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Leopard 1</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Chassis)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Development </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></h2>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">After the failure of the project armored pioneer machine (GPM), the Bundeswehr still sought a successor for the first Pionierpanzer According to the mission fields of the pioneers , the conveyance of the movements of one's own fighting force and inhibiting the enemy by creating barriers, should all work at ABC - and armor protection to be executable. Was requested by the Ministry of Defence (MoD), an inexpensive full-fledged armored engineering that takes into account the experience of the GPM project. The total contract value comprised 140 vehicles with a total value of 190 million DM delivery target was 1990.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The company Maschinenbau Kiel (MaK), built in the period from 1981 to 1983 his first two prototypes and tested them in 1984 in experimental work. The third prototype was followed in 1987 after contracting by the Federal Office of Defense Technology and Procurement . The design of MaK based on a modified Bergepanzer 2 and received, instead of the crane with a telescopic bucket company Wieger Maschinenbau. The error-prone for the drill Engineer Vehicle 1 was not pursued. The ironworks Kaiserslautern (EWK) appeared responsible for the swing and the dredger. Jungenthal Jung took over again - just like with the GPM project - the renovation of the trucks. 75% of the components of the Leopard series found themselves in the roof. The combat weight t reached the 43rd</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">MaK made as a general contractor in 1988 the armored engineering. According to the planning objective of the MoD this arose from the conversion of 104 armored recovery vehicle 2 and the existing 36 Pionierpanzer first The first production vehicle of armored engineering 2A1 roof was on 13 April 1989 passed in Ploen, ahead of the target delivery of the Bundeswehr. Labeled A1 has been chosen to demonstrate the perfor</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">mance of the assembly relative to the recovery tank. The ladder on the telescopic arm and the bow MG accounted for roof and was only found on a prototype. The proven hydraulic and mechanical cutting angle was dropped also. Delivered a total of MaK - since 1992 a part of Rheinmetall Land Systems - 149 vehicles of this type in Germany and Canada . The Order of Canada for nine vehicles had a value of 49 million DM.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><h2 dir="ltr">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Technical Description </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></h2>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 17px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Interior and occupation</span><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></h3>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The crew consists of three men: the driver, the commander and a third crew member as an additional work force. The driver sits in the front right vehicle under a one-piece hatch. He controls the tank according to the specifications of the commander and served the pioneering technical institutions, including the sign, and the winds. He is also responsible for maintenance on the hull of the tank. The commander sits slightly to the left directly behind the driver. He leads the tank, keeps the radio connection to the higher-level management positions and may, if necessary to override the driver in control of the telescope. He is also responsible for loading and operation of the anti-aircraft machine gun. Third soldier sits in the rear part of the structure. The access to the combat zone via the two skylights or the hatch on the left side of the vehicle.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To have the communication vehicles of the Bundeswehr with a VHF SEM 80 (transmitter / receiver, mobile 80). All angles are in the range of implements mirror mounted to tilt in order to work under armor protection. As night vision devices used intensifier .</span><br /><h3 dir="ltr">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 17px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Protective Equipment </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></h3>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The trough of the roof is made of welded steel armor and has a single-layer armor. The level of protection for the chassis is similar to the Leopard 1 The armored structure reaches armor thickness from 25 mm to 35 mm and 10 mm for the sides of the roof. The hydraulic cylinder of the telescopic arm received a splinter protection. The standard equipment include a </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">NBC protection</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> - and ventilation system and a fire detection and suppression system. The exhaust system with air infiltration, reduces the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">infrared</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> signature and thus supports the passive armor protection.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Canadian Pionierpanzer also received for the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">KFOR</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ISAF</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> deployment provides </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">MEXAS</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> additional armor from </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">IBD Deisenroth Engineering</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> .</span><br /><h3 dir="ltr">
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The armament of the roof is mainly intended for self-defense. The three-man crew of the German armed forces has a </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">machine gun </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">MG3</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">on the anti-aircraft gun mount the commander's cupola, a </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">smoke grenade launcher</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> with six cups and throw their </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">hand weapons</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> . The Canadian Badger additionally comes with the bow gun. As a machine gun there is the Belgian </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">FN MAG</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> under the name </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">C6 GPM</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> .</span></h3>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The torsion bar suspension support roller drive of the leopard was adopted without changes. Each side it has seven double-tyred rollers and four support rollers. The suspension travel is limited by volute springs and stops. The drive wheel is at the back of the chain.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To avoid the loss of the chain, driving in difficult terrain ', received the prototypes on large discs on the drive wheel. The series vehicles were equipped with chain start carriers (driving wheel cleaners), which are attached as required across the drive wheel drum. When not in use it can be stored on the rear right tail. As a caterpillar is a "living" Endverbinderkette (type: </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">D 460A</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> ) with interchangeable chain upholstery manufacturer Diehl. The ground pressure is 0.92 kg / cm ².</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The complete drive train was also taken one to one. Powered by a 10-cylinder multi-fuel engine of the type MB 838 CaM-500 with two mechanical chargers reached the roof a top of 62 km / h The engine delivers 830 hp at 37.4 liters capacity and allows a power to weight of 19.3 hp / tonne. The fuel supply of tanks was increased to l 1410th The street range is therefore 500 km, with a consumption of 280 liters per 100 km. To ensure a steady supply of oil even in difficult terrain and in an inclined position, the engine is a dry sump forced lubrication equipped.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The power supply of 24 V electrical system is provided by a liquid-cooled 9-kW alternator. The battery system consists of six batteries of 12 volts with a total of 300 amp hours.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Power is transferred to the chain uses the badger the Manual 4 HP-250 by ZF Friedrichshafen . Flanged to the engine, it has four forward and two reverse gears are shifted electro-hydraulically. Is coupled with a hydraulic torque converter lockup clutch. The brakes of the vehicle meets the minimum requirements of the Road Traffic Licensing Regulations and are designed as a single-circuit hydraulic disc brakes with brake oil pump support and nitrogen reserve.</span><br /><h3 dir="ltr">
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The heart of the roof is his pioneering features. These include the telescopic arm with bucket, the clearing and support plate, the mountains and wind equipment and various means such as a pioneer of cutting and welding equipment and work lights. The </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">hydraulic system</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> has been improved in performance and works on the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">load-sensing</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> principle, which means that multiple hydraulic cylinders (up to three) can be operated simultaneously and independently of each load. The working pressure is 300 bar.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A special feature of the Engineer Vehicle 2 is the possibility of using an underwater elevator shaft and special preparations are working on engine and chassis even in a water depth of 4 m in continuous use. The control of the telescope is done by remote control from the bay.Without these measures, the working depth is 0.8 m and 2.25 m in Tiefwatausrüstung. A flushing the back of the battle space, originally designed for </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">armored pioneer machine</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> allows, also working in very dirty and fast flowing water. The circulating water is used for cooling of the engine and hydraulic oil.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As with the prototype of the GPM of the EER excavator plant was installed front right of the chassis. The similarity of the Teleskopbaggerarms is the most prominent feature of this design by MaK. The extendable to 9.20 m in length construction allows a swivel range of 195.5 °, and a rocking angle of + / -60 °. The earthworks are incurred </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">bucket</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> with teeth and drain holes are available. The capacity is 0.6 m³ to 1.1 m³. The excavator output reaches 140 m³ / h, the tensile strength of 125 kN. By a clamping device with two</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">claws</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> can beam, trees and other obstacles are removed. An optional device may be on the arm with the bucket used as a third claw together. In addition, the dredger will be used by the pioneers also for pressing and tearing.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Zurüstbarer a </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">swivel hook</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> on the telescopic arm also allows use as a crane that allows you loads of up to 7.8 t at 3.98 m radius and up to 2.6 tonnes at 7.92 m can raise throat. Through a technical change, the maximum load has been over the use of reduced time t 2, in which case the bridge area of the tank Quick bridge beaver t with 2.5 considered to be exceptional load. When an overload in crane operation, an overload warning system stops - which are reset manually by the operator must - crane operations.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The shape of the rough and support shield was selected for the working areas of the pioneers and can be expanded by folding extensions of 3.25 m to 3.75 m. The cutting angle is 50 ° fixed, the height 94 cm. Equipped with a tear, which loosens the material and swirled can antitank ditches and pushed obstacles. The clearing capacity is 270 m³ / h Applying a fight prior to a battle tank takes about 15 min to complete. Two zurüstbare fangs enable on-demand in driving backwards to a depth of 45 cm and a soil loosening. The dredging and use of wind shield serves as ground anchors, thus ensuring a stable level of pioneer tank.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The wind plant was built by MaK unchanged and an improved chuck adds that provides for winding and unwinding a uniform cable tension. The tensile force of the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">winch drum</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is 345 kN (34.5 t) in the single drawing and 690 kN (69 t) in the double move with </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">pulley</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> . The operating speed is 14 m / min in the first gear and 44 m / min in second gear. A role above the Räumschildmitte reduces the wear of the 90 m long and 33 mm thick rope rolling. When used underwater, the cable drive are covered and therefore not usable. The Canadian has Badger notwithstanding a </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">capstan winch</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> with a pulling force of 350 kN (35 t) in the single drawing.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Other features also include a cutting and welding machine (54 V/360 A), angle grinders , impact wrenches , car lifters, pulleys, towing scissors, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">shackles</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and hand tools in addition to an expanded set of tools. The loss of internal storage space was offset by three boxes on the vehicle, which was supplemented in 2009 with the German armed forces through a waterproof storage box in the engine cover. Lockable tool boxes on the hull sides should also protect against loss and damage to the equipment in use.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><div dir="ltr">
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pionierpanzer 2A1 Badger / Badger AEV</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">MTU MB 838 CA-M500, 10-cylinder </span><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">multi-fuel</span><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> diesel engine</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">610 kW (830 hp)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ZF 4 HP 250 planetary transmission with four forward and two reverse gears</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">torsion bar spring mounted support roller drive with seven wheels and four support rollers</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">8.930 m mm</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">3.250 mm</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2.570 mm</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">440 mm</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2250 mm, 4000 mm with preparing underwater driving and working capacity</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Grave-border capacity</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2.500 mm</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">900 mm</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">60 %</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">30 %</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">42.500 kg</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">43.000 kg</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">62 km / h</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">45 km / h</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1410 liters</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">500 km (road), 300 (center)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">a machine gun </span><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">MG3</span><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> or two </span><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">C6 GPM</span><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (Canada), </span><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">smoke grenade</span></div>
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</b>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12207674066689705982noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641198404911070544.post-55688939251243103192012-08-27T12:32:00.000-07:002012-08-27T12:32:00.582-07:00Lynx (scout car) (Luchs)<b id="internal-source-marker_0.8075125911273062" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">scout car 2 (JPZ 2) Lynx</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is a achträdriger, amphibious scout car from German production.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></b><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Spähpanzer 2 lynx</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Crew</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">4 men</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">7,34 m</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Width</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2,98 m</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2,50 m</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mass</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">19,6 t</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Plating</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">SmK</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> -safe</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Main armament</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1 × 20-mm- MK</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Secondary armament</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1 × 7,62-mm- Mg3</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Drive</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Daimler-Benz 10-cylinder multi-fuel engine with 390 hp</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Suspension</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Coil springs with shock absorbers</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Top speed</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">90 km / h (road)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Power / weight</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">20 hp / t</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">800 km (road)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">History </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></h2>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There were already in the German Wehrmacht one Panzerkampfwagen II Ausf L (Sd.Kfz. 123) "Lynx". With this, today's "Lynx" tanks has only the name in common. The Lynx scout car of Bundeswehr contrast, is a wheeled tank and based on the concept of the armored Sd.Kfz. 234 or its predecessor armored Sd.Kfz. 231 , of which he has retained the 8-wheel steering and an additional crew member to reverse driver. In addition, the lynx is buoyant (he will ride in water driven by two located in the rear thrusters), barely audible and equipped with bullet-resistant tires. Also the crew is the same model: driver,commander , gunner and driver reverse (radio operator).</span><br /><h2 dir="ltr">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Development and use </span><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></h2>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The vehicle was developed in 1968-1974 Porsche (as a commissioned work for Daimler Benz ), endgefertigt in 1975 by</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Thyssen-Henschel</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> in Kassel . Series production began in May 1975, the introduction to the Force from September 1975. By 1977, a total of 408 copies were shipped. The lynx replaced the French Hotchkiss SPz short 11-2, which at that time could look back on a 20-year service life in the armed forces. Was also the APC Fuchs developed with which it shares many components.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The hull of the lynx consists of welded steel. The drive unit consisting of engine, automatic transmission and various air and oil filters, is "classic" in the rear of the vehicle and can be replaced in a block. This makes the Lynx to a maintenance friendly weapon system. Another special feature is the fuel supply to the engine is running This represents a whole range of fuels - including diesel and gasoline. Fueled by diesel developed in the ten-cylinder engine around 285 kW at 2500 rpm. It all eight wheels are driven, the controller acts to either the four front wheels, the four rear wheels, or to all eight wheels. The eight-volume low-pressure tires have run-flat, for speeds up to 30 km / h all four axles are steered. This makes the Lynx to an agile and highly mobile vehicle, even though the vehicle length and height dimensions in a battle tank Leopard 1A5 surpass.Reaching the top speed is theoretically possible even when reversing, but it is not practiced under normal circumstances.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The multi-fuel engine is also at close practically inaudible, so that the operational safety precautions must be taken: If JPZ lynx are on maneuvers, may be slept only in predetermined areas on the floor. Otherwise there is a risk that people are overwhelmed.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In connection with a need to repair vehicles in the period 1980-1983 with a double belt feeder (DGZ) for optional blasting fire and hard-core ammunition retrofitted (LYNX A1). From 1985, the vehicles received a thermal imaging device (version JPZ 2), the IR / white light headlight aim was omitted. Due to the increased weight was lost buoyancy. The vehicle has an integrated NBC protective ventilation system.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The lynx is not intended for combat operations - rather it is to spy out undetected enemy positions and movements. The JPZ 2 "Lynx" A2 was used as part of IFOR in Croatia and Bosnia and KFOR in Kosovo as a convoy escort. He also served with SFOR in Bosnia and Herzegovina as part of peacekeeping. Part of the vehicles used there, as well as some of the stationed in Macedonia and Kosovo, was increased combat capability.</span><br /><h2 dir="ltr">
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Board </span><a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maschinenkanone"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">machine gun </span></a><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Rh 202</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Cal 20 mm of Rheinmetall , rate of fire: 800-1000 rounds / min, combat range up to 2000 meters, the main combat range 800 m, Doppelgurtzuführung (Version A1)</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">MG3 Cal 7.62 mm on swivel mount</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Integrated ABC -protection and ventilation system</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Since the mid-1980s combat efficiency with installation of a thermal imaging target and monitoring device (version A2), (since by increased weight loss of independent buoyancy)</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Combat efficiency of some models by installing a GPS navigation system, a gyroscope and an additional data radio antenna</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">PMR SEM 25 , HF shortwave unit XK 405</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The lynx was last still in the brigades of the stabilizing forces of the army used. There he was - in addition to the scout car fennec - in from the armored reconnaissance battalions emerged in 2008, newly established army reconnaissance troop . In addition, he was in the EUFOR (former IFOR then SFOR) in Croatia and Bosnia and KFOR in Kosovo used as a convoy escort. The last piece of this Spähpanzer 68 (June 2008) [2] were asked in January 2009 out of service.</span><br /><h2 dir="ltr">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Specifications</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></h2>
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<tr style="height: 0px;"><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 7px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Battle ground:</span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 7px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">19,6 t</span></td></tr>
<tr style="height: 0px;"><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 7px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tower weight:</span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 7px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2,15 t</span></td></tr>
<tr style="height: 0px;"><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 7px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Front axle load:</span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 7px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2 x 4,8 t</span></td></tr>
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</b>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12207674066689705982noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641198404911070544.post-19591688270652479632012-08-26T13:27:00.000-07:002012-08-26T13:27:00.956-07:00TPz (Fuchs)<b id="internal-source-marker_0.7957159562502056" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">APC Fuchs</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (TPz Fuchs) is an amphibious armored personnel carriers from German production. Besides his main responsibilities as armored and Rüstsatzträger the six-wheeled, used four-wheel drive vehicle as the basis for the anti-aircraft armored Wildcat as well as weapons carriers for various weapon systems in the testing phase. Besides the different vehicle variants is a fundamental distinction between the </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1 and the further fox fox second He was from the former defense companyThyssen - Henschel produced, which joined in 1999 Rheinmetall Land Systems and a subsidiary of Rheinmetall AG. The Bundeswehr will have future 765 TPz Fuchs.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">APC 1 "Fuchs"</span><a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Datei:TPz1.Fuchs.Pionier.jpg&filetimestamp=20060903133900" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img height="300px;" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/uNi4Cq3Hg705FiG9vjRyd2-B3i7VQtS_-Xy2hn8z7V-tI2vThc5UNgNgyceQ7OXcT8SwGG2wNDRU4VImKBdLLFczITSueqKeT6kKmbMmV6brh6FJ8mo" width="400px;" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></b><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">6,83 m (Standard)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">7,30 m (ABC)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2,98 m</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">3,04 m (MSA)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2.30 m (without antennas) </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2.37 m (ABC)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">16.5 t (EloKa) </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">17 t (standard, Funk und ABC) </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">19 t (MSA)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">up to three 7.62-mm MG3 or two 7.62-mm MG3 and an anti-tank missile </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">MILAN</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mercedes-Benz 8-Zylinder-Diesel Engine Type FOR 402A mit Abgasturbolader , 12,763 cm ³ </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mercedes-Benz 6-Zylinder-Diesel Engine Type FOR 501LA block Abgasturbolader und Ladeluftkühler , 11,946 cm ³ (MSA) </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">FOR 402A: 235 kW (320 PS) </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">FOR 501LA: 315 kW (428 PS)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Suspension</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">hydraulic shock absorbers, coil springs</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Development</span></h2>
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The development of the fox began in 1961 and was part of the planned second-generation all-terrain armored wheeled vehicles for the German Bundeswehr . Daimler-Benz was awarded the 1962 contract for concept testing. In 1964, the trial of the six prototypes with a combat weight of between 7 and 10 tons (was Unimog SH, T) and by the Swiss company Mowag developed vehicle stopped for the floating operation.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">That same year, a new approach with new requirements followed in accordance with the NATO standards divided into Nutzklassen 0.5, 2, 4, 7 and 10 tonnes (t). To realize this project further, the army undertook the attempt to win the vehicle manufacturer for cooperation. About the </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Association of German Automobile Manufacturers</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> succeeded, the company Henschel , Bussing , KHD , Krupp and MAN to take under contract. Daimler-Benz took part in 1966 as a competitor in the tender.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1968 introduced the two candidates their prototypes before. A year later, the army changed its requirements in 1964 and again demanded only an armored, all-terrain, amphibious transporter with NBC protection , a minimum payload of two tons and a total payload of four tons.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In subsequent years, the project was developed. Daimler-Benz was given by his version of the contract for the development of the transport vehicle (6 × 6) and the Spähpanzer 2 "Lynx" for the removal of the scout car Hotchkiss 11-2 and M41 . In 1973 focused on the further development of the transport tank and realized the universal applicability. Ten armored 1 were at the Federal Office for Defence Technology and Procurement delivered (BWB) for troop testing. A study on the APC 2 (4 × 4) and light reconnaissance tanks 3 (4 × 4) was allowed in 1979 with the serial production of the transport tank 1 by Thyssen - Henschel in Kassel fall as a general contractor.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The pioneering amphibious reconnaissance vehicle (APE) on the basis of the study APC 2, now in the Army Technical Study Collection Koblenz be visited. A model with a 20-mm machine cannon also not reached the production stage.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1031 to 1993 vehicles were delivered to the German Army and replaced the IFV Hotchkiss and M113 in parts of their function.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><h2 dir="ltr">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Fox 1 </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></h2>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Fox 1 is an armored wheeled tank with all-wheel-drive and swimming. He is in most branches of the German Army and is used by its built-in conversion kits and all-rounders in the Armed Forces for the transportation of material and people on the battlefield. In addition, some of the armored vehicle are as arbitrators in combat training center of the army used.</span><br /><h3 dir="ltr">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 17px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Structure </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></h3>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The vehicle consists of a monocoque welded armored tank and armored glass panels with fire. She is teilgeschottet and provides the crew protection against numerous handguns and splitter. The pan is divided into drivers, engines and transport space . The driver's compartment is through a crawling tunnel, which passes right at the machine room, connected to the cargo space. For protection againstweapons of mass destruction , all versions of a NBC protective ventilation system with a capacity of three cubic meters per minute. For night driving, the driver has an image intensifier -propelled device that can be used instead of the angle mirror. In floating operation of the tank is driven by two propellers. The time required for the water ride surge shield can be folded hydraulically.</span><br /><h3 dir="ltr">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 17px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Engine and chassis </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></h3>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Powering the fox without additional armor of an 8-cylinder diesel engine (type: OM 402A) from the OM-400 by Mercedes Benz. Arranged in a V shape and equipped with two turbochargers, the engine delivers with a displacement of 12,763 cm ³ 235 kW (320 hp) at 2,500 rpm.The speed limit is 96 kilometers per hour (km / h) and can be briefly increased h to 130 km /. The minimum speed is four km / h Its permanent all-wheel drive in conjunction with its chassis give it both on and off the road a high mobility and safety. His two steering axles allow him this a turning circle of 17 meters. The chassis has a ground clearance of 40 cm.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">During operation of the swimming takes control of the commander of the front passenger door and serves two thrusters of the fox on a kind of joystick, the so-called "floating handle" that allows pivoting of the propeller at 360 °. Are powered by a joint steering propeller shaft intermediate bearing for the main distributor. The speed of the counter-rotating propeller is proportional to engine speed and is controlled by the driver. The swim drive allows the fox a swimming speed of up to ten km / h</span><br /><h3 dir="ltr">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 17px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Armament </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></h3>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The arming of the fox is primarily intended for self-defense. Thus, the variations of the Bundeswehr have a maximum of three machine guns MG3 on Free Indicative carriage. This option is applicable only when the troop carriers used. The first machine gun is on the rotary ring mount mounted to the front passenger door and another on the rear hatch and fight, in exceptional cases. on the commander's hatch in the vehicle center By the theoretical target range of 360 °, this possibility is seldom used.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When the troop carriers with anti-tank weapon MILAN only two MG3 are provided. The starting system of MILAN is installed on the commander's hatch and allows the infantry combat armored vehicles. All other variants, except the ambulances have at least an MG3 on the passenger door.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For self-protection of the crew of the fox is a smoke grenade launcher with six throwing cups available to escape with fog or smoke grenades, the vehicle of the view of the attacker can.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For organizations of first responders has been since deploying in Somalia in 1993 worked on a zusatzgepanzerten fox with 20-millimeter cannon. Equipped with a turret of Keller and Knappich Augsburg ( KUKA ) Defense Technology, now also part of Rheinmetall, and Rh 202by Rheinmetall decreed the </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">fox-KRK</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> on an approximately equal firepower as the Marder and should take over the task of convoy escort.Due to technical difficulties and serious deficiencies, the project was discontinued in 1999.</span><a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuchs_(Panzer)#cite_note-1"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0080; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></a><br /><h2 dir="ltr">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The 1A8 wear after admission, the remotely operated wea</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></h2>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">pon station </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">FLW 200</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> of KMW.</span><br /><h2 dir="ltr">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Variants, equipment, conversion kits</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></h2>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Fuchs armored transport can be adapted to the respective application with various installation kits (EBS) or Rüstsatzen (RS). Due to the different basic versions (standard, radio, electronic warfare) and the various built-in conversion kits and there are more than 90 possible combination options.</span><br /><h3 dir="ltr">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 17px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Combat performance upgrades </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></h3>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Since the introduction of the Bundeswehr, the fox was repeatedly increased combat capability (KWS). In addition to the overhaul of vehicles and material conservation various foxes were upgraded. Such were the first transport tanks with a radio SEM equipped 25/35 and have been equipped from the conversion to a 1A4 with the more powerful radio family SEM 80/90. Other vehicles also received thecrypto- and SATCOM -enabled SEM 93 and held as 1A6. In a large KWS to type 1A7 got some variants of the fox among other things, additional armor. As part of the introduction of the TPz 1A8 in 2008, among other armouring for selected vehicles, other transport tanks of this type were introduced to the latest technology. This gives the sentences lead vehicle, group car pioneers, group vehicle armored reconnaissance and Mobile Medical Team , the Command and Control Information System FAUST (guidance equipment, tactical) for network-centric operations and integration into the existing system FüInfoSys army of the armed forces. [3] with were also 2008 isolated the APC one jammer (CG20) equipped. In English as the "misery" or "Counter-IED" designated fernzündbare systems serve as protection against improvised explosive devices .</span><br /><a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuchs_(Panzer)#cite_note-3"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0080; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></a><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The data used in the armed variants are:</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><h3 dir="ltr">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 17px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">TPz 1 standard </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></h3>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The standard version or basic model serves as a crew transport vehicle. The basic model can be supplemented with the following installation and equipment kits. The rates determine the arrangement of the equipment in and on the vehicle and the vehicle armament. Externally, the basic model on the smooth rear doors can be seen, as it has no power generator unit (SEA) and the muffler for the SEA missing 15 kW on the left side of the vehicle.</span><br /><h4 dir="ltr">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">EBS Armored Reconnaissance Group / hunter group with MILAN anti-tank weapon (KWS to TPz 1A4) </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></h4>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">With this kit, the fox is a troop carrier in the armored infantry, mountain troops, fighters, reconnaissance planes and tanks in the Franco-German Brigade used. He has eight seats, mounts for weapons and equipment of the soldiers and the preparation for the weapon system MILAN .</span><br /><h4 dir="ltr">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">EBS Group infantry vehicle (KWS to TPz 1A4)</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></h4>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This kit matches the </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">EBS group armored reconnaissance / fighter group</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> , but without MILAN preparation.</span><br /><h4 dir="ltr">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">EBS Group vehicle Pioneers (KWS to TPz 1A4)</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></h4>
<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The EBS </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Group vehicle pioneers</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> changed the battle space of the fox to accommodate a tank pioneer group including equipment and weapons. Sun has the </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pi-fox</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> all the necessary supports for the equipment and weaponry of the pioneers. Outwardly, this variant is in the two striking container for receiving the S-wire rollers seen on the roof and the extra entrenching tools on the vehicle.</span><br /><h4 dir="ltr">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">EBS management and radio vehicle with and without 5-kW generator unit</span><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></h4>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The basic model is that with EBS to a lead vehicle. The vehicle has three folding seats, a folding table, a location map and board isolated over a portable generator unit. Externally, these vehicles can be identified by the crank for the mast as antenna on the right side of the vehicle, multiple vehicle antennas of the type FA-80 and the supports of the cable reels on the roof.</span><br /><h4 dir="ltr">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">EBS pioneering lead vehicle </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></h4>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The pioneering leadership in the vehicle meets the equipment </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">EBS management and radio vehicle</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> with the difference that in the interior of a safe for locking and other documents on classified documents has been installed. The unit is called PiFü Fox armored transport vehicle is the pioneer units as Pioniererkunder at divisional level and as a command vehicle for the company commander and platoon to brigade level.</span><br /><h4 dir="ltr">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">EBS medical group with space cooling system (KWS to TPz 1A4/A4A1) </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></h4>
<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">With the EBS, the fox is equipped to an armored ambulances (KrKw). It allows up to four horizontal and two horizontal and four seated wounded and a medic will be transported to the supply. The brackets correspond to the NATO standard, which allows the inclusion of other nations such equipment. Under the Geneva Convention, the vehicle is armed.</span><br /><h4 dir="ltr">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">RS radio team brigade commander with HF unit 400 watts</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></h4>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The conversion kit complements the Fox FüFu and is used by the armored reconnaissance troop. It differs only by an additional antenna, the additional HF radio and a large, fold-generator unit in the interior.</span><br /><h3 dir="ltr">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 17px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">EW TPz 1A1 </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></h3>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This fox is the Signal Corps Electronic Warfare for electronic warfare . The transport tanks vary in appearance due to the missing flood shield, pulled down in the rear wheel arches and the missing propeller. The electronic warfare units have the equipment kits </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">jammer 33 "Bumblebee"</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and the </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">HF / VHF reconnaissance unit "finders"</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> .</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The jammer of Hummel operates in multi-channel operation and is used to treat voice and data connections. The frequency is in the VHF range at 20 to 80 MHz and in the UHF range at 100 to 500 MHz. The vehicle has a 15-kW generator unit and is externally visible at the multi-antenna system on the roof.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The HF / VHF reconnaissance unit is used for targeting with radio stations. The "finder" has an extendable to twelve meter mast installation on the vehicle roof. Developed by the EADS system enables the reception of the troops in the radio frequency range of tens of kilohertz (kHz) up to 40 GHz.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Since 2007 the armed forces over a uprated combat Hummel and direction finders (KWS RMB) with improved antenna system.</span><br /><h3 dir="ltr">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 17px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">TPz 1A2/A5 radio </span><a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Aufkl%C3%A4rungsbataillon_8&action=edit&redlink=1"><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #a55858; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></a></h3>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The APC in its basic model </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">radio</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> has been fitted with radio equipment kits. The variants some of them have a 5-kW generator unit (SEA) in the left rear door or a room cooler. With the introduction of radios SEM 80/90 bear the name variants </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">TPz Fuchs 1A5</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> . Externally, these variants are identified by the box-shaped cultivation instead of the left rear door and the missing muffler for the SEA to 15 kilowatts (kW) on the left side of the vehicle.</span><br /><h4 dir="ltr">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">EBS management and radio FüFu vehicle with 5-kW-SEA</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></h4>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This variant is used for guiding one's own troops. In contrast to the basic model has FüFu this variant a fixed generator unit in the left rear door to the increased power consumption of the radio and transmitter system in the state guarantee. He is also equipped with a crank mast antenna for the state and has the inside on folding tables, multiple radios (at least three), and a location map-board.</span><br /><h4 dir="ltr">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">RS PARA RASIT, armored reconnaissance radar with 5-kW-SEA</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></h4>
<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The fox with the retrofit kit </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">armored reconnaissance radar, PARA RASIT</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is of the armored reconnaissance troops (since 2007 part of thearmy reconnaissance force used). It serves as a support for the patrols reconnaissance of the battlefield on the day, at night and in reduced visibility. For this, the troops in the jargon called PARA-fox on French radars DR PT 2a RASIT ( </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">radar d'Acquisition et de Surveillance Intermédiaire</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> ), which can be used on and taken off. Installed in the center of the vehicle, the radar antenna by three spindle drives up to 1.80 meters extended over the car top and enables the reconnaissance of individuals at distances up to 6000 meters, to groups of people up to 8000 meters for vehicles and helicopters Distances up to 20,000 meters. Furthermore, the vehicle has a vehicle navigation system, and a Zielwegschreiber, are registered with the goals and the ways in one basket.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Before the introduction of the system RASIT the battlefield radar TPS 33a served as an interim solution. The plant was able to educate individuals at a distance of 1500 meters, where vehicles could be detected up to 18,000 meters.</span><br /><h4 dir="ltr">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">RS command and radio vehicle for Air Missile Operations (FüFuFlaFü) without 5-kW-SEA </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></h4>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">FlaFü Fuchs</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> based on the basic model of the transport tank and features a kit FüFu the additional conversion kit Air Missile Operations (FlaFü) for the Army Air Defense reconnaissance and battlefield management system ( HFlaAFüSys ). The vehicle is used by the army air defense troops and serves to guide the cheetah . Until its dissolution and which were Roland organizations out therewith.The conversion kit FlaFü supplements the equipment to holders for additional radios and antennas Feuerleitinstrumente. Externally, these vehicles can be identified by the rectangular roof boxes and the SEA-like storage box on the left rear door.</span><br /><h3 dir="ltr">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 17px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">TPz 1A3/A6 (NBC reconnaissance vehicles) </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></h3>
<a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABC-Abwehrregiment_750"><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #0b0080; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></a><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The first in February 1988 and delivered NBC reconnaissance vehicles (in forces jargon as "RS Fuchs") is based on the TPz 1A3 (standard) with SEM 25/35 and are capable of radioactive and chemical contamination directly to determine the spot. The detection ofbiological weapons is not possible and is limited to the sampling.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The sensing equipment has been integrated as a retrofit kit and allowed sampling, analysis and labeling under ABC's full protection. The heart of the detector equipment is next to a Geiger counter , the detector MM-1, a miniaturized mass spectrometer combined with a gas chromatograph . In use, up to 22 contaminants are detected continuously side by side, wherein agents up to a concentration of less than a billionth of a gram (nanogram) are detectable in 30 seconds. The mass spectrometer is used by the company Bruker Daltonics from Leipzig produced.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The RS Fuchs has three modes to collect samples. When </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">air Feel</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> the terrain can be traversed quickly sucked while outside air and the analysis equipment is supplied. A much slower way is to </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">feel the ground</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> . Here, two ground reconnaissance wheels turn at the rear for possible weapons and trained to turn to a probe. For a more detailed review of the crew used the </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">point Feel</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> , wherein the extendable probe is used at the rear.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">With the conversion to the SEM 80/90 in 1993/1994, several ABC reconnaissance vehicles were subjected to a performance increase. As the </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A6 ABC</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> designated vehicles received a navigation system, while as </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A6A1 ABC (KWS)</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> designated vehicles a sensor mast, the SEM 90/93 and GPS . received Moreover the sampling and storage of B samples were improved.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In order to enable the detection of biological warfare agents, Thyssen-Henschel 1994 planned a mobile biological laboratory. As the BIRD ( </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Biological Identification Device Refinemet</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> called) laboratory was housed in a special cabin and loaded on the standard two-wheel trailer of the Bundeswehr. When the towing vehicle should serve reconnaissance vehicles. Since 2002, Rheinmetall Land Systems advertises on its website the under development </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bio-RS Fuchs</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> . It should close the capability gap and be able, through genetic and immunological methods detect biological agents.</span><a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuchs_(Panzer)#cite_note-4"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0080; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></a><br /><h3 dir="ltr">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 17px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">TPz 1A7</span><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></h3>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Termed 1A7 armored transport were also armored with a modular protective equipment (MSA) and are equipped with the family of radios SEM 80/90 and some with room cooling systems. A total of 124 vehicles this conversion. They are mainly found in the Bundeswehr operations abroad.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The protection equipment consists of the adapted additional armor type MEXAS on the outer surfaces, a shatter protection in the interior (the so-called Spall liners) and an enhanced protection against mines in the bottom area of the vehicle. The mount protection (not for medical vehicles) is not part of the protective equipment, but can be installed as retrofit kit on each fox. The vehicles are also equipped with a more powerful 6-cylinder engines from Mercedes-Benz. Through these conversions, the vehicles were heavier by about three tons and exceed the allowed width of the vehicle. Also all zusatzgepanzerten vehicles were closed to swimming mode.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">From July 2003 to the end of 2006 changed Rheinmetall Land Systems, the Fox 1A7 armored transport again. This was necessary because, due to the increased gross weight, with some versions threatened an end to street legal. Under this </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">amendment package 1</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">received all vehicles chassis reinforcements, electro-hydraulic door operating devices, a space cooling system and other mine protection plates in the middle and rear wheel arches. The swimming propulsion and the surge plate were removed, however, making the armored 1A7 finally lost their buoyancy. These measures helped the existing operating restrictions lifted and beyond a payload reserve to be created.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The conversion to </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">MSA Fuchs</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> covered the following variants:</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><ul style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">EBS Armored Reconnaissance Group / hunter group with anti-tank weapon MILAN</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">EBS Group pioneers vehicle</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">EBS pioneer pilot vehicle</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">EBS medical group with space cooling system</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Data processing, command support United Nations, Mobile Command Post (UN facilities)</span></li>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 17px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">TPz 1A8</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></h3>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On 20 March 2008 was the army, the first of a total of 21 vehicles (five ambulances, two guide and radio vehicles, three pioneer vehicles and eleven group vehicles) </span><a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuchs_(Panzer)#cite_note-6"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[7]</span></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> with an improved protection against mines and </span><a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unkonventionelle_Spreng-_und_Brandvorrichtung"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">improvised explosive devices</span></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (English </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Improvised Explosive Devices (IED)</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> .) Any information obtained as a "conditional use Immediate Requirement (ESB)" vehicles were delivered in June 2008.</span><a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuchs_(Panzer)#cite_note-7"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></a></h3>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The main changes compared to the variant 1A7 structural change in the trays in the base region are in by another mine protection panels and shelves, decoupling of the seats from the ground, reinforcements in the wheel wells by armored steel moldings, another door reinforcements, modified disc recordings in the doors and additional storage space as well as reinforcements outdoors . </span><br /><a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuchs_(Panzer)#cite_note-Fuchs_1A8_a-2"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0080; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></a><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On 9 Agreed in July 2010 Rheinmetall Defence and the BWB in a contract. Retrofitting another 65 TPZ Fuchs on Rüststand A8 At this time, 61 TPZ Fuchs had been upgraded to this Rüststand so that in 2012 a total of 126 Fuchs A8 in the portfolio. They are based on modifications to the type A7 fox.</span><a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuchs_(Panzer)#cite_note-8"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0080; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></a><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The 1A8 variants are:</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><ul style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">TPz 1 A8A1 DVFü (Electronic Data Interchange)</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">TPz 1 A8A2 SanBAT (Mobile Medical Team)</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">TPz 1 A8A5 FüFu EOD (command and radio vehicle ordnance disposal)</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">TPz A8A6 1 PARA (PARA RASIT, Panzeraufklärungsradar)</span></li>
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<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">TPz 1 A8A9 JFSCT (Joint Fire Support Coordination Team)</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">TPz 1 A8A10 KpfmBesTrp (Explosive Ordnance Disposal Squad)</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">TPz 1 A8A11 BrdSchtzTrp (Fire Squad)</span></li>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Use and export </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></h2>
<a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Joint_Forge"><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #0b0080; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></a><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The NBC reconnaissance vehicles ("RS Fuchs") proved an export hit. He was the United States (Fox NBCRS, later M93A1), the United Kingdom , the Netherlands ( Koninklijke land power ), the Turkey , Saudi Arabia ( armed forces ), Israel and Venezuela sold. Two other vehicles from Bundeswehr stocks were rented for four years from 2004 to Norway. Norway planned to buy a total of six vehicles, the 2010 in the expansion stage of the 1A8 are made by Rheinmetall.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In 1991, 36 used NBC reconnaissance vehicles for a price equal to ten times the original price, sold to Saudi Arabia. Because the former producer of the vehicles that Thyssen Industrie AG Henschel, got into difficulties in delivery, the leaders of the army were stopped by the Defense Department to provide the vehicles from the collection of the Bundeswehr. Organized the sale of arms dealer Karlheinz Schreiber, the bribes paid to employees of the Department of Defense to accelerate export. The then responsible for exporting defense undersecretary Ludwig-Holger Pfahls ( CSU ) in 2005 after five years on the run because of personal gain and tax evasion, sentenced to a prison term zweieinvierteljährigen. The events of that exports constitute an episode in the CDU funding scandal and provided also for a limitation of NBC defense capability of the Bundeswehr, as the vehicles sold by their own troops no longer were available and due to the shortage of supply from the manufacturer could not be replaced in a timely manner . </span><br /><a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuchs_(Panzer)#cite_note-12"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0080; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></a><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In autumn 2004 it was announced that from the Bundeswehr stocks 20 Fuchs armored transport to Iraq should have been delivered. Germany wanted to help with the reconstruction of the vehicles, but the project was not implemented. So said government spokesman Bela Anda 2005 Handelsblatt: "This is obviously so because there is no longer a need on the part of the Iraqis." The delivery was not a failure on the German side: "Germany would further have been willing to, foxes' to deliver. " </span><a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuchs_(Panzer)#cite_note-13"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0080; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></a><br /><h2 dir="ltr">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Operational experience </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></h2>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ISAF</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In Afghanistan, the TPz Fuchs was repeatedly the target of attacks and bombings.On 16 November 2008 at a were IED explosion between Kunduz and Mazar-e Sharif , a soldier seriously injured and another slightly. </span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In the affected fox (conversion kit CG20) it was a vehicle of EloKaBtl 932 from the Hessian Frankenberg. </span><a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuchs_(Panzer)#cite_note-17"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0080; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></a><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On 29 April 2009, a German soldier was killed when a patrol in Kunduz fell into an ambush, while a fox (Kit Hunter Group) from a RPG anti-tank weapon was made. The soldier of the Battalion 292 was in this incident at the tail gun. Four other soldiers were injured. </span><br /><a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuchs_(Panzer)#cite_note-18"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0080; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></a><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On 23 June 2009, three German soldiers were killed in fighting near Kunduz when their vehicle with small arms and rocket-propelled grenades were fired. The exact circumstances of his death are not yet officially released. It is, however, now believe that the crew drowned or possibly injured himself in a fall in a ditch with the vehicle fatal. Known radical Islamic Taliban for the attack. </span><a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuchs_(Panzer)#cite_note-19"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0080; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></a><br /><h2 dir="ltr">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Outlook </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></h2>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The TPz Fuchs is from 2009 by the variant EBS Group vehicle, infantry and EBS command and radio vehicle Boxer and be replaced.The version of (para) with the armored reconnaissance radar Rasit the fox is from 2012 by the ATF Dingo with the new radar system BÜR replaced. Because of its reliability and popularity with the troops as well as lack of alternatives for certain types the last vehicles are likely to remain currently scheduled until 2025.</span><br /><h2 dir="ltr">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Fox 2 </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></h2>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Fox 2 is a further development of Rheinmetall Land Systems. Outwardly it resembles a fox 1, but it has undergone some performance improvements. He owns one of four increased to eight tonnes of cargo, a Euro III diesel engine with 315 kW MTU, an ergonomically improved battle space, a digital electrical system, a tire pressure control system and an improved braking system. The armor can be equipped with a modular design to the respective necessary protection concept.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In October 2007, the U.S. Army signed a contract to upgrade 18 of its provisional 123 fox-1 tanks. Also for the Bundeswehr upgrading of 37 vehicles was provided on fox second The project has not been implemented for the benefit of the combat efficiency program POD shield the first.</span><br /><a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuchs_(Panzer)#cite_note-21"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0080; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></a><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Another user, the United Arab Emirates . After an international comparison, the Federation decided in February 2005 to purchase 32 vehicles. Rheinmetall delivered until 2009 16 armored reconnaissance vehicle for nuclear and chemical weapons, eight armored reconnaissance vehicle for biological warfare agents and eight Fox 2 as a Mobile Command Post.The total cost was 160 million euros, and include training and technical assistance.</span></b>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12207674066689705982noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641198404911070544.post-38895503996816460142012-08-26T13:08:00.000-07:002012-08-26T13:08:00.134-07:00Armored personnel carriers (Radpanzer)<b id="internal-source-marker_0.12187241879291832" style="font-weight: normal;"></b><br />
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<b id="internal-source-marker_0.12187241879291832" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Armored personnel carriers</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> are motorized, armored military vehicles , based on a conventional chassis with two to four axes are constructed. The most secured only against light attack vehicles are mainly from diesel engines driven. The crew is usually made of acommander , a driver and depending on the armament of a gunner </span></b></h1>
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<b id="internal-source-marker_0.12187241879291832" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span><a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Datei:TPz1.Fuchs.Pionier.jpg&filetimestamp=20060903133900" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img height="200px;" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/fGZQMAohkHBOIk-sefLlbtKagThW6ox_-knXR8S8Kzj554RgPC284AihLvoU6RqdNyXWKU2Q02oMa5DUcberNvhgNe0iVQkv_flvG7QXyXvRe-iZbDQ" width="267px;" /></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></b></h1>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Properties </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></h2>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As compared to the drives of tracked vehicles produce tire of Radpanzern greater surface load . Therefore, the vehicles to a comparable off-road capability to achieve, only a significantly smaller combat weight have. </span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To increase off-road capability are often tire pressure control systems used. The compared to chain drives lower frictional resistance reduces fuel consumption and allows particularly on paved roads a greater tactical range at higher average speeds . Armored personnel carriers are compared to chain mail because of the missing drives and the smaller engines are much quieter and much later noticed acoustically or located. </span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Because they weigh less the roadbed, they leave the urban environment less characteristic, some in the air reconnaissance conspicuous traces. Moreover recognize vibration induced anti-tank mines armored personnel often not as such.Because of this property, and because of the armor is lighter wheeled vehicles are preferred as APC and for the military reconnaissance and patrol. To increase off-road capability, many armored personnel amphibious and have a four-wheel drive .</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The development of multifunctional Vielradpanzern is due to the lower technological complexity and thus much cheaper, particularly for countries with limited defense budgeteconomically interesting.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">From the growing global crisis intervention in mountainous and urban areas of use is an increasing demand due to wheeled armored vehicles, as they compared to heavy battle tanks are air-transportable and have greater operational flexibility.</span><br /><h2 dir="ltr">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Extras </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></h2>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Armored personnel carriers are compared to Chainmail much cheaper to buy and to maintain. This has meant that many states have changed their entire armored forces in armored personnel carriers. These include the majority of African countries, and many countries of South America and Asia. Even with NATO forces, the armored personnel is increasingly proving to be a valuable military hardware, especially when deployed within the urban environment. The Soviet Army made this experience even during the intervention in Afghanistan. This led to the development of such as the Radpanzern BTR-80 .</span><br /><h2 dir="ltr">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Applications </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></b><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12207674066689705982noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641198404911070544.post-31422401666619999632012-08-25T10:31:00.002-07:002012-08-25T10:31:12.628-07:00Cromwell Cruiser Tank<b id="internal-source-marker_0.5334439354483038" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cruiser Tank Mk VIII A 27M Cromwell (Cromwell Cruiser Tank)</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> was built in 1941 after a request from the British General Staff. They took with him the experiences you with the Crusader had made the armor and extended (to 76 mm).Cromwell was so much heavier than the Crusader, the extra weight but made by a strong Rolls-Royce Meteor engine offset (the V-12-Meteor was the first reliable engine in a British tank). He thus became the fastest British tank of the war years.Because of excessive wear on the wheel suspension unproportionally the maximum speed was ultimately reduced in favor of the maintenance at 52 km / h. Series production began in January 1943 (at Leyland Motors ).</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></b><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">V12-Benzinmotor Rolls-Royce Meteor</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">600 PS (447 kW)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">64 km / h</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Power / weight</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">17.2 kW / t (23.4 hp t /)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Range</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">280 km</span></div>
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<b id="internal-source-marker_0.5334439354483038" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Cromwell Mk I to III had a 6-pounder gun (57 mm). Cromwell Mk IV was introduced in October 1943 and had a </span><a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ordnance_QF_75_mm&action=edit&redlink=1"><span style="background-color: white; color: #a55858; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">75-mm gun</span></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, the ammunition compatible with that of the American M4 Sherman was. Even the versions Mk V and Mk VII had this gun.The versions vary also in whether the tubs were welded or riveted. In addition, details varied as the belt width and placement of the hatches and storage boxes. </span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Mk VI and Mk VIII versions were equipped with a 95-mm howitzer and thus ideally suitable for close combat support. Other variants included the Cromwell ARV (Armoured Recovery Vehicle), Cromwell OP (mobile command vehicle and artillery observation post). Cromwell proved because of its outstanding mobility was most German tanks but inferior in weaponry and armor. An exception was the version Mk VII, whose frontal armor was increased to 102 mm.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Cromwell tanks participated in the 7th Armoured Division in some important battles in part. He presented as no big step forward, since he had no sloped armor. The penetrating power of the 75-mm gun was unsatisfactory, so that in subsequent models with the 17-pounder was reused a specialized anti-tank gun as its main armament (including Sherman Firefly and Challenger ). The Cromwell was the basis for the Comet since.</span></b>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12207674066689705982noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641198404911070544.post-48964242203254792492012-08-25T07:17:00.000-07:002012-08-25T07:17:00.089-07:00Leopard 1<b id="internal-source-marker_0.04247942101210356" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Leopard 1</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is a medium battle tank from German production. It was built in 1965 and was the first tank, which in Germany after the Second World War has been developed. He came to a total of twelve countries on four different continents.Through constant struggle appreciation and a variety of retrofit options he is despite his advanced age and the 21st Century can still be found in armies of many countries. Until 1984, a total of 4744 units of this type were produced</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Datei:Leopard-1-latrun-1.jpg&filetimestamp=20051205130302" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img height="387px;" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/KlGViqZZEHexqBWmSxelMXsCoshv0cSmvaqcnnrykaXyS_IuJ_xsQRe9e18CbX-pg3EnXkaYctM5tHiBmOP7Vt3vo0mezxBJl3NMKeyfLo4AgxLAMfE" width="548px;" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></b><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">9.55 m of pipe at 12 clock </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">at 8.17 m pipe at 6 clock</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">3,37 m</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2,62 m</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">42,5 t</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Armor steel bulkhead plating in towers (A3, A4, AS1. C1)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Main armament</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2 × 7.62-mm MG3 (coaxial and AA-MG on tower), smoke grenade</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">MTU MB 838 CaM500 10-Zylinder-Vielstoffmotor</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">610 kW (830 PS)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">65 km / h</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A4: 14.4 kW / t (19.6 PS / t) </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A5: 14.3 kW / t (19.4 PS / t)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">562 km ride in convoy with torque converter lockup, </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">History</span></h2>
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The rearmament of the Federal Republic in the mid-1950s led to the initial supply the Bundeswehr with U.S. and British armored vehicles.The German armaments industry at the time was not able to connect to the advanced armor development since 1945. With the support of foreign manufacturers tried Daimler-Benz , however, catch up with the developed areas. Together with the Porsche KG , the ZF , the Ruhr Stahl AG and the Indian Tata Group of India, a main battle tank developed. This project failed. </span><br /><a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopard_1#cite_note-1"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0080; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></a><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The findings allowed Porsche to participate in the development of the first main battle tank for the Bundeswehr. On 23 November 1956, one of the NATO -out standards of appropriate list of demands. Should the main battle tanks have a total weight of 30 tons and yet highly flexible and maintenance-friendly. Armor and firepower were secondary. The decision agility to sit in front armor protection is justified because that available at the time armor technology no reasonable protection against shaped charge projectiles offered. In addition, had the experience of World War II demonstrated that a good operational flexibility of high importance was. In June 1957, France and Germany concluded a military agreement, which aimed to develop a common battle tanks. In coordination with the Ministry of Defence (DEFA) published the Federal Ministry of Defence (MoD) on 25 July 1957, the new requirements. These were: 30 tons gross weight,multi-fuel engine with a power to weight ratio of 30 hp / t, technology up to date and a maximum width of 3.15 meters. The focus was especially on the main armament and their target and aiming devices. Sun marksmanship, day and night, and a penetration capability of 150 millimeters thick were steel tanks at 30 ° inclined impact surface and a distance from 2000 to 2500 meters required. The armor should protect against short-range 20-mm projectiles, and an NBC protective ventilation system for use in nuclear contaminated terrain allow for 24 hours.</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A year later, on 1 April 1958 was followed by an addition of receivables. Germany intended to increase the maximum width of 3.25 meters, France but wanted to reduce it to 3.10 meters. In September 1958, Italy joined in the development community.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On 6 May 1959 there was an agreement on the development and construction of two prototypes I with the groups A, B and the DEFA.The Federal Office for Defence Technology and Procurement (BWB) unwound the project. There were three community agencies to meet this challenge:</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><ul style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Working Group A</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> : The Porsche company, Atlas MaK, Luther works and young Jungenthal.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Group B</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> : The company Ruhrstahl, Rheinstahl Hanomag and Henschel Rheinstahl</span></li>
<li style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Group C</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> : The company CFW Borgward was the cost of developing some alone. After the collapse of the company in 1961 the armor development has been discontinued. In addition, the implementation of the draft of the Ministry of Defence was deemed too risky. </span></li>
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<a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopard_1#cite_note-4"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0080; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></a><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The company Rheinmetall and Wegmann took over the tower manufacturing. A total of four prototypes in Germany and a prototype were manufactured in France. The financing of all prototypes took over Germany. </span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Based on the insights developed the Working Groups A and B the prototype II, Group B in October 1961, the work stopped due to technical difficulties and savings and delivered only two of six battle tanks. In April 1963, the comparative tests of the working groups were completed. The tank was on 11 Presented in July 1963 under the name "standard tanks" to the public. At the same time ran the production of the initial batch (Porsche number 814) with 50 tanks, which was launched in June 1961. They were based on the prototype II and served in the trial of the WTD 91 in Meppen. The highlight was a comparison test of the then unnamed German standard armor against the French tanks of the type AMX 30 . She found under Italian management in August 1963 on the training area Mailly-le-Camp held in the Champagne and put the high performance of the German model to the test. It was despite six tons more weight around ten percent faster and accelerated by 18 percent better than its French counterpart. </span><br /><a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopard_1#cite_note-5"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0080; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></a><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Given the revised defense strategy in France to 1965 were no funds for the tank manufacturing will be prepaid. However intended, the Bundeswehr, their M47 to replace. Sun agreed on a national tank manufacturing and put the armor on 1 November 1963, under the name "Leopard." The "baptism" was held on 4 Held in October 1963, on the instructions of the Joint Staff of the Army by the company commander of the 2nd Company of the Panzer Lehr Battalion 93, Captain Schmidt. On 9 September 1965 took over Defence Minister Kai-Uwe von Hassel, the first mass-produced battle tank, the Krauss-Maffei AG (now Krauss-Maffei Wegmann ) in Munich rolled off, and handed him over to the 4th Company of the 93rd Battalion, Panzer Lehr For the introduction of first 1500 battle tanks of this type began in the associations of </span><a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/I._Korps_(Bundeswehr)"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0080; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I.</span></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and III. Corps of the Bundeswehr . Until 1968, the Bundeswehr increased its order to 1845 vehicles with an option for 111 more.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">After the series production Porsche received the contract for a further development. Then a house under the name was </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">gilded Leopard</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> study elaborated on the 6th July 1965 as</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">proposals to increase combat power value of the battle tank Leopard</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> submitted. It was suggested: increasing the rate of fire by an automatic loader, increasing the probability of a hit, more indicative range of the main gun, stronger Koaxialwaffe, remote-controlled anti-aircraft machine gun, more powerful engine (809 kW) with improved cooling system, improved turret front and an improved chassis includes springs and armor protection. In 1967, the study was terminated.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">By difficulty in Tank-70 project saw the Ministry of Defense initiated the project </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">gilded Leopard</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> with the end goal of a new development and the combat efficiency of the Leopard firstDue to the development contract for battle tanks 70 and the prohibition of the development project started by the term </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">experimental development</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> with a total of 32 million DM, of which only 25 million were approved. On 7 November 1968, the defense ministry concluded the contract with Krauss-Maffei. The tank had a total weight of 40 tons and already resembled the Leopard 2 . As in 1969, the project failed 70 battle tanks, was commissioned by the Federal Office of Defense Technology and Procurement by Krauss-Maffei, a study by the name "Eber" built. This armor combined the technology of the battle tank 70 with the conventional tank construction. The funded with 25 million development was presented to Krauss-Maffei and its partners as an experimental development "boar". With the decision in 1970 to build the Leopard 2 battle the gains were rejected and on the basis of the "Boar" started the new development.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The total cost of the development, prototyping, field trials and other totaled 249,030,222 German Marks . The last battle tank Leopard 1A5 in 2003 with the decommissioning of the tank battalion 74 taken in Cuxhaven / Altenwalde from active duty in the Armed Forces.</span><br /><h2 dir="ltr">
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 17px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">General</span></h3>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The leopard is based on the Porsche Type 814 and is a further development of the 0-series. Designed as tower tank in a conventional arrangement, it has a 4-man crew. The commander is to the right of the tower, beneath him at his feet sits the gunner, on the other side of the cannon, and thus left the loader. The tub houses one ammunition holder next to the driver for the main weapon and NBC protection- and ventilation system, which by drawing outside air via filters one overpressure generated. In the engine room there is a muffler, the exhaust gases are mixed with fresh air and thus the infrared signature reduced. Against fire only has the engine room a fire suppression system. The extinguishing agent is Halon . The four chemical containers are located at the driver. Two of the containers trigger automatically, two more can be triggered manually.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">By building an underwater elevator shaft and submersible hydraulic water, up to a maximum depth of four meters are crossed. It all hatches are closed except for the Commander. The submersible hydraulic closes while loading and vents on the motor and a combustion air damper opens to the engine bulkhead in the tank interior. About this the engine sucks when wading, wading deep and underwater driving to the combustion air through the commander's hatch with fitted Tiefwat or underwater landing. The Commander stands for the drive-through in this shaft and supports the driver when driving. At the same time the shaft is in an accident than Notaustieg. Since entry of water can not be avoided completely, the leopard has two bilge pumps .</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The tank is full night fighting and limited all-weather capability. It is possible to install a residual light amplifier driver and loader . Here, a is angle mirror away.</span><br /><h3 dir="ltr">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 17px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Armor</span></h3>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The tub is made of welded steel armor and is separated by a transverse bulkhead in combat and the machine room. Is 70 mm and the Bugpanzerung is set obliquely at an angle of 30 °, which corresponds to a penetration length of 140 millimeters. The side armor is an average of 30/35 mm, tank bottom and rear are 20 and 25 mm thick armor plates.</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopard_1#cite_note-Spielberger397-7"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0080; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></a><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The armor thickness of the cast towers of up to 60 millimeters, which were thickened at A2 and reinforced in later combat efficiency program through rubberized steel plates. By far and in addition to the turret front shock damping (with shock mounts mentioned rubber elements) on the basic armor plates were bolted to reduce the task of approaching missiles detonate early and explosive energy. The towers of the models A3 and A4 were welded and had a bulkhead armor with the same level of protection. Subsequent add-on armor was not there. With nine tons of iron tower of Wegmann compared with twelve tons was the M48 or 15 tonnes of Chieftain relatively easy.</span><br /><h3 dir="ltr">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 17px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Drive and drive</span></h3>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As drive was torsion bar sprung support roller drive selected. The seven pairs of rollers are connected to the torsion bars on swing arms, wherein the first three and the last two rollers each provided with a hydraulic shock absorber is provided. Volute springs limit the scale of the swing arms. As a caterpillar in the early years was a rubber-mounted connector track with solid rubber padding in the fifth contract section by a "living" Endverbinderkette with replaceable pads chain was replaced by the manufacturer Diehl. </span><br /><a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopard_1#cite_note-8"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0080; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></a><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The engine of the Leopard 1 is a </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">MB 838 CaM500</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> with two mechanical chargers for Daimler-Benz, built by MTU Friedrichshafen . In contrast to the requirement of multi-fuel operation was the diesel engine is not immediately possible, and was implemented later. The total power of 610 kW at 37.4 liters is higher than that of used in the prototype engines </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Aa 837</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">838 CA500</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> . Total motor over ten cylinders, arranged in a V-shape has inclined at 90 ° to each other. A dry sump forced lubrication ensures even at extreme inclination for an oil supply for all lubrication points. The shifting of the planetary transmission with four forward and two reverse gears run electro-hydraulically. The steering of the integrated overlay steering transmission is dependent on engine speed and vehicle speed. A novelty in the engine design was the combination of engine, cooling system and switching and steering gear in an engine block. This design permits quick couplings by a rapid separation of the electric and fuel circuit. The change of the entire Leopard-1-engine takes with pre-and post about 30 minutes. Its successor, the Leopard 2, this time could be reduced by half. The batteries and thus the electrical system work with 24 volts DC . Generator is a generator with an output of 9 kW.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For hot regions and high outside temperatures Krauss-Maffei developed a so-called Tropical kit. This retrofit kit could the cooling and fuel system are modified. Another Weapon module improved the cross-country through the use of hydraulic Endanschlagsdämpfer and an optimized stator reduced.</span><br /><h3 dir="ltr">
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Weapon system </span></h4>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The main armament consists of the German license production L7A3 widespread British high performance gun </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Royal Ordnance L7</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> . The gun is at a caliber of 105 mm 51 caliber long, equipped with a smoke evacuator and then provided as usual, with a box / train-profile. The swivel range of the tower is 360 °, the elevation of the gun range from -9 ° to +20 °. Housed the cannon next to the tower crew in the turret. The straightening and pivoting action of the electro-hydraulic Waffennachführanlage runs. </span><br /><a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopard_1#cite_note-10"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0080; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></a><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The modification of the A1 in 1971 and the matching of the first building lots received the gun a thermal sleeve to compensate for the Temperaturbeinflussung in sunlight, rain and snow - essential - to warping due to the heating of a shot. When using the NBC protection system, the main weapon only use up the ammunition already in the tube. The automatic opening of the closure is blocked (by extracting the leading slope), but it can be done manually, but this causes the ABC safety is no longer assured. As secondary armament is a coaxially disposed to cannon machine gun and a rotatable by 360 ° anti-aircraft gun on the tower. The weapons can, as with the smoke grenade, vary depending on country.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To at maneuvers , exercises or during training represent it fired cannons without live fire, has the Leopard 1 over recordings for the kadag (</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">K</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> anonen- </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> bschuss- </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">DA</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> rstellungs- </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">G</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> equipm ent), often also under the abbreviation Darkas ( </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">DAR</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> position - </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">K</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> -anonen </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> b </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">S</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> chuss known). Cannon mounted on the rear, it simulates the firing of the main weapon resulting bang, smoke and lightning.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><h4 dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Weapon stabilization</span></h4>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The tank has since version A2 a gyroskopgesteuerte weapon stabilization system, that is, the cannon remains on movements always focused on their goal. The former technique - stabilizing the weapon and tracking of optics - but primarily served only to better target reconnaissance and observation during the </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">movement in order to minimize the holding otherwise required shooting for the opening of the fire fight. With a practiced a fire fighting crew from the movement was partly possible. A high first hit as the Leopard 2, however, was to use the fire control in the </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1A5</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> can not be implemented.</span><br /><h4 dir="ltr">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Fire control and aiming equipment</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The distance is measured in front of the Leopard 1A5 optomechanically . The tower rangefinder (TEM) with 16-fold magnification was up to the Leopard 1A4 at the heart of the fire control system, enabling the gunner to determine distances to the mix - or space image principle . The elevation angle of the loaded ammunition from the gunner manually by a lever. The Leopard 1A4 was equipped with the optical space image rangefinder EMES 12A1. The second objective of the tower unit scope (TZF) stood with 8-fold magnification.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Vacancies in the TEM, it was intended as Notzielgerät, the shooting distance was estimated and adjusted by means of a scale in the reticle for that ammunition. It also allowed the fire fight in the movement because of the weapons parallel installation in the panel transferred the weapon stabilization on this look. The Turmrundblickpankrad (TRP) was the commander as an observation, target and distance measuring instrument. If necessary, he could see the gunner over full control, even in an emergency to keep the fire fight. The stabilized Rundblickperiskop </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">PERI R12</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> in the Leopard 1A4 allowed contrast to the commander for the first time to look for goals during the trip and the gunner assigned. There was this variant hunter / killer capability. </span><br /><a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopard_1#cite_note-12"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0080; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></a><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For the night of the fight battle tanks initially possessed a IR-/Weißlicht-Schießscheinwerfer for target illumination. Was illuminated with infrared light, the commander had to take over the shoot, because the TRP was replaced by an infrared scope. The night fighting ability of 1A4 was by switching the </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">PERI R12</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> reached on the IR channel. The spotlight has been distributed and used in battle could therefore use only from the state. Thus alternately took on the task of illuminating light tanks, while a second armored fighting the enemy.The settings of the headlight were </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">springy</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> when searching or </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">bundled</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> for target illumination in the fight. In the early years only a few battle tanks were fitted with the gun lights. Only the vehicles of drivers and the company commanders possessed the XSW-30-U of AEG-Telefunken for target illumination. The average combat distance of 2.5 miles per day decreased by shooting lights on 1.2 kilometers to 1.5 kilometers. With the introduction of the residual light amplifier PZB 200 this form of combat operations was increasingly meaningless.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">With the last combat capability upgrade to 1A5 commander and gunner were a common thermal imaging device , which was placed with the Laserentferungsmesser (LEM) in the main target device EMES-18. With the WBG-X of the Zeiss range reconnaissance increased enormously over the PZB 200th Sun milestones have also a day - depending on weather conditions - are discovered at a distance up to 3000 meters and 2000 meters at identified. The fire control system adapted the Leopard 2 was directing and shooting easier for the gunner. In addition, was the setting of the loaded ammunition of the EMES by the loader's by tracers.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><h4 dir="ltr">
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">By the use of one of firing the leopard Zugrohrkanone could a number of ammunition types. So as armor-piercing stood kinetic energy projectile , the APDS-ammunition </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(Armor Piercing Discarding Sabot)</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> are available, which from the 1980s through the fin-stabilized variant APDSFS-T </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(Armor Piercing Discarding Sabot, Fin-Stabilized-Tracer)</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> was replaced.Usual for that time, as explosive ammunition was Quetschkopfgeschoss (HESH - High Explosive Squash Head) used, however, by the emergence of the bulkhead and composite armor by shaped charge ammunition - was replaced (HEAT High Explosive Anti Tank). Before the introduction of thermal imaging devices could also for battlefield illumination, "Illum" - rockets are fired. Furthermore, fog and were Canistermunition available. For each combat cartridge, there was no sharp practice ammunition and dummy warhead to practice the movements. Compared with the black combat ammunition this blue (Ub) or olive were labeled (Ex). The ammunition of the German battle tank was 60 cartridges, 55 cartridges later, for the main weapon, and 5000 shots for the secondary armament.</span><br /><h3 dir="ltr">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Specifications</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></h3>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Designation</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Leopard 1 MBT</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Type:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Battle Tank</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Crew:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">4</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Motor:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">10-cylinder diesel engine MTU MB 838 Ca M-500</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Power:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">610 kW (830 PS) price 2200 min -1</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Transmission:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Planetary gear ZF 4 HP 250 with four forward and two reverse gears</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Chassis:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">torsion bar spring mounted support roller drive</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LOA:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">9543 mm</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Overall width:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">3370 mm</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Height:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2764 mm</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ground clearance:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">440 mm</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Fording :</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2250 mm, 4000 mm with preparation</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Grave-border capacity:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">3000 mm</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Climbing ability:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1150 mm</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Climbing ability :</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">60 %</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bank:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">30 %</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Combat weight:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">42 400 kg</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Maximum road:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">65 km / h</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Amount of fuel:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">985 liters, two tanks of 470/490 liters and a discharge container with 25 liters</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Driving range:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">562 km road, 386 km easy terrain, 246 km heavy terrain</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Armament:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">L7A3-Zugrohrkanone, 2 MG3</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ammunition:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">55-60 cartridges for BK, 5000 cartridges for the two MG3</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Denmark put the Leopard 1, a first user country in the fight. Within the framework of the United Nations Protection Force , the main battle tank that served as support vehicles in the Danish quota. During the operation Bøllebank it first came to fighting.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Canada sent a company of the Lord Strathcona's Horse (Royal Canadians) , equipped with Leopard C2 with and without armor, two mountains tanks and two mobile workshops, to Afghanistan. Panzer Group to protect convoys and Canada assumed Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRT) and other light vehicles equipped only with support organizations. The first tanks reached Kandahar mid October 2006. On 2 December 2006, the tanks were put into service in Kandahar, making Canada the first time since the Korean War, sent tanks into a war zone. For the first time since that time Canadian tanks fired their guns from the enemy, as the following day a rocket attack by the Taliban responded with fire.Also in use is the Canadian version of the pioneering roof tank 6 and Canada since August 2007 Leopard 2A6M CAN.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><h2 dir="ltr">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Variants</span></h2>
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The production of the Leopard was settled in contract sections. About 2,700 companies involved in the construction. These included the Blohm & Voss AG, MTU Friedrichshafen, ZF AG, Rheinmetall GmbH, the Wegmann GmbH & Co., AEG-Telefunken, the Drägerwerke that Anton Piller KG . KG and the Eberspächer Except in Germany, and the Leopard 1 in Australia , Belgium , Brazil , Chile , Denmark ,Greece , Italy , Canada , the Netherlands , Norway and Turkey used. Based on the Leopard Mountain - and armored engineering are in Australia, Brazil, Chile, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Italy, Canada, used the Netherlands, Norway, Poland and Turkey.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To ensure the development of the weapon system and the Leopard family vehicle on a common basis, in 1969 by Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands and Norway, the Leoben-Community ( </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Leo</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> -pard </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ben</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> utzende States) founded. In several working groups divided and controlled by a steering committee, the objectives of simplifying the supply to develop the weapon system together to simplify the repair, adjust the Leopard family on upcoming threats, and reduce costs.</span><br /><h3 dir="ltr">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 17px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Leopard pilot series</span></h3>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The pilot series corresponded to the basic form of the series as of yet. Compared with the series production possessed the 50 copies of a square loading hatch without a ring, a sloping back wall of the tower storage basket and another MOUNTINGS the AA machine gun.Also a striking detail of the pre-series was the centrally mounted on the gun shield shooting lights and the protection of canvas. The tool holders on the sides as well as the shape of the tool box and rear outboard station also experienced changes.</span><br /><h3 dir="ltr">
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The production of the first Construction lot with 400 vehicles extended from September 1965 to July 1966. The basic equipment consisted of cast towers, conventional fire control, turret rangefinder (TEM) 2A, Turmrundblickperiskop (TRP) 2A, IR target device B171 V, Tower Riflescope (TZF) 1A, electro hydraulic gun laying system without a weapon stabilization, square outboard station, IR night vision equipment for the driver and commander and a connector Caterpillar D139 E2 chain with fixed upholstery. Shooting the lights was installed on the left side of the gun shield.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Lot 2 joined seamlessly and ended in 1967 with the production of 600 Leopard tanks. The changes included a round outboard station, a handle on the tool box in the rear, supporting triangles for the ladders to the tower, a gutter at the bottom of the turret rear and a Geschossabweiser for the turret ring and mounts for the side skirts. The third contract section was followed in July 1967 bis August 1968. The equipment did not change, however, were Heißösen welded for loading. Leopard 16 from the lot went to Belgium . The total number amounted to 484 tanks. Contract Section 4 also followed seamlessly and ended in February 1970. The total number was 361 pieces. The changes included a folding dive shaft, improved wheels and Treibradkränze. The Abgasgrätings were executed from this contract section without vertical struts as extruded profiles. </span><a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopard_1#cite_note-Jane.E2.80.99s-17"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0080; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></a><br /><h3 dir="ltr">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 17px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Leopard A1 </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></h3>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In the years 1975 to 1977, all tanks of the lot were subjected to a 1-4 upgrading and adapted to the fifth contract section. For example, all vehicles were equipped with a fortified tower on Gummieelementen applique armor and the armored gun shield additionally by a steel plate. Fitted with such equipment tanks were designated Leopard A1A1. With the approximation to the Leopard 1A4, the installation of the radio family SEM 80/90 and the passive night goal and monitoring device PZB 200 Leopard tanks as these are referred to 1 A1A4.Vehicles without PZB 200, but with SEM carried the A1A3 code. </span><a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopard_1#cite_note-Jane.E2.80.99s-17"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0080; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></a><br /><h3 dir="ltr">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 17px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Leopard A2</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></h3>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The production of the fifth contract section began in April 1972 and ended in May 1973. The building lot with the number increased to 232 tanks used for the replacement of the M48 A2 II Corps of the Bundeswehr. The changes included a thickening of the turret armor, a more powerful combustion air-filtration system, improved NBC filters, image intensifiers (BiV) night vision equipment for the driver and commander, weapon stabilization for gun laying system, thermal sleeve for the gun connector Caterpillar D 640A with removable chain pads and lateral side skirts. With tow ropes were also introduced to replace with a length of five meters to the three-meter ropes. The tower houses a guard has been fitted to the crew with activated weapon stabilization to protect against the movement of the inner board canon parts.</span><a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopard_1#cite_note-Jane.E2.80.99s-17"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0080; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></a><br /><h3 dir="ltr">
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The last of the lot 5 110 vehicles were manufactured, May 1973 bis November 1973. The changes included a welded elongated tower construction in Scotland. The internal volume increased by 1.5 cubic meters. The loader has received a rotating and tilting angle mirror.The installation of a Nahverteidigungssystems was omitted due to the high self-harm. With the end of the Cold War, the A3 was taken out of inventory and sold. </span><br /><h3 dir="ltr">
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The delivery of the contract section 6, starting in August 1974 and ended in March 1976 with a stock of 250 vehicles. The change consisted in an integrated fire control system for commander and gunner. These included an improved optical rangefinder (EMES 12A1), a PERI R12 for the commander with IR night vision channel and improved fire control. With the A4 delivery to the armed forces was completed. All models have been upgraded with a PZB 200 (passive target and monitoring device). In 1989, 235 tanks of the lot taken out of the herd and A3 changed back. 150 tanks went to Turkey, 75 in Greece and 10 in Denmark. Other copies were on the shooting ranges of the Bundeswehr as hard targets or were demilitarized delivered to museums. </span><a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopard_1#cite_note-Jane.E2.80.99s-17"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0080; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></a><br /><h3 dir="ltr">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 17px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Leopard 1A5 </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></h3>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">With the combat efficiency of 1339 Leopard from October 1986 to September 1992 from the construction lots 1 to 4, which in 1225 from the collection of the German army, changed the name to 1A5. Below are all Leopard added to the number 1. The upgrade included an improvement in the first hit out of the movement and a shorter reaction time with a new fire control system EMES 18 (adapted FLA the Leopard 2 with stabilized main scope (HZF) and laser rangefinder, but without Waffennachführanlage (WNA)), improved NBC protection , an angle mirror wash for the driver, and a reinforced Schwingarmlagerungen Feldjustieranlage. Another change was the second preparation for receiving the 120-mm main gun of the Leopard The A5 were equipped with the new family of radios SEM 80/90, the term was extended to Leopard 1A5A1. With the Army structure 5 from 1994 737 Leopard 1A5 remained until decommissioned in 2003 held by the German army. All tanks will be, according to the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe demilitarized, scrapped or sold. This operation runs in the Thuringian Rockensußra where Demilitarisierungsstelle for military equipment.</span><br /><h3 dir="ltr">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 17px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Leopard 1A6 </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></h3>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The 1A6 is a feasibility study of the Federal Office of Defense Technology and Procurement for antitank fighting vehicles from the year 1986. The study Panzerkampfwagen 90 two test vehicles were built with different Rüstständen that. VT-2 and VT-5 The VT-2 was compared with the VT-5, a tower add-on armor on the roof to reduce the IR signature of the chassis as well as a hard facing the hull front. Both experimental vehicle possessed a fire suppression system (BUA) for the battle space and the 120-mm weapon system. The VT-5 was however, a commander-PERI. The weight gain was 4.6 tonnes and 3.5 tonnes.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The project was created in 1987 after a trial period in the test site of 41, today's WTD 41, set by the proof of satisfiability. </span><a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopard_1#cite_note-19"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0080; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></a><br /><h2 dir="ltr">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Leopard 1 in the non-German forces </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></h2>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 17px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Australia </span><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></h3>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">After the troops comparison in 1972 total between June 1976 and November 1978 were 90 Leopard to Australia delivered. They corresponded to the Leopard 1A3 on the state of the 5th Construction lot. Additionally, the vehicles through a Tropical Kit (improved cooling of the motors), hydraulic stops, side toolboxes, fire control SABCA and a dozer. In the 1990s were the tanks and modernized with air conditioning, a Mine-clearing and the stealth system ( </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mobile Camouflage System (MCS)</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> ) of the same Swedish company Barracuda </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Barracuda Company</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> equipped. The unit designation was 1AS1 Leopard.</span><a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopard_1#cite_note-Jane.E2.80.99s2-20"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0080; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></a><br /><h3 dir="ltr">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 17px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Belgium </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></h3>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Originally 334 Leopard 1 from the contract sections 3 and 4, between May 1968 and March 1971, Belgium supplied. The tank also has decreed side tool boxes, a </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tank Fire Control System</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (TFCS fire control system) and a thermal imaging device. Ten tanks are used for spare parts. Of the 324 Leopard 1 132 tanks were upgraded to Leopard 1A5 (BE) and used. The contract had a total of 360 million DM Besides the battle tank was of the Belgian armed forces and the cheetah used and bridge layers based on the Leopard first Of the armor quick bridge iguana equipped bridge layers correspond in appearance to the Brückenlegepanzer beaver , but differs by a higher carrying capacity (MLC 70) of the bridge, a reinforced tail boom and a modified support shield. The bridge and bridge layers were thus also of KMW and manufactured by MAN Mobile Bridges GmbH (since 2005 a subsidiary of Krauss-Maffei Wegmann). </span><a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopard_1#cite_note-Jane.E2.80.99s2-20"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0080; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></a><br /><h3 dir="ltr">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 17px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Brazil </span><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></h3>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">From 1997 to 1999 Brazil purchased a total of 128 Leopard 1 of the Belgian armed forces, which were delivered in three lots. Before delivery, these vehicles have been overhauled by the Belgian company SABIEX. 2006 between the German and the Brazilian government, a purchase agreement was signed more than 250 Leopard 1A5 Parkas. The tanks since 2009 by Krauss-Maffei Wegmann repaired and modernized. In addition to the delivery of this battle tanks 30 copies are provided as spare parts. Furthermore, the delivery of seven mountains tanks, four armored Quick bridges, four pioneer tanks and five tanks driving school is provided so that after planning by 2012 a total of 200 battle tanks and 50 support vehicles will be delivered. </span><a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopard_1#cite_note-21"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0080; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></a><br /><h3 dir="ltr">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 17px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Chile</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></h3>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Chile bought in 1998 a total of 202 Leopard 1 of the Dutch armed forces, which were to replace the partially derived from the World War II tanks of the Chilean army. Before delivery all tanks were equipped with the PZB 200th. In 2009, 30 tanks to Ecuador sold. In addition to the main battle tank uses Chile's pioneering tank roof, the tank Quick bridge beaver and a Faschinenträger on Leopard 1 chassis.</span><br /><h3 dir="ltr">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 17px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ecuador </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></h3>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ecuador has acquired 30 units Leopard 1V worth 55 million U.S. dollars from Chile. </span><a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopard_1#cite_note-24"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0080; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></a><br /><h3 dir="ltr">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 17px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Netherlands</span><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></h3>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">After a comparison test between the Chieftain and the leopard from December 1967 to May 1968, the decision Koninklijke Landmachtend of 1968 for the purchase of 400 Leopard 1 main battle tanks with a total value of 550 million marks the beginning of delivery in October 1969 increased this number to a total of 468 vehicles. The cars were modified with Caterpillar D139 Type E2 and side tool boxes on the status of the 4th Construction lot. The upgrades included an add-on armor for the tower, a fire control system manufacturer Honeywell AFSL-2 (NL), laser range finder, an optical space image rangefinder, an electronic fire control, smoke grenade (NL), a machine-gun mount for Dutch machine gun and a weapon stabilization system from Honeywell. 170 Leopard 1V went negotiations with Greece and 202 in Chile. Belgium as well as the translated Netherlands on the antiaircraft cannon tank Cheetah, commonly under the name </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cheetah</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> .</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 17px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Norway </span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 17px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In 1968 gave Norway a contract for the procurement of 78 Leopard-1 main battle tanks. The vehicles met the contract section 4, however, were slightly modified. The modification consisted of a different type of chain D 640 A, wider wheels, a hatch securing the tower and a thermal sleeve for the pipe. Between 1991 and 1994 there was a delivery of an additional 92 Leopard 1A5 from the holdings of the Bundeswehr. Of the total of 170 Leopard 1 (NO) have been upgraded to the level 111 A5. </span><a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopard_1#cite_note-Jane.E2.80.99s2-20"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0080; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></a><br /><h3 dir="ltr">
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Total received Italy 920 Leopard 1 at the level of the lots 4 and 5 200 vehicles were built by Krauss-Maffei and delivered in the years 1971 (92 battle tanks) and 1972 (108 battle tanks). From 1974 made OTO Melara two sections, the first since 1974 over 400 vehicles, the second one between 1981 and 1983. The Italian Leopard tanks were delivered to the A2 standard and not until 1995, increased combat capability. 1995 bought the Italian Army 127 A5-towers of the Armed Forces, which were used to convert the 120 tanks version A2 A5 version. The last A2 Leopard was completed in 2003 out of service. End of 2008, followed by the last A5. Moreover, Italy has 64 Beavers (by OTO Melara produced) and 137 Recovery Tank 2 (69 by Krauss-Maffei and 68 by OTO Melara) and 40 armored engineering (12 Krauss-Maffei and 28 by OTO Melara). </span><a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopard_1#cite_note-Jane.E2.80.99s2-20"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0080; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></a><br /><h3 dir="ltr">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 17px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Denmark </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></h3>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The 120 Leopard 1A3 (DK) Denmark reflect the state of the fifth construction lot. They were the only vehicles with factory-installed fire control EMES 18/TIS. From February 1976 to August 1978, the tanks were delivered. Between 1992 and 1994 a second lot was aligned with a quantity of 110 vehicles of the Bundeswehr stocks. All Leopard 1 have been converted to the booth A5 and have since been replaced by 57 Leopard 2A5DK.</span><br /><h3 dir="ltr">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 17px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Canada </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></h3>
<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Canada is another NATO partner that uses the Leopard first The 114 vehicles comply with Rüststand A3 of the fifth construction lot.Furthermore, given the vehicle a cable drum for telecommunication cables, a bracket for 20 snow grippers on the bow plate, a laser rangefinder, the electronic fire control SABCA, a wind sensor on the turret roof, PZB 200, a built-in white light illuminators instead of the left E-knife outlook, an angled mirror wash for the driver, increased smoke grenade launcher for firing explosive device, a hitch for a snow plow and Belgian machine guns. Deliveries began in July 1978 and ended in June 1979. This order was carried out by Krauss-Maffei and MAK. In 2000, a combat efficiency followed by Canada. The changes included the purchase of 123 A5-towers for installation in existing tanks, nine towers for training purposes. In addition, the increased firepower by improved cannon installation of fire control EMES 18, and a Mexas additional armor. Overall, 66 Leopard 1C2 are on duty. The visit is scheduled until 2015. </span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 17px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Turkey </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As part of the military aid received Turkey between September 1982 and December 1983 a total of 77 Leopard 1 A3 on the state of the fifth construction lot. The changes included an AFS fire control system with laser rangefinder, a PZB 200 and the Tropical kit. With the changes in the armed forces in 1990 to armed to 1992 A4 sold to Turkey. A total of 397 Leopard 1 were sent to Turkey, of which 320 are held by the armed forces. </span><a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopard_1#cite_note-Jane.E2.80.99s2-20"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0080; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></a><br /><h3 dir="ltr">
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">From February 1983 to April 1984 was Greece under the symbol 1GR1 the last 106 Leopard tanks from the tape. They represented the Turkish configuration. The Netherlands gave her another 170 Leopard 1V, Germany A3 3, 75 and 2 A5 A5 (NL) from the collections of the Bundeswehr. The total number stood at 356th With the introduction of all Leopard 2 Leopard 1A5 and 25 Leopard 1 from sample GR1 remain in service. All other copies. </span><a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopard_1#cite_note-Jane.E2.80.99s2-20"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0080; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></a><br /><h2 dir="ltr">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tanks based on the Leopard 1 tank </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></h2>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">By General Dietrich Willikens the Leopard chassis developed into a multi-purpose vehicle. Instrumental in the development, he persuaded the leadership believes that education, care and lower costs of production are economic. Thus, on the basis of the Leopard 1 tank a driving school that was launched bridges beaver , the anti-aircraft cannon tank Cheetah , the Bergepanzer 2 and the Badger armored engineering developed. The driving school Leopard 1 tank carries a cab, which can always be replaced with a tower. To simulate the rotating tower, a 8.5 ton ballast ring and a fake gun was installed in the car. A total of 60 cabins have been sold to the armed forces. For the Dutch Marine Corps by Alvis Moelv four Leopard 1 was to </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Beach Armoured Recovery Vehicle (BARV)</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> rebuilt - Samson (BARV1), Hercules (BARV2), Goliath (BARV3) and titanium (BARV4). They are 7.65 meters long, 3.25 meters wide and 3.35 meters high at 0.44 meters clearance. The weight is 42.5 tonnes. They are used in amphibious landing operations of HNLMS Rotterdam and HNLMS Johan de Witt for salvaging damaged vehicles near the shore.</span><a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopard_1#cite_note-25"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0080; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></a><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Not continued, however, the tri-national project howitzer 155-1 from 1973 to 1986. The medium artillery rocket system </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Wegmann launchers Rocket System 80</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> on Leopard chassis was in favor of the wheel development LARS also not realized.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The weapon system was initiated in 1991 Panther, a Trilateralentwicklung between Germany, France and Great Britain, was closed in 1993. Sun was the German model on the chassis an extendable 12-meter boom with the starting device for the missile PARS 3 LR and the optoelectronic target and reconnaissance system </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Osiris</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> . Was also not implemented the project, launched in 1997 for an observation based on the armored artillery Leopard 1A5. Without main weapon and equipped with the radio equipment SEM 80/90, a GPS receiver and artillery fire control systems for specific computer this configuration should the observation tank artillery on the M113 replace.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Only the prototype status also reached the 1999-built Leopard 1 AMCV </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Armoured Mine Clearing Vehicle</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> , a Norwegian mine clearing, tested in the KFOR deployment. He is like the working principle of the German boar , but has the British Aardvark demining as well as electronic and explosive Minenräumequipment. More unreacted prototypes / studies were leopards FlaRakPz Roland , Leopard MKPV (armored Feldstraße device), Leopard MKPV (armored mine-layer), the pioneer of armored machine , a Flapanzer with Otomatic-76/62-Flakturm (76 mm) of Oto Melara , the Leopard 1 ADATS (similar to the Panther project), the leopard 1/Gepard PRTL (Dutch Cheetah alternative) and a version with GIAT-155-mm-tower.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></b>
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