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The Wiesel Armoured Weapons Carrier (AWC; [citation needed] German: Waffenträger) is a German light air-transportable armoured fighting vehicle, more specifically a lightly armoured weapons carrier, produced by Rheinmetall. The Wiesel has been used in several of the Bundeswehr's missions abroad (UNOSOM II, IFOR, SFOR, KFOR, TFH, ISAF).
Sd.Kfz. stood for Sonder Kraftfahrzeug or ‘special-purpose vehicle'. Sd.Kfz. designations were assigned to armoured vehicles and other vehicles put in military service for a specific purpose. The system was used by Germany prior to and throughout World War II. Sd. Kfz. 100s for PzKpfw I versions; Sd. Kfz. 120s for PzKpfw II versions
The Sd.Kfz. 251 (Sonderkraftfahrzeug 251) half-track was a World War II German armoured personnel carrier designed by the Hanomag company, based on its earlier, unarmored Sd.Kfz. 11 vehicle. The Sd.Kfz. 251 was designed to transport the Panzergrenadier (German mechanized infantry) into battle. Sd.Kfz. 251s were the most widely produced German ...
The current inventory of armoured vehicles, both serviceable and active, is likely to increase significantly due to the ongoing war in Ukraine after Russia's invasion. This caused a rethink of Germany 's defence doctrine, which includes increased defence spending of at least 2% of GDP and an initial outlay of €100 billion on expanding ...
Bergepanzer IV (armored recovery vehicle version of the Panzer IV) Bergepanzer 38(t) (armored recovery vehicle version of the Jagdpanzer 38(t)) Bergepanzer Tiger Ausf. E (recovery version of the Tiger I Ausf E) Bergepanzer Tiger (P) (recovery version of the Elefant) Bergepanzerwagen II (armoured engineer vehicle version of the Panzer II Ausf J)
This is a list of German-made and German-used land vehicles sorted by type, covering both former and current vehicles, from their inception from the German Empire, through the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany, to the split between West Germany and East Germany, through their reunification and into modern-day Germany.
The armoured personnel carrier (APC) variant can be considered a baseline configuration for Boxer. The German Army received 125 APC modules as part of the initial 272-vehicle order. All 131 vehicles from the second German Army order are in a new configuration of the armoured personnel carrier (Gepanzertes Transportfahrzeug). [91]
The TPz Fuchs from Transportpanzer Fuchs is a German armoured personnel carrier originally developed by Daimler-Benz, and manufactured and further developed by Rheinmetall MAN Military Vehicles (RMMV). Fuchs was the second wheeled armoured vehicle to enter service with the Bundeswehr (West German military). [5]