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Marder 1 A1A4: A Marder A1A with SEM 80/90 cryptographic radios. Marder 1 A1A2: A converted Marder 1 with A1 turret and A2 chassis Marder 1 A1A5: A Marder A1A2 with SEM 80/90 cryptographic radios. Marder 1 A2 (1984–1991): Between 1984 and 1991, all West German Marder 1s were upgraded to A2 standard. This included substantial modification of ...
The Marder I "Marten" (Sd.Kfz. 135) was a German World War II tank destroyer, armed with a 75 mm Pak-40 anti-tank gun. Most Marder Is were built on the base of the Tracteur Blindé 37L (Lorraine) , a French artillery tractor/ armoured personnel carrier of which the Germans had acquired more than 300 units after the Fall of France in 1940.
53 engines ordered in December 2023 to ensure a capacity to rotate the engines for maintenance and high availability. [170] Reactive armour modules approved for purchase by the parliament in December 2024 [171] DTV Driver training vehicles. 13: Spz Marder 1 West Germany: IFV. Infantry fighting vehicle. 362 (2023)
HF long-range radio was the AN/GRC 9 with the LV 80 100 Watts RF amplifier for Morse Code. This was replaced by the XK 405 100 Watts SSB HF radio made by Rohde&Schwarz in Germany and the incorporation of the new SEM 80/90 radio system gave it the designation SpPz 2 Luchs A2. The Luchs was replaced by the Fennek in Bundeswehr service.
Only a single prototype was built. It consists of a modified Marder chassis carrying a Bofors 57 mm Naval Automatic Gun L/70 Mark 1 and a TOW ATGM. In the mid-1970s, the two then-existing companies Thyssen-Henschel and Bofors began without government mandate the development of an infantry escort tank, to fill the niche of a light fire support ...
This offers protection against anti-armor shells from up to 35 mm (1.38-inch) guns. [1] The turret front is protected by 50 mm (1.97 in) of steel armor at an angle of 32 degrees. [ 18 ] Although the tank's weight and armor protection are light compared to other main battle tanks, it has the advantage of better tactical mobility over the nation ...
Roland 2 – This is the all-weather version mounted on the AMX-30R chassis (France and others), the Marder chassis (Germany, FlaRakPz 1, Heer, and others) and also as a shelter mount in either a static location or mounted on a 6×6 or 8×8 all-terrain truck (Germany, Roland FRR, Luftwaffe and Bundesmarine, and others).
Rheinmetall Zwillingsflak twin-gun anti-aircraft system began development in 1968 to meet the requirements of the low-level air defence units of the German Air Force, i.e. "to engage low and very low approaching enemy aircraft with all appropriate means in time to prevent them from firing their weapons or delivering their ordnance, or at least to prevent them from carrying out an accurate ...