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Marder 1 A3 (1988–1998): A Marder with upgraded armor (involved extra frontal armor), suspension changes and other modifications. Marder 1 A4 : A Marder 1 A3 with SEM 93 cryptographic radio. Marder 1 A5 (2003–2004): Additional anti-mine armor and a completely remodeled interior in order to avoid blast and shock injuries to the crew when hit ...
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.
[1] [note 1] These two trends led to the IFV, with firing ports in the troop compartment and a crew-operated weapons system. [1] The IFV established a new niche between those combat vehicles which functioned primarily as armored weapons-carriers or as APCs. [6] During the 1950s, the Soviet, US, and most European armies had adopted tracked APCs. [6]
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 ...
Desert Warrior. This was an export version adapted for operations in hostile desert conditions. It was fitted with the Delco turret as used on the LAV-25 wheeled IFV, mounting a stabilised 25 mm M242 Bushmaster chain gun with coaxial 7.62 mm chain gun and two Hughes TOW ATGM launchers (one mounted on each side). In 1993, Kuwait purchased 254 ...
The Schützenpanzer Puma (SPz Puma), meaning “Schützen-AFV Puma”, is a German infantry fighting vehicle (IFV), per the Panzergrenadier-doctrine, designed to replace the aging Marder IFVs currently in service with the German Army. Production of the first batch of 350 vehicles began in 2010 and was completed in August 2021.
Marder III was the name for a series of World War II German tank destroyers. They mounted either the modified ex-Soviet 76.2 mm F-22 Model 1936 divisional field gun , or the German 7.5 cm PaK 40 , in an open-topped fighting compartment on top of the chassis of the Czechoslovakian Panzer 38(t) .
The Marder II ("marten" in English) was a German tank destroyer of World War II based on the Panzer II chassis. [1] There were two versions, the first mounted a modified Soviet 7.62 cm gun firing German ammunition, while the other mounted the German 7.5 cm Pak 40 gun. [ 2 ]