Following integration testing in early summer, the government expects to request money for the retrofitting from the Bundestag later this year. In their confidential report, however, officials predicted a yearlong delay, from March 2019 to the second quarter of 2020. The entire Puma fleet will also get the MELLS tank-killing weapon, eventually. A portion of the legacy vehicles are slated to be part of Germany’s contribution to a NATO Very High Readiness Joint Task Force, the ministry said. The price tag for the outstanding capabilities is expected to lie in the hundreds of millions of euros.ĭefense officials announced in April that 35 Marder tanks are in line to get the anti-tank weapon MELLS, though a fleetwide program for all of the 1970s-era tanks also is under consideration. But critical gaps remain, including a system offering improved situational awareness for vehicle operators and a camouflage feature that would reduce the vehicle’s radar signature, the ministry told lawmakers in a confidential report in April. The Defence Ministry already has several programs underway to improve the Puma and retrofit vehicles already delivered. In a statement, the company praised the weapon’s “ massive fire power and excellent network-enabled operations capabilities.” This article deals with the tanks (German: Panzer) serving in the German Army (Deutsches Heer) throughout history, such as the World War I tanks of the Imperial German Army, the interwar and World War II tanks of the Nazi German Wehrmacht, the Cold War tanks of the West German and East German Armies, all the way to the present day tanks of the. Rheinmetall announced this week the de livery of the 200th Puma to the Bundeswehr.
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