Puma is an IFV, not a tank.
Not reading much defense news at the moment, as I'm off work. I'm assuming it's probably more complaints related to the reliability issues with the sensors or transmission ?
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Btw: Have you heard the news about those Puma Panzers = Puma tanks?
What on earth is an IFV?Puma is an IFV, not a tank.
Infantry Fighting Vehicle.What on earth is an IFV?
In German those Pumas are called Panzer.
Panzer Puma - sounds better somehow than IFV.
What on earth is an IFV?
In German those Pumas are called Panzer.
Panzer Puma - sounds better somehow than IFV.
Your police arresting their army would make the news I suppose.Maybe. Not sure how we'd notice.
Germany will not purchase any more Puma infantry tanks until they have proven themselves to be reliable, Defence Minister Christine Lambrecht said on Monday after several of the vehicles were put out of service during a recent military drill.
Most civilians have no idea what a IFV is and are going to see a large, tracked vehicle with a turret gun like the Puma nad think "tank". It's lazy journalism imo, but it makes sense.Germany pauses purchases of Puma tanks after operational problems
Germany will not purchase any more Puma infantry tanks until they have proven themselves to be reliable, Defence Minister Christine Lambrecht said on Monday after several of the vehicles were put out of service during a recent military drill.www.reuters.com
Here the Puma is called an infantry tank
A statement from the German defence ministry said the goal was to make the Puma tanks operational as soon as possible. Meanwhile, the German Bundeswehr military would use Marder tanks, the predecessor model to the Puma, from Jan. 1, in what a ministry spokesperson called a "fall-back solution".
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A marder is also a Schützenpanzer, an IFV. It's the predecessor of the Puma in that vehicle class.Is the "Marder" a tank, then?
Germany pauses purchases of Puma tanks after operational problems
Germany will not purchase any more Puma infantry tanks until they have proven themselves to be reliable, Defence Minister Christine Lambrecht said on Monday after several of the vehicles were put out of service during a recent military drill.www.reuters.com
And then of course the other day, the USAF grounded all 20 B-2s bombers.I have now read more about that Puma.
It is quite a skandal, that all those 18 Pumas of the German army (the Bundeswehr) do not work.
One might say that the Bundeswehr is now "wehrlos" = defenceless.
And then of course the other day, the USAF grounded all 20 B-2s bombers.
All 20 of the Air Force’s B-2 Spirit bombers are grounded as the service hunts for potential safety defects, a spokesperson confirmed Monday. The stealth aircraft will be down until further notice.
The Air Force paused the fleet’s operations after a bomber was damaged Dec. 10 at Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri. An undisclosed in-flight malfunction forced the crew to make an emergency landing on Whiteman’s runway, where firefighters extinguished flames at the scene, according to the 509th Bomb Wing. No one was injured.
Considering the price of those babies there probably is not such a thing as over caution in their maintenance or operation in peace time.And then of course the other day, the USAF grounded all 20 B-2s bombers.
Considering the price of those babies there probably is not such a thing as over caution in their maintenance or operation in peace time.
Puma jamming a gun turret versus 2 billion dollar technological marvel that symbolizes US military technology and might dropping from the sky would be a magnitude of different level of headache for Pentagon.
Planes costing two billion dollars each is just insane.
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