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The car has 2 different levels of protection. Basic Class A protection weight tonnage, which can be transported by air by A400M aircraft. This armor assembly provides 360 ° protection against millimeter bullets, as well as hollow-charge warhead shells, and at least 10 kg of ** shaped projectile warhead mines.

The C-level protection is the highest level of protection of the vehicle, that is, additional armor is added to the side and turret position. This type of vehicle weighs 41 tons and can withstand attacks similar to small bombs. At this point, the power-to-weight ratio is kilowatt-tonnes.

All additional armor components allow for quick installation. In terms of mobility, the new "Puma" is required to be able to fight in conjunction with the "Leopard" 2 main battle tank.

In general, three Cougars are transported by air in four A-400M, of which three transport aircraft are each carrying one A-protected Cougar and the remaining one transport aircraft is responsible for transporting additional parts for three infantry fighting vehicles.

The Super Protective Cougar has increased by 2 tons compared to the C-level protection, and the total combat weight has reached 43 tons.

German "Puma" infantry fighting vehicle, October 12, 2005 ** Dowklaus-Maffei? The first Cougar infantry fighting vehicle demonstrator is being developed for the German Army at the Kassel plant of Wigmann (KWM) and Rheinmetall Ground Systems, which will roll off the assembly line at the end of December and then enter the testing phase, which will end in May 2006. This will be followed by the production of five pre-production Cougar infantry fighting vehicles, which will be delivered to the German Army between the end of 2006 and May 2007 at a cost of 100 million euros.

In addition, according to the needs of the military, the full-scale production of the "Puma" infantry fighting vehicle will begin in 2007, and 405 units will be delivered to the military from 2009 to replace the "Weasel" 1 infantry fighting vehicle.

In order to better develop the firepower of the main gun, the "Puma" is equipped with the world's most advanced digital fire control system, including a two-way stabilization system, a dual-channel gun commander sight, a dual-channel vehicle commander's circumferential sight, a fire control panel, a new generation of ballistic computers, and a carbon dioxide laser rangefinder, among which the commander and gun commander are equipped with thermal imagers. The advanced fire control system enables the "Cougar" to accurately attack stationary and maneuvering targets during the day and night, as well as the "hunt-and-destroy" combat capability.

The Cougar infantry fighting vehicle is equipped with a GPS positioning system, an advanced identification friend or foe system, and a C4I system on all wiring is arranged using the MIL-STD-1553 data bus. In addition, each member has a multi-function display device, a large-area observation device, and the driver is equipped with a rearview camera. With these advanced inter-vehicle information systems, the "Cougar" has become "deaf and clear-sighted", and its information perception capability is significantly superior to that of the world's active infantry fighting vehicles.

The power system of the "Cougar" infantry fighting vehicle is the world's most compact and lightest armored equipment diesel engine jointly developed by the German Mercedes-Benz Federeshaven Company and the American Detroit Diesel Company, that is, the high-power density 10V892 diesel engine, coupled with the Lenk HSW284C automatic transmission device, so that the vehicle has the excellent characteristics of low noise and low vibration.

The new MTU892 engine has a rated power of up to 800 kilowatts, and if calculated in tons of combat full weight, the unit power is up to kilowatt tons; Even at a maximum combat full weight of 43 tons, the unit power was in kilowatt tons. The strong power ensures that the "Puma" has excellent maneuverability and can completely follow the "Panther" tank in battle.

The "Cougar" infantry fighting vehicle adopts a new type of liquid-air suspension system developed by Klaus-Maffei Wigmann, which not only makes the vehicle have good off-road ability, but also makes the vehicle quieter and less vibrating when driving.

The "Puma" has a total of 5 pairs of unequal distance load wheels and 2 pairs of carrier pulleys, with the driving wheel in front and the induction wheel in the rear. The track is a double-pin metal rubber track provided by Deere Company, which has less grounding pressure.

Development prospects. The "Puma" is an infantry fighting vehicle developed by applying a large number of the latest technologies, and its comprehensive performance can be called the most advanced in the world. With the further development of the project, from the chassis of the "Puma" infantry fighting vehicle, a variety of variants can also be developed, such as armored command vehicles, mortar vehicles, anti-aircraft missile launchers, self-propelled anti-aircraft guns, anti-tank missile launchers, direct-aim shooting platforms, armored ambulances and so on.

In the middle of the body of the "Puma" infantry fighting vehicle is an all-electric remote-controlled station developed by Krauss-Maffei Wigmann and can rotate 360 degrees. On the right side of the turret is a 30-mm cannon of the Mauser MK30-2 type, developed by Rheinmetall Ammunition. The firing pitch angle is 10 degrees +45 degrees, the maximum rate of fire is up to 700 rounds, the combat rate of fire is 200 rounds, and the firing range is up to 3 kilometers.

The firing methods include closed and single-shot, burst and burst. The advantage of using a two-way bullet chain is that it can not only ensure the continuity of firepower, but also quickly change the ammunition type according to different targets.

The MK30-2 cannon is capable of firing a variety of munitions developed by Erkon Kontows, including the PMC287 monolithic sub-caliber tracer tail stabilized armor-piercing projectile and the sub-caliber tracer armor-piercing incendiary projectile. Among them, the APFSDS-T core is tungsten alloy, the propellant weighs 235 grams, the muzzle velocity of the shell reaches kilometers per second, and at a distance of 2 kilometers, it can penetrate 60 mm of homogeneous steel armor when the hit angle is 90 degrees, and can effectively penetrate the front armor of light armored vehicles when the hit angle is 30 degrees; At a distance of kilometers, the projectile can even penetrate the side armor of the M60 tank. And the FAIDS-T ammunition is deployed to combat both hard and soft targets.

In addition, in response to the threat of armed forces and other low-altitude targets to infantry combat vehicles, the Erkon Kontravers Company has also developed a new type of air-burst bomb with a length of 173 mm and a diameter of 30 mm on the basis of the technology of the 35-mm "Ahed" bomb.

The projectile is equipped with an electronic timer, a throw-out charge and 135 cylindrical tungsten alloy rods or paraboloids. The electronic timer is programmed and set by a device installed in the muzzle brake of the gun. Under the control of the timer, the shell begins to throw the charge and release, scatter the projectile before colliding with the target.

The projectile has an effective range of up to kilometers when dealing with ***. The bomb has a very strong anti-jamming performance, which can resist all electronic interference that is now hidden in it.

The auxiliary ** of the Cougar is an MG4 mm parallel machine gun, arranged to the left of the Mk30-2 main gun. In addition, eight 76 mm smoke grenade launchers are arranged in a row at the rear of the remote-controlled turret.