The unknown ACV-Puma, an attempt to become universal.

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Some may think this is the Puma IFV, and you are not wrong, but also not right. The ACV at its time was the first attempt at an IFV role and a first attempt to become the new "M113" with a universal role, the ACV had plans to be installed with the following turrets:

The general specs of the ACV-Puma are different per chassis, in total there are 3 basic chassis models. The main difference is the length, weight and engine power.


The one that isn't on the picture is the ACV-Puma 1A5 (I call it that since there no official name) the reason for this is because of the usage of the Leopard 1A5 turret. This was proposed by KMW (Krauss-Maffei Wegmann) around the 1990s. It was using the in-house Puma development hull and was intended to use the surplus 1A5 turrets on this chassis (around this time the leopard 2's were already in service and leopard 1's were going out to get scrapped or sold) However, this came with a flaw, it didn't really make the puma an IFV, but an anti-tank. It never got passed the proposal stage because of many flaws, one example is the gun, which cant depress at the front of the tank, making it exposed if it needed to fire downwards.


Currently, most of you probably know the Puma IFV, which in many aspects shows the ACV-Puma style, and well it kinda is the ACV-Puma but not with its name, nor its equipment. The Puma IFV was the actuall Puma being delivered to germany as a IFV, (with the Marder 1A series) and currently, is in service with the german army.

To sum it all up, the project itself wasn't a bad idea. It was actually a good idea, but poorly executed but, the results are speaking for themself, take a good look at the Puma IFV that's the result thanks to this project.


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