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Rheinmetall ADS on Marder IFV

33 minutes ago, Rico said:

Is there an puplic overview about the key issues?

To list a few of the problems connected to low availability for the Puma:

- Lack of purchasement of spare parts (with initial spare part kits for some units only bought this(!) year)

- Same thing applies to the special tools needed to maintain the vehicle

- Faulty software, leading to the crew having to reboot the entire system. 

- Different versions of certain parts and software being used for production vehicles

- Not enough trained maintenance personel who have been retrained to work on the Puma

The main issue of the entire program, which basically is the root for all these re-occuring problelms, is that the political side really pressed down on the price, resulting in a lower amount of vehicles, which raised prices even more.

This led to a huge cut in procurement and organisation on the logistics end to save costs in order to buy enough vehicles.

As we can all see this has backfired really badly.

On 7/23/2020 at 5:24 PM, Laviduce said:

Interesting! Where was this taken ?

https://www.specialised-imaging.com/application/files/7215/6166/3538/SI_AP_Tracker2_Unexpected-events.pdf

Production of Leopard 2 A7+ hulls at METKA plant.

On 7/7/2020 at 10:54 PM, Gun Ready said:

 

Great photos! Do you have from top?

Here you go, sorry for the rather bad quality.

Leopard 2 at Allach KMW plant.

Pretty good angle on the hull add-on.

On 7/7/2020 at 10:54 PM, Gun Ready said:

Great photos! Do you have from top?

Not as of now, but i am sure i can send a few more pictures in the near future

Leopard 2 A7v in recent trials at WTD 91 Meppen