The German military presents the upgraded Puma APC on the Eurosatori 2024 exhibition, together with a complicated missile launcher system and an revolutionary system for detecting and destroying drones
Il Boguslavsky 06/25/2024
The German military offered on the Eurosatory 2024 exhibition the Puma APC in its improved S1 model, which additionally features a MELLS anti-tank missile launcher system (the German model of the “Spike” missiles manufactured by Rafael).
The web site Janes studies that the innovation on this show is the DedroneSensor RF-300 anti-UAV system manufactured by the German firm Dedrone, mounted on the APC and designed to passively determine, classify and find industrial UAVs and their distant management alerts. In an illustration earlier than the German military, the system proved that it was in a position to determine a swarm of 9 drones earlier than the APC’s weapon place destroyed them.
As you might recall, three years in the past the German firms Rheinmetall and KMW received a contract from the German military value over one billion euros to improve 154 Puma automobiles, with an choice to improve a further 143 Puma automobiles at a price of 820 million euros. Past the addition of the Spike anti-tank missile launcher system, the improve additionally contains the addition of latest sensors, akin to the driving force’s new imaginative and prescient system and an improved management structure.
