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This massive armored vehicle has a giant plow for clearing Russian mines (www.popsci.com)
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[–] Ooops@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

This "massive armored vehicle" is just a modified Leopard-1 btw...

Wisent1 is a commercially produced upgrade for Leopard-1 engineering variants. Many countries kept the Leopard-1 engineering versions even when they changed to Leopard-2s as MBTs. But at some point these Leopard-2s got too heavy to handle...

Enter FFG Flensburg with a privately developed upgrade kit (the main buyer so far was Denmark), that improves the armor on these older Leopard-1 variants, improves their power to be able to recover heavier Leopard-2s again and also comes with a bit of modularity for either classical tank recovery vehicle or more specialised de-mining or excavator (all three variants shown at the bottom of the linked page).

PS: The same company already developed a Wisent2 (upgrade for the Leopard-2-based engineering variants) but as those vehicles still perform adequately, the interest is low... for now.