German Army Marder
Marder 1A3 General characteristics
Length	6.88 m
Width	3.38 m
Height	3.015 m
Weight	33.5 t
Suspension	torsion bar
Speed	65 km/h road ? km/h off-road
Range	460 km
Primary armament	20 mm Rheinmetall MK 20 Rh202 autocannon MILAN ATGM launcher
Secondary armament	7.62 mm MG3 machine gun
Armour	? mm
Power plant	MTU MB 833 engine 600 hp (441 kW)
Crew	3 (commander, gunner, driver) + 6 troops

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Overview

Developed as part of the rebuilding of Germany's armoured fighting vehicle industry, the Marder has proven to be a successful and solid infantry fighting vehicle design. While it does include a few unique features, such as the fully remote machinegun on the rear deck, it is overall a simple and conventional machine with rear exit hatch and side gun ports for mounted infantry to fire through. An armoured fighting vehicle (AFV) is a military vehicle, equipped with protection against hostile attacks and often mounted weapons. ... A Warrior vehicle with UN markings, during the making of the eponymous film. ...

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Armament

Primary armament is the 20mm Rheinmetall MK 20 Rh202 autocannon mounted in a small two-men turret mid-mounted on the hull with armour-piercing and HE rounds. Rheinmetall is a German defense company with factories in Düsseldorf and Unterlüß. It has a long tradition of making guns and artillery pieces, such as the WW2 88 mm gun. ... M242 Bushmaster autocannon on an M2 Bradley. ... Turret (highlighted) attached to a tower on a baronial building in Scotland In architecture, a turret (from Italian: torretta, little tower; Latin: turris, tower) is a small tower that projects from the wall of a building, such as a medieval castle or baronial house. ... HE, He, or he may stand for: Hebrew language (ISO 639 alpha-2, he) Helium (He), symbol for the chemical element Hé, a Chinese family name represented by the character 何 He, an English pronoun. ...

Secondary weapon is a 7.62mm MG3 machine gun mounted coaxially to the main gun. Early Marders up to and including version 1A1 had a second MG3 attached to the rear deck in a fully remote controlled housing. The German MG3 is one of the most popular universal machine guns in the World. ... A machine gun is a fully-automatic firearm that is capable of firing bullets in rapid succession. ... coaxial cable In geometry, coaxial means that two or more forms share a common axis; it is the three-dimensional analog of concentric. Coaxial cable, for example, has a conducting wire in the center and a second conducting layer running all the way around the exterior circumference, under the insulation. ...

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There are four (two per side) gun ports which can be used by mounted infantry to provide additional fire against attacking infantry targets.

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Variants

The Marder 1A3 is the currently most common version of this system, and is in service with the German Bundeswehr, the Marder 1A4 differs from the 1A3 only by the use of a cryptography-capable radio-set. Newest Version of the Marder is the Marder 1A5 with advanced mine protection. But only a small number is in service. The Bundeswehr (   listen?) is the armed forces of Germany and its administration. ... Cryptography has had a long and colourful history. ...

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