84546 1/35 IDF PUMA AEV

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Retail Price: $117.99

Scale: 1/35
Brand: Hobbyboss

Stock Status: In Stock

Product Code: 84546

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IDF PUMAAEV - The Puma is a heavily armored Combat engineering vehicle and armored personnel carrier that the Engineering Corps of the Israeli Defence Forces has used since the early 1990s The vehicle can carry a crew of up to eight The 50-ton vehicles speed is 45 kilometers an hourThe Puma uses the hull of the Shot, which is itself a modified British Centurion tank Some Pumas are equipped with the Carpet mine-clearing system This consists of 20 rockets that the crew can fire singly or all together The rockets contain a fuel-air explosive warhead which spreads a cloud of fuel fumes that are then detonated The overpressure from the explosion destroys most mines The Puma then advances behind a set of rollers that trigger any mines the fuel-air explosion did not destroyThere is also electronic equipment for detonating roadside bombs or jamming detonation signalsThe Puma is capable of towing a mobile bridge for deploying over trenches and enemy land obstacles during battle Unlike the M60 AVLB launching the bridge, the Puma pulls the bridge during combat and pushes the bridge over the obstacle, allowing tanks and infantry personnel carriers to maneuver quickly in the battlefieldArmament consists of three 762 mm FN MAG machine guns, including one in a remote turret that the crew can control from within the cabin by a Rafael Overhead Weapon Station OWS The vehicle also has a 60mm mortar and two launchers for smoke grenades