Dutch combat engineers how to place a bridge with the Leopard bridge tank. this exercise was done in 2012 for a group of students. Subscribe today and become a Buzzkiller !
Meh aluminium bridge and really really heavy armored tank with a really big 830 bhp engine in the back. In total it weights 43 tons since it still has the full battletank version's armor on it. And since this is an old leopard 1 tank it's good old laminated steel What's really impressive is that this vehicle lays a 22 meter bridge in 3 minutes, can do so without personeel having to come from cover and if it does have a problem with the engine for example it can swap it out within 2 hours. That's crazy. It can also fit ground moving blades and does a cool 62 kmh on the road.
It's because with the American style you advertise your location to everyone. And since the point of these things is to come at the enemy from an angle they did not expect that's a problem. I mean otherwise you might as well use main roads. This takes 3 minutes, is way more sneaky and it can just pick that bridge up from the other side and keep with the rest of the vehicles. Something not all American ones can do.
I've driven over a few of these in an M113... in the dark. There's no lats allowed once on the bridge. I cannot remember it's length, but if it has solid edgings it only needs 50cm each end. 22 Meters comes to mind but it's been a few years.
I remember staring at a picture of this thing in a book wondering how the heck these panels were supposed to unfold when I was a kid. That was in the 90s before the age of Internet.
Dutch Army develops with German counter partners military equipment. The bridge classification is much to low for modern track powered armory. So the dutch are developing a new improved up-to-date system. And this is a training situation.
Cool, didn't know that the dutch army uses german military equipment. Also I never thought to see a Bieber and an AH-64 Apache in the same video. Nicely filmed by the way, i like the perspective.
+Soldier The Canadian Forces uses alot of old German gear, as well. We currently use both the Leopard (both versions,) and the Mercedes G-Wagen (worst possible excuse for military transportation if you ask me.) We'd be better off if we just replaced all our G-Wagens with the Chevy Suburban variants we use.
INF1D3L010 I agree, the Mercedes G isn't that well thought out. The MAN multi-purpose trucks are a way better (uh...) way to transport troops and supplies, although they are larger.
Hallo. Ich war vor 30 Jahren Fahrer und dann Kommandant auf der Panzerschnellbrücke Bieber . Es ist schön dieses Video zu sehen. Ich konnte mich an den Ablegevorgang bestens erinnern. TOLL !!!
Just wondering, doesn't this system have more number of mechanical parts (hence higher chance of failure, maintenance cost) compared to the one that US Army uses (M60 AVLB)?
Its german, ofcourse its complicate and over engineered, is there anything simple and reliable and practical made in germany 😂 aaa, sorry, vw beatle was simple mass producted thing 😂 luckily its not swiss clockmakes who design this
My goodness I cannot imagine the mechanical stress on the edge there attached to the tank when it's extended to its fullest.. makes me cringe for the tank.. Poor thing
@@wkruit I know they're built to withstand it but the forces are still out of imagination for me, comparing it to our own bodies, as are way more things out there in the universe, like how unimaginably dense neutron stars are, or how much bigger some suns are than our own sun, which is already gargantuan compared to our Earth. >
In mijn tijd toen ik in dienst zat (89,6), heb ik zelf eens gezien hoe een brug werd gelegd. Maar toen ging er eerst iemand over heen om te kijken of er geen explosieve of iets dergelijks lagen voordat de brug werd neergelegd ! Zou wat vervelend zijn als hij hem bijvoorbeeld precies op een mijn zou leggen !
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This must be a training video, back in the 80's Armd Engrs would simply drive to a 2m picket by the river and deploy. No-one would leave the vehicle. Bridge would be laid in 2mins and it would be all over.
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Because it's an assault bridge. It's meant to get the tank bridage into battle, then the Engineers will bring a more permanent bridge to handle all the rest of the supplies need to advance the battle to the enemy. Been there, done that, I'm a retired Canadian Combat Engineer.
Wieso endet das Video bevor der Panzer über die Brücke gefahren ist, das ist üblich das der Panzer mit seiner Überfahrt seinen Kameraden zeigt das die Brücke sicher hält🙄
медленно работает. больше 3 минут раскладывается. Российский МТУ раскладывает мост 19 метров меньше чем за 2,5 минуты. Можно конечно сказать, что 30 сек. это не отрыв, но в военных условиях этого времени достаточно, чтобы выстрелить из РПГ и сжечь мостоукладчик прям на месте.
They made amodification of the AVLB by keeping it horizontal. There is no way in hell of having someone out in front for pre-launch! He'd be target practice. I see benefits and risks of this equipment
They wouldn't be laying a bridge in the middle of combat. The vehicle is really only protected against small arms and shrapnel, in case of surprise gunfire or artillery barrage.
In continually panning away to look at the helicopter, you have missed several aspects of this operation. STAY ON POINT and FORGET THE #@! HELICOPTER! No thumb for this video.
