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.Projekt Systems and Management Schutzenpanzer SPz PUMA Infantry Fighting Vehicle
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.Rye Field Model
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| Builder: | .Volcano
| | Item Status: | .Built To Order / Pre-Order
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Award winner built and painted Projekt Systems and Management (PSM) Schutzenpanzer SPz PUMA IFV with realistic slightly weathering. German NATO woodland camo color scheme with accurate unit markings. Top building quality with outstanding details throughout whole model and very high standard accuracy on every individual part. Total parts count of 700 parts.Brass photo-etched parts and clear parts. Quite impressed turret with very nice on-vehicle equipment detail. Hull and deck details. Road wheel with tracks detail. Add on vehicle tools and many accessories.
* Top building quality with great details overall.
* PUMA IFV with new modifications of main gun and armor.
* Brass photo-etched metal detail parts on engine grill, clasps and more.
* The hull with plenty of fine detail including weld marks, deck surface, panel and rivets.
* The hull top and bottom very nicely moulded and details such as multi-layered bolts for the add-on armour panel really pop out.
* Driver`s hatche with great periscope detail.
* Very nicely done rotating turret including periscope, separately molded hatches.
* Main armament gun has great details.
* Turret hatches with details both sides.
* Turret with lots on vehicle equipment.
* Smoke grenade with cover and mount detail.
* Hull side and rear with fence armor.
* Busy deck surface looking with panels and pattern.
* Rear door open-able with great detail and spare wheel.
* Lifelike suspension and shock absorber strut detail.
* lots exterior details including mirror, lights, ammo boxes, shackles and more.
* Adding towing cable, on-vehicle tools and more accessories.
Buffing and polishing to remove mold seam. Base color with primer and putty for better surface detail. Airbrushed and painted with multicolor. Add clear paint for good finishing on decal applying. Washing to enhance the surface detail increase the appearance of depth including panels, doors, hatches, rivets, bolt head and more. Dry brushing to emphasize and highlighting texture with edge for good wear, tear and fading. Multi-color filters for blend color effects. Adding nonglossy paint for better finishing. The great detail paint job on rust and paint chips off with scratches, worn and bare metal realistic simulating, flow rust and rain streaks effects, grease with staining appearing, engine smoking and muffler burned representing. Also smear and dirt with dust and real mud and more on real-life weathering. Final protective layer for long-term collection.
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The Puma is a German infantry fighting vehicle (Schützenpanzer or short SPz) designed to replace the aging Marder IFVs currently in service with the German Army. Replacement began in 2010 and is scheduled for completion by 2020. Mass production began on 6 July 2009. The companies responsible for this project are Krauss-Maffei Wegmann and Rheinmetall Landsysteme, who created a joint venture in the form of Projekt System Management GmbH (PSM). The Puma is one of the world`s best-protected IFVs, while still having a high power-to-weight ratio. SAIC offered a derivative of the Puma as its contender in the now cancelled American GCV Infantry Fighting Vehicle program.
The Puma (formerly also named Igel (hedgehog) and Panther)[citation needed] started as a follow-up project to the German 1996 "NGP" project (Neue Gepanzerte Plattformen, "New Armored Platforms"). Its aim was to collect ideas for a common base vehicle that could be used for a variety of tasks including that of the APC, IFV, air defense and replacing and assisting the MBT in the frontline combat role. The NGP project was ended in 2001.
The lessons learned were incorporated into the new tactical concept named neuer Schützenpanzer ("new IFV") in 1998. Planning for the Puma as the successor of the Marder began in 2002. That same year, the German Army (Heer) placed an order for the delivery of five pre-production vehicles and their logistics and training services at the end of 2004. On 8 November 2007, a budget of €3 billion to acquire 405 Pumas (excluding the five Pumas that had already been delivered to the German Army for trials) was agreed upon.
Other nations pursue similar developments emphasizing commonality, modularity and rapid deployability based on a comparable doctrine which was also a subject of discussion within NATO. Examples of these are the American GCV Infantry Fighting Vehicle, the British FRES and the German-Dutch Boxer MRAV.
On 6 December 2010, the first two serial vehicles were handed over to the German Bundesamt für Wehrtechnik und Beschaffung.
The Puma successfully completed cold tests in Norway in 2012. In August 2013, two Pumas were airlifted to the United Arab Emirates for hot weather tests. Trials included suitability for hot weather operations, firing and driving maneuvers in desert conditions, as well as firepower and mobility evaluations. During the trials, the temperature profiles inside the vehicle were measured, then compared to the ambient temperature.
On 13 April 2015, the Federal Office of Bundeswehr Equipment, Information Technology and In-Service Support (BAAINBw) granted authorization of use of the Puma IFV. This began a program to "train the trainers" on the first seven vehicles and additional ones until the end of the year, when a training center will be set up to put Panzer Grenadiers of mechanized infantry companies through a three-month course to familiarize them with their Pumas.The Puma officially entered service with the German military on 24 June 2015.
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