![]() That is to say, the Ukrainian army still has plenty of breaching capability left, even after the debacle south of Mala Tomachka two weeks ago. Sunbeam 1,000 hp Mystery Slug LSR Car - Henry Segrave, Louis Coatalen. The Ukrainians so far have lost just one Wisent in combat, during the same June 8 breaching attempt that claimed those three Leopard 2Rs. Chrysler A57 Multibank Tank Engine - To cut development time, Chrysler combined. Yes, the former is heavier and better-protected, and boasts an additional 500 horsepower to heft that extra weight and put more oomph behind the plow.īut it’s worth noting that extra armor and engine power didn’t make much difference outside Mala Tomachka, where the sheer density 0f mines-plus intervention by Russian helicopters-doomed the attacking force. “Ground-engaging tines arranged across the full width of the vehicle displace buried pressure-fused mines to create a trafficable path,” Pearson stated.Īs they use the same plows, there’s not a lot of difference between the Leopard 2R and Wisent 1. The plow’s greatest attribute is its width. That’s the same Pearson mine-plow that equips most of the best Western mine-clearing and breaching vehicles, including the Leopard 2R. The two-person Wisent 1 is a Leopard 1 tank chassis with a 1,000-horsepower diesel engine, a 30-ton crane and attachments for either a dozer blade or a mine-plow built by Pearson Engineering in the United Kingdom. ![]() Ukraine is getting 42 of the 45-ton vehicles from Germany plus an unspecified number of additional copies from Norway. The most numerous is the Wisent, built by Flensburger Fahrzeugbau Gesellschaft in Germany. ![]()
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