#spahpanzer

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Bundeswehr SPz 11-2 AIFVs of Armoured Reconnaissance Battalion 10 alongside the Danube in Ingolstadt, West Germany, c.1980

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Damage to a Spähpanzer Luchs by a 120 mm high-explosive fragmentation shell fired from a Leopard 2A6 tank.

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Spahpanzer Ru 251, a German prototype light tank supposed to replace the M41 Walker Bulldog. It based on the Kanonenjagdpanzer tank destroyer and used the same 90 mm gun. The Ru 251 had remarkable mobility and firepower, but had very little in the way of protection. It went under extensive testing, but at the same time the Leopard 1 main battle tank with its 105 mm cannon was prepared for series production and the 251 was dropped.