Puma infantry fighting vehicle – status and further planning
Gerhard Heiming and Michael Horst
The capability profile of the Bundeswehr was updated in 2020 and, based on current knowledge from the war in Ukraine, will certainly need to be adjusted in the near future with regard to national and alliance defense capabilities. According to these findings, the German land forces must also gain significantly in terms of resilience and performance in all planning categories, in particular cold start capability, since military conflicts are ultimately always decided by land forces on the ground "boots on the ground".
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