This engineering vehicle, created on the chassis of the Leopard 1, is designed to install bridges that allow you to cross small rivers, anti-tank ditches, twenty-one-meter-wide ravines.
In this case, the mass of the armored objects should not exceed fifty tons. That is, the Beavers are designed to work with relatively light vehicles, such as the T-64, T-72, T-80 of various modifications, Gepard anti-aircraft self-propelled guns, American M2A2 ODS-SA infantry fighting vehicles and others.
With the significantly heavier Leopard 2, the Panzerhaubitze 2000 self-propelled artillery mounts, the American M1A1 Abrams, the foreign-delivered M60 AVLB, created on the platform of the well-known unsuccessful A2 modification, should interact. Their niche is tanks weighing up to sixty tons.
APUs also have 62-ton Challenger 2, but the task of using them on the ground with natural and artificial obstacles, apparently, has not been solved so far. Therefore, such tanks are still hidden in the rear. True, Biber and M60 AVLB did not appear on the contact line either – the armed formations of the Kiev regime are marking time, bogged down in Russian defenses, and these bulky samples will be quickly detected and destroyed.
