Manufactured by MaK System Gesellschaft mbH (now Rheinmetall Land Systems), the Pionierpanzer 2A1 Dachs (Ger: “Badger”) is a medium, fully tracked, armored vehicle, that performs earth-moving, engineering (welding and cutting), obstacle breaching, and obstacle construction operations on the battlefield. A 1987 upgrade of the Pionierpanzer 1 (Leopard 1 AEV), the Dachs features 9.20 m extensible excavator arm equipped with a 1.1 cubic meter bucket (currently nonfunctional) which, with the fitted lifting eyes, may perform crane duties up to 2 tons.
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