![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() IFV’s began to enter service in 1990 and soon Wiesel took a baptism of fire in Somalia, and later Kosovo and Afghanistan. The Bundeswehr ordered two large batches of the vehicle - with a 20mm gun and a TOW ATGM. In 1987 an armored vehicle with a 20mm automatic gun was put into service under the name Wiesel (German for "weasel"). A little later, the version with a TOW ATGM appeared, and in total it was supposed to develop about 20 armament options in this project. The vehicle was created bare bones with the initial possible weapon options, an automatic 20mm gun or HOT anti-tank missile launcher. Work on a new Bundeswehr air-landing armored vehicle to replace the KraKa began in the early 1970’s. ![]()
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