Mowag Puma
| MOWAG Puma | |
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MOWAG Puma at Military Museum Full | |
| Place of origin |
 Switzerland |
| Service history | |
| Used by | no one |
| Production history | |
| Designer | MOWAG motor car factory Kreuzlingen |
| Designed | 1981 |
| Manufacturer | MOWAG |
| Number built | 1 |
| Variants | Puma APC |
| Specifications | |
| Crew | 7: driver, commander, gunner +4 passengers in the rear area |
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Main armament | Coaxial armament turret with 20mm machine gun 7.62 mm MG3 HS |
Secondary armament | 6 smoke grenade cup 2x 76mm 9mm Uzi in spherical aperture |
| Engine |
8 Cylinder Engine = MOWAG M8DV displacement cm ³ 10800 235 kW |
| Transmission | MOWAG M13-16S 6 forward and 2 reverse |
| Suspension | 6x6 wheeled |
Operational range | 40 km (25 mi) |
| Speed | 80 km/h (50 mph)on road,42 km/h (26 mph)off road.12 km/h (7 mph) water |
The MOWAG PUMA 6x6 is a armored personnel carriers of the company Mowag from Switzerland.
History and development
As first of family of vehicles with 4x4, 6x6 and 8x8 designed and built in the 4x4 and 6x6 versions, the concept of avehicles with different weight divisions was a basis. Especially at the Puma family were buoyancy, high payload, high maneuverability and operability in NBC contaminated area. The 6x6 Puma has the wheels of the first and the third axis are steerabel, enable a tight turning circle, the wheels of the middle axle are fixed . Behind the two rear wheels is a ship propeller. The motor is housed in the front. The Grenadiers leave the vehicle through a door behind the turret hatch in the roof or through a large double door at the rear of the vehicle, this door is the vertical rear end. The Puma yielded important results for the 8x8 armored personnel carriers weapon carrier Mowag Shark. A prototype of the Puma, who took part in various trials in Switzerland and at presentations at the Gurnigel, in Brugg and Oerlikon-Bührle premises Ochsenboden, is now in the Military Museum Full. But the Puma never went into series production.[1] [2]