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About one year after the completion of the A3 conversion the Jaguar 1 was phased out; Austria, interested in the HOT missile launchers, received 90 Jaguar 1 vehicles as a freebie (without thermal imagers though, which were procured in 2005). Since 2006 the Panzerabwehrbataillon 1 is in the process of being dismantled until 2010. | About one year after the completion of the A3 conversion the Jaguar 1 was phased out; Austria, interested in the HOT missile launchers, received 90 Jaguar 1 vehicles as a freebie (without thermal imagers though, which were procured in 2005). Since 2006 the Panzerabwehrbataillon 1 is in the process of being dismantled until 2010. | ||
==Thermal Signature== | |||
[[Image:Jaguar_1A3_front-right.jpg|300px|Jaguar 1A3 TIS image, front-right]] | |||
[[Image:Jaguar_1A3_rear-left.jpg|300px|Jaguar 1A3 TIS image, rear-left]]<br> | |||
==Links== | ==Links== |
Revision as of 19:24, 31 August 2010
Jaguar 1A3: ATGM carrier
Statistics
ATGM:
Ammunition Stowage: 1 ready/19 stowed
Default Ammunition: 1/19 HOT-2
Anti Aircraft Machine Gun: MG3
Ammunition Stowage: 100 ready/3100 stowed
Default Ammunition: 100/3100 7.62mm AP (NATO)
Grenades: Smoke Grenades
Ammunition Supply: 2 ready/0 stowed
Default Ammunition: 2/0 smoke grenade
General
The Jaguar is a conversion of the "Raketenjagdpanzer 2" (JPzRak) of the late 1970s/early 1980s. It received an add-on armor package, and replaced the French SS-11 missile with the HOT system. Ten years later the A3 configuration received a second generation thermal imager.
The crew compartment contains the driver (front/left), gunner (front/right), commander (center/right), and loader (rear/right). The loader's job is limited to refilling the six-round revolver type magazine which otherwise provides a very fast reload time.
The Jaguar 1A3 was therefore the first Bundeswehr tank hunter vehicle with both NBC protection and night combat capability; the Jaguar 2, a conversion of the "Kanonenjagdpanzer" (JPzK) was equipped with a TOW missile launcher with its built-in thermal imager which however required to open large roof hatches, rendering it useless under NBC conditions.
316 Jaguar 1 and 165 Jaguar 2 were built.
About one year after the completion of the A3 conversion the Jaguar 1 was phased out; Austria, interested in the HOT missile launchers, received 90 Jaguar 1 vehicles as a freebie (without thermal imagers though, which were procured in 2005). Since 2006 the Panzerabwehrbataillon 1 is in the process of being dismantled until 2010.