PioPz 2 Dachs AEV

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The Pionierpanzer 2A1 "Dachs" in Steel Beasts Professional

Dachs AEV: Armored Engineering Vehicle


Statistics

Remote Weapons' Station (Lemur): 12.7mm M2HB or 40mm AGL (optional)
Ammunition Stowage: 300 ready/900 stowed 12.7mm or 64 ready/900 stowed 40mm grenades
Default Ammunition: 100/900 12.7mm PPTM/85 LS or 64/900 40mm M430 HEDP (HEAT)
Integral Grenades: 3 ready/9 stowed per bank (2), total 24.


Grenade Launcher: Genades
Ammunition Stowage: 1 ready/3 stowed
Default Ammunition: 1/3 Smoke


Armor Protection:
Frontal Turret Armor: N/A
Frontal Hull Armor: Good, Steel. Equivalent to Leo 1


Combat Mass: 43 tonnes
Length: 8.93m (as modeled with excavator stowed)
Width: 3.25m
Height: 2.57m (as modeled with excavator stowed)
Engine Power: 830 hp MTU MB 838 CaM 500 V-10 Multi-fuel
Top Speed: 62kph

General

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. Alternately, in Steel Beasts Professional, the Dachs may be outfitted with an auger equipped boom identical to that of the Pionierpanzer 1 (also nonfunctional), allowing designers to replicate that vehicle for mid Cold War era scenarios. With preparation the Dachs may ford water obstacles up to 4 meters deep and while so equipped may conduct excavation operations to a depth of 2.25 meters. This vehicle may be equipped with the Lemur remote weapon station.

Beginning with Steel Beasts Professional version 4.000, engineering vehicles such as the Dachs AEV may carry barrier materials (concertina wire rolls) for the construction of wire obstacles and, as of version 4.156, may construct one and two tier vehicle emplacements during runtime. Refer to the Obstacles And Fortifications page for information regarding the placement and construction of such obstacles and emplacements. Additionally, with revision 4.156, the Dachs AEV may be equipped with the Diehl Active Vehicle Protection System (AVePS) to enhance protection against RPG and ATGM threats.

Currently the Dachs AEV is in service with the German, Belgian, Chilean, and Canadian (as the Badger) armed forces.

Thermal Signature

Dachs AEV TIS image, front-right Dachs AEV TIS image, rear-left