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Bundeswehr Winter Maneuvre
HermannB
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Bayern, Germany
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Posted: Saturday, February 08, 2020 - 10:12 PM UTC
1982 video of a Bundeswehr exercise at Hohenfels.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKqBJKkKD_A

Temparature were as low as minus 26 deg Celsius. Note the faces painted on the Gepard tracking radar.
GTDeath13
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Posted: Saturday, February 08, 2020 - 10:20 PM UTC
Excellent footage. Thanks for sharing.
zapper
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Posted: Sunday, February 09, 2020 - 01:01 AM UTC
Indeed very cool decorations on the Gepard!
Thanks!

Cheers,
/E
ttwells
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Posted: Sunday, February 09, 2020 - 01:22 AM UTC
Thanks for sharing... I love this stuff. I actually have a project in mind for an M48 in winter whitewash (US Army though) now I am truly psyched!
mjstubley
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Posted: Tuesday, February 11, 2020 - 12:04 PM UTC
I wanted something different for my Takom Bergepanzer 2 - just found it
canismalus
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Posted: Thursday, February 13, 2020 - 07:03 AM UTC
Hi Hans-Hermann,

Thanks a lot for posting that link. Like the others have said, many great ideas for projects!

Many of the historical Bundeswehr videos on YouTube are worth watching for the same reason. For example, here’s another interesting one, from 1967:

https://youtu.be/bWlWLcav5v0

Lots of early Leo 1s!

Jerry
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