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"There are some things that Puma does better than T-15" - I guess the main advantage here is that, contrary to the T-15, the Puma IFV does actually exist in deployable numbers and is not vaporware.

I love how the text to speech software seems to have a German accent lmao

"The mobility is good enough" - that's an understatement, the Puma was designed to match the speed of the Leopard 2 going full power on rough terrain.

The puma hits a target in 3 km during driving full speed ……. It has a communication system on board so the driver sees everything that the infantry around him. This is the most advanced machine in this class. The newest and best.

Red effect : how much sponsorship do you wanna give? War thunder : YES!

"Why Puma has no competition" In its price level that is...

damn that pronouncation of ´´Schützenpanzer Puma``was relly good

Your chance of being seen at 17 km is low but never zero

We need a video on the modular, budget, export Puma: The Lynx

"6 gears in reverse" French army "WE'LL BUY 1000!"

Hi RedEffect there's one thing I would like to point out: engine torque doesn't matter. I don't blame you for making the mistake that more 'torquey' engine is better: it is popularized by car journalists who tend to know little about how cars work, and car makers advertise this figure fully knowing it's BS. What really determines how fast a vehicle accelerates or how much load it pulls is torque at the output axis: the tyre or drive sprocket. And this torque is engine torque multiplied by gear ratio and final drive ratio minus drivetrain loss. This means an engine with less torque can make up the deficit by using shorter gear ratios, but that also means they need more engine rpm to make up for the higher reduction which they tend to do. What's unique about Puma's engine is that it's unusually high revving for a military vehicle, in fact it's higher revving than many passenger cars. The design philosophy is to maximize specific power (kW/L) and power density (kW/kg), so the power pack can be more compact, weighs less, and consumes less fuel (fewer friction/heat loss). Instead the real problem here is not it has less torque than the Armata or any other military vehicle. It's that higher power density designs tend to have more stress and possibly more maintenance. This is the true reason pickup trucks and large SUVs use big 'torquey' V8 engines instead of a small screaming I4; the same applies to military vehicles too. I don't know how reliable Puma's engine is though, since reliability depends on many factors.

Last time I was this early, Constantinople still belonged to the Byzantines

*laughs in efficiency*

You forgot the most important thing about the puma... It looks incredibly badass!

5:44 that face

If this thing comes at me, I would literally PUMA pants.

ARJUNK tank commander: Why am i hearing music over the comms? *Puma antitank missile hits Arjunk MBT* *COFFIN DANCE MUSIC INTENSIFIES*

mentions anything german JETZT IST DEIN KOMMENTARBEREICH UNSERE KOMMENTARBEREICH

The industry would love to sell hard and soft kill protection systems for the german Leopard 2 tanks, but you know... budget.

the firstt time i ever watched red effect, when he said fire control system i thought it meant when the engines caught on fire and it needs to be extinguished. im dumb

2:35 wow! I always wondered how some auto cannons can be "duel feed" and swap between different cartridges on the fly, so it's an open bolt. I've learned something new today 😁

Update, the Puma is in War Thunder now. And it's quite OP

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Me, a soldier who just wants to know what some guy on youtube has to say about our Puma: *clicks on video* Video: *plays German National Anthem* Me: *suddenly stands at attention saluting*

Things the Puma can do better than the T-15: drive, being deployed, not being basically a paper tank, being more than a inventory statistic/meintion in the arsenal. And many more, but no need to beat a dead horse...

7:15 in real combat the units deployed by a puma would carry Anti-tank weapons and adapt their loadout to the situation (offense, defense etc. A.e. in defense the team also has one engineer to erect barricades) keeping them versatile.

`Fun Fact` The 6 reverse gears are added, bc we want to sell the tank to other NATO members. This includes France

2:50 Forgotten Weapons :D

Damn M8, your pronunciation of "Schützenpanzer" was flawless. Gute Arbeit!

Do one on the cv90!

the main thing Puma does better than T-15 - it exists.

The Armata was an idea that was tossed from the drawing board across the room and hit the rim of the waste basket .....

Next could be cv 90

Served 4 years in the bundeswehr Panzergrenadierbataillon 112 and let me tell you, the Puma sounds great on paper and all the official info germany releases but its something completely different in reality. Puma came 5 years later than planed, served when we got the first in the bataillon, at the end of my service we had 40 of which only 3 were combatready the production got rushed and they were full of bugs and errors, at some point we had one tank that could drive but not use the turret and an other puma that could use the turret but wasnt able to drive we joked about just changing those parts and having at least one working tank. The designers also made a huge flaw because they had to designt the tank after the criteria that pregnant female soldiers should be able to drive (i shit you not) the tank had oversize which made transportation a very diffucult task beeing overseized the tank route had to be planed very careful and escorted by police or the MPs, its also partly electric which means we had huge portable chargers and had to plug them in, in my opinion a downside overall the tank wasnt very popular and in my 4 years of service i barely saw them in action Funfact: Soldier Hauptgefreiter at 09:40 is from the 4 Kompanie 33. Panzerbataillon Gott schütze Deutschland, denn wir können es nicht

Make a video of the Swedish CV90 (STRF90)

the weazel is also quite nice as you can stuf 2 of em in a helicopter and paradrop them are fast and can even be used in the dessert because of it's relative low weight. also has a lot of optional upgrades as antitank systems and mortars.

Finally! After this, you'll be making videos about other IFVs as well! 😁

This was really comprehensive and informative with tecnical data that make sense. The narrater speak in such a way that one can follow exactly what is meant to say. No warm patato in the mouth accent and the video clip shows exactly what is under discussion. No B.S and rethoric nonsense. Very professional. Thanx so much.

Just a little addition concerning the pumas protection. In its combat configuration passive armor at the front, the sides and the turret provides protection against 30mm. In the back there is still armor against 14,5mm. Additionally there is 360° RPG protection (CLARA-ERA at the front and sides and cage armor at the back) and roof protection against artillery bomblets.

Love your videos. You should make a video about the CV90 Platform, especially with the upcoming MKIV overhaul.

5:44 Puma gun laughs at camera (smiley face). :D

Amazing audio. It makes all the people requesting footage speak with the same voice. That's like one of those space age translators you see on the late night infomercials. Amazing by any standard.

THANK YOU.. PLEASE CONTINUE.. YOU DO GREAT WORK

This IFV video series should go on. I would love to see about the BMP-3, the swedish CV-90 and Bradley. Actually, the T-15 beats the Puma with it's ATGM system, where both Commander & gunner can fire two missiles at the same time and slightly with front hull protection. The amount of tourque is rather trivial as long as it fits into the combined arms role. Which is the case with the newer Leopard 2 models, as the MBTs got heavier all along. When the Puma was developed/designed, this was a "must have requirement" for the engineers from the beginning. Edit: I think the video was a little bit too quiet this time, I had to increase volume pretty hard.

@RedEffect as a result of this great video, the comment section is now property of the BRD (federal republic germany). We thank a lot😂

Do the CV-90 IFV next please

Excellent video. Thanks

i ve to disagree with the torque comparison, horse power is horse power. the Puma has an high rpm engine which allows it to use a different gearing.

I love the intro music: "Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser, ...."

Bro you have made me look smart in front of my friends and for that I am very thankful

Great modern footage! Very informative. 😊 Thanks

The Problem with T14/15 is that they are so expensive in production, hence why they are only build in small numbers

Before this video the only thing I really knew about the Puma was that it's absolutely OP in War Thunder.

Many thanks. Very informative.

Would be interesting to hear about the CV9040/30 There are aa few in europe at this time. Specially its winter capabilety.

intro killed me lmao

Bruh, can't wait till they add it on their tech tree.

Now the Puma is gonna come to WT

Do cv90 next

The T-15 isn't the best IFV because it is WAY to heavy and large, plus I'm willing to guess they cost a lot compared to most other IFVs. The T-15 is as big/heavy as some modern MBTs. So now crossing bridges and transporting the T-15 is going to be a a huge issue when compared to other IFVs.

Vehicles like the T14-15 need to be considered technology demonstrators / prototypes and not combat vehicles, because they're not in production and AFAIK not deployed to combat units.

Nice, although I think that the Lynx has more potential thanks to its modular approach, so it depends on how much the customer is willing to expend.

Puma is a nice IFV... 5min driving, system crash , 2min reboot, 5min driving....This thing doesn't work at all. Almost all are broken, spare parts are not available. And those that still drive only work for a few minutes. Then you have to pull the fuses for a reboot.

Could you do a video about Swedish tanks and IFVs?

have you heard about the german scout vehicle Fennek? that's an amazing one as well

Germany sure love naming their tanks/ifv with big cats. Maus tho...

and now war thunder is getting Puma IFV

Why puma IFV has no competition *Forgets about the OP Arjun and its trick shot capabilities and how the Arjun multi purpose tank crew have to go through extensive World of tanks training and Call of Duty no scope championships in Search and destroy on MW2 and not MW3 because they dont like that one* EDIT: I forgive you this time Red lol jk good video as always

5:49 look at that smiling face

It looks very very similar to the Namer APC, which is now being upgraded with the Puma's autocanon

Excellent video. Would you be able to look into VCC 80 Dardo or South African Badger IFV? There's so little on KZfaq for either of these vehicles.

You should do the CV90 next

Awesome video. Can you please do a video on Sweden's Combat Vehicle 90 some time? It looks so sexy.

Over all a good video but i have to mention that you mixed two different variants. Mostly you spoke about the serial puma for the german army with a vehiclecount of (when all are ready) 340. But sometimes you talked and showed specs from the upgraded version called vjtf. When you talked about the great camera coverage you showed a picture of the camerapositions from the vjtf. I build the Puma and some of the footage was filmed at my workplace

Great unbiased analysis!

Now do a video on the Cv90 variants

If you dont hit the PUMA first when you see it youre basically screwed.

I just love the comedically tiny barrel inside of the giant outer barrel cage or whatever you want to call it. Also this thing is the goat in War Thunder, absolutly love it.

There is literally a dragrace between an abrams, Bradley, Fuchs and a puma. 🥇Fuchs🥈Puma🥉Abrams and Last the Bradley

so we are just not gonna mention any of the CV 90 variant IFVs?

Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit!

Yeeees I made it into the video! Great video!

i'm wondering, do you have any way to compare the production and maintainance cost of Puma and T15? let me put it this way. - you did note that puma has more produced units. - this might indicate that it may be easier vehicle to produce of the two (however this assumption would also ignore all other factors that would be at play here.) so what vehicle would you judge to be the better value for investment here?

so it's more expensive than a cv90, cant mount as big guns, doesent use a commersial engine, carries fewer troops, heavier and theres fewer of them

The Puma with it's latest configuration and armor setup is still significantly lighter than the T-15 in it's base setup. It doesn't require that much power. It's also an easier overall build, which is less prone to issues, and weighing cost, efficiency and production, on the long run the Puma is a far more profitable long term investment than the T-15.

so last year I saw an autocanon on a truck on the way to a test, didn't recognize it but this is it, it was the PUMA's autocanon, apperently they want to upgrade our APCs to IFVs with this.

How about the CV-90

Do a vid about the Swedish CV90! 😁

Stridsvagn 103 when?

Very honored to be featured

Oooh... video on the boxer, maybe? :) Many countries are using it, some in special configurations

When are you going to cover prototytpe tanks? (Obj. 477, 490, MBT 70, Vck. MBT, Leone...)

I have an question, it may be an obvious one but hang on with me :) When a company is developing a new military vehicle does it take into consideration the budget of the military which is buying it or not? If yes; to what extent? And doesn't that reduce the effectiveness of the vehicle which the company is developing, or does it depend on if it's for the country's army or if it's for export, or whether the company is private or owned by the government. If no, then how will the army buy it if it's a top notch vehicle? I think this is a lot to answer in a comment so if you made a video about this it will be amazing. Thank you

0:46 smoke ring LOL

lol i love that muzzle plug

Come on Gaijin. Add the upgraded Puma to WT along with the BMPT 72 Terminator

Puma has no competition? *Dude never heard of Adidas*

PUMA!!!! Ausgesheischnet!!! Prima! Sehr gut! Danke!

Wow! Thank you! Hope it gets to be a Export-Hit