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Recently Tank-Masters.de visited the exercise Urban Strike taking place in the urban metropolitan training area Schnöggersburg which is located within the German Army Combat Training Center in Letzlingen.

During the very challenging and intense exercise, the mechanized infantry company of Jägerbataillon 1 from Schwarzenborn with their GTK Boxer Armored Personnel Carriers trained to break into and attack an area of Schnöggersburg

Besides others, they were supported by an armored infantry platoon of 2nd Company, Panzergrenadierbataillon 212 from Augustdorf with Puma Armored Infantry Fighting Vehicles, armored engineers of Panzerpionierbataillon 1 from Holzminden, an armored infantry platoon of the 2nd Company of the training unit of the German Army Combat Training Center with Marder 1A3 Armored Infantry Fighting Vehicles, a tank platoon of the 3rd Company of training unit of the German Army Combat Training Center with Leopard 2A5 Main Battle Tanks as well as a Kaderpräsenzkompanie of the Austrian Jägerbataillon 19 from Güssing with Pandur Armored Personnel Carriers. The Kaderpränzkompanie is part of Austria’s units earmarked for international deployments.

On 21 and 22 November 2022 Tank-Masters.de visited the multinational exercise Celtic Thunder of the Multinational Artillery Battalion of the Very High Readiness Joint Task Force (Land) 2023 in the maneuver rights area between Kusel and Landstuhl.

The Celtic Thunder exercise was based on a very sophisticated training schedule. For three days, almost around the clock, the self-propelled howitzers and multiple launch rocket systems processed the required fire commands. In addition, soldiers from Jägerbatallion 291 regularly disrupted the artillerymen’s staging areas with enemy insertions. Furthermore, soldiers from the Idar-Oberstein Medical Deployment Company repeatedly placed wounded comrades or casualties that needed to be rescued, and German Luftwaffe Tornados flew enemy reconnaissance flights to increase the pressure of the exercise. By the end of Celtic Thunder, however, all self-propelled howitzers and multiple launch rocket systems had worked through their fire commands and laid down their fire along the coordinated fire line. The fire along this CFL was the basis for the counterattack planned in the scenario.

Tank-Masters.de supported this new Spezial about the Objektschutzregiment der Luftwaffe „Friesland“ written by our friend Christian Rastätter and published by Kommando International Special Operations Magazin (K-ISOM) with many high quality photos.If you are interested in this very unique unit of the German Luftwaffe, this Spezial is the best source to get!

Last week Tank-Masters.de was invited to accompany Chancellor Olaf Scholz during his visit of the Bundeswehr Ausbildungs- und Lehrübung 2022 at the Bergen Training Area.

Recently Tank-Masters.de had the unique exclusive opportunity to photograph the new KF 41 Lynx Armored Infantry Fighting Vehicle Demonstrator with Rheinmetall Landsysteme in Unterlüß.

This week Tank-Masters.de visited the Field Training Exercise Kühner Reiter of Aufklärungsbataillon 13 from Gotha near Hofheim. The objective of the FTX was to conduct reconnaissance in unknown terrain as well as to train the interaction between the mixed reconnaissance company and the battalion command post.

Recently Tank-Masters.de had the unique exclusive opportunity to photograph the new KF 51 Panther Main Battle Tank Demonstrator with Rheinmetall Landsysteme in Unterlüß.

Recently Tank-Masters.de photographed the new Leopard 2A6MA3 Main Battle Tank with 3rd Company, 414th Armor Battalion in Lohheide.

On 28 June 2022, Tank-Masters.de was invited to attend the U.S. Army Europe and Africa Change of Command Ceremony from General Christopher G. Cavoli to General Darryl A. Williams at the Clay Kaserne in Wiesbaden.