{"id":58924,"date":"2025-03-08T21:20:11","date_gmt":"2025-03-08T20:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=58924"},"modified":"2025-03-14T04:33:20","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T03:33:20","slug":"a-pack-of-wolves-sneaks-into-a-german-army-armored-maneuver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/03\/08\/a-pack-of-wolves-sneaks-into-a-german-army-armored-maneuver\/","title":{"rendered":"A pack of wolves sneaks into a German Army armored maneuver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A manoeuvre with Leopard 2 tanks can be anything but a quiet and peaceful experience in the middle of a rural area.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/10\/04\/an-impressive-night-march-of-leopard-2-main-battle-tanks-of-the-german-army\/\">An impressive night march of Leopard 2 main battle tanks of the German Army<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/10\/27\/the-panzermuseum-in-munster-a-museum-with-more-than-a-century-of-german-tanks\/\">The Panzermuseum in Munster, a museum with more than a century of German tanks<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>Even in the depths of winter, <strong>German Army armoured units exercise to stay sharp for the defence of their country<\/strong>. That training includes firing live ammunition in wooded areas, as seen in this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bundeswehr.de\/de\/organisation\/heer\/aktuelles\/so-werden-panzertruppen-kriegstauglich-5728212\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">image of exercises by Panzerlehrbataillon 93 of Panzerlehrbrigade 9<\/a> in Munster, Lower Saxony, in January.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54372530572_b6250f5ecf_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Panzertruppenschule<\/strong>, the German Army's training school for officers and non-commissioned officers of armored units, is located in this German town. In addition to the firing of the 120 mm L\/55 cannons of the Leopard 2, the maneuvers also include <strong>the launching of smoke grenades<\/strong> as a concealment maneuver for these tanks, as we can see in the following image.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54373407606_d07feb5018_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This Saturday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@militar-undlandtechnikklau4422\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Klaus Schr\u00f6der<\/a> <strong>published a video of exercises by Panzerlehrbataillon 93<\/strong> with Leopard 2 tanks. The sound of the L\/55 guns firing and the smoke generated by the smoke grenades attracted the curiosity of some forest dwellers: <strong>a pack of wolves had snuck onto the training ground<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Leopard 2- PzLehrBtl 93 mit Wolfsbegleitung- Tr\u00dcbPl Bergen\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/p4nFSQfliNA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In the video, <strong>Schr\u00f6der managed to capture one of these wolves<\/strong>, which seemed to be carrying out a reconnaissance mission to check what all the fuss was about in the German forests in the middle of winter.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54373609014_9d9367511f_3k.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54373609014_64c3e06157_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Wolves are fierce animals,<\/strong> but it is clear that they know that they are no match for enormous 62-ton leopards... Anyway, a curious anecdote that these soldiers will one day tell their grandchildren.<\/p>\n<p>---<\/p>\n<p><small>Images: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bundeswehr.de\/de\/organisation\/heer\/aktuelles\/so-werden-panzertruppen-kriegstauglich-5728212\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bundeswehr<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=p4nFSQfliNA\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Milit\u00e4r- und Landtechnik Klaus Schr\u00f6der<\/a>.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A manoeuvre with Leopard 2 tanks can be anything but a quiet and peaceful experience in the middle of a rural area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19534,11544],"tags":[16710,2290,23922,23920,23921,20444],"class_list":["post-58924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defense-portada-eng","category-army","tag-german-army","tag-leopard-2","tag-munster","tag-panzerlehrbataillon-93","tag-panzerlehrbrigade-9","tag-panzertruppenschule"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-12 01:55:34","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}