{"id":59335,"date":"2025-04-19T21:45:15","date_gmt":"2025-04-19T19:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=59335"},"modified":"2026-04-19T17:19:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T15:19:49","slug":"a-spanish-military-recovery-vehicle-bufalo-replacing-the-engine-of-a-us-m88","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/04\/19\/a-spanish-military-recovery-vehicle-bufalo-replacing-the-engine-of-a-us-m88\/","title":{"rendered":"A Spanish military recovery vehicle B\u00fafalo replacing the engine of a US M88"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tanks are the iron fist of armored forces, but there are some vehicles that are indispensable to them today.<\/p>\n

The recovery tasks of a Spanish Leopardo 2E main battle tank in Latvia<\/a><\/rel>
\nLatvia shows Spanish military vehicles in the Shield Strike exercise<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n

The Spanish Army has 16 Leopard 2ER B\u00fafalo recovery vehicles<\/strong> in its armored units. The B\u00fafalo is the Spanish variant of the German Bergepanzer B\u00fcffel, a model launched in 1983 and based on the chassis of the Leopard 2 main battle tank.<\/p>\n

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The B\u00fafalo is an armored vehicle with a crew of four<\/strong> and is lightly armed (it has a single 7.62 mm MG-3 machine gun and eight smoke grenade launchers). The B\u00fafalo can recover disabled or stuck vehicles under enemy fire<\/strong> in a combat situation.<\/p>\n

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The B\u00fafalo has a crane capable of lifting up to 30 tonnes<\/strong>, commonly used to change the engines of Spanish Leopard 2E tanks, and a winch capable of pulling 35 tonnes<\/strong>, expandable to 70 tonnes using one pulley and 105 tonnes using two pulleys. This winch is commonly used to move tanks that have become stuck in mud or have suffered a broken track, as happened in February in Latvia with a Leopard 2E deployed there<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Speaking of Latvia, this week, the Leopardo 2ER B\u00fafalo deployed in Latvia<\/strong> with the NATO Multinational Brigade at the Latvian base of Camp \u0100da\u017ei has participated in a very curious and unusual operation: the engine change of another recovery vehicle, in this case an M88A2 Hercules<\/strong>, belonging to the 41st Field Artillery Regiment of the US Army. Currently, the Spanish contingent in Latvia belongs mostly to the Brigade \"Guzm\u00e1n el Bueno\" X.<\/p>\n

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The US Army released photos of this operation on Thursday<\/a>, images taken by specialist Rachel Hall and which you can see here. In this operation, the Leopardo 2ER B\u00fafalo was assisted by a Luna AT 35-32 crane<\/strong>, also belonging to the Spanish Army.<\/p>\n

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The M88A2 Hercules is powered by a Continental AVDS-1790-8CR engine<\/strong>, weighing approximately 2,500 pounds (1,133 kilograms). The images show that in addition to the engine, the transmission attached to it was also removed during the operation.<\/p>\n

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The operation involved removing the engine from the M88A2 and installing a replacement engine<\/strong> in the rear of the American vehicle, according to the US Army.<\/p>\n

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Below these lines you can see an enlargement of this last photo<\/strong>, in which the two recovery vehicles that participated in this operation appear: the Spanish Leopardo 2ER B\u00fafalo, olive green (on the right), and the American M88A2 Hercules, with a desert scheme.<\/p>\n

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