The KMW Grizzly is a medium weight highly protected vehicle, developed by Krauss-Maffei Wegmann

Krauss-Maffei

The Krauss-Maffei Wegmann GmbH & Co KG or simply Krauss-Maffei is an injection molding machine manufacturer and defence company based in Munich, Germany...

 (KMW), designed for operation with the German Army

German Army

The German Army is the land component of the armed forces of the Federal Republic of Germany. Following the disbanding of the Wehrmacht after World War II, it was re-established in 1955 as the Bundesheer, part of the newly formed West German Bundeswehr along with the Navy and the Air Force...

 based on the 6x6 Trakker chassis from IVECO

Iveco

Iveco, an acronym for Industrial Vehicle Corporation, originally an alliance of European commercial vehicle manufacturers such as Fiat , Unic and Magirus. Iveco is now an Italian truck, bus, and diesel engine manufacturer, based in Turin...

 adapted to meet the needs of the German Army. It is being developed under the direction of the German Ministry of Defence

Federal Ministry of Defence (Germany)

The Federal Ministry of Defence is a top-level federal agency, headed by the Federal Minister of Defence as a member of the Cabinet of Germany...

 technology and procurement agency (Bundesamt für Wehrtechnik und Beschaffung). The first vehicle will be delivered as early as November 2007.

The Grizzly is designed to meet the German Army's "Class 4" protected command and role-specific vehicles, with a gross vehicle weight of 25 tons, and transportable on the Airbus A400M

Airbus A400M

The Airbus A400M, also known as the Atlas, is a multi-national four-engine turboprop military transport aircraft. It was designed by Airbus Military as a tactical airlifter with strategic capabilities. The aircraft's maiden flight, originally planned for 2008, took place on 11 December 2009 in...

 aircraft. Currently, the German Army could use only the smaller 12.5 ton ATF Dingo

ATF Dingo

The ATF Dingo is a German heavily armored military infantry mobility vehicle based on a Unimog chassis with a V-hull design, produced by the company Krauss-Maffei Wegmann . It is designed to withstand land mines, rifle fire, artillery fragments and NBC-threats. ATF stands for...

 2 or the 33 ton Boxer MRAV

Boxer MRAV

The Boxer is a German-Dutch multirole armoured fighting vehicle designed to accomplish a number of operations through the use of installable mission modules. It is produced by the ARTEC GmbH industrial group, and the programme is being managed by OCCAR...

.

Grizzly can carry 10 fully equipped troops, which exceeds by greater than 50% the 3 tons required by the German request for proposal

Request for Proposal

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 (RFP). The vehicle is protected in all directions. The driver's station and crew compartment form an integral safety cell providing protection against improvised explosive device

Improvised explosive device

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s (IEDs), projectiles, missile

Missile

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s and mines

Land mine

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. The cell's frame also serves as a rollcage. The engine compartment and transmission

Transmission (mechanics)

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 are armored to reduce the chance of a 'mobility kill' under attack.

KMW is offering the vehicle in several configurations, and as the design is based on a modular concept, a smaller 4x4 or larger 8x8 variant, with corresponding payloads are possible.

Military Vehicles of Similar Name

The KMW Grizzly, named after the North America

North America

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n Grizzly bear

Grizzly Bear

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 shares its name with several other military vehicle

Military vehicle

A military vehicle is a vehicle that includes all land combat and transportation vehicles, which are designed for or are in significant use by military forces throughout the world. Vehicles that are armored or intended for combat are often referred to as armoured fighting vehicles....

s:

• Blackwater USA
  Blackwater USA
  Xe Services LLC, better known by its former names, Blackwater USA and Blackwater Worldwide, is a private military company founded in 1997 by Erik Prince and Al Clark.. Xe is currently the largest of the U.S. State Department's three private security contractors...
  
   Grizzly APC
  Grizzly APC
  This article refers to the experimental APC being developed in the United States. For the AVGP of the Canadian Forces that is also referred to as a Grizzly, go to AVGP....
  
  
• AVGP Grizzly
• Grizzly combat engineering vehicle, based on the M1 Abrams
  M1 Abrams
  The M1 Abrams is a third-generation main battle tank produced in the United States. It is named after General Creighton Abrams, former Army Chief of Staff and Commander of US military forces in Vietnam from 1968 to 1972. The M1 is a well armed, heavily armored, and highly mobile tank designed for...
  
   tank chassis

See also

• ATF Dingo
  ATF Dingo
  The ATF Dingo is a German heavily armored military infantry mobility vehicle based on a Unimog chassis with a V-hull design, produced by the company Krauss-Maffei Wegmann . It is designed to withstand land mines, rifle fire, artillery fragments and NBC-threats. ATF stands for...
  
  
• Mungo ESK
  Mungo ESK
  The Mungo ESK is an air-transportable, armoured multirole transport vehicle of the German Army for its Airmobile Operations Division and Division Special Operations....
  
  
• Rheinmetall YAK
  Rheinmetall YAK
  The YAK is a heavily armored and mine-protected transport vehicle produced by the German company Rheinmetall Landsysteme AG based on the DURO IIIP chassis from the Swiss company MOWAG GmbH. DURO stands for DUrable and RObust....
  
  
• Boxer (Armoured Fighting Vehicle)
• AGF (Light infantry vehicle)
  AGF (Light infantry vehicle)
  The Rheinmetall LandSysteme Light Infantry Vehicle for Special Operations, or LIV , is a German light armoured utility vehicle developed from the Mercedes-Benz G-Class. It is also known by the names Serval, Wolf and AGF. As the name implies, the LIV is designed specifically for use by special...
  
  
• LAPV Enok
  LAPV Enok
  The LAPV Enok is an armoured military vehicle of the Bundeswehr, mostly in use with the German Army. It is a significantly further developed Wolf SSA, based on the Mercedes-Benz G-Class....
  
  
• Pindad Panser
  Pindad Panser
  The Anoa is a 6x6 armoured personnel carrier developed by PT Pindad of Indonesia. The vehicle is named after the Anoa, which is a type of buffalo indigenous to Indonesia...
  
  - ANOA 6X6 APS

External links

• Krauss-Maffei Wegmann - Website of the manufacturer