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ARMY GETS SAMS
 
ODERVELD - LEUCHTFEUER
 
Defence Ministry, April 19, 5645: Oberkommando Heer (OKH)  raised a question that ODERVELD-LUCHTFEUER has learned is being kicked around in the Ministry of Defence.  The basic strategy in place  is preparing to resist invasion or incursion. In accordance therewith, the Luftwaffe has been handling air defense.  Always.
 
The question raised is since the last three wars in which the Bundesrepublik was engaged involved sending the Heer into enemy territory, would it not make sense to add some air defense capability to divisional assets?
 
And specifically, since the Sotereia Aerial Defense System provided by Gebirgsmunition, (GBM) Fuchstal Elektrisch (FE) and Donnerluft and deployed by the Luftwaffe, will it not make the Ozelot Light Air Defense System currently in use and also built by GBM and FE redundant?  And accordingly, OKH suggested those on hand  could be used as air defense divisional assets.
 
Oberkommando Bundeswehr (OKB) and Oberkommando Luftwaffe (OKL) agreed and ODERVELD – LEUCHTFEUER sources in the Ministry of Defence indicate Defence Minister Otto Heaefstaengl has approved the transfer.
 
The Ozelot Light Air Defense System has a vehicle built by FE driven by a 1.9 liter four cylinder turbo diesel engine with automatic transmission  and torsion bar suspension.  It is a tracked vehicle with 5 road wheels. With a crew of 2 or 3, it has an operational range of 200 kilometers at a maximum speed of well over 70 kilometers per hour.
 
Ozelots are accompanied by an air defense reconnaissance and fire control  vehicle and a defense command post.  They are armed with two box launchers containing four surface to air missiles or in a few cases a number of vertical launch cells for surface to air missiles.


 
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