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Originally Posted by Skybird
HI assume that is why there was not enough room for even just a medium machine gun in the turret (the puma has only a light machine gun as secondary):
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Holy cow I was always under the impression they would use the trusty old MG3 for that but no it's the MG4.
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Other armies have their light machine guns carried by soldiers. The Germans move them around on APWCs. Why not, the Puma will need TWO flights by air transport to be airlifted in protection configuration C: one flight for the tank, and a second flight for the modular armour. 
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Well we also think that the Tiger helicopter doesn't need a traversable chin mounted gun...at least we gave it state of the art missiles: The HOT 3 (which goes back to the 1960s and is no fire and forget weapon so it needs constant guidance, perfect for the battlefield of the 21st century.)
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That is no problem and should not worry anyone. The new A400M has such a long list of flaws and problems after the first delivered plane got inspected by the BW that we soon will not have any airlift capacity anymore anyway. Creativly working around a problem , I call that.
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At least we are in the process of retiring the UH-1 Huey so we can now use the NH 90 for proper airlifting....oh ....wait....nevermind.