The Caracal airborne platform is the product of a cooperation between Rheinmetall, Mercedes Benz AG and ACS – Armoured Car Systems.
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Recipient of a July 2023 joint order from Germany and the Netherlands, for up to 3,058 vehicles, the Caracal is a specialist variant of the Model Series 464 Mercedes-Benz G-Class designed primarily for airborne and airmobile formations. Carl Schulze has been focussing on the vehicles displayed at the current edition of Eurosatory in Paris and as we know a high proportion of our readership are interested in 4×4 military utility vehicles we felt a brief ‘In Focus’ was warranted.
In addition to the Caracal daily demonstrating its off-road capability, powered by synthetic fuel, a second Caracal variant fitted with a quadruple bank of launchers for Hero-120 loitering munitions and a third version with racking in the rear cargo loadbed were static displayed on the Rheinmetall stand.
[images © Carl Schulze]
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