An engineer's dream vehicle.

Rheinmetall has transferred the prototype of a new combat engineer vehicle to the Swiss Army for a two-month trial period. The new vehicle, the Armoured Engineer Vehicle 3 (AEV 3), nicknamed 'Geniepanzer' by the Swiss, is based on a Leopard 2 chassis and is equipped with a hinged excavator, a dozer system and a Rotzler doublewinch system comprising two nine-tonne capstan winches. The dozer blade can be swapped for a full-width mine plough, and the vehicle will carry a 12.7 mm machine gun and smoke grenade dispensers. The AEV 3 is within the military load class 70.