Editing Jaguar Jagdpanzer (section)

==IRL==
[[File:Austrian Jaguars.jpg|300px|right|thumb|A pair of Austrian Jaguars on exercise]]
As you can imagine, after their experience in world war 2 with successful vehicles such as the Stug, Hetzer and Jagdpanzer, German designers did not completely reject the turret less tank destroyer the way most other nations did after the war. This is why in the cold war the West Germans developed the (not in team Yankee yet) ''Kanonenjagdpanzer'' which was armed with a Rheinmetall BK90 90mm/L40 cannon based on the 90mm gun in US tanks from the 1950s. However when the Soviets started to deploy T-64's and T-72's, the 90mm proved too light to be useful, which may go some way to explain why the ''Kanonen'' is AWOL in team yankee at this moment, despite the fact that they remained in service until 1990. To compensate for this deficiency the ''Raketenjagdpanzer 4 Jaguar'' was developed to mount the French developed HOT missile which was exponentially more powerful than the old 90mm, as an alternative to mounting 105mm guns in the Jagdpanzer chassis, as was proposed in the 1970s.

However, now that the new Jaguar was in use, the ''Bundeswehr'' was left with a bunch of the old ''Kanonenjagdpanzers'' that were now obsolete. Rather than scrap the lot, these vehicles were converted into Jaguar 2s by yanking out the 90mm and mounting the American made TOW missile system, which was less capable than the HOT missile, but required less specialized fire controls.

Both variants of the Jaguar were maintained until the conclusion of the Cold War in the early 90's.  With the reunification of Germany and the reorganization of the Bundeswehr where was no pressing need for an aged, dedicated anti-tank vehicle and so both variants were retired and replaced by the Puma and Marder IFVs which can be equipped with the Israeli MELLS.

{{West German Forces in Team Yankee}}

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