Sensor specialist HENSOLDT is supplying an unspecified number of state-of-the-art optical vision systems for the PUMA infantry fighting vehicle. The customers are the system houses KNDS and Rheinmetall, which produce the PUMA infantry fighting vehicle and distribute it through the jointly founded PSM GmbH. The order value is in the double-digit million range. In addition to the vision systems for the turrets of the infantry fighting vehicles, the order also includes the equipment for twelve turret trainers for training vehicle crews. With this delivery, HENSOLDT is helping to improve the PUMA on the K-Stand S1. 

The order consists of the delivery of the turret-independent stabilized main optics PERI-RTWL for the commander and the turret-bound stabilized fire control optronics WAO for the gunner. Three high-performance sensors are integrated in each of the two sighting systems: A third-generation ATTICA thermal imaging device, an eye-safe laser rangefinder with a long range, a highly sensitive day vision camera in the WAO and a scanning camera in the PERI, which films the high-performance glass-optical channel.