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Military engineers train on the Dachs AEV in the tank wading pit at WTD 52

  • A tank with a high tube on top and a dozer blade standing in front of a lot of trees

    The combat weight of the Dachs AEV is 44 t. The tasks of the armored engineer vehicle include building entry and exit sites at water crossing points or where the banks are steep and muddy.

    Bundeswehr, Alexander Bielow
  • A tank with a large tube attached to its top. A soldier is standing inside the tube.

    The crew has to carry out radio checks before the training starts. Things only get started if everyone can communicate with one another.

    Bundeswehr, Alexander Bielow
  • A tank enters a concrete pit filled with water. There are more cars in the background.

    Sergeant Martin Dahten issues commands to slowly let the armored engineer vehicle enter the pit. From his raised position, he has the perfect view of everything that is happening.

    Bundeswehr, Alexander Bielow
  • Only the tank’s excavator arm and the commander in a long tube protrude from the water basin.

    As soon as the Dachs armored engineer vehicle has reached its position, the commander starts the actual exercises. Inside the pit, the gravel is shoveled from one place to another.

    Bundeswehr, Alexander Bielow
  • The turret and the excavator bucket of a tank protrude from a water basin. Water and mud are running out of the bucket.

    Sergeant Martin Dahten excavates in the wading pit of WTD 52 in Oberjettenberg

    Bundeswehr, Alexander Bielow
  • A tube and an excavator arm with gravel in the bucket are sticking out of a water basin. A soldier is standing in the tube.

    The WTD 52 tank wading pit represents a section of the Elbe Lateral Canal at a scale of 1:1. A perfect training site for the military engineers and the Dachs AEV.

    Bundeswehr, Alexander Bielow
  • A soldier standing in a green tube with his hands on a control console

    Sergeant Martin Dahten commands far across the water surface and precisely controls the excavator arm.

    Bundeswehr, Alexander Bielow
  • A tank with a big excavator bucket standing in front of a water basin, in the background high mountains and blue skies

    The Dachs armored engineer vehicle is the workhorse of the military engineers. The tank has 830 HP and can be used as an excavator, a bulldozer or a crane.

    Bundeswehr, Alexander Bielow

Basic training for the military engineers at the Bundeswehr Technical Center for Protective and Special Technologies (WTD 52). In Oberjettenberg, the military engineers learn how to handle the Dachs armored engineer vehicle under water. The workhorse of the engineer corps can move up to four meters below the water surface.

The turret and the excavator bucket of a tank protrude from a water basin. Water and mud are running out of the bucket.

Training of the military engineers in the WTD 52 tank wading pit

A story of diving tanks.

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