Spähpanzer 2 Luchs
The German Ghost
This vehicle is kinda unique in many ways, a wheeled long range reconnaissance vehicle is no outlier but the complex and physically large Luchs ("Lynx"), which is bigger than a BTR-70, has some unusual features in modern vehicles.
The first is its rear driver, something common in armoured cars of The Second World War. The Luchs with its eight-wheel steering can get its normal 19m turning circle (about the size a bus has) down to 11m (about the size a car has) but even then you can't turn and show your thin rear armour if you have to pull out in the face of hostile fire. So the Luchs can simply be driven in either direction and has a driver facing each direction, and its complex gearbox allows it to reach the same 100km/h speed either forwards or backwards.
Secondly is the speed in which it can swim. The Luchs is a comparatively fast swimmer for an armoured car and can just drive straight into the water without the need for the crew to deploy fording boards or rig for swimming, something found usually only on Soviet vehicles which automate those systems.
Extensive work was put into making this vehicle as quiet as possible, and it was so quiet that it was commonly supposed to be a risk to friendly troops in that it would suddenly appear at high speed on roads.
It's 20x139mm Rheinmetall Mk 20 Rh-202 automatic cannon might seem underwhelming but it can generally damage opposing reconnaissance elements until the up-armoured BMR appears. It is also extremely accurate, possibly one of the most accurate autocannons and its 139mm-long cartridge gives it more penetration than the standard 20x102mm US ammunition. The commander's MG3 is an ammo hog but can lay down serious suppression, it puts out twice as many rounds as the usual MGs in various service around the world and systems such as FNFF that have developed suppression rules can make it a massive killer.
As a player vehicle it can't slug it out against opposition light armour, it was designed expressly to avoid that sort of fight. However its blistering speed means it can dash to the flanks and take other vehicles under fire and then just as quickly retire. GMs will need good maps for this thing as players will want to utilise its speed in order to increase survivability.
http://www.pmulcahy.com/wheeled_lcv/german_wlcv.htm
