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Dutch Boxer throws first punch

17th March 2017 - 15:29 GMT | by Nicholas Fiorenza in Brussels

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The Dutch Army's 13th Light Brigade conducted its first live firings from the Boxer armoured vehicle in March.

The brigade's 42 Battalion Limburgse Jagers (Limburg Light Infantry) fired .50-caliber ammunition from the Kongsberg Protector M151 remote weapon station mounted on a Boxer vehicle in the Bergen-Hohne exercise area in northern Germany.

The weapon station allows the operator to fire the machine gun using a joy stick viewing the target on a screen under armour with the crew inside the vehicle. This is similar to how firing is conducted from the battalion's CV90 tracked armoured infantry fighting vehicles that are being

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