According to Carlos E. Hernandez in Infodefensa, the 6th Corps of Engineers of the Venezuelan Army is advancing in the execution of the Project for the Restoration, Removal and Rehabilitation of its Lanza Puente Leguan System, which is part of the recovery plan for more than 500 weapon systems that the land component is carrying out.
The work is carried out at the facilities of the 61st Engineer Conditioning ‘Brigade General Agustín Codazzi’, based at Fort Tiuna in Caracas.
The Leguan MLC 80, designed and developed by the German firm Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW), is an assault bridge launcher system installed on a wheeled or tracked vehicle. The 26-meter-long electronically controlled bridge can be positioned and retracted automatically, generally in approximately five minutes.