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2,137 Marders built in total. 2,097 vehicles were upgraded to the Marder 1A3 standard between 1989-1998. 140 Marders were converted to Roland 2 tracked surface-to-air systems from 1978-1983, though the Roland systems were retired from service in 2005. [14] By 2009, Germany had approximately 1,911 operational Marder IFVs of the 1A2 and 1A3 variant.
The 1990 Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe defines an infantry fighting vehicle as "an armoured combat vehicle which is designed and equipped primarily to transport a combat infantry squad, and which is armed with an integral or organic cannon of at least 20 millimeters calibre and sometimes an antitank missile launcher". [3] IFVs ...
Rheinmetall Zwillingsflak twin-gun anti-aircraft system began development in 1968 to meet the requirements of the low-level air defence units of the German Air Force, i.e. "to engage low and very low approaching enemy aircraft with all appropriate means in time to prevent them from firing their weapons or delivering their ordnance, or at least to prevent them from carrying out an accurate ...
The Schützenpanzer Puma (SPz Puma), meaning “Schützen-AFV Puma”, is a German infantry fighting vehicle (IFV), per the Panzergrenadier-doctrine, designed to replace the aging Marder IFVs currently in service with the German Army. Production of the first batch of 350 vehicles began in 2010 and was completed in August 2021.
+ 30 LVB purchased 2nd hand from the Netherlands Army, transformed in JFST (standard Fennek 1A3+) 247 in service as of 2022 Dingo 1 / 2 "Geschütztes Führungs- und Funktionsfahrzeug Dingo" (GFF 3) Germany: Infantry mobility vehicle. MRAP. Mine-resistant ambush protected. 586 (+ 115 on order) Considered a GFF 3 class vehicle.
The Marder I "Marten" (Sd.Kfz. 135) was a German World War II tank destroyer, armed with a 75 mm Pak-40 anti-tank gun. Most Marder Is were built on the base of the Tracteur Blindé 37L (Lorraine) , a French artillery tractor/ armoured personnel carrier of which the Germans had acquired more than 300 units after the Fall of France in 1940.
Meanwhile, a new task force, under Brigadier General Larkin, studied various 3rd party IFVs, including the German Marder, French AMX-10P, and even examples of the BMP captured from Syria. A second study looked at vehicles with tank-like protection known as the "Heavy Infantry Vehicle", but this line was rejected on cost grounds as well as the ...
Marder III was the name for a series of World War II German tank destroyers. They mounted either the modified ex-Soviet 76.2 mm F-22 Model 1936 divisional field gun , or the German 7.5 cm PaK 40 , in an open-topped fighting compartment on top of the chassis of the Czechoslovakian Panzer 38(t) .