Papperger announced on Thursday that under a licence, manufacturing workers would assemble and maintain Rheinmetall's Fuchs armoured personnel carrier, which takes its name from the German word for fox
  • BombOmOm@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Article says they will be producing Fuchs APCs. I hadn’t heard much of those. They look like the old style APCs that fell out of favor to make way for the modern IFV. Interesting they are what was chosen.

    • a887dcd7a@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      11 months ago

      I mean we did not hear much about the fuchs in particular, but APC are used in all shapes and forms. The Fuchs might still be cheaper/easier to manufacture than something on Boxer or Lynx platform.

      • a887dcd7a@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        11 months ago

        Looked up if Germany donated the Fuchs APCs. They did not, but took the chance to help Denmark to get rid of 54 x M113s … 🙄