They are going to build the Fuchs and the Luchs? The Luchs has ben decommissioned by the Bundeswehr and replaced by the Fennek and the Marder quite some time ago. It was, however, impressively silent. With all auxiliary aggregates turned off (but the main diesel idling), and rolling slowly on sand, it could literally tap you on the shoulder with its 20 mm autocannon before you would hear it. The Fuchs is just an armoured personnel carrier with no armament. Both are amphibious, which may become important.

[–] TheMechanic@lemmy.ca 4 points 11 months ago

Country defense is oriented around the most likely attack in the near future. Once Russia is defeated and this war is over, the most likely invader is still Russia. So they are planning on what will defend against what Russia has now.

[–] Ooops@kbin.social 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Nope... that's a translation mistake. Or rather a mistake of translating Fuchs to Fox in the text implying Lynx is also a translation...

It's not. They are talking about Rheinmetall's KF41 Lynx. Their modern IFV (with a lot of elements from the Puma minus the Bundeswehr specific stuff - basically the closest thing to an Puma export model), which Hungary ordered ~200 of iirc (produced domestically) and which the US is also evaluating right now as one of the last contestents in one of their IFV tenders.

[–] Hopfgeist@feddit.de 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Thanks. It was my mistake then, as they didn't translate Fuchs. I just happen to know Fuchs and Luchs from personal experience, and just assumed.

[–] Ooops@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago

They indeed wrote "on the construction of Fuchs armored transport vehicles - named after the German word for fox - and Lynx infantry fighting vehicles by early next year" which of course isn't wrong but might help to confuse.

[–] DarkThoughts@kbin.social 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_(Rheinmetall_armoured_fighting_vehicle)
No. It's an export IFV similar to the Puma... The US are likely to use a variant of it to replace their Bradleys in the future too.

[–] Hopfgeist@feddit.de 1 points 11 months ago

Thanks for the clarification.