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Rheinmetall to produce first armored vehicles in Ukraine in 2024 -report (www.reuters.com)

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[–] 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.