Rheinmetall to Supply 40 Additional Marder Infantry Fighting Vehicles to Ukraine

Rheinmetall to Supply 40 Additional Marder Infantry Fighting Vehicles to Ukraine

(IN BRIEF) The German government has awarded Rheinmetall a contract to deliver an additional 40 Marder infantry fighting vehicles (IFVs) to Ukraine. The order, placed in August 2023, is valued at a high double-digit million-euro sum. Rheinmetall is actively refurbishing these older Marder IFVs to ensure timely delivery in accordance with the contract, beginning in 2023. This order increases the total number of Marder vehicles supplied by Rheinmetall to Ukraine to eighty. Previously, the company had shipped the initial twenty IFVs ordered in March 2023 and an additional twenty ordered in June 2023. These vehicles are currently undergoing overhaul and delivery. Rheinmetall’s refurbishment efforts began in spring 2022, and the company can produce up to ten IFVs per month. The Marder IFV, developed for the Bundeswehr and still in service with the German Army, is known for its reliability and continuous modernization.

(PRESS RELEASE) DÜSSELDORF, 12-Sep-2023 — /EuropaWire/ —The German government has commissioned Rheinmetall to supply 40 more Marder infantry fighting vehicles to Ukraine. Placed in August 2023, the order is worth a high double-digit million-euro amount. Rheinmetall is pressing ahead with work to overhaul these older vehicles and ensure that the latest lot of Marder IFVs can be delivered as per contract starting in 2023.

This order brings the total number of Marder vehicles to be supplied by Rheinmetall to Ukraine to eighty. On 21 March 2023 the company already shipped the first twenty infantry fighting vehicles ordered by the German government for Ukraine. In addition, another twenty Rheinmetall IFVs were ordered in June 2023. These are currently being overhauled and delivered.

The vehicles being made available are overhauled Marder 1A3 systems formerly owned by the Bundeswehr. As early as spring 2022, Rheinmetall began restoring the infantry fighting vehicles to a state of immediate combat readiness at its own expense.

Work is already underway at Rheinmetall’s plants in Kassel and Unterlüß. The Group can deliver up to ten infantry fighting vehicles a month.

Developed for the Bundeswehr and still in service with the German Army, the Marder infantry fighting vehicle numbers among the most reliable weapons systems of its kind anywhere. Steadily modernized, the vehicle has undergone repeated combat upgrades in the course of its career.

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SOURCE: RHEINMETALL AG

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