The armored personnel carriers from the 70s and 80s are being prepared for a possible ring exchange to support Ukraine. Rheinmetall also announces a deal with the Bundeswehr for 111 Puma tanks.
According to the Rheinmetall armaments group, it is currently modernizing more than two dozen Marder infantry fighting vehicles for a possible ring exchange in support of Ukraine. A company spokesman at the Unterlüß location in Lower Saxony said they had already “worked on” 30 of them in order to prepare them for the hoped-for sales. A total of around 100 pieces could be “prepared relatively easily”.