A Marder 1A3 infantry fighting vehicle.
The Marder (German for "marten") is a German infantry fighting vehicle operated by the German Army as the main weapon of the Panzergrenadiere (mechanized infantry) from the 1970s through the present day. Developed as part of the rebuilding of Germany's armoured fighting vehicle industry, the Marder has proven to be a successful and solid infantry fighting vehicle design. While it does include a few unique features, such as the fully remote machine gun on the rear deck, it is overall a simple and conventional machine with rear exit hatch and side gun ports for mounted infantry to fire through. The Marder is currently being replaced by its successor, the Puma.
Around 2,100 were taken into service by the German Army in the early 1970s. As the German Army began to retire older vehicles, the Chilean government agreed to acquire 200 Marders; the government of Greece also purchased 450 retired vehicles. Romania uses a modified and locally produced variant, the MLI-84, and has built 300 vehicles on that platform, of which eleven have since been lost or left service.
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Brazil
Canada
Chile
- Estonia
- Germany
- Greece
- Indonesia
- Jordan
- Latvia
- Lithuania
- Ruanda
- Ruandan Land Force
- Slovakia
- Ukraine
