Rheinmetall releases new video of Lynx KF41 fighting vehicle

[Gary]

ByDylan Malyasov

Sep 24, 2020
Modified date: 2 hours ago

On Thursday, German defense conglomerate Rheinmetall has released its new official video showing a Lynx KF41 infantry fighting vehicle (IFV) during her test at NATO Excercise Brave Warrior in Hungary.
Rheinmetall posted the video show the Lynx KF41 that is taking part in the NATO Excercise Brave Warrior on 22nd September 2020.
As noted by the company, it is a milestone for LYNX team to see the vehicle in a live theatre with allied troops for the first time.
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“We received overwhelmingly positive feedback from the troops!” it said in a statement.
Lynx is a next-generation, tracked armored fighting vehicle designed to address the critical challenges of the future battlefield. The vehicle provides ample growth capacity to support new technologies over its lifetime, and features lower life-cycle costs.
In mid-September, the Hungarian Ministry of Defence has awarded Rheinmetall an order to supply tracked armoured vehicles and related products and services with a total value of more than €2 billion. The contractual agreement, which has now been signed in Budapest, encompasses 218 Lynx KF41 infantry fighting vehicles and nine Buffalo armoured recovery vehicles.
Furthermore, the Raytheon Rheinmetall Land Systems, a joint venture formed by Raytheon Company and Rheinmetall Defence, has submitted its Lynx vehicle for the U.S. Army’s new Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle, or OMFV, program.

Rheinmetall releases new video of Lynx KF41 fighting vehicle

On Thursday, German defense conglomerate Rheinmetall has released its new official video showing a Lynx KF41 infantry fighting vehicle (IFV) during her test at NATO Excercise Brave Warrior in Hungary.

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[Gary]

Lynx are Yugee

 

[Gary]

@Joe Shearer @Gautam @Nilgiri The IA should induct this instead of relying on 70 years old BMP-2s.....

 

[Gautam]

@Joe Shearer @Gautam @Nilgiri The IA should induct this instead of relying on 70 years old BMP-2s.....

Germany is problematic mate. Always has been. Let me tell you a little story. In late 2000s we handed the German company H&K a large deal for the MP5 and the MP5SSD to be used by the NSG. NSG is a domestic counter-terror unit made up of guys selected from police, army, paramilitary etc.

The company took the deal and started delivering. Somewhere along the German govt. figured that they wouldn't supply weapons to countries that violate human rights. India was put on that list, for reasons best known to the Germans. The H&K company stopped supplying the sub-machine guns to us midway through the order. This was a breach of contract and the company was asked to return some of the advance payment, they didn't do that.

We received substantial quantities of the guns already. So we thought might as well use it. Thus the MP5 became the standard issue of the NSG.

Initial few years was fine, the gun worked just fine. As time went on we needed spares which H&K refused to provide. So we contacted another European company B&T for it. We brought new barrels, red dot sights, tac lights, pistol grips etc for a few years. Eventually we decided not to continue on this way and have the guns removed from service.

The MP5 is now being slowly phased out of service by the NSG and has been taken up by various state police units across the country. The NSG are replacing the MP5 with the Sig MPX.

The Army had a liking for the MP5 too. Plenty of Army folks serve in the NSG on deputation and have developed a liking for it. When the Army wanted a sub-machine gun the MP5 was the easy choice. But hearing about the poor service of H&K from the NSG, the Army backed out.

Instead the went for the B&T MP9. Making the MP9 the standard issue across the Army, starting with the Ghatak units first. If you know the size of the Indian Army, you know how big this order would eventually be. A B&T official said that this order is bigger than all the guns they ever sold before.

Pics below from a Indo-Thai joint Army exercise a year back. Indian soldiers with suppressed B&T MP9, Thai army with INSAS 1B. Appears to be a weapons familiarization mixed with room intervention drill.

This is how a relatively obscure niche small arms maker from Switzerland got a massive deal from India, a country where they had no physical presence. H&K weren't even invited, Sigs lost out because of price.

Suffice it to say the Army has no faith in any German company. They have good reasons for it too. Sub-machine guns are easily purchased/replaced, can you imagine the problems we would have if our IFVs were German and they refused to provide spares.

 

[Nilgiri]

The IA should induct this instead of relying on 70 years old BMP-2s.....

is in short supply, we have to prioritise...and there are very big priorities right now compared to BMP.

Gautam is also correct that we must be wary with dealings with countries that point their nose up at actual conflicts that we are engaged in.

Like what are we buying weapons for, to look pretty and take up space...as compared to not killing enemy soldiers and terrorists that decide to make war on us?

It is best for India to buy what IP it needs to (whatever it needs to fill in past its local knowhow) and build stuff locally using its growing industrial capacity.

What cannot be done like that can be acquired short term from countries that actually are engaged in wars now or have been engaged in such recently (so there is little chance they point fingers at us for "war crimes") and have same actual strategic vision, and not just driving from A to B inside their borders and are grown all dependent on foreign troops and foreign budgeting for their security on top....and have this severe guilt complex about its own wars of the past that burst out on others stupidly now.

Countries like US, France we can work with OK from NATO side (among the major ones)...proven track records with us....rest are sketchy for us...and our babus have to learn this, its not time to experiment with acquisitions too much again and again.