Index – National – More than 200 combat vehicles arrive for two billion euros

The army will receive Lynx infantry fighting vehicles, thus fulfilling Hungary’s obligations to NATO. As part of a modernization program worth more than two billion euros, 218 Lynx KF41 combat vehicles will be acquired. The vast majority of the assets, 172, will be produced in Hungary in a joint venture between Rheinmetall and the Hungarian state. The first 46 combat vehicles included in the order will be manufactured in Germany, which will also serve for the training of Hungarian specialists at the Hungarian factory.

Hungary is the first member state of NATO and the EU to modernize its forces with a product recently developed by a German company based in Düsseldorf. According to Government Commissioner Gáspár Maróth, the most valuable acquisition of the ongoing force and defense development program is a historic step, because soldiers have been forced to do without the tracked infantry vehicles that make up the backbone of heavy fire forces since the BMP-1’s withdrawal a decade ago, the MTI said.

The main armament of the Rheinmetall Lynx armor is a 30 or 35-millimeter cannon with a 7.62-millimeter machine gun, a 750-horsepower Liebherr diesel engine capable of speeds of up to seventy kilometers per hour on flat terrain.