Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Marder infantry fighting vehicles. Stock photo: Getty Images The German government has instructed the Rheinmetall defence industry ...

After months of wheedling, the German government finally has pledged to Ukraine a first batch of Marder infantry fighting vehicles. The 30-ton, tracked vehicles with their 20-millimeter auto-cannons, ...

The Ukrainian air-assault force’s 25th Brigade just got a lot heavier. Photos that appeared online this week confirm the brigade has re-equipped with German-made Marder infantry fighting vehicles. The ...

Greece suspended an arms swap deal with Germany that included the transfer of Russian-made BMP-1 armored vehicles from its inventory to Ukraine in return for receiving German Marder 1A3s infantry ...

Germany's Ringtausch scheme to supply armoured vehicles to countries donating their own equipment to Ukraine now sees Berlin handing over the first Marder IFVs to Greece The first Marder 1A3 infantry ...

Germany has delivered the first six of 40 Marder 1A3 IFVs (shown here in service with the German Army) to Greece in exchange for the latter's transfer of 40 of its BMP-1 armoured vehicles to Ukraine. ...

Designing an armored vehicle always involves a three way compromise called the Iron Triangle between protection, mobility and firepower. Infantry Fighting Vehicles (IFVs) have traditionally been ...

Key Point: IFVs are often expected to fight other IFVs, so the weight of the armor on them has gone up as the caliber of IFV weapons has increased.. Designing an armored vehicle always involves a ...

Germany sent Greece the first batch of infantry fighting vehicles known as "Marder" on Sunday (16 October) as part of a swap deal in return for which Greece will deliver 40 Soviet-designed tanks to ...

GENICHESK, June 20. /TASS/. The Russian military has destroyed about 30 vehicles of Ukraine’s armed forces, including infantry fighting vehicles Bradley and Marder, on the right bank of the Dnieper ...