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IAV 2025: Hungary plans to procure more Lynx IFVs

By Nicholas Fiorenza |

The HDF received its first domestically produced Lynx IFV on 24 July 2024. (HDF/Gábor Kormány, Gergely Schöff)

Hungary plans to procure 172 more KF41 Lynx infantry fighting vehicles (IFVs) and support vehicles, Janes learnt at Defence iQ's International Armoured Vehicles (IAV) 2025 conference held under the Chatham House Rule in Farnborough from 21 to 23 January. The additional IFVs will be produced by the Rheinmetall Hungary joint venture in Zalaegerszeg at the end of the decade.

The Hungarian Defence Forces (HDF) received its first domestically produced Lynx IFV on 24 July 2024. The vehicle was completed in December 2023 and handed over to the HDF after receiving functional, performance, and quality acceptance.

A total of 209 Lynx vehicles will be supplied to the HDF under an August 2020 Hungarian Ministry of Defence contract worth EUR2 billion (USD2.1 billion). In addition to the IFV version, the HDF will receive command post, reconnaissance, joint fires observer, mortar carrier, and driver training variants, as well as nine Lynx Skyranger air-defence vehicles under a separate contract.

The company is building the first 46 Lynx IFVs and command-and-control vehicles for Hungary in Germany. Hungary received its first Lynx, an IFV, for the HDF at Petőfi Sándor Barracks in Budapest on 15 October 2022 and is scheduled to receive all 46 German-built vehicles by the end of 2025.

The Lynx vehicles will give the Hungarian army an armoured infantry capability, with driver, gunner, commander, technical crew, and dismounted training under way.

For more information, please see IAV 2024: Hungary arms its Lynx IFVs with Hero loitering munitions .

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