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Originally Posted by undercoverbrother
MTBs would be nice, but the Marder is a good piece of kit.
Let’s hope more Western countries clear out some of their stock.
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Problem w/ these out of date German systems is going to be spares. Germans never built enough parts to properly service the legacy systems like the Gepard and Marder while they were in front line service, much like the situation with the artillery barrels wearing out with the PzH2000s artillery units. The older Marders and Gepards are going to be even harder to get parts for since nothing is actively produced anymore and a lot of the parts/older units have been scrapped.
At least with the PzH2000s, they can still build parts. Marders and Gepards when they break down, they are likely toast for a long time unless someone can MacGuyver something together or they re-make the tooling and start limited run parts production (which won't be in time for the projected spring offensives for sure).