A Romanian Flakpanzer Gepard tracks a US Army drone during joint counter-drone training at Bemowo Piskie Training Area, Poland, on August 18, 2026. (Credit: US Army Reserve) During joint counter-drone ...
Germany retired the Flakpanzer Gepard as an outdated Cold War relic—but in Ukraine, it has become one of the war’s most effective air defense systems. Discover how this decades-old anti-aircraft gun ...
According to the outlet, the Belgian government plans to purchase 15 anti-aircraft armored vehicles from OIP (a subsidiary of Elbit Systems). These systems were previously in service with the Belgian ...
For years, the Gepard was just another museum piece, a Cold War artifact with no real place in modern warfare. But that changed in 2022. When drones began harassing Ukraine’s power plants and cities, ...
The increasing threat posed by drones and loitering munitions in Ukraine was met with different types of weapon systems, including tube air defence artillery, Cold War era systems such as the German ...
Designed and manufactured by Germany during the Cold War, the Gepard self-propelled anti-aircraft artillery system is experiencing a second life in service with the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Despite ...
Ukrainian servicemen, crew members of a German-made self-propelled anti-aircraft (SPAAG), better known as the Flakpanzer Gepard, prepare for a combat duty in Kyiv region, Ukraine on March 21, 2024.
Ukrainian soldiers on air defense combat duty operate a Flakpanzer Gepard, self-propelled anti-aircraft gun, on November 23, 2023, in the direction of Kyiv, Ukraine. (Source: Getty Images) Germany has ...
According to Swiss media, the Swiss government has authorized defense contractor Ruag MRO to sell 71 Leopard 1 tanks to Germany. However, in line with Switzerland’s interpretation of its own ...
Russia has deployed over 2,000 Gepard kamikaze drones with advanced electronic warfare countermeasures, aiming to outmaneuver Ukrainian defenses in the evolving battlefield of drone war. Russian and ...