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Hungary is the first buyer of Rheinmetall's brand new APC, the Lynx (the fresher version KF41). It won't be a simple transaction, a German-Hungarian joint venture is gonna build a factory here. The whole thing will be an over 2 billion € investment.
The first batch of vehicles gonna be produced in Germany, about 40 of them, this will be an opportunity to train the Hungarian staff of the future factory. The rest, some 170 fighting vehicles will be manufactured here. A test field also will be established.
They will be put into service by 2026-27. For a while now we don't have any threaded infantry vehicles, since the BMP-1 was retired in the early 2000s. We also don't have armament industry since the privatization after the regime change liquidated the whole of it, this is an important step in rebuilding. That's how it goes, it was a good business to end it for some people, I'm pretty sure it's a good business for some other people to rebuild it. It is also important because it's a high-tech factory for high-tech armament, with robotics and shiet.
The article is in Hungarian, but the Wikipee page below writes the essentials too:
https://index.hu/belfold/2020/09/10/hadipari_high-tech_gigaberuhazas_lynx-gyar_epul_zalaban/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_(Rheinmetall_armoured_fighting_vehicle)