The Fennek 'Desert Fox' Light Armored Reconnaissance Vehicle Overview | STEALTH SCOUT CAR 📡

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    The Fennek 4x4 reconnaissance vehicle is a further development of the Multi-Purpose Carrier (MPC) originally developed by Dutch company SP aerospace and vehicle systems as a private venture.
    Following extensive trials with prototype vehicles, the ARGE Fennek consortium - comprising SP aerospace and vehicle systems and Krauss-Maffei Wegmann of Germany - was awarded a contract to produce 612 Fenneks.
    The German Army has ordered 202 vehicles and the Netherlands 410; the first Fenneks were delivered in 2003. There are two final assembly lines, one in Germany and one in the Netherlands.
    The baseline Fennek is optimized for reconnaissance and is provided with a retractable mast-mounted sensor pod that contains day/thermal optics and a laser rangefinder.
    A land navigation system and extensive communications equipment is installed in the vehicle and this allows information to be relayed in real time. The sensor package is provided by Rheinmetall Defence Electronics and, if required, the sensor head can be removed from the vehicle and deployed up to 40m away.
    German vehicles are armed with 40mm automatic grenade launchers, while 12.7mm machine guns are installed on the Dutch ones.
    The Fennek's hull is of all-welded steel armor, which protects the crew against 7.62mm armour-piercing attack and shell splinters.
    A wide range of equipment is fitted as standard, including a rear-mounted camera, a nuclear, biological and chemical defensive system, a winch, run-flat tyres, an air-conditioning system and a fire-detection and -suppression system.
    Both countries will also deploy specialized versions. Germany is testing an artillery- observation vehicle with 168 units expected to be procured. The Netherlands will also field anti-tank and air defence versions. The former will be fitted with the Gill medium-range antitank missile.
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 364

  • @_Matsimus_
    @_Matsimus_  3 роки тому +31

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    • @kelvinkudirical1438
      @kelvinkudirical1438 3 роки тому +1

      Do some videos on unmaned ground vehicle

    • @zhufortheimpaler4041
      @zhufortheimpaler4041 3 роки тому +1

      there are some errors here: The Bundeswehr does not use the MG42 or MG34, but the MG3 (similar to MG42) and the MG4 and MG5 (completely new designed MG that replace the MG3)

    • @TheArklyte
      @TheArklyte 3 роки тому +2

      Just like M1117 feels like BRDM-2 with extra steps.

    • @andrewcass4952
      @andrewcass4952 3 роки тому

      ²w2¹

    • @1ytcommenter
      @1ytcommenter 3 роки тому

      You mentioned the Luchs already. Now I expect a video. :D

  • @aliendeathpunch7044
    @aliendeathpunch7044 3 роки тому +103

    The Strider from Arma 3 was modelled from this vehicle.

  • @SoYFooD2
    @SoYFooD2 3 роки тому +14

    i have driven and work t on it.
    the most amazing thing about it is how little noise it makes.
    a thing we did then ever we had a group of guests on our base is have them stand on a road en listen to some one explain stuff about the fennek.
    then some one drove one to about 1meter behind the group and honk its horn.
    no one ever turns around because they hear it.
    it is golden to see 35 school kids jump end then wonder where it kame from.

  • @DeadBaron
    @DeadBaron 3 роки тому +322

    Germans.... Fast moving armor... "Desert Fox"....
    *muffled Erika in the distance*

  • @hugoljadas5535
    @hugoljadas5535 3 роки тому +71

    I am surprised of how capable this little thing is as a scout. I've always seen it in arma 3 and only thought of it as a cool-looking car and not much more. Knowing now how well it does as a recce gives it a lot more respect from me.

    • @HanSolo__
      @HanSolo__ 3 роки тому +3

      They used it as a patrol APC/humvee thing in Afghanistan. Public opinion was shocked because no DIngo, no Marders, no Fuchses! Why Polish Army can use best APC in the entire world (at that time) and German soldier is hurt with using a recon armored car.

    • @Emdee5632
      @Emdee5632 3 роки тому +4

      Well it's not that small, it's about 2.50 meters wide and over 5.50 meters in length.

    • @jokuhunaify
      @jokuhunaify 3 роки тому +1

      @@HanSolo__ yea it was all about propaganda telling the german people lies that we build girl schools... Why would you need APCs for drilling wells? It is what permanently burned me from both major parties, and I am usually the "in the middle" boring guy...

    • @ad220588
      @ad220588 2 роки тому

      @@HanSolo__ German Armynever used the Fennek as a transport vehicle But as a reconnaissance vehicle

    • @85daniel
      @85daniel Рік тому

      @@HanSolo__ To much Pis content? The Fuchs was the full afghanistan operation in service and this reconnaisance vehicle was used as reconnaisance vehicle

  • @matthewfritz4629
    @matthewfritz4629 3 роки тому +49

    The Desert Fox lives on

  • @archiepunay760
    @archiepunay760 3 роки тому +28

    I always admired Germans' ingenuity both in design and firepower in terms of their armored vehicles. Loved 'em. Another video from Mat', coolio! Cheers everyone :)

    • @TremereTT
      @TremereTT 2 роки тому +2

      I admire the Dutch radio layed over the video...get's you right in to vacation mood.

  • @HereticalKitsune
    @HereticalKitsune 3 роки тому +42

    I've only seen them drive past me when I was in camp, always loved them, they look so fast and sleek, but are actually not small or light.
    Greetings from a former German DSO soldier

    • @thorodinson5034
      @thorodinson5034 3 роки тому +1

      Feyza? I have been there and a Fennek drove behind me in camp and I just noticed when he was 1 meter away from me.

    • @HereticalKitsune
      @HereticalKitsune 3 роки тому

      @@thorodinson5034 No, was during NRF 10 way back in 2007 or '08.

  • @milleniumsword1558
    @milleniumsword1558 3 роки тому +106

    Germans with Fennek: Never ever be seen.
    The Dutch apparentlly: FULL DAKKA

    • @quantum340
      @quantum340 3 роки тому +4

      They just put a 50 cal M2 on top. Hardly all that imposing.

    • @duckyduck1944
      @duckyduck1944 3 роки тому +12

      So that's where we Surinamese get it it from
      Always wondered why we always went full frontal assault, now I know
      We get it from the motherland

    • @Bean_Amazing
      @Bean_Amazing 3 роки тому +1

      @@quantum340 i think he meant that they build anti tank and anti air versions.

    • @jasperb9233
      @jasperb9233 3 роки тому +1

      Well something has to fill in the role of tank if you sell them all

    • @jamegumb7298
      @jamegumb7298 3 роки тому

      @@jasperb9233 And then leased back. Under shared command. With only the other party having full veto rights over deployment.

  • @robendert7617
    @robendert7617 3 роки тому +14

    Thank you for sharing your observations about this great little vehicle! For the Netherlands, it's main disadvantage has nothing to do with the vehicle as such, but in the sad fact that the Royal Netherlands Army had to abandon most of its Leopard 2 tanks in order to concentrate on armored reconnaissance with the Fenneks.

    • @Grimshak81
      @Grimshak81 3 роки тому +3

      Don’t worry, even when Germany had leopard 2s used for recon, there was always another armored tank for the non-forced „real“ reconnaissance (the Luchs). Fennek is replacing the Luchs, not a Leopard. That’s a different type of recon.

    • @robendert7617
      @robendert7617 3 роки тому +5

      @@Grimshak81 For the Netherlands army, the situation is more dramatic than that. First, the divisional structure was abolished, and the remaining brigades reduced in number. Then the remaining Leopard 2 battalions where abolished completely, with the last ones sold to Canada after factory overhaul. Only one Leopard 2 company was re-established and integrated in a German armored battalion attached to the last armored infantry brigade lacking a tank battalion otherwise. So it is not just replacing a few Leopard 2's in reconnaissance units, but replacing all tank units with Fennek-based reconnaissance units. Also, armored artillery was reduced on brigade-level from a battalion to a battery. The current brigades do not even are on NATO-standard any more, more akin to WW2 regimental structures.

  • @MrIwan18
    @MrIwan18 3 роки тому +15

    We see them quite a lot overhere on Moving around on exercises, they are very quiet vehicles. Great job Alain Matsimus, greetz from the top of Holland!

  • @FenrisSulfr
    @FenrisSulfr 3 роки тому +5

    Nice to see the Fennek on your channel^^ i am an old Fennek recon driver and the vehicle is superb on every terrain, the Afghans called it the Bat and like the dutch YPR 753 PRI they feared it because of its capabilities

    • @jokuhunaify
      @jokuhunaify 3 роки тому

      Nice, since you actually drove it, how did the off road capabilities compare to other wheeled vehicles you saw?

    • @FenrisSulfr
      @FenrisSulfr 3 роки тому +2

      @@jokuhunaify Off road capabilitties are superb, with the system to adept the air in the tires its just like driving on 4 big pillows, its an automatic system wich in the beginning is a getting a feeling for it but once you get that, you can play with engine performance to drive real quiet, some guy's we "stalked"for observation at the end said they would only hear an engine burping because of inexperienced drivers or bushes being crushed.

  • @onetwo5155
    @onetwo5155 3 роки тому +9

    A, this beauty of a little recon vehicle; fell in love with it on the first look.

  • @quantum340
    @quantum340 3 роки тому +34

    The Dutch army employs these also as stinger platforms and tankhunters. For the former the Fennek has an integrated 4-hardpoint launcher, while for the latter it simply carries a couple of man-portable missile launchers in the back. Bit disappointing that the spikes cannot be launched from the vehicle, but need to be deployed in a static position.

    • @scratchy996
      @scratchy996 3 роки тому +5

      Out of curiosity, why can't the Spikes be launched from the vehicle ? You'd think it would work like the Wiesel TOW system.
      BTW, they are upgrading the Wiesel to use MELLS ( German Spike Version), so it might be possible to do the same with the Fennek.

    • @quantum340
      @quantum340 3 роки тому +8

      @@scratchy996 It is probably not a matter of 'cannot', but of 'will not'. The Dutch army has Fenneks with snazzy integrated stinger missile launchers on top, so no doubt the Spikes (called Gills in the Dutch Army) could be integrated into a convenient launcher. But they have chosen not to. Probably because that is cheaper; and most likely someone decided that having a crew member pop out of the vehicle to set up a man-portable launcher is sufficient when ambushing tanks.

    • @scratchy996
      @scratchy996 3 роки тому +3

      @@quantum340 That's why I'm wondering, because I know about the Stingers and the .50cal machine guns, the Dutch really went to town with arming the Fennek.

    • @quantum340
      @quantum340 3 роки тому +7

      @@scratchy996 Well, to be honest the .50 is formidable, but could also be found on unarmored open-topped Mercedes-Benz terrain vehicles (i.e. jeeps), so the Fennek having a single .50 hardly is impressive for an armored car. For comparison, the Germans equipped them with 40mm automatic grenade launchers. So to say the Dutch went to town arming the thing is a bit of an overstatement. But regarding the lack of Spike launchers, I have no doubt it was a cost issue. The Dutch Army has been living on a very tight budget for decades now. The introduction of the Fennek happened together with the abolishment of the tank units (all those Leopard2A5/6s sold off, still breaks my heart...). In fact, the whole Dutch armed forces doesn't even have enough Spikes to stop a single tank brigade.

    • @codmw2nooblet
      @codmw2nooblet 3 роки тому +2

      Hup Holland

  • @christianpethukov8155
    @christianpethukov8155 3 роки тому +29

    Cool and unexpected choice of vehicle review. You managed to keep me up awhile longer. Greetings from Wisconsin!

  • @BENKYism
    @BENKYism 3 роки тому +94

    "it packs mg42/34 as well"
    Lol, it can use the mg3.

    • @scratchy996
      @scratchy996 3 роки тому +12

      To be fair, when you mention the Desert Fox , mg42/34 do come to mind.

    • @davesobani9565
      @davesobani9565 3 роки тому +8

      Its the same gun more or less with a plastic stock

    • @scratchy996
      @scratchy996 3 роки тому +3

      @@davesobani9565 The original MG42 also had a bakelite stock version.

    • @BENKYism
      @BENKYism 3 роки тому +6

      @@davesobani9565 And it's chambered in 7.62 NATO

    • @walterscientist
      @walterscientist 3 роки тому +7

      Pretty sure that is a joke - while MG-42 derivate in 7.62mm is still used as MG-3, MG-34 has not been used in ages. Also he said Fennek can resist 7.92mm fire - that round is no longer used by any military.

  • @ChickenLittle2323
    @ChickenLittle2323 3 роки тому +23

    Arma 3 Striiiiiideeeer, good vehicle in game lol

  • @quantum340
    @quantum340 3 роки тому +5

    You won't believe how quiet it is. When hiking at a military practise terrain, one of these snuck up on me. It just turned around a tree 10 meters in front of me, and I didnt even hear it approach. Only when it passed me by at a meter distance did i hear its engine buzzing. Most of the sound was actually the wheels plowing through the sand and gravel.

  • @HanSolo__
    @HanSolo__ 3 роки тому +2

    I've been waiting for you to pull this vehicle to the light for sooo long... Thank you, Matt.

  • @QueenDaenerysTargaryen
    @QueenDaenerysTargaryen 3 роки тому +17

    Quite a impressive scout vehicle 👍 💥🔥💥🔥

  • @strikezero01
    @strikezero01 3 роки тому +6

    I remember that vehicle from Crysis Warhead , with RWS Minigun and Auto Grenade Launcher

  • @TheTryingDutchman
    @TheTryingDutchman 3 роки тому +11

    7:20 I know it's is classed to be safe up to 8.0 mm but I've spoken to several Dutch scouts who said it got penned by 7.62 ammo, maybe not a stock Ak47 round but definitely by the Ap rounds and the higher velocity rounds from sniper rifles..

    • @borkwoof696
      @borkwoof696 3 роки тому +2

      I doubt it’s rated for AP 7.62x54R.

    • @sparrow9990
      @sparrow9990 3 роки тому +2

      Its probably a big ass fake as Germany is known for making something that isnt that great and instead of working out what's wrong with it to make it's good they make way too much propaganda and lie about its performance

    • @jansix4287
      @jansix4287 3 роки тому +3

      @@sparrow9990 😂 You mixed us up with the English.

    • @chrisbrent7487
      @chrisbrent7487 3 роки тому +2

      Just plain old 7.62x54R LPS rounds with a mild steel core would probably penetrate it. Rounds loaded with 7N13 AP projectiles would likely go through like butter.

    • @sparrow9990
      @sparrow9990 3 роки тому

      @@jansix4287 fair they're almost worse with that arent they

  • @isaacsmits8919
    @isaacsmits8919 3 роки тому +6

    I've been waiting for a video on the fennek for a long time, great one matt! Hope to be able to serve with this beast in the future

  • @wekker090
    @wekker090 3 роки тому +2

    Made a shitload of parts for these back in 2002 when the big orders were produced. Fun thing to drive.

  • @tunazzz__677
    @tunazzz__677 3 роки тому +3

    Rommel would've DEFINITELY loved this thing

  • @calumdeighton
    @calumdeighton 3 роки тому +2

    The Fennek. The most interaction in video games I've had with this vehicle is in Arma. It's a neat little thing and does quite well for itself. Very protective of my Fennek. My Squadron mates keep getting us into antics and my Fennek does its part in getting us out of things. Or just me and I've had enough of things. It's also quite fast in the game.
    And we'll armoured too.

  • @thusharikabotheju5655
    @thusharikabotheju5655 3 роки тому +4

    Great video matt, glad to see you finally get some free time

  • @arnovriends5873
    @arnovriends5873 3 роки тому +23

    Fantastically capable little recon vehicle and German/Dutch collaboration in excellence. I'd love to see a version with dual/hybrid diesel/electric engine/engines/batteries to have silent and cold sneak/crawl capabilities and further enhanced sensors and stealth capabilities. A Fennec II if you will. Also, could it be feasible to make it amphibious? Or an amphibious version for engineer scouting?

    • @bjoernschneider7762
      @bjoernschneider7762 3 роки тому +3

      A hybrid would mean more weight, fully electric less range - I think noise reduction is good as it is. For Heat it uses MCS/barrakuda Camouflage system. Yes it somewhat lacks the amphibious capability. that hasn't been seen as necessary since the 90s. In the 80s there were Prototypes for that purpose (APE/Tpz Fuchs derivative)

    • @lucidnonsense942
      @lucidnonsense942 3 роки тому +6

      These are VERY quiet. There's no benefit to making them quieter, you'll trip over it by that stage.

    • @deeremeyer1749
      @deeremeyer1749 3 роки тому

      Capable of what? It doesn't even have armor protection against heavy machine guns. Death. Trap.

    • @epicmemer5277
      @epicmemer5277 Рік тому +1

      @@deeremeyer1749 scouting

    • @kqckeforyou4433
      @kqckeforyou4433 Рік тому +1

      ​@@deeremeyer1749 so anything a machine gun can Penetrate is useless? Nice

  • @GlamorousTitanic21
    @GlamorousTitanic21 2 роки тому +3

    I always thought that the Fennek could easily fit into the UNSC’s ground arsenal. It certainly has the boxy lines for it.

  • @jonwalk7920
    @jonwalk7920 5 місяців тому

    Standard NATO Battlegroups utilises foot reconnaissance and vehicle recon. The foot recon is conducted normally the day/night before the advance and identifies minefields and enemy positions at vital points, while the mechanized will conduct its recon just before the conventional forces advance, usually just a few hours before. The biggest difference being that the mechanized recon will actually try to engage the enemy in order to gauge their capacity (in some cases the mission would be to eliminate the threat completely). Mechanized recon also gives a battlegroup a rapid flanking ability. Recon Vehicles with adequate armament (like the French AMX 10RC or the Bradley) can be used in a tank hunting role

  • @skookapalooza2016
    @skookapalooza2016 3 роки тому +5

    Definitely better than a HMMWV for recon.

  • @rajatdani619
    @rajatdani619 Рік тому +1

    Hey Matt.. it's an incredible vehicle, so much so that It made me excited to watch Ur full video, At last u said that As it's production is seized and It's now not at par with other scout vehicles that are New to the market..i was very sad..
    But Few Days ago...The German Rheinmetall Launched a teaser about The new fennek...Iam so Happy to see it.🤗😄

  • @anangrysalad8256
    @anangrysalad8256 3 роки тому +1

    Recce in vehicles is always something I find interesting. I understand in the context of other vehicles, a light vehicle like this maybe has no foot print but to an infantry recce unit I just think how can anyone miss it! Ofc they do but still makes me appreciate the skills needed to implement mounted recce

  • @lennarthumpf8031
    @lennarthumpf8031 3 роки тому +2

    As a German soldier I got so confused seeing fenneks and leos in woodlandcamo and then hearing Dutch instead of German.
    They are similar too so I just thought I was stupid

  • @robertdole5391
    @robertdole5391 3 роки тому +7

    Looks like a HMMWV and a Lamborghini had a baby.

    • @julian2626
      @julian2626 3 роки тому

      Look up the Lamborghini LM002 then, crazy creation for sure

  • @stevenbreach2561
    @stevenbreach2561 3 роки тому +3

    Looks like something the Marines would be driving in "Alien"!!!👍👍👍

  • @stevestruthers6180
    @stevestruthers6180 3 роки тому +2

    This is the recce vehicle I wish the Canadian Army had gotten instead of the TAPV. It's far stealthier. It would also have been ideal for reserve armoured recce units, which tend to run with three man crews and need to sustain themselves for at least 72 hours.
    Indeed, if the Fennek had been around when I was serving in an armoured recce unit about 40 years ago, I would have thought I had died and gone to heaven.

  • @chugachuga9242
    @chugachuga9242 3 роки тому +13

    I wish we had these in Wargame: Red Dragon.

  • @schrodingersgat4344
    @schrodingersgat4344 3 роки тому +8

    If money were no object and I could have an armoured vehicle set up like an RV...
    ...this might do it. The (canceled) 6 passenger model.
    Be fun on a highway.

  • @samsonsoturian6013
    @samsonsoturian6013 3 роки тому +145

    This is a German armored vehicle quietly named after Erwin Rommel and no one noticed...

    • @adumbaby
      @adumbaby 3 роки тому +9

      everyone noticed

    • @sombobytoldme5314
      @sombobytoldme5314 3 роки тому +15

      No its not called after rommel

    • @tikityler1386
      @tikityler1386 3 роки тому +17

      @@sombobytoldme5314 What is Erwin Rommel's nick name? What is a Fennek Fox? More specifically, where do they live?

    • @Grimshak81
      @Grimshak81 3 роки тому +18

      Nope. The naming for the smaller vehicles is tough because there aren’t that many big animal cats to name it. That is why they shifted to smaller animals like Fennek or Ozelot.
      I guarantee you no one knew the name and connected it to Rommel (who wasn’t always a tactical genius by the way) before the vehicle got introduced.

    • @scratchy996
      @scratchy996 3 роки тому +23

      @@Grimshak81 You must be fun at parties...

  • @paxundpeace9970
    @paxundpeace9970 3 роки тому +9

    The big difference makes the nbc protection. Most of today's modern MRAPs or JLTV don't have such capabilities.

  • @mukadewolf530
    @mukadewolf530 3 роки тому +4

    *ROMMEL WILL BE PROUD !!*

  • @breakingmoney3077
    @breakingmoney3077 3 роки тому +1

    Boy this truck is awesome. Love it. Thanks

  • @ReonLeon
    @ReonLeon 3 роки тому +1

    I have now found my dream car. Yes, not the Lamborghini, not the Ferrari, but this Fennek

  • @Token_Civilian
    @Token_Civilian 3 роки тому +1

    Great vid Matt.

  • @MichalProzac
    @MichalProzac 3 роки тому +4

    I got strong Arma 3 vibes here, the good old Strider MRAP

    • @ChickenLittle2323
      @ChickenLittle2323 3 роки тому +1

      This baby ain't an MRAP, Mine Resistant, it's got no V Hull (hence it sits so low) which means explosions underneath aren't diverted away, price you pay for a slow silhouette

    • @MichalProzac
      @MichalProzac 3 роки тому +4

      @@ChickenLittle2323 No of course not, it is called Strider MRAP in Arma 3, sorry if it got you confused I was referring only to the game :)

  • @Arkancide
    @Arkancide 3 роки тому

    This was very neat! Thanks for bringing up such vehicles.

  • @Maver1ck67
    @Maver1ck67 3 роки тому +3

    Good job dude,i saw it few days ago and i loved it only by the looks...

  • @releasethekraken5039
    @releasethekraken5039 3 роки тому

    Love to see the dutch mechanized infantry in the intro. Gotta love our boys 🇳🇱

    • @ghostindamachine
      @ghostindamachine 2 роки тому

      well, we had 750 MBT's.. now down to.. 2..

    • @releasethekraken5039
      @releasethekraken5039 2 роки тому

      @@ghostindamachine correct me if i'm wrong but those leopards aren't even ours. They're leased from germany. So technically we own 0 tanks lol

  • @kfeltenberger
    @kfeltenberger 3 роки тому +7

    For the future versions, the company should offer a de-militarized version for civilian sale and aggressively promote it within off road rally/adventure circles and let them go to town modifying and upgrading it, then take the best ideas and roll them back into the base product. Given the way society seems to be heading, I think that they'd sell more than a few of these...though we plebes would never see them.

    • @LootGoblin4510
      @LootGoblin4510 3 роки тому

      Mmmmm.... Yes ! I want !! but will probably be in the grave by the time they get removed from service and possibly avail to the public ! ;)

  • @jochentram9301
    @jochentram9301 3 роки тому +2

    Bear in mind that the Luchs had two roles, recce and counter-recce, which is why it had that 20mm cannon, able to take out BRDMs. Which the Fennek simply cannot, neither the M2HB nor the HK GMG have that kind of punch.

    • @jokuhunaify
      @jokuhunaify 3 роки тому +2

      Yes would be interesting how the decision process went. What capability did replace counter-recce in the minds of the planers?

  • @Revivethefallen
    @Revivethefallen 3 роки тому +1

    Cool little car! Thanks for another great video!

  • @roadhouse6999
    @roadhouse6999 2 роки тому +1

    "The Army came to visit me, up in the early hours,
    With Saracens and Paladins and Fennek armored cars
    They thought they had me cornered, but I gave them all a fright
    With the armor-piercing bullets from me little Armalite"

  • @zwotonner6071
    @zwotonner6071 3 роки тому +1

    @Martsimus if like this vehicle, you might want to check out its predecessor. The Spähpanzer Luchs.

  • @wilemelliott
    @wilemelliott 3 роки тому +1

    I like it...need one for a daily driver

  • @m.claude5772
    @m.claude5772 3 роки тому

    7:22 onwards: "It's armored against 7.92 mm fire" [....] [...] 7:34 "or MG 42 or 34 as well" I see what you did there Matsimus :D

  • @mrkrabs3245
    @mrkrabs3245 3 роки тому

    *Slaps roof of Fennek*
    This bad boy can mount some Stingers on top

  • @steveprice7038
    @steveprice7038 3 роки тому +3

    Looks like what the Marines had in Aliens🤣🥊

  • @flgators1986
    @flgators1986 3 роки тому +10

    Arma 3 IRL lol

  • @andreasleonardo6793
    @andreasleonardo6793 3 роки тому

    Too nice video about light armoured vehicle FENNEK...video clearly explained all characteristics of this fast ,highly manniovirity armoured vehicles named ( desert fox) thanks for sharing

  • @brandondigiuseppe1111
    @brandondigiuseppe1111 3 роки тому +12

    Man.... shit like this makes me want to buy one of these things for myself to use as a freelancer for the CAF

  • @macpie28
    @macpie28 3 роки тому +2

    My Grandfather spend his last years as a Bundeswehr Officer in Köln developing and overseeing this vehicle. His whole live as a soldier he was a armored recon and he drove a lot of different scout cars and tanks. When he made the list of what to put in this beautiful vehicle, he made sure that the crew had a very good working place, because most vehicles he had to drive were terrible and loud.

    • @tjnld3314
      @tjnld3314 3 роки тому

      Well your grand father never got out of the drivers seat in full batle ratle i gues...

  • @djebble1
    @djebble1 3 роки тому

    I remember these in arms 3. Damn good vehicle =)

  • @youcefelmansouri8955
    @youcefelmansouri8955 3 роки тому +1

    German industry is unparalleled in the world, it is mysterious and terrifying The strong is strong.

  • @net-twin-de
    @net-twin-de 7 місяців тому +1

    The Fennek is the Lamborgini of the battlefield

  • @geodkyt
    @geodkyt 3 роки тому +7

    There is *no* excuse for an armored vehicle designed specifically for recce to not have a sensor mast, unless you literally have no room because of a volume constraint.
    The advantage of having your primary reconnaissance sensor unit be able to deploy from a generously "turret down" position cannot be overstated. Especially when that sensor pod is analogous to a scout using binos with his elbows propped up on the ridge. And I'd rather get my sensor pod shot off than take a round through the hull or turret.

    • @PhilipFry.
      @PhilipFry. 3 роки тому

      It has a mast.

    • @jokuhunaify
      @jokuhunaify 3 роки тому

      @@PhilipFry. yea not sure if he did not watch the video or is just hammering the point home :)

  • @gamer-iz3sf
    @gamer-iz3sf 3 роки тому +1

    seems perfect

  • @jointaimbot55
    @jointaimbot55 3 роки тому +1

    It’s a strider!

  • @abraham2172
    @abraham2172 3 роки тому

    Very interesting and quite strange vehicle. Love it and your video, great work!

  • @ditzydoo4378
    @ditzydoo4378 3 роки тому

    The Fennek is defiantly one sexy beast.

  • @aidanlutz8106
    @aidanlutz8106 3 роки тому +1

    Hans is reborn!

  • @jarink1
    @jarink1 3 роки тому +2

    Looks like an extra wide VISMOD Hummer like they use at the NTC.

  • @sleepingbackbone7581
    @sleepingbackbone7581 3 роки тому +1

    Pretty damn cool indeed.

  • @ryanvargas4889
    @ryanvargas4889 3 роки тому +7

    They should have put a 25mm chain-gun and/or AT missile sys. on this thing. I really like the low profile and speed though.

    • @jnievele
      @jnievele 3 роки тому +6

      They're reconnaissance vehicles, not cavalry. Totally different mission profile - only the USA use HUGE recon tracks armed to the teeth

    • @casuallatecomer7597
      @casuallatecomer7597 3 роки тому +3

      @@jnievele As well as France (and several other countries), who put 90 and 105 mm guns on theirs. Now the French are using an autocannon for their new EBRC Jaguar recce vehicle, I presume it's because the French are mostly being active in West Africa dealing with insurgents there.

    • @jnievele
      @jnievele 3 роки тому +2

      @@casuallatecomer7597 True. They're using them as convoy escorts and patrol vehicles a lot - the light armour isn't that much of an issue, and the speed helps a lot. Germany ended up using the Luchs like this as well, which had a 20mm autocannon - but that's not so much because it was supposed to fight its way out of trouble, but rather because that was what passed for a heavy machine gun in the Bundeswehr, the few M2 that originally were purchased in the 1950s weren't kept in service. But AFAIK the USA ae the only ones putting ATGMs on a dedicated recon vehicle, because to them recon and cavalry are the same, and cavalry has a direct fighting role as well.

    • @bjoernschneider7762
      @bjoernschneider7762 3 роки тому +1

      There's a Dutch Anti-Tank and Air-Defense, even a mortar carrier Version. However only the Stinger platform fires directly of the vehicle has a low profile launcher. AT and mortar crew disembarks with the weapon.

    • @outdooradventureHungary
      @outdooradventureHungary 3 роки тому

      @@jnievele no germany using in the cold war also leopard 2 tanks in recon units ,its poorly armed and the Recon in germany was complained about that

  • @TomvanSchendel
    @TomvanSchendel 2 місяці тому

    Not German, it is Dutch spoken in this video. The vehicle is co produced by the Netherlands and Germany

  • @treadheadpete4770
    @treadheadpete4770 3 роки тому +1

    Very slick!

  • @mwnciboo
    @mwnciboo Рік тому

    In the age of the drone - I can see a vehicle like Fennek Gen 3.0 could be amazing launching its own drones relaying data / comms and 3rd party targetting.
    Also, 4x Brimstone missiles on the back could make it bristly.

  • @pierevojzola9737
    @pierevojzola9737 3 роки тому +3

    Hi Mat, this Scout vehicle, does it have a Stealth Button and can it be taught to use the sniffer nose like a trained human scout?

  • @tedferkin
    @tedferkin 3 роки тому +2

    Looks like everyone in the Netherlands suddenly thinks they're Max Verstappen, given the marketing footage of the Fennek doing power slides

  • @ttpechon2535
    @ttpechon2535 3 роки тому +3

    Rommel? Where?

  • @andrzejbejnar7566
    @andrzejbejnar7566 3 роки тому +2

    Newt : It won't make any difference.

  • @mats92b22
    @mats92b22 3 роки тому +1

    It is an ak47 sound of that FN MAG in the beginning 0:03

  • @fabricio-agrippa-zarate
    @fabricio-agrippa-zarate 2 роки тому

    Paraguay: Just today we had yet another incident with the guerrilla groups operating in the North of the country. The terrain there is muddy and full of woodland, and currently our joint spec ops are using civilian repurposed Toyota Hilux as their recon vehicles I really wish they can have something like the Fennec so they'll be much safer when patrolling.

  • @CHMichael
    @CHMichael 3 роки тому

    Really like this thing - it's probably not expensive enough.

  • @kloschuessel773
    @kloschuessel773 3 роки тому

    From the looks and bcs i love scouting it was always my fav bundeswehr vehicle
    The luchs was great too though. It was incredibly quiet and was amphibious in its normal form. Could drive in both directions with two drivers
    Just taller

  • @davidgough4750
    @davidgough4750 6 місяців тому

    Canada should replace the G wagon for Reserves Armour Recce Units. These would be cheap and easy for them to maintain and would give the Army a new capability. They are not as mine proof as the current Recce vehicles but would be make an excellent training vehicle.

  • @antonnurwald5700
    @antonnurwald5700 2 роки тому

    I honestly wonder what comes next. I haven't seen anything. Outfitting the existing vehicles with drones seems difficult. I hope it won't be yet ANOTHER Boxer with a recon module, I'd much rather see a genuine recon vehicle. My love for Boxer variants ended when my car dealership offered me a Boxer with a toddler seating module.
    There might be recon variants of other vehicles in development. There is an early stage procurement plan for a Fuchs replacement, and another project for a new airborne vehicle to replace the Wiesel. These might include recon variants. The light infantry (Jäger) are in the process of introducing the Australian Boxer CRV as a fire support vehicle, so ... yeah.

  • @miguelurrutdarkorangefan2750
    @miguelurrutdarkorangefan2750 3 роки тому +1

    Low profile? Like a Humvee? How is it against mines?

  • @казакпалестинский
    @казакпалестинский 6 місяців тому

    ФЕННЕК живёт на современном поле боя до первого FPV-дрона... Тактическое поле изменилось радикально!!!

  • @aacvieira
    @aacvieira Рік тому

    This fénix desert Rommel fox is very cool. If Germany send them to Ukraine anybody could give me the Russian / Ukrainian contact, to me to buy one, scammed out or captured wideout damage. The car is just fantastic! A great base to a huge caravan!!

  • @godlovespuppies-yb5kl
    @godlovespuppies-yb5kl 3 роки тому +2

    So we buy the TAPV ...and then I see this...f#### we should have bought this! To match our Leopards!

  • @deca0
    @deca0 3 роки тому +2

    Strider moment

  • @duddydjaya1004
    @duddydjaya1004 3 роки тому

    Light combat vehicles have their limitations, so keep them light. The old Brits bren carrier were good nuff.

  • @mylesdobinson1534
    @mylesdobinson1534 3 роки тому +1

    Hi Matt have you had a look at the Australian Hawkei?

  • @hussainchannel1151
    @hussainchannel1151 3 роки тому +1

    Can you make a video on how mg are used on tanks

  • @JakeHabermansYouTube
    @JakeHabermansYouTube 3 роки тому +1

    This gives me Arma 3 vibes

  • @phantomsloyer
    @phantomsloyer 3 роки тому

    Matsimus, new intro when.
    I mean don't get me wrong the current intro is pretty badass.

  • @williamlloyd3769
    @williamlloyd3769 3 роки тому +2

    Matsimas , can you do some video on drones? Thanks.

    • @jokuhunaify
      @jokuhunaify 3 роки тому

      Yea I second. But, it ts a hard topic with actual real information. Especially if electronic countermeasure etc. comes in. There is so little information out there. But discussing drones without ecm and eccm is useless.

  • @jokuhunaify
    @jokuhunaify 3 роки тому

    Good video. Little information what other armys use in the same role and how it might differ relating to doctrine would be interesting. Also: What kind of units employ them ? Combat history would also be intriguing.

  • @warmbreeze7996
    @warmbreeze7996 3 роки тому +2

    The fennek when looking at brdm-2:
    "My ancestor"

    • @bjoernschneider7762
      @bjoernschneider7762 3 роки тому

      It's a case of convergent evolution, as both Germany and the Soviets/Russians have the doctrine of passive reconnaissance

    • @TheArklyte
      @TheArklyte 3 роки тому +1

      @@bjoernschneider7762 I assume that you've heard about Reunification of Germany? And how GDR brought in a lot of soviet equipment, personnel trained to use and maintain it, tooling for production of some new vehicles and spare parts and officers experienced in doctrinal use of said vehicles, right? And that included BRDM-2. Fennek was designed almost decade after.
      Then how the f//ck do you try to pull "convergent evolution" bs here?

    • @bjoernschneider7762
      @bjoernschneider7762 3 роки тому

      @@TheArklyte Thank you for your very friendly comment. The BRDM is only in that way an ancestor as ist was the threat that loomed over light Western European light reconaissance forces. In the 80s. So they developed, well in the 80s some prototypes (Zobel in Germany, what would become the VBL in France) in a trinational enterprise. The Fennek than is a compromise between Dutch and German needs and requirements. They surely didn't need to take a NVA BRDM apart to know how to build a low profile car ...

    • @TheArklyte
      @TheArklyte 3 роки тому

      @@bjoernschneider7762 I didn't say that they copied the units. But copying the ideas is not convergent evolution. It won't work in court, sorry.

    • @bjoernschneider7762
      @bjoernschneider7762 3 роки тому

      @@TheArklyte i am not going to court with you i would answer your kindness with an offer to go outside and teach you some manners