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Armoured vehicles1986–present
Armored personnel carrier
Fahd (armored personnel carrier) is a armored personnel carrier originating in Egypt / West Germany. The cited manufacturer or builder is Kader Factory for Developed Industries.
Armored personnel carrier
Egypt / West Germany
1986–present
See below
Gulf War Somali Civil War Algerian Civil War
Thyssen Henschel (today Rheinmetall Landsysteme and part of Rheinmetall Defence )
Kader Factory for Developed Industries
1985
Over 1,907 (all variants, most users)
Mainly Fahd 240, and Fahd 280-30. See text for extended list.
10.9 - 12.5 tons (depending on the variant)
6 meters
2.45 meters
2.25 meters (without towers)
2 + 10 passengers (Fahd-240), 3 + 7 passengers (Fahd-280-30)
Welded steel
30 mm automatic cannon 2A42 AT-5 Spandrel or AT-4 Spigot ATGM (Fahd-280-30)
1-3 7.62 mm machine guns
Mercedes-Benz Diesel OM 366 LA 4-Stroke turbo-charged water-cooled diesel engine 275 hp at 2,300 rpm
4 x 4
37 cm
280 liters
700 km (on road) 450 km (cross country)
100 km/h (on road) 60 km/h (cross country)
Algeria
Burundi
Burkina Faso
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Egypt
France
Kuwait
Mali
Oman
Sudan
Reference text from Wikipedia contributors, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
True scale
Sourced dimensions beside a 1.75 m human reference.
Points represent sourced observations, including revisions. Revisions on the same effective date are not separate inventory events. Ranges appear in the table and are not plotted as exact points.
| Observation / report period | Value | Source | Claim state |
|---|---|---|---|
| 28 Sept 2026 | 6 m | Wikipedia contributors | superseded |
Fahd (armored personnel carrier) equipment records. Variants, orders and quantities are shown as reported in each inventory source; coverage is incomplete.
Army exact named equipment holdings: Fahd. Active, operational-reserve and training units excluding equipment in store; November 2025 IISS assessment. Named service only; no parent-force or national total inferred. Source role: ARMOURED FIGHTING VEHICLES / APC (W). Original estimates, ranges, reporting names, reserve, lease and employment scopes retained; nested included counts are not added. Missile-system quantities mean launchers, not rounds. No readiness, crew, carried weapon, payload, factory-production or future order count inherited.
Army exact named equipment holdings of Fahd. Active, operational-reserve and training units excluding equipment in store; November 2025 IISS assessment. Named service only, not a national or parent-force total or combat-readiness measure. Source role(s): ARMOURED FIGHTING VEHICLES / APC (W). No heading aggregate, carried armament, crew, payload, factory production or future order count inherited.
Reported count for Fahd 300. Country-wide list; no individual service specified. 1 distinct count cell(s) from the same source list; shared rowspan cells counted once. Excludes retired/reserve/on-order rows. Count column(s): quantity: 19. Origin: Egypt. The listed variants/roles are the scope, not an immediately deployable count. The components do not establish one inventory census date; the stored date is the retrieved source snapshot.
Reported count for Fahd. Service scope: Egyptian Army; does not replace a national total. 1 distinct count cell(s) from the same source list; shared rowspan cells counted once. Retired, wholly reserve and on-order rows are excluded; the reported count retains any explicitly mixed stock scope in the quoted row. Count column(s): number: 410. Origin: Egypt West Germany. The listed variants/roles are the scope, not an immediately deployable count. Dates are the count-cell citations' stated source period (2024), not the article revision. 2024 cited source edition. Edition or publication years do not claim an exact inventory census day.
Reported count for Fahd 240. Service scope: Kuwait Land Forces; does not replace a national total. 1 distinct count cell(s) from the same source list; shared rowspan cells counted once. Retired, wholly reserve and on-order rows are excluded; the reported count retains any explicitly mixed stock scope in the quoted row. Count column(s): quantity: 60. Origin: Egypt. The listed variants/roles are the scope, not an immediately deployable count. The components do not establish one inventory census date; the stored date is the retrieved source snapshot.
Reported count for Fahd. Service scope: Royal Army of Oman; does not replace a national total. 1 distinct count cell(s) from the same source list; shared rowspan cells counted once. Retired, wholly reserve and on-order rows are excluded; the reported count retains any explicitly mixed stock scope in the quoted row. Count column(s): quantity: 31. Origin: Egypt Germany. The listed variants/roles are the scope, not an immediately deployable count. The components do not establish one inventory census date; the stored date is the retrieved source snapshot.
Algeria, Burundi, Burkina Faso, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, France, Kuwait, Mali, Oman, Sudan
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