Loading the evidence…
Preparing your view.
Preparing your view.
Air defence1976–presentProfile in progress
Self-propelled anti-aircraft gun
Flakpanzer Gepard is a self-propelled anti-aircraft gun originating in Switzerland West Germany. It was built by Krauss-Maffei AG (licence production).
Technical data
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| 28 Sept 2026 | 7.68 m | Wikipedia contributors | superseded |
| 28 Sept 2026 | 7.68 m | Wikipedia contributors | superseded |
| 28 Sept 2026 | 7.68 m | Wikipedia contributors | superseded |
| 28 Sept 2026 | 7.68 m | Wikipedia contributors | superseded |
| 28 Sept 2026 | 7.68 m | Wikipedia contributors | superseded |
| 28 Sept 2026 | 7.68 m | Wikipedia contributors | approved |
| 28 Sept 2026 | 7.68 m | Wikipedia contributors | superseded |
en.wikipedia.org ↗ · Field absent
Checked 30 Sept 2026Recorded cached-source extraction and article inspection. No matching scoped field was extracted; this is not a claim that all five sources were checked.
Retained English infobox, specifications and article text
For the World War II German self-propelled anti-aircraft gun with the same name, see Flakpanzer 38(t) . For other articles with the name "Gepard", see Gepard . This article needs more citations . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be cha
No check recorded yet.
No check recorded yet.
No check recorded yet.
No check recorded yet.
Self-propelled anti-aircraft gun
Switzerland West Germany
1976–present
See Operators
Russo-Ukrainian War
Oerlikon-Bührle AG (Switzerland) Contraves (Switzerland) Siemens-Albis AG (Switzerland) Krauss-Maffei AG (vehicle - West Germany)
Krauss-Maffei AG (licence production)
47.5 t (46.7 long tons; 52.4 short tons)
Overall: 7.68 m (25 ft 2 in)
3.71 m (12 ft 2 in)
Radar retracted: 3.29 m (10 ft 10 in)
3 (driver, gunner, commander)
conventional steel
2 × 35 mm Oerlikon GDF autocannon , each with 320 rounds anti-air ammunition and 20 rounds anti-tank
2 × quad 76 mm smoke grenade dischargers
10- cylinder , 37,400 cc (2,280 cu in ) MTU multi-fuel engine 830 PS (819 hp, 610 kW)
17.5 PS/t
Torsion bar suspension
550 km (340 mi)
65 km/h (40 mph)
Reference text from Wikipedia contributors, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Flakpanzer Gepard equipment records. Variants, orders and quantities are shown as reported in each inventory source; coverage is incomplete.
Brazil Army holdings only. Gepard 1A2 self-propelled anti-aircraft gun vehicles.
Army exact named equipment holdings: Gepard. 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: AIR DEFENCE / 35mm. 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: Gepard. 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: AIR DEFENCE / SP 35mm. 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: Gepard. 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: AIR DEFENCE / SP 35mm. 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: Gepard. 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: AIR DEFENCE / 35mm. 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.
Reported count for Gepard. Service scope: 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): numbers: 36. Origin: Germany. The listed variants/roles are the scope, not an immediately deployable count. Dates are the count-cell citations' stated source period (2017), not the article revision. Cited source 2017-11-03. Edition or publication years do not claim an exact inventory census day.