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Armoured vehicles2003–present
Scout car
KNDS Fennek is a scout car originating in Germany / Netherlands. It was built by Krauss-Maffei Wegmann Dutch Defence Vehicle Systems.
KNDS Fennek
Ministerie van Defensie/Hennie Keeris · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Resized · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source ↗ · ModifiedScout car
Germany / Netherlands
2003–present
See Operators
War in Afghanistan Russo-Ukrainian War Russian invasion of Ukraine
KNDS Deutschland Dutch Defence Vehicle Systems
1997–2000
Krauss-Maffei Wegmann Dutch Defence Vehicle Systems
€1.6 million
2001–present
632
9.7–10.4 tonnes (10.7–11.5 short tons)
5.58 metres (18.3 ft)
2.55 metres (8.4 ft)
2.29 metres (7.5 ft)
3
HK GMG 40 mm grenade autocannon or Rheinmetall MG3 (German version), M2HB 12.7 mm machine gun (Dutch versions)
2x3 smoke grenade launcher
Deutz diesel 179 kW (239 hp)
18.5 kW/tonne
Selectable 4 wheel drive
860 kilometres (530 miles)
115 kilometres per hour (71 mph)
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| 28 Sept 2026 | 5.58 m | Wikipedia contributors | superseded |
| 28 Sept 2026 | 5.58 m | Wikipedia contributors | superseded |
| 28 Sept 2026 | 5.58 m | Wikipedia contributors | approved |
KNDS Fennek equipment records. Variants, orders and quantities are shown as reported in each inventory source; coverage is incomplete.
Army holdings of the exact named Fennek (incl 24 engr recce, 50 fires spt) component, counted as equipment units: active, operational reserve and training equipment, excluding equipment in store. Service-scoped IISS observation, not a national total or combat-readiness figure. No parent, sibling, mounted-weapon or heading aggregate quantity inherited.
Army exact named equipment holdings of Fennek (incl 47 OP), Fennek (incl 4 CP; 10 trg). 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 / RECCE, ARMOURED FIGHTING VEHICLES / AUV. No heading aggregate, carried armament, crew, payload, factory production or future order count inherited. The main-level equipment section belongs to the original bold Army service heading. The intervening semibold Reserves manpower/formations heading is retained in the proof; active and operational-reserve equipment remains within the whole Army holdings scope. Family total is the sum of the separately printed nonoverlapping exact model components, each explicitly declared by its own source; no parent or sibling variant identity inferred. Source parentheses retain employment, lease, reporting designation, alternate model, or included-subset scopes exactly. Own fetched primary and alternate/model identity declarations are retained. Numbers inside an included subset are part of the printed count and are never added again; no sibling or parent specification is copied.
Army holdings of the exact named Fennek component, counted as equipment units: active, operational reserve and training equipment, excluding equipment in store. Service-scoped IISS observation, not a national total or combat-readiness figure. No parent, sibling, mounted-weapon or heading aggregate quantity inherited.
Reported count for Fennek. Country-wide list; no individual service specified. 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: 8. Origin: Germany Netherlands. 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.