The MOWAG Eagle is a wheeled armored vehicle designed by the

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MOWAG MOWAG is a Swiss company which develops, designs and produces armoured vehicles for military applications in both land-only and amphibious configurations. These vehicles have gross vehicle weights ranging from 9 tonnes to 30 tonnes. The compa ...

corporation. It has gone through several generations of development. The current vehicle, introduced in November 2003, is the Eagle IV, which is based on the

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P chassis. The original MOWAG Eagle used the chassis and running gear of the

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, while the Eagle II and Eagle III use the chassis and running gear of the Humvee ECV. A Prototype is now part of the Military Museum Full. The MOWAG Eagle IV and V used the chassis and running gear of the

Mowag Duro The DURO (''Durable Robust'') is a series of wheeled, multi-purpose military transport vehicles produced by General Dynamics European Land Systems/MOWAG in both four and six wheel drive. It was initially developed for Switzerland by Bucher-Gu ...

. A modular 6×6 variant that was developed for an Australian Army tender made its market debut at Eurosatory 2012.

Cost

The Danish Army ordered 36 Eagle V in four different configurations (patrol, electronic warfare, support and reconnaissance) in May 2017. According to public records from the Danish Parliament, the acquisition cost of the 36 EAGLE 5 Vehicles is DKK 233,6 mill. (approx. USD 35 mill) including Government Furnished Equipment (GFE) (driving cameras, radios, weapons mounts). This translates into an average price per vehicle of USD 972.000. According to the records the sustainment cost of the 36-vehicle fleet is estimated at DKK 116,1 mill. (approx. DKK 7,3 mill.) over a 15 year period.

Operators

Eagle I, II, III

Swiss Army The Swiss Armed Forces (german: Schweizer Armee, french: Armée suisse, it, Esercito svizzero, rm, Armada svizra; ) operates on land and in the air, serving as the primary armed forces of Switzerland. Under the country's militia system, re ...

– A total of 329 Eagle I and II are in use as light armored reconnaissance vehicles (''Aufklärungsfahrzeug''), armed with a 7.5mm Pz Mg 51/71 machine gun and fitted with thermal imaging and radio equipment. They are known respectively as Aufklärungsfahrzeug 93 and Aufklärungsfahrzeug 97. 120 Eagle III have been acquired as mobile

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vehicles in 2003, with substantial improvements made to communications and surveillance equipment (yet lacking the machine gun of previous versions). *

Danish Army The Royal Danish Army ( da, Hæren, fo, Herurin, kl, Sakkutuut) is the land-based branch of the Danish Defence, together with the Danish Home Guard. For the last decade, the Royal Danish Army has undergone a massive transformation of structures ...

– 36 Eagle I, known as Spejdervogn M/95. Nowadays, the M/95 is used without the original MKB-2 turret.

Eagle IV

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– 4 vehicles armed with 12.7mm Browning M2 machineguns and 76mm grenade launcher. To be used as reconnaissance APCs in peacekeeping missions in Bosnia and Kosovo ** Zurich Cantonal Police has 1 Eagle IV which is located at

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– 90 * **

German Army The German Army (, "army") is the land component of the armed forces of Germany. The present-day German Army was founded in 1955 as part of the newly formed West German ''Bundeswehr'' together with the ''Marine'' (German Navy) and the ''Luftwaf ...

– 495 (475 have been ordered so far + 20 vehicles as armored ambulance) **

German Federal Police The Federal Police (''Bundespolizei'' or BPOL) is the national and principal federal law enforcement agency of the German Federal Government, being subordinate to the Federal Ministry of the Interior, Building and Community (''Bundesministerium ...

– 10 vehicles in use.

Eagle V

* The

ordered 36 Eagle V in four different configurations (patrol, electronic warfare, support and reconnaissance) in May 2017. Deliveries are expected in 2018 and 2019 with final operation from 2019. * The

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ordered 176 Eagle V in May 2013 and 80 Eagle V 6x6 armored ambulance vehicles in March 2020. * The

Swiss Armed Forces The Swiss Armed Forces (german: Schweizer Armee, french: Armée suisse, it, Esercito svizzero, rm, Armada svizra; ) operates on land and in the air, serving as the primary armed forces of Switzerland. Under the country's militia system, re ...

ordered 100 Eagle V 6x6 TASYS armoured reconnaissance vehicles on 5 December 2019 * The

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ordered 4 Eagle V 6x6 ambulances in 2021. In September 2022 an additional order of 80 Eagle V 4x4 through the NSPA was placed. It is configured as CLRV command liaison and reconnaissance vehicles an will replace the

and the

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. The mission equipment will be common to its neighbours, French and Belgian

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. It will be fitted with the RWS deFNder Medium from FN Herstal, the information and combat system Scorpion (SICS from ATOS), the CONTACT radio system SDR from

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and the anti-ied jammer BARAGE from Thales Belgium. It will be delivered between December 2024 and July 2026. The acquisition is worth € 226.6 M. The acquisition and the Life Cycle Cost of the vehicle and the systems fitted, including the logistics for 15-20 years has a cost cap of €367 million.

Gallery

Image:Mowag Eeagle.jpg, Eagle II: as used by Swiss armored reconnaissance units Image:Eagle_III.JPG, Eagle III: Swiss reconnaissance vehicle File:Mowag Eagle Bw San.jpg, Mowag Eagle Ambulance versions File:MOWAG Eagle Danish.JPG, Eagle IV: as used by the

File:Bundeswehr mowag eagle IV side.JPG, Eagle IV: side view as used by the

File:Bundeswehr mowag eagle IV back.JPG, Eagle IV: rear view File:ILA Berlin 2012 PD 091.JPG, Eagle V: side view on exhibit

References

External links

Manufacturer's homepage

Prime Portal - Eagle III walk-around

Prime Portal - Eagle IV walk-around
{{Modern Recce Military trucks Off-road vehicles Armoured fighting vehicles of the post–Cold War period Military vehicles of Switzerland Military light utility vehicles Military vehicles introduced in the 2000s