Jaune of West Germany

The Bundesweher (West Germany)

Logo: (used in Modern Germany (1951- present) and in the German Empire (1871-1918)

Military personnel:

495,000 military personnel

335,000 in army

230,000 conscripts

Full mobilization:
1.3 million military troops in full scale ground warfare. (Close to 1.5 million troops from the First World War & Second World War.)

In the 1980s, the Bundeswehr had 12 Army divisions with 36 brigades and far more than 7,000 battle tanks, armoured infantry fighting vehicles and other tanks; 15 flying combat units in the Air Force and the Navy with some 1,000 combat aircraft; 18 surface-to-air-missile battalions, and naval units with around 40 missile boats and 24 submarines, as well as several destroyers and frigates

Main Battle Tanks:
Six German Super M48A3 Patton

Leopard 1a1 (1966-1980)

Leopard 1a2 (1972-1974)

Leopard 1a3 (1974- 1984)

Leopard 1a4 (far right) [1974-1980's]

Leopard 1a5 (1980) (and being used in the Russio-Ukrainian war 2022-2023)

Infantry Fighting vehicles:

Schützenpanzer Marder 1 (1971–present)

HS-30 (Schützenpanzer, lang, Typ 12-3) (1958-1962)

Fighter jets

U.S Lockheed F-104 West German Fighter Jet (1954-1980)

Panavia Tornado IDS/ECR (1979-1980)