Rheinmetall has described the value of its work and planned delivery window for 69 additional Schakal wheeled infantry fighting vehicles ordered through OCCAR for Germany and the Netherlands. In its 29 October 2026 release, the company said the options take the programme total from 222 vehicles to 291. Rheinmetall says the underlying contract was awarded in October 2025 and includes an option for up to 200 additional vehicles. The option ceiling and the quantities actually called off are different figures: the company's release gives 291 as the resulting programme total, so unused options should not be added to that number as though all had already been ordered (Rheinmetall).
The procurement itself is earlier than that release: OCCAR announced the option on 7 August 2026, and KNDS published the same additional quantities that day. The October disclosure should therefore be read as further commercial and scheduling detail on the existing call-off, not another 69-vehicle order on top of it.
The order and the two customers
OCCAR placed the order with Artec GmbH, the Rheinmetall and KNDS Deutschland joint venture responsible for the Boxer programme, according to Rheinmetall. Its release allocates 35 additional vehicles to the Bundeswehr and 34 to the Royal Netherlands Army, separating the two national customers within the joint procurement.
OCCAR identifies the earlier German order as 150 vehicles and the expanded Dutch fleet as 106; KNDS confirms the same baseline and additions. Those published quantities give Germany 185 and the Netherlands 106 within the 291 total, rather than implying an equal split between the two armies. This distribution concerns the Schakal configuration covered by these announcements, rather than every Boxer variant in national service.
Boxer mobility with a Puma-derived turret
The Schakal combines a Boxer wheeled chassis with the turret of the tracked Puma infantry fighting vehicle, according to Rheinmetall. OCCAR describes the BOXER RCT30 configuration as using an unmanned turret, a 30 mm automatic cannon and the MELLS anti-tank guided missile system, with space for six dismounted soldiers.
KNDS places the vehicle within the medium-forces concept and says the turret can engage moving targets while the vehicle moves. Rheinmetall identifies the cannon as the MK 30-2/ABM and presents the common Boxer platform as supporting shared training and logistics; these are manufacturer descriptions, not findings from independent operational testing.
Delivery dates and the limits of the price disclosure
The additional vehicles are currently planned for delivery between May 2032 and November 2033, according to Rheinmetall's October release. That statement also records German parliamentary budget approval on 24 June 2026, distinguishing the approval, the August option announcement and the later supplier disclosure from the future delivery period.
Rheinmetall describes its combined share of the two options as a sum in the mid-hundreds of millions of euros, without publishing an exact figure or an overall Artec contract value. OCCAR's August release mentions wider Boxer investment across the previous year, which is not a price for these 69 vehicles; neither disclosure supports calculating a reliable per-vehicle cost.