( December 2022) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources in this section. This section needs additional citations for verification. Instead, the Ozelot Light Air Defence System (LeFlaSys) was fielded for the three Airborne Brigades. The system was tested by the German Bundeswehr but not bought due to budget restrictions. To combine this capacity in a single unit, a missile system upgrade that mounts the Stingers in twin packs to the autocannons was developed.
Since the 1980s, Redeye and later Stinger MANPADS teams have been accompanying the Gepard units to take advantage of their long-range scanning capacity. The Netherlands ordered 95 vehicles (designated Cheetah PRTL or Pantser Rups Tegen Luchtdoelen), split into three batches (CA1, CA2 and CA3), which were equipped with Philips radar systems. Belgium ordered 55 vehicles, which were identical to the German version.
The first was delivered in December 1976. Each vehicle would be about three times the price of a normal Leopard 1. In September 1973 the contract was signed with Krauss-Maffei for 432 B2 turrets and 420 hulls with a total value of DM 1,200,000,000. In February 1973, the political decision was made to produce the type. The Germans made a small preseries of both the B1 and B2R. In 1971 the Dutch army ordered a CA preseries of five vehicles based on a parallel development that had used a West German 0-series Leopard 1 vehicle made available by the West German government in March 1970 as the C-prototype. In 1971, twelve second phase B prototypes were ordered. In June 1970, it was decided to use the 35 mm type. In 1969, construction began of four A prototypes testing both 30 and 35 mm guns. The Gepard was developed from 1963 onward. Early pre-series vehicle on trial for the Royal Netherlands Army in 1976.
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