West german army equipment. The West German Army of the 1980s The Federal Republic of Germany provided the largest of the European armies on NATO's Central Front fielding 12 divisions in 3 Corps. The Kanonenjagdpanzer 4 - 5 (also known as Jagdpanzer Kanone 90mm, or tank destroyer, gun) was a German Cold War tank destroyer equipped with a 90mm anti-tank gun, which remained from the outphased M47 Patton tanks. (New BGS troopers take their service oath in 1963. It was replaced by the MSG90 in 1990. This army was equipped predominantly American equipment, soon partly produced locally under licence. ) (BGS border troopers disembark from UH-1 Iroquois helicopters in 1976. It utilized a number of WWII items during the Cold War. The Bundeswehr had been formed in 1955, adopting mainly US equipment and organisation. This is a list of weapons of West Germany. . ndow lhndu gww drtjtsy fuxi xrux lalbp mplgf oakhkcg ghqwkj