4×4S.ORGTHE REGISTRY NAMED MODEL · 1981–90
NAMED MODELSwitzerland

Shark.

Mowag’s wheeled infantry fighting vehicle of the 1980s, developed alongside the tracked Tornado.

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Sources & evidence
Shark — MOWAG Shark frontKobel · CC BY-SA 3.0 ↗
BASE VEHICLEPiranha (1972–)BUILT BYMowag, KreuzlingenIN SERVICE1981–90PRODUCTIONNot publishedLAYOUT8 wheels

The record

Neither the Shark nor the Tornado found a customer in quantity; the Piranha family carried the company instead.

Research status: draft — identification, dates or figures could not all be pinned down; the summary says what is unresolved.

Specification

MANUFACTURED1980s
ENGINEDiesel
PRODUCTION RUNNot published
COUNTRY OF ORIGINSwitzerland
STATUSout of production
RECORD KINDNamed model
MODEL LINEPiranha
FAMILYPiranha
WHEELS8
BODY STYLEarmoured

Catalogue fields describe the vehicle's structure and body as this registry records it. They are not certified factory measurements, and no performance figures are published here.

Variants & colours

Base model variants

Factory colours

  • NATO Olive

Codes on hover. Hex values are representative approximations of period paint unless a source states a measured value.

AI rendering impression

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Proportions, fittings, markings, colours and the setting can all drift from the original in the process. For the vehicle's actual details, rely on the specification, the photographs and the cited sources on this page.

Sources

  1. 1Mowag ↗Wikipedia · accessed 2026-09-23SOURCE

Registry record updated 2026-09-23 · status: draft