British Army Procures 100 Boxer Wheeled Armored Vehicles

The British government, represented by the European procurement organization OCCAR, and ARTEC, signed a contract extension today to supply the British Army with an additional 100 Boxer 8x8 wheeled armoured vehicles.

ARTEC is a consortium of Rheinmetall and Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW).

The contract encompasses three previously ordered variants of the Boxer: the infantry carrier, the command vehicle and the field ambulance.

In issuing the order, the United Kingdom is exercising an option contained in the contract signed in 2019 for the Mechanised Infantry Vehicle (MIV) procurement project, which includes 523 Boxer wheeled armoured vehicles in several variants.

ARTEC will be supplying the vehicles to the UK via OCCAR, the intergovernmental Organisation for Joint Armament Cooperation. The bulk of Boxer production will take place in Britain. Series production is currently getting underway in Germany, after which most of the Boxer vehicles already ordered will be produced in British factories of Rheinmetall BAE Systems Land and KMW subsidiary WFEL.

The additional vehicles just ordered will also be produced in both the UK and Germany.