German Army Invites Patria to Bid for Future Armored Troop Transport Project

The German Armed Forces has asked Finnish company Patria to submit an offer for the procurement of  New Generation Armoured Transport Vehicles.

Germany would like to procure the vehicles as part of the international "Common Armoured Vehicle System" (CAVS) project as a successor to the aging Fuchs transport tanks, German publication, hartpunkt reported quoting a spokesman for the German Federal Ministry of Defence (BMVg) who added that parliamentary consideration for the procurement is planned after the constitution of the new Bundestag and its committees.

The BMVg has already stated in the past that the German Armed Forces will need around 1,000 vehicles in various variants over the next few decades. According to reports, the number of vehicles now being requested is around 300 wheeled armoured vehicles.

Patria was asked to submit a binding offer for the procurement of new generation armored personnel carriers in the last quarter of 2024. The financing of the project is reportedly included in the so-called Bundeswehr special fund. A contract could then be concluded in September or October 2025.

Patria has already partnered with the two German companies DSL Defence Service Logistics GmbH (DSL), a subsidiary of the KNDS Group, and FFG Flensburger Fahrzeugbau Gesellschaft mbH (FFG) in mid-February 2024 to offer the German Army the development, production and maintenance of variants of Patria's 6×6 armored transport vehicle as part of the successor to the Fuchs armored transport vehicle.

In addition, the BMVg is planning the procurement of the Future Indirect Fire Short-Range System, also made by Patria. The project consists of a combination of a NEMO turret mortar system on a CAVS 6×6 platform.

The German Army intends to replace the ageing 120 mm armored mortars of the Jäger troops. whose initial requirement is said to be around 60 vehicles, around a fifth of which are fire control tanks, the rest are mortar combat systems.