Sweden To Buy BAE Systems' Armored Vehicles

The Swedish government plans to buy 100 BvS10 armored all terrain vehicles from BAE Systems, according to Defense News.

The deal is part of the options for up to 127 vehicles agreed upon when BAE secured a $100 million contract with the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration in 2012 for 48 of the go-anywhere tracked machines.

Deliveries of the first 48 vehicles from BAE’s Örnsköldsvik factory are coming to a close and a contract is expected to be in place by the end of the year to enable the company to tack the new batch of BvS10s on the end of the original order without a break in production.

Production of the latest batch of vehicles for Sweden is scheduled to run on until 2016. Like the original order, the upcoming contract will be produced in troop carrier, command vehicle, logistic carrier and ambulance variants.

No price for the options has been revealed but it will likely be in excess of $160 million, given the cost of the first 48 machines, the report said.