Patria has signed a contract with Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace for the delivery of PROTECTOR RS4 remote weapon stations for more than 300 Patria 6×6 armoured vehicles under the multinational Common Armoured Vehicle System (CAVS) programme, the companies stated.
The contract is valued at approximately €140 million and includes an additional order for Sweden, as well as RS4 subsystems for several CAVS vehicle variants ordered by Germany in December 2025. Deliveries are scheduled to take place between 2026 and 2030. According to the announcement, assembly of the German vehicles will be conducted in cooperation with Patria’s industrial partners in Germany as part of the wider programme approach, which places emphasis on local industrial participation across member nations.
Jussi Järvinen, Executive Vice President of Patria’s Protected Mobility business area, said: “We are very proud to support CAVS member nations with a common RS4 equipped Patria 6×6 configuration.” He added: “The CAVS defence collaboration framework lets nations move fast, buy smart and sustain locally ‒ therefore the defence forces receive always a consistent, interoperable capability with the backing of a robust European supply chain.”
Kjetil Reiten Myhra, Executive Vice President at Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace, said the deal reinforced the RS4’s role across the CAVS vehicle fleet. He said: “This contract positions the PROTECTOR RS4 as the standard weapon station configuration across the multinational CAVS fleet.”
Myhra added: “We are pleased to extend our cooperation with the Swedish and German armed forces. Combined with growing interest from participating and prospective CAVS nations, this agreement confirms Kongsberg’s standing as a leading supplier of remote weapon stations.”
The Finnish-led CAVS programme currently includes seven member nations: Finland, Latvia, Sweden, Germany, Denmark, the United Kingdom and Norway. Patria said the vehicles are also operational in Ukraine.
The CAVS programme might have us listed but as usual NO orders!
Does anyone know how long it might take Babcock to set up their production facilities to build Patria when they finally get an order out of the government?
According to Google Plymouth and south Devon free port sites could take 1-2 yrs to get going.
Could the UK procure any non-UK build Patria’s in advance to get things going sooner? One year set-up doesn’t sound too bad, but two years?
No idea mate but at a guess I would say no because as usual we drag our feet and nations that have already ordered them will be at the front of any queue🙄
Buy something? You must be joking, my friend. 😁We are all about planning, not action….
Possible, but again the balancing act is that if we buy CAVS from a foreign production line we’d get in line behind everyone who has ordered before us. So the question becomes how much time do you actually save?
Makes it easier for the UK to transfer our order for RS4 from Boxer to Patria 6×6?
If only
Isn’t the Boxer the RS6 with Javelin attachment?
Unfortunately, I think they’re RS4. Not that RS4 is bad, it’s just too small for an auto cannon. Whereas an RS6 could manage up to a 40 mm I believe, and we’d have something sort of approaching a wheeled IFV…
Javelin can be integrated with the RS4. Successful tests reported August 2025.
I wonder if the are even a standard RS4 as they were integrated by Thales, and we know how the Army loves to create unneccesarily bespoke solutions that are a pain to maintain and upgrade.
We need to buy a boat load of these. I believe they are about 1.5m each. There are lots of roles these could fill cost effectively that doesn’t necessarily mean going toe to toe with other armoured IFV’s.
Agree. I hope the DIP has confirmation of an order for a few thousand for the PM Heavy part.
Given the Babcock – Patria agreement, the UK joining the CAV program, Germany buying the Patria 6×6 and the planning for the Devonport Freeport site I think it’s a racing cert that we will have a UK build program. And I would guess Nurol Makina look favourite for the Light PM- quid pro quo for the Türkiye Typhoon order. Only the hybrid Cavalry Ajax – Boxer regiments and RCH to sort out 😂
That would be far too logical for it to ever happen! We could do a lot worse than the NMS 4×4 thing, as far as I can tell it’s basically a Turkish JLTV knockoff, using a solid Cummins engine that we already manufacture in the UK. None of the unreliable Steyr/GM rubbish.