Croatia’s New APCs: AMVs, RWS and Export Opportunities
Nov 12, 2013 19:32 UTCMany European countries are currently in the process of acquiring wheeled armored personnel carriers, from former East-Bloc nations replacing their old Soviet BTRs, to NATO countries buying lighter and less protected equipment as replacements for their tanks, to new European states looking for road-mobile and affordable armor. Recent contracts in in Europe have tended to involve competitions between 3 key competitors: General Dynamics subsidiaries MOWAG (Piranha) and Steyr-SSG (Pandur), and Finland’s Patria Oyj (AMV).
Croatia’s finalists were Patria’s AMV and GD Steyr’s Pandur II. Croatian defense writer Igor Tabak helped DID reveal exactly what happened, as the AMV became a key component of Croatia’s future forces. That contract even led to development of ancillary systems for the global market, and is close to landing export orders for Croatian firms…