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BAE Gets $30M for Swedish Mortar Vehicles

The vehicles provide critical indirect firepower capabilities in the mechanized brigades.

The vehicles are known as Granatkastarpansarbandvagn 90.
The vehicles are known as Granatkastarpansarbandvagn 90.
BAE Systems

BAE Systems has received a contract modification from the Swedish Defense Materiel Administration (FMV) to build 20 additional CV90 mortar vehicles.

The approximately $30 million contract has been awarded to the BAE Systems Swedish joint venture HB Utveckling AB, which combines BAE Systemsโ€™ Hรคgglunds and Bofors manufacturing capabilities.

Production will be performed at BAE Systems Hรคgglunds in ร–rnskรถldsvik, Sweden.

The original contract for 40 CV90 Mjรถlner systems was awarded in 2016, and deliveries of the systems started in 2019 and were completed on time in 2020.

In February 2022, FMV awarded the first follow-on contract for 20 additional systems, as well as the upgrade of the 40 systems already in service, to bring them all to the same standard by integrating the Swedish Armyโ€™s new C4I LSS Mark system. Both FMV and BAE Systems have heralded this program as a benchmark for collaborative development.

Once the contract modification deliveries are completed in 2025, the Swedish Army will operate 80 CV90 mortar vehicles in its fleet.

The vehicles, known as Granatkastarpansarbandvagn 90, provide critical indirect firepower capabilities in the mechanized brigades.

There are approximately 1,300 CV90s, in multiple variants, in service with Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, and the Netherlands. The vehicle has a combat-proven track record and is designed to accommodate future growth to meet evolving missions. More recently, both Slovakia and the Czech Republic have selected CV90 to replace their legacy infantry fighting vehicle fleets.

 

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