Litauen kauft 936 in Finnland hergestellte gepanzerte Patria-Fahrzeuge
https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2942202/lithuania-to-buy-936-finnish-made-patria-armoured-vehicles
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Litauen kauft 936 in Finnland hergestellte gepanzerte Patria-Fahrzeuge
https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2942202/lithuania-to-buy-936-finnish-made-patria-armoured-vehicles
Von Aggravating-Ear-5880
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Good, buy European!
That’s a shit load of armoured vehicles!
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Good choice. Whether 8×8 or 6×6 variants, there will be plenty of commonality to go around the region!
It looks like this will be under the CAVS framework, which is excellent news. Not only is it a great platform, but it will boost interoperability throughout the JEF with the other CAVS partners.
6×6 or traxx ? or both?
Lithuania isn’t messing around. Thats a serious amount of armor.
That’s some good equipment, but who’s going to man it? That’s more than the entire stock of similar vehicles in the Polish Armed Forces, yet Lithuania’s population is around 1/12th of the Polish one.
What? That’s a huge number. Comparably sized armies have 100-200 such vehicles at most, I wonder what they intend to do with them.
300 until 2030, which is an impressive number, already for a country of that size. I doubt, however, that they will buy all 936 given that 1) they cost several million Euros each and that 2) that would be at least 15 Battalions worth of AFVs (At 44+40% reserve as common within many NATO countries, give or take with some support variants as well) – Currently they field 11 active battalions plus some reserve units with some of them being already equipped or planned to be equipped with Boxers, Leopard 2s and CV90s, respectively i.e. modern gear with no need for replacement any time soon.
So this is probably more of a contract outlining options that will not be fully utilized.
Thank you my Lithuanian brothers and sisters!