Nordic CAVS will be fitted with Protecter remote weapon stations

The Protector Remote Weapon Station is a highly versatile system designed for small and medium caliber weapons, including the placement of coaxial weapons and anti-tank guided missiles. Credit: Kongsberg.

Kongsberg and Fatherlandtwo Nordic defense companies from Norway and Finland respectively, have signed an agreement in which the former will integrate Protector’s remote weapon station into the latter’s 6×6 armored vehicle, also known as the Common Armored Vehicle System (CAVS).

Under a contract worth Nkr 1.2 billion ($88.15 million), Kongsberg will deliver the Protector systems from 2025 and into the 2030s.

Prostate designed for harsh environments, with capabilities that allow soldiers to operate from a protected position using stabilized precision optics and lasers to observe and locate targets. Kongsberg has already delivered 20,000 units to 28 different countries.

It has an unprecedented 99% uptime rate and low life cycle cost. Various types of cooled and uncooled thermal imagers, day cameras, weapons and anti-tank guided missiles can be integrated based on customer requirements.

Meanwhile, Patria’s CAVS is an armored, wheeled 6×6 personnel carrier that succeeds the Patria XA-series 6×6 Pasi, introduced in the 1980s.

In early 2020, Finland, Latvia and Estonia formed a cooperation program to jointly develop a CAVS, with Germany and Sweden joining last year.

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Finland recently bought 91 CAVS and took the opportunity for an additional 40 units, while just last week Sweden ordered 321 vehicles.

Kongsberg will benefit from a surge in CAVS procurement with this latest contract, however the Protector is platform agnostic, meaning it can also be deployed on both land and sea platforms.

Known as the Sea protector in the naval sector, the system was designed to deal with asymmetric threats and improve the overall protection of the ship. The sensor package includes a color day camera, an infrared thermal night camera and a laser range finder.

Given the new methods of warfare demonstrated by the Armed Forces of Ukraine through the use of unmanned systems on land and in Black Sea, the Protector provides a proactive response to such an asymmetric advantage.