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Oct 11 2024

BOXER Contract Amendment 16 signed on behalf of Lithuania

Bonn/Germany, 11 October 2024 – The OCCAR-EA Director, Mr. Joachim Sucker, signed on behalf of Lithuania the BOXER Contract Amendment 16 with the BOXER Industry partner ARTEC GmbH – a joint venture between Rheinmetall Land Systems and KNDS.

This significant investment secures a further 27 BOXER vehicles with associated initial logistics support for the Lithuanian Ministry of Defence, increasing their current BOXER fleet to over 110 vehicles. Noteworthy is that this investment allows a new BOXER mission module variant to be brought into service.

An engineering variant will be developed and will provide the Lithuanian army with significantly improved tactical mobility, directly integrating engineering equipment (such as that used for mine clearance) into the existing Lithuanian Infantry Fighting Vehicle configuration.

OCCAR was pleased to work in close collaboration with the Lithuanian Defence Materiel Agency and ARTEC GmbH to successfully place this contract, thus increasing the total number of BOXER vehicles on contract to over 1,350 across all BOXER Nations (Germany, the Netherlands, Lithuania and the United Kingdom).

The BOXER Programme is at an exciting phase with additional funding becoming available and this was therefore a significant first step to deliver new and state-of-the-art BOXER variants and activities. A number of procurements are underway on behalf of all other BOXER Nations and further details are expected to be announced in the coming months.