As the Finnish Patria group announced on September 9, 2025, the United Kingdom and Norway joined the multinational program for the development and production of the Common Armored Vehicle System (CAVS) wheeled armored personnel carrier when their Ministries of Defense signed a corresponding technical agreement. Thus, the United Kingdom and Norway became the sixth and seventh participating countries of the program after Finland, Latvia, Sweden, Germany and Denmark. This opens the way for the acquisition by the armed forces of Great Britain and Norway of Patria 6x6 wheeled armored personnel carriers developed under the CAVS program, although the specific procurement plans of both countries for this type of vehicles are still unknown.
Patria 6x6 armored personnel carrier of the Common Armored Vehicle System (CAVS) program at the DSEI 2025 defense Industry exhibition in London, 09/11/2025 (c) Paolo Valpolini
Also on September 9, Patria Group announced the signing of a cooperation agreement with the British Babcock International Group to support the production of Patria 6x6 armored personnel carriers as part of the multinational CAVS program in the UK. It is stated that Babcock will act as Patria's manufacturing partner in the UK and will produce the Patria 6x6 APC for the British Army.
Earlier in the summer of 2025, it was reported that the British Army, in particular, is considering the possibility of purchasing 120-mm self-propelled mortar systems Patria NEMO on the chassis of the Patria 6x6 APC.
In January 2020, the Ministries of Defense of Finland and Latvia signed an agreement on the joint development of a new type of armored personnel carrier for the armies of these countries based on the armored platform of the Finnish Patria group in a variant with a 6x6 wheel formula. In April 2020, Estonia joined this agreement, but later it expressed no interest in developing the program (eventually purchasing Turkish armored personnel carriers), so in October 2020, an agreement on a joint R&D program for an armored personnel carrier under the Common Armored Vehicle System (CAVS) project was signed only by Latvia and Finland., and the Patria group. Sweden also joined the CAVS program on June 1, 2022, Germany in April 2023, and Denmark on April 1, 2025.
On August 30, 2021, the Ministries of Defense of Latvia and Finland and Patria signed a framework agreement for the joint production and acquisition of 6x6 armored personnel carriers under the CAVS program, which became the first production contract for these vehicles. The first serial Patria 6x6 armored personnel carriers were delivered to Latvia in October 2021. Patria says that by September 2025, it had already received orders from the CAVS participating countries for a total of "almost 1,000" Patria 6x6 armored personnel carriers and had delivered more than 250 of them. On September 8, 2025, Patria announced the delivery of the first armored personnel carriers of this type to Denmark.
Introduced for the first time in 2019 by the Patria group, the new 6x6 armored platform, according to the Finnish manufacturer itself, "combines all the best features" of its main current product in the form of the Patria AMV armored personnel carrier with an 8x8 wheelbase and the old Finnish Sisu\Patria XA family armored personnel carriers with a 6x6 wheelbase, and is "simplified and cheaper" compared to Patria AMV. This platform should not be confused with the three-axle versions of the AMV APC previously offered by Patria, which did not find customers. In fact, the new Patria 6x6 armored platform is a modified version of the new production proposed by Patria in 2016 under the designation HA-220, an upgrade option for previously built Pasi HA-180 series armored personnel carriers with a 6x6 wheelbase - that is, in fact, Patria, represented by its new 6x6 armored platform, offers a reincarnation of the HA series.
The XA-180 (Pasi) series armored personnel carriers with a 6x6 wheel formula were originally developed for the Finnish army by the Finnish company Sisu Auto and have been mass-produced at its plant in Hamenlinna since 1984. Since 1999, heavier modified armored personnel carriers of the XA-200 series have been produced. In total, up to 1,200 XA series machines were manufactured by 2004, which were also exported to Sweden, Norway, the Netherlands and Ireland. In 1997, when the Patria state group was formed, the Sisu Auto company transferred the plant for the production of armored personnel carriers in Hamenlinna, along with all the rights to the XA series machines.
