Snowcat new generation is coming

Together with Sweden - as the leading project partner - a further 227 vehicles are to be procured as part of the project "Next Generation Over-Snow Vehicle / Collaborative All Terrain Vehicle (CATV)". The costs amount to around 919 million euros. The first units are scheduled to be delivered from November 2025. By 2030, all vehicles should be in place. The procurement is financed through the special fund for the Bundeswehr.

Collaborative All-Terrain Vehicles are used for the protected transport of personnel and materials - especially weapons, ammunition, supplies, and special equipment - and provide tactical mobility in difficult-to-traverse, rugged, complex, and narrow, sometimes mountainous terrain, even under extreme climate conditions. CATVs are used in the context of national and alliance defense, national crisis intervention, global special operations of the Special Forces Command, and international crisis prevention and conflict resolution.

The vehicles are to be procured as part of a cooperation between Sweden, Germany, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. This cooperation is based on an International Agreement - also known as a Memorandum of Understanding - on Multinational Cooperation in Terrain Vehicles dated March 5, 2020.

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