The Bundeswehr is procuring the CAVS NEMO variant (pictured at DSEI 2023), which combines the Patria 6×6 vehicle currently under delivery and Patria's NEMO 120 mm turreted mortar system. (Janes/Sonny Butterworth)
Germany signed a Common Armoured Vehicle System (CAVS) work package with Patria for the NEMO self-propelled mortar on 31 January after joining the programme, the Finnish company announced in a press release later the same day.
The work package covers development and qualification of CAVS programme-related mortar variants for the Bundeswehr under the CAVS research and development agreement, which Germany signed in 2024. The scope of the work package includes building CAVS NEMO and mortar command-and-control (C2) variants, their integration with German mission systems, and the qualification of the entire system to Bundeswehr requirements. Germany's Federal Ministry of Defence (BMVg) gave as an example on its website on 30 January the integration of digital communications and linking the vehicles' fire control systems to the ADLER artillery C2 system.
The ministry said series production of the CAVS mortar system would follow at a later point and be submitted to the budget committee of the Bundestag, Germany's parliament, for approval. The entire project will cost approximately EUR50 million (USD51.3 million), which the BMVg said would come from the Sondervermögen Bundeswehr special fund and, starting in 2028, from the regular defence budget.
Asked by Janes where in Germany CAVS production would take place and when it would start, a Patria spokesperson said on 31 January, “Patria has teamed up with KNDS (Freisen), FFG (Flensburg), and JWT (Kirchen am Sieg), and these will be the sites of main production activities in the serial phase. The industry team is ready to start serial deliveries in about a year from the serial order.”
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