The FMV has received Sweden's first Sisu GTP 4×4 offroad vehicles, which it plans to begin delivering to the Swedish Armed Forces during the fourth quarter of 2024. (Sisu Auto)
The Swedish Defence Materiel Administration (FMV) announced on its website on 15 August that it had received the country's first Sisu GTP 4×4 offroad vehicles. The FMV did not specify how many were delivered nor how much they cost, but 260 vehicles are being procured under a Swedish-Finnish framework agreement signed with Sisu Auto in January.
The 16.5-tonne protected mobility vehicles were delivered in the five-seat general purpose vehicle (GPV) configuration with a double cab and 10-seat GTP armoured personnel vehicle (APC) version. The two configurations have a common driveline and modular hull, enabling the vehicles to be altered for different missions, with possible variants including single cab; air defence; command; ambulance; and chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear detection (CBRN) versions.
FMV deliveries of the vehicles to the Swedish Armed Forces are scheduled to begin in the fourth quarter of 2024. Verification of the vehicles is under way and the FMV will provide Swedish Armed Forces personnel with user and technician training in November.
Designated TGB24 in Swedish service, the vehicles are being procured together with Finland under a framework agreement based on joint security of supply, operations, and production, which Micael Ågren Berner, the head of the FMV's wheeled vehicles department, said reduced development costs and unit prices.
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