Contract for the modernization of CV9035NL Mk III infantry fighting vehicles of the Dutch army

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The look of the modernized CV9035NL Mk III infantry fighting vehicle of the Netherlands army with a new turret (c) BAE Systems

BAE Systems Corporation announced on January 14, 2021, that it had received a contract worth more than $ 500 million from the Dutch defence procurement organization Dutch Defense Materiel Organization (DMO) for the repair and modernization of 122 CV9035NL Mk III infantry fighting vehicles of the Dutch army (with an option for another 19 machines). The work will be carried out by the Swedish division of BAE Systems (BAE Systems Hägglunds), which is the developer and manufacturer of these machines. 

It is reported that the basis of the modernization will be the equipment of the CV9035NL Mk III IFV developed and manufactured by BAE Systems Hägglunds with new turrets with enhanced protection, a new fire control system and installed launchers of the Israeli ATGM Rafael Spike-LR. The main armament in the form of a 35-mm automatic cannon will remain. During the modernization, the vehicles will also receive the Israeli Elbit Systems Iron Fist active protection complex, for the integration of which BAE Systems received a separate DMO contract earlier in September 2019.

Recall that the Dutch army under contracts in 2004 and 2008 with a total value of 1.0752 billion euros in 2007-2010 received 193 CV9035NL Mk III infantry fighting vehicles manufactured by BAE Systems Hägglunds, including 150 line PRI, 34 commanders PRCO and nine training. These infantry fighting vehicles were equipped with four motorized infantry battalions (44 vehicles each - 36 line and 8 commanders) - two each in the 13th and 43rd mechanized infantry brigades. However, in 2011, it was decided to reorganize the 13th motorized infantry brigade into a "light brigade", in connection with which both of its infantry battalions (17th and 42nd), starting from 2015, were re-equipped with wheeled armoured vehicles, and as a result, the number of the motorized infantry battalions on the IFV in the Dutch army was reduced to two. In this regard, 44 Dutch IFVs were sold in December 2014Estonia, and 32 were then deposited with BAE Systems Hägglunds, leaving 116 vehicles in the Dutch army. As can be judged, some of the vehicles from storage (from six to 25 units) after modernization have now been decided to be put back into operation.

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