Latvia delivered the first batch of 42 Patria armored personnel carriers to Ukraine (3rd Assault Brigade) 16.07.2025

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  2. These will definitely be extremely useful for moving troops around thanks to their size!

  4. Of course these just a testbed for the newly produced vehicles, how they fare in a real warzone, and so that Patria can say “war tested”. So they were certainly a bit cheaper from Patria.

    But I hope Ukraine can get a whole bunch of them, i.e. at least several hundred, better a 4-digit number. They are “relatively” cheap, are already ordered massively by several countries (about 1000 ordered so far, probably will double at least), so there are also production capacities, Ukraine could also produce them on their own to further push costs down.

    The vehicle weighs 15.5 t with STANAG 4569 level 2 protection, and can haul another 8.5 t of cargo, people, additional armour, or gun turret (up to 5.5 more, i.e. 21 t, it stays amphibious). It can be [uparmoured to level 4](https://i0.wp.com/militaryleak.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/finland-to-purchase-heavy-patria-6×6-armoured-vehicles-within-cavs-programme.jpg) but probably Ukraine could also slap their ubiquitous Kontakt-1 bricks on it, and with a heavy machine gun or autocannon it would be a serious fighter. More interesting is however to mount all kinds of modules that are not directly first line combat, but still need a big armoured vehicle (instead of a 4×4 MRAP or a protected truck), e.g. command, mortar, ambulance, missile launcher, air defense, electronic warfare, etc. The 6×6 means that you can lose a wheel or two and still make it out of the danger zone.

    It is maybe comparable to Ukraine’s BTR-4 (it’s 8×8 but otherwise not too different actually), but because that is based on the old Soviet BTR, I’d think that the Patria has a better and more reliable tech. Also idk how much the BTR costs. Probably it makes sense to keep producing both types because those are certainly different factories, so Ukraine will just get more vehicles.

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