HENSOLDT to Supply Sight Systems Worth € 75 Million for Dutch Armored Reconnaissance Vehicles

Oberkochen-based sensor solutions provider HENSOLDT has received an order from Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW) worth nearly 75 million euros to equip the Royal Netherlands Army's "Fennek" armoured reconnaissance vehicles with visual systems. The scope of the order includes 188 BAA II NL observation and reconnaissance systems, as well as several spare parts.

The BAA II NL is the further developed model of the BAA II JFST, which is already used by the Joint Fire Support Team (JFST) of the German Armed Forces. The external dimensions have remained the same, and the menu navigation has also been left unchanged to keep the training effort for the crew as low as possible.

The scope of the contract also includes adjustments to the YellowKite camera, which will be optimized to become a day-vision/near-infrared (NIR) camera with color vision and will receive a near-infrared cut filter. In addition, HENSOLDT provides a digital outlet.

HENSOLDT will deliver the observation and reconnaissance systems to Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW), which will integrate the BAA II NL and its command-and-control system into the Fennek reconnaissance vehicles. Deliveries to KMW will begin in autumn 2022 with the qualification systems. Series delivery will start in 2023 and is scheduled to be completed by 2027.