Over the past few years, the Swedes have looked at developing an advanced wheeled combat behicle, the SEP, developed by BAE^* subsidiary Hagglunds.

About 6 months ago, after a few demonstrators had been fielded, massive budget cuts came out for the Swedish military, and there was not enough money to buy a new class of vehicles.

They decided to go “off the shelf”.

Well, now BAE and Hagglunds are declaring that the SEP is really off the shelf, because there are 4 pre-productions vehicles under construction….Yeah, right.

It’s the iron triangle, also called the military industrial complex, at work.

Still, it’s some pretty neat tech, doing 6×6, 8×8, and tracked on the same basic chassis.

It also has an active protection panel armor (see pics below):

^*Full disclosure, I worked at another division of BAE in 1995 and 1996 when the Carlyle Group sold me to buy Dunkin Donuts^†
†Yes, I have worked everywhere. Maybe I can’t hold down a job, but more likely this has been my role as “technical hit man”, where you are parachuted in to take care of a specific need.