Scania is at Eurosatory to demonstrate how its offer, built on the company’s modular thinking and integrated support services, provides excellent opportunities for defence use. With global support through local presence, Scania’s complete offer for defence is characterised by customised truck and engine solutions that are based on Scania’s renowned, world-class civilian products and a completely integrated, sustainable, support solution. At its stand Scania will present a Scania P 370 4x4 with body-build for transporting personnel, an Integrated Logistic Support (ILS) wall and two different-sized engines with outstanding power-to-weight ratio well suited for land vehicle systems, all products which exemplify that philosophy.
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Scania 4x4 Troop and cargo transporter (Picture source: Army Recognition)
“Robust, high-end civilian trucks and engines make perfect platforms to begin with when tailoring the kind of solutions that today’s defence customers ask for,” says Ulf Erickson, Head of Defence Sales for Scania Trucks.
“Our modular and sustainable system enables a vast number of variable configurations while still keeping the range of spare parts, workshop equipment, documentation, training and maintenance to a minimum. And this goes for trucks as well as for power solutions.”
Apart from modularity and flexibility, Scania also excels in offering advanced Integrated Logistic Support (ILS) capabilities. ILS not only secures operational availability but provides for a wide range of supporting products and services for the life cycle. It is in fact decisive for managing and maintaining a capability for operations, independent of the actual usage and environment. According to Scania, it is key to forming lasting partnerships that include support throughout the intended system life cycle.
“By combining ILS with what is basically commercial Scania off-road trucks and engines, we offer increased flexibility for our defense customers,” says Mats Köpsén, global ILS manager at Scania, “thus eliminating the need for costly, one-off, purpose-built solutions to cover different vehicle configurations which is beneficial in so many
Apart from the robust 4x4 truck, Scania will also present user cases and two engines from their defence engine range. The engines can be adapted depending on requirements and installation needs. One of them is a 16-litre V8, while the other one is an inline six-cylinder, 13-litre engine representing the latest in combustion engine technology.
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“Low fuel consumption, robustness combined with low life-cycle costs and exceptional uptime are essential requirements for defence applications,” says Andreas Lundh, Head of Defence sales at Scania Power Solutions.
“We deliver on exactly those parameters with our state-of-the-art and industry-leading combustion engines. In combination with our global service network, Scania has everything in place for creating effective solutions in supporting the end-customers while on exercises and missions, no matter the geographical location.”
That it does not take strict ‘military’ solutions for fulfilling the long list of demands for typical defence applications is well-known and accepted today. By utilising premium, civilian products as the starting point, defence customers may in fact obtain superior solutions with far less spending involved.
“Our ‘civilian’ Scania products and services are well suited for green service,” says Ulf Erickson. “The military requirements regarding reliability and optimised support solutions are already met. It is more about adapting what we have to cater for in ters of specific defence customer needs.”
