Historical Skins – Australian Boxer CRV

Commanders!

We’re always working on new content and one of the skins that we will introduce in the near future is one called Australian Boxer.

This skin for the Boxer CRV Tier 9 Premium AFV will make it look like an actual Australian Boxer. The Boxer won the contract for the LAND 400 Phase 2 program that sought to replace the aging ASLAV vehicles (MOWAG Piranha III variant for Australia) that have been in service since the early 1990s. The LAND 400 program has been in work since the mid-2000s – the initial Request for Information was issued in 2006 with another, more detailed one following in 2009. The program included several phases:

• Phase 1 was the initial 2006-2009 market evaluation
• Phase 2 was the acquisition of ASLAV replacement
• Phase 3 was the new IFV program (recently won by the Korean AS21 Redback)

Phase 2 was launched in the December of 2015. By the summer of 2016, two most likely to succeed candidates were selected – Rheinmetall with its Boxer and BAE with its Patria AMV version called AMV 35. Further evaluations took place between 2017 and 2018. The winner – Rheinmetall – was announced in the March of 2018.

Simultaneously, the contract was reduced from the original 225 to 211 vehicles and signed in August of the same year (for 211 vehicles and 12 spare combat modules). The first 25 vehicles would be made in Germany, the rest in Australia. The contract would comprise of:

• 133 CRV vehicles (fire support and recon Boxers)
• 13 multi-purpose vehicles
• 15 command vehicles
• 29 JFS vehicles (basically lightly armed scouts)
• 10 recovery vehicles
• 11 repair vehicles

The vehicles are to be built until 2026 (the first ones were delivered in 2019).

Our skin is painted with the proper Australian camouflage (called AusTac) and features some neat details such as a different rear part, the rear turret stowage basket, or a towing cable in the front.

It also bears the proper markings and license plates as well as the vehicle name on its right side – “Bogan”.

Installing the skin will also unlock and install all four overprogression modules:

• Spall liner
• Thermal imager
• 30mm PELE
• ATGM Targeting System (launches two missiles simultaneously)

We hope that you will like the skin and, as always:

See you on the battlefield!