American company Oshkosh Defense announced expansion of Netherlands' order for Kaaiman off-roader, also known as DXPV (Dutch Expeditionary Patrol Vehicles). The country's Ministry of Defense contracted another batch worth $25-30 million.
This order continues the first contract for 150 DXPV vehicles overall from April 2025. As noted then, volume from €128 to €171 million gives conditional average off-roader cost around €1 million or $1.1 million now. Delivery deadline was set until 2028.
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The quantity of additionally contracted DXPVs for Netherlands isn't announced, nor delivery timelines. But approximately 25 vehicles can be expected. Meanwhile, the additional order means first sample operation results proved positive and a decision was made to expand quantity.
Meanwhile, DXPV is a version of JLTV armored vehicle but without armor and even doors, removed to reduce weight and increase off-road capability. And although the lightened version's weight and other parameters aren't announced, one can only imagine such an off-roader's capability with a 400hp 6.6-liter turbodiesel with 1,152 Nm torque designed for 10.2 tons.
Meanwhile, Netherlands Armed Forces' main armored vehicle, 12kN Manticore from Iveco weighing 12.8 tons, wasn't capable of such a trick with lightening and converting to regular off-roader. That's precisely why such a JLTV variant was chosen for marines.
Meanwhile, all basic JLTV components remained unchanged. Because one advantage of such a variant in Netherlands was precisely this machine's operational simplicity thanks to large production numbers and the fact that full MRAP-version operators in Europe are Belgium, Lithuania, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Romania, Slovenia, and Ukraine.
Note that overall, after a very persistent armored vehicle trend meant to provide protection from mines and ambushes and generally appeared as response to low-intensity conflict threats, a buggy trend emerged. Moreover, even in MRAP's homeland the U.S., where maximally light Infantry Squad Vehicle (ISV), a doorless buggy, the Pentagon called better than MRAPs.
Moreover, they've already begun transferring ground force units from Stryker armored personnel carriers to ISVs.
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