Research and innovations

Improving the mobility and performance of land troops is a major priority in the long-term development of defence in the EU countries. To meet these needs, the joint European Future Highly Mobile Augmented Armoured Systems (FAMOUS) programme is developing the technologies, performance and ground combat capabilities of future armoured vehicles.

Finland is the lead nation and Patria is the industrial coordinator.

The FAMOUS programme consists of a study phase (EDIDP FAMOUS project) and development phase (EDF FAMOUS2 project). The total budget of the FAMOUS programme is around EUR 132 million, of which the European Commission-funded European Defence Industrial Development Programme (EDIDP) accounted for 9 million and the European Defence Fund (EDF) for about EUR 95 million. The remaining amount of approximately EUR 28 million comes from the Member States and as investments from the participating companies.

Technology and digitalization in the field of defence and security is developing more rapid than ever seen. The digitalization, performance of computation and integration level of traditional components are enabling new capabilities to many solutions.

Patria attended IEEE International Conference on Antenna Measurements and Applications (IEEE CAMA) on November 15-17, 2023, in Genoa, Italy. Patria’s paper was titled “Efficient Fresnel Diffraction for Wind Turbines”, which presented a computationally efficient model for electromagnetic signal diffraction from wind turbines. It will be available on IEEE Xplore at the end on 2023.