PT SSE launches P2 Tiger 4×4 armoured personnel carrier in Bangkok

Indonesian tactical vehicle manufacturer PT SSE launched the P2 Tiger, a new 4×4 armoured personnel carrier (APC), at the Defense & Security 2025 exhibition in Bangkok on 10 November 2025.

Developed in conjunction with French mobility partner Texelis and other largely French subsystem providers, the P2 Tiger is billed as Indonesia’s “most advanced land platform to date”, focused on both Indonesian requirements as well as the export market.

The design, which is fully compliant with NATO standards in terms of mobility and ballistics protection, was first unveiled in January 2025 at PT SSE’s headquarters in Tangerang and the vehicle has since successfully completed a series of road trials.

According to PT SSE, the modular design and large internal volume of the P2 Tiger “enable seamless integration of mission-specific systems, making it ideal for range development”.

“A modern vehicle, it integrates the Celeris high-performance platform from Texelis, designed, tested and produced with the most recent technology and with no compromise on performance, especially in terms of crossing, off-roading, systems carrying and payload, but also and maybe even more importantly, in terms of vehicle stability, handling, security and comfort for troops inside,” PT SSE stated.

The company added that the P2 Tiger “can operate in the most difficult environments and conditions in full autonomy. It can thus operate on low-quality fuel and maintenance has been specifically designed with ingenuity in mind, guaranteeing simplicity for the maintenance personnel and uptime for the operators.”

In its current APC configuration, the P2 Tiger can accommodate a driver, a commander, a gunner and a specialist/systems operator as well as six dismounts.

Through the incorporation of trailing arm technology used by Texelis for the rear axle, the P2 Tiger has a fully flat cabin floor, without any intrusion of suspension triangles inside the hull, “which means no waste of space and no weak point in the armoured hull: a design choice which turns into a key differentiation factor” PT SSE asserted.

The P2 Tiger’s armoured hull, developed by PT SSE with the support of Bima Bisalloy, offers STANAG 4569 Level 2 protection against 7.62×39 mm rounds, with variants already available for Level 3 (7.62×51 mm /7.62×54 mm) and Level 4 (14.5×114 mm) protection. Several variants and internal configurations have already been developed, according to PT SSE, and are ready for specialised troops and missions. The P2 Tiger’s gross vehicle weight of 18-tonnes has been designed to accommodate such specialised roles.

At Defense & Security 2025 the P2 Tiger displayed hosted a KNDS ARX30 weapon system, which can operate as a counter-unmanned aerial vehicle capability, and featured the Pilar V acoustic threat detection system produced by French company Metravib Defence. The vehicle also featured the Galix soft-protection system from France’s Lacroix Defense, anti-blast seats from Emirati company Advanced Armor Engineering and an Advans Ursa inertial navigation system from France’s iXblue for reliable navigation in GNSS-denied environments.

The plug-and-play intercoms solution in the vehicle is provided by French communication specialist Elno.