Indonesia’s PT SSE has launched the new P2 Tiger 4×4 Armoured Personnel Carrier (APC) developed for Indonesia and built for export markets.
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Texelis Press Release, Bangkok, 10 November 2025: Indonesia’s PT SSE today officially launched the P2 Tiger, a new 4×4 Armoured Personnel Carrier (APC) developed for Indonesia and built for export markets, during the Defense & Security 2025 exhibition in Bangkok.
Developed in record time with mobility partner Texelis (France), the P2 Tiger is Indonesia’s most advanced land platform to date. First unveiled in January 2025 at PT SSE’s headquarters in Tangerang, the vehicle has since successfully completed a full series of road trials and is now making its international debut at Asia’s largest defence exhibition.
Defense & Security Thailand is the right platform for the commercial launch of the first vehicle of its kind in the region – the first 4×4 armoured vehicle built specifically for the highest technical requirements. Fully compliant with NATO standards in terms of mobility and ballistics protection, the P2 Tiger is a very modern, potent and versatile vehicle. Designed for the needs of the Indonesian market, the P2 Tiger is also probably the first armoured vehicle with an export potential for all of South-East Asia and beyond.
Advanced design, built to NATO standards: Fully compliant with NATO standards for mobility and ballistic protection, the P2 Tiger combines modern technology, high survivability, and adaptability to diverse operational needs. Its modular design and large internal volume 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.
With these native qualities and its sturdiness, 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 easily fit 2+8 personnel, including a crew of 2 (a driver and a vehicle commander), one full gunner station, one specialist/systems operator, and 6 operators.
Its very large internal space and open architecture allow for the loading and integration of several equipment and kits. Thanks to the trailing arm technology used by Texelis for the rear axle, the P2 Tiger benefits from a fully flat 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. The armoured hull, developed by PT SSE with the support of Bima Bisalloy, offers a STANAG 4569 Level 2 protection (7.62x39mm) with variants already available for Level 3 (7.62x51mm /7.62x54mm) and Level 4 (14.5x114mm). Several variants and internal configurations have already been developed and are ready for specialized troops and missions: cavalry, anti-drone, ambulance, Special Forces…
Combat and export-ready: At Defense & Security 2025, it is presented with a complete array of systems illustrating its payload, systems carrying capability, interoperability with the most modern systems, as well as PT SSE’s willingness to provide its customers not only with a very potent vehicle, but also with some recommendations for proven solutions, already in service and already presented with P2 Tiger. These solutions are easily integrated thanks to the 18-ton GVW of the P2 Tiger, which offers space to work with as well as a mobility reserve for future developments and adaptations which will happen during the vehicle’s life cycle.
Such an array integrates the ARX30 weapon system from KNDS, offering 360° protection against armoured and non-armoured threats. The ARX30 is already qualified and notably serves as an anti-drone system in the French Army as part of the Serval LAD (anti-drone) variant. PT SSE also integrated Metravib’s Pilar V, the renowned acoustic threat detection system. Designed to be mounted on armoured vehicle, it is used to identity and localize enemy activity and can feed this information into any protection or weapon system for maximum efficiency.
For quick protection against threats, the P2 Tiger is equipped with Lacroix’s GALIX smoke grenade launchers, allowing for an instant deployment of a smoke screen and protection against visual identification, direct fire and missile launches. The vehicle is fitted with anti-blast seats from UAE-based Advanced Armor Engineering fixed to the hull, offering protection against mine/IED threats. To further enhance its tactical capabilities, the P2 Tiger also embarks an Advans Ursa inertial navigation system. This series offers reliable navigation in GNSS-denied environments and for all mission profiles. Last but not least, PT SSE also requested the integration of Elno’s intercoms in P2 Tiger. This plug-and-play solution enables quick, efficient and secure communication both in embarked and disembarked configurations to maximize the efficiency of the vehicle’s crew and their coordination with troops aboard.
This outstanding line of partners, combined with the P2 Tiger’s native qualities, make for a powerful and mature product, already imagined for actual tactical use and for the soldiers’ needs. An agnostic platform, the P2 Tiger can be fitted with several other pieces of equipment and solutions to fully match the users’ needs, demands and currently used sensors and effectors. The P2 Tiger is fully ready to conquer the world of armoured vehicles.
The new symbol of the Indonesian defence industry: The P2 Tiger is a truly Indonesian, 18-ton GVW vehicle, designed and produced by Indonesia’s leading private company PT SSE in their plant in Tangerang. PT SSE is an Indonesian defence manufacturer specializing in the design, development, and production of advanced land systems for both domestic and export markets. With the P2 Tiger, its most advanced armoured vehicle, PT SSE has emerged as a first-rate designer and manufacturer of vehicles and a leading force in the private sector. With their agility, speed and knowledge of tactical vehicles, PT SSE are the right partners to create state-of-the-art, high-end vehicles for the most demanding forces to master the most difficult terrains.
Texelis and PT SSE – a full transfer of technology, a true partnership: The P2 Tiger is an Indonesian vehicle, the first to benefit from such a large technology transfer. It has received the best of French technology as far as mobility is concerned, with the most advanced product on the market. It truly is the best that France could offer.
This partnership is a win-win cooperation which could go way beyond the Indonesian 4×4 market. As proven by Security and Defense show in Bangkok, but also on an everyday basis, Texelis and PT SSE work together to create new export successes for the Indonesian industry, both in Asia and in the whole world.
Built on trust and speed: P2 Tiger is the first vehicle completed on Texelis’ Celeris mobility solution. Introduced in 2023 and actively marketed since 2024, Celeris has already scored two customers outside of France, PT SSE being the first to present their new vehicle. For Texelis, the success of P2 Tiger is the proof that Celeris is the right solution to develop fully military platforms in record time and with a guarantee of success.
Texelis’ reactiveness in delivering the mobility kits in less than four months, PT SSE’s will to push the program forward, and both partners’ excellent collaboration have allowed a fast track for P2 Tiger, just a year from contract signature to prototype presentation, and a year and a half to successful road trials. It is now a fantastic platform for further development, with MoUs already signed with KNDS France and MBDA, as well as significant discussions with other industry majors and cutting-edge suppliers.
What is Celeris? Celeris is the only fully military mobility platform currently on the market. It is a unique offer through which Texelis takes care of the whole mobility system for their clients’ vehicles, from initial design to qualification and production.
Celeris comprises several off-the-shelf, already developed, proven and in production kits covering the whole mobility package, plus tailored electronics, a full support package, as well as a complete transfer of technology and Texelis experts to ensure the swift assembly of the first prototypes and prepare the launch of serial production. That support can include consultancy on how to set a production facility and training of the teams for maximum efficiency. Celeris is more than just hardware: it is a promise, a promise that when the assembly process is completed and the vehicle is started, everything works.
Since the successful trials of P2 Tiger, Celeris is no longer a promise: it is a guarantee of success, with proven experience in Indonesia, and the presentation of another Celeris-based vehicle next week in Milipol Paris with INKAS from Canada.
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