Thanks, and nope, they're Swiss in origin, and in the US LAV's case, came via Canada — though still without 25% tariffs added, I guess …

The evolution is fairly interesting: the Mowag Piranha in its original form was not widely adopted, but Canada took a licence to build the Piranha II 6×6 and then decided to offer the 8×8 to the US Army and Marine Corps, which in turn evolved into the ASLAV for Australia. Meanwhile Mowag improved the design into the Piranha III and there was all kinds of cross-pollination between the two lines.

My fictional Piranha PWI would basically be a Piranha II, so parallel to, and contemporary with, the LAV.