The MOWAG MR 8 (WOTAN) is a border force and police armoured personnel carrier.

[1][2][3] The special vehicle SW1 had no armament of its own and featured an unusual split-open observation turret-hatch (cupola), whereas the special vehicle SW2 came in two versions featuring a one-man 360° rotating turret: SW2a with a Hispano-Suiza HS.820 autocannon, later upgraded to a Rheinmetall Mk 20 Rh-202 300-round autocannon (carrying 200 HE and 100 AP rounds), and SW2b with a 500-round dismountable MG 3 machine gun.

[1] Both the SW1 and SW2 versions featured roof-mounted Bosch RKLE 90 or Hella KLJ 60 blue police light beacons.

[1] MOWAG delivered the first 20 special vehicles, and around 600–700 were built under license by Büssing and Henschel in West Germany,[1] with the armoured chassis supplied by Blohm+Voss.

A WOTAN prototype, which was tested by the German Federal Border Guard, is now in the Swiss Military Museum.