Taking a real close look at the photos - I don't think it's any less wide than a standard 113 - I believe that page to be wrong with the stats. There is little question that's the 113 lower hull.
The drive sprocket is in the front (just like a 113), and the engine access hatch is in the font, too - so it's front-engined. Not sure what the large compartment is in the back. They engine MAY be back there, but with the drive sprockets up front, you'd have a long driveshaft going to the final-drives, and that just isn't a good setup on a combat vehicle. I can't see where the exhaust is, though - nothing in the photos seems to indicate that.
BAE doesn't seem to have any spec's on their page, though, so it may be a chopped up 113 lower hull, but I don't think so. It does say that they're using available technology until other tech becomes available, so this may just be a prototype built on whatever they had laying around.
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