The advent of the labor as a viable construction machine in the 1990s led many military organizations to desire armed versions to bolster their ground forces. West Germany was one such nation, and, with NATO backing, had SEE develop such a machine for their border guard. The resulting machine was the Type-7B/1A "Brocken" (Brocken being the German word for "Hunk" or "Chunk"), a heavy military labor.

The initial mass-production variant, deployed by the German Border Guard.