Pandur (tank)

Pandur
	Pandur armored car
General properties
crew	2 (commander / gunner, driver) + 7 infantrymen
length	5.7 m
width	2.5 m
height	1.82 m
Dimensions	13 tons
	Armor and armament
Main armament	Browning M2 12.7 mm machine gun
agility
drive	Steyr WD diesel ; 191 kW / 260 PS
Top speed	100 km / h (road)
Power / weight	14.7 kW / ton 20 HP / ton
Range	700 km

The Pandur is a wheeled armored vehicle developed in Austria for transporting personnel.

description

Pandur armored car from the side

The armored personnel carrier (MTPz) was developed in 1979 on an initiative of Steyr Spezial vehicles (SSF, see Steyr-Daimler-Puch ). A modified variant was introduced in 1996 in the Austrian Armed Forces (ÖBH) . The name refers to the historic military unit of the Pandours .

The Austrian Armed Forces ordered 68 Pandur wheeled armored personnel carriers. These vehicles are armed with a 12.7 mm Browning M2 machine gun.

With the establishment of the "PRESET" ( Before preparing A units) in the Austrian Armed Forces in 1999, much of the MTPZ / UN put into service in 1996, increasingly abroad, Kosovo AUTCON / KFOR and AUTCON / ORF in Afghanistan AUTCON / ISAF , and in Bosnia and Herzegovina deployed at AUTCON / ALTHEA for peacekeeping; the Pandur were withdrawn from Bosnia in 2004. In 2003 the Austrian Armed Forces procured three medical tanks (SanPzRd).

In addition, seven used MTPz were purchased from Belgium.

In the meantime, the vehicles of the armed forces have been brought to the Pandur A1 stand . A lot of experience from foreign assignments was incorporated into these modifications.

All MTPz / UN-A1 stationed in Austria were until the end of 2018 with the only armored hunters' association, the "Jägerbataillon 17" (Straß) of the 7th Jäger Brigade . With the delivery of 34 new Pandur EVOs to Jägerbataillon 17, the existing 68 Pandur will be divided between Jägerbataillons 19 (Güssing) and 33 (Zwölfaxing).

In 2011, JgB 17 was part of the EUBG ( EU Battlegroup ) for a year with an armored hunter company . The prototype of the MTPz / UN from 1979, already taken out of service today, was used by the Austrian Federal Police Operations Department Kranich at Vienna-Schwechat Airport .

Due to the refugee crisis in Europe from 2015 , a Pandur has been ordered to the Spielfeld border crossing since February 2016. For the border protection mission, the armored wheeled armor is also equipped with fold-out scissor bars and is intended to protect the motorway area there in the event of a "pressure situation".

Pandur II

Meanwhile the further developed version Pandur II is in production, which is offered as 6 × 6 and 8 × 8 version. The Pandur II has a modified hull and an improved drive system. The Pandur II is an extremely versatile vehicle and can, among other things, be used as a troop transport tank, wheeled armored personnel carrier or command vehicle. Despite the relatively high weight which is Airportability in the C-130 Hercules still given. Both variants of the Pandur II are also available in an amphibious version .