The live fires of four wheeled PANDUR II CZ M1 armoured personnel carriers were held at the Black Horse Base close to Kabul on the second January week. Vehicles reinforce the military part of the Czech Provincial Reconstruction Team in Logar, where Czechs have been serving together with Americans at the Shank Base since January 2008.

Following transportation of the vehicles from the Czech Republic, PRT specialists took over machines and materiel and completed the bar-and-rail protected vehicles with 7.62 mm caliber machine guns and 30 mm caliber cannons.

“These vehicles have additional armour and all around they are protected against hand-thrown anti-tank weapons,” explains First Lieutenant Jiri K., who commands a combat support platoon with personnel of the 41st Mechanised Battalion having their home base at Zatec, Czech Republic.