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.
