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Austria takes delivery of upgraded Pandur 1 6x6 armoured with 12,7mm remote weapon station.

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Austria takes delivery of upgraded Pandur 1 6x6 armoured with 12,7mm remote weapon station.
The Army of Austria has received the first new modernized version of its standard 6x6 armoured vehicle personnel carrier Pandur 1. The vehicle is upgraded with a new remotely weapon station armed with a 12,7mm machine gun to replace the ring mount weapon system.
     
The Army of Austria has received the first new modernized version of its standard 6x6 armoured vehicle personnel carrier Pandur 1. The vehicle is upgraded with a new remotely weapon station armed with a 12,7mm machine gun to replace the ring mount weapon system. Pandur 1 6x6 armoured personnel carrier of Austrian army fitted wit the new remote weapon sttation armed with a 12,7mm machine gun.
     
Last week, the Austrain army has teken delivery of first batch of three modernized Pandur 1. According the official website of the Austrian army, two vehicles will be upgraded to the new standard.

The new remote weapon station allows the gunner to operate the weapon system under the protection of the vehicle. The weapon station consists of a sophisticated weapon tower featuring electro-optical sights and allows the system to be operated from inside the vehicle with a high degree of precision to protect the gunner from being exposed.

The new turret of the Pandur 1 includes a laser rangefinder and smoke grenade launchers as well as day and night cameras.

The Pandur armoured personnel carrier was developed from 1979 as a private venture by Steyr-Daimler-Puch and was unveiled late in 1985, by which time two prototypes had been built. In 1994, the Austrian Army placed an order for 68 Pandur vehicles and the first of these were completed in December 1995.

The hull of the Pandur is of all-welded steel armour construction that provides protection against firing of small arms from 7.62 mm × 51 armour-piercing projectiles fired from a distance of 30 m all round (0 to +7º vertical) and over the frontal arc (-39 to +17º vertical and -30 to +30º horizontal).

In the Austrian army, the standard Pandur 1 is fitted with open-top turret armed with a 7,62mm or one 12,7mm machine gun.
     
The Army of Austria has received the first new modernized version of its standard 6x6 armoured vehicle personnel carrier Pandur 1. The vehicle is upgraded with a new remotely weapon station armed with a 12,7mm machine gun to replace the ring mount weapon system.
 

 

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