{"id":58392,"date":"2025-01-15T23:46:36","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T22:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=58392"},"modified":"2026-01-15T02:44:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T01:44:34","slug":"a-train-with-pandur-i-armoured-vehicles-the-austrian-relative-of-the-spanish-bmr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/01\/15\/a-train-with-pandur-i-armoured-vehicles-the-austrian-relative-of-the-spanish-bmr\/","title":{"rendered":"A train with Pandur I armoured vehicles, the Austrian relative of the Spanish BMR"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the 1980s, the Austrian company Steyr-Daimler-Puch designed a 6x6 armoured vehicle, the Pandur I, for the Austrian Army.<\/p>\n

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This vehicle was based on the Spanish BMR<\/strong> under an agreement between the Austrian company Steyr and the Spanish company Santa B\u00e1rbara. The collaboration between the two companies also gave rise to the ASCOD Pizarro infantry fighting vehicle<\/strong> (known as the Ulan in Austria) in the 1990s. The Pandur I has also been manufactured under license in Slovenia under the name LKOV Valuk<\/a>, being very similar to the Austrian model.<\/p>\n

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A Pandur I of the Austrian Army in Kosovo (Photo: Bundesministerium f\u00fcr Landesverteidigung<\/a>).<\/div>\n

The Pandur I has been in service with the Austrian Army since 1996,<\/strong> having received a total of 78 units: 68 of the personnel carrier version, 4 of the ambulance version and 6 of the ISTAR reconnaissance and observation version. A few years ago, the Austrian Army acquired 325 Pandur I EVO, an improved version of the Pandur I,<\/strong> equipped with more armour. This acquisition includes vehicles of different variants.<\/p>\n

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A Pandur I EVO of the Austrian Army (Photo: Bundesheer.at<\/a>).<\/div>\n

Among its international operators, the United States Army Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) stands out,<\/strong> which acquired 50 units of the Pandur I EVO manufactured under license by AV Technology.<\/p>\n

This week, Klaus Schr\u00f6der<\/a> has published two interesting videos in which we can see a rail transport of seven Pandur I of the Austrian Army<\/strong>, belonging to the J\u00e4gerbataillon 17:<\/p>\n