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https://mocr.army.cz/informacni-servis/ ... ve-234626/Jedná se například o doplnění počtů kolových obrněných vozidel Pandur a Titus, pořízení ženijních prostředků, lehkých útočných vozidel, taktického satelitního systému či komunikačních a informačních prostředků.
https://www.czdefence.com/article/moder ... bat-turretThe Defence Committee took up the subject at its 16th meeting last year, when it was announced that a feasibility study on the subject would be commissioned by the end of 2022 to determine how the project would be implemented by June 2023.
This will involve the modernisation of 107 existing vehicles and the purchase of 68 new vehicles. The army operates 107 Pandur IIs in the KBVP (72 units), KBV-VR (company commander's vehicle, 11 units), KBV-PZLOK (reconnaissance vehicle with radar, 8 units) and KBV-PZ (reconnaissance vehicle, 8 units) versions, for a total of 99 wheeled infantry fighting vehicles, which is equipped with an Israeli RCWS-30 weapon station with a 30 mm Mk 44 Bushmaster II automatic cannon firing 30x173 mm calibre ammunition, a 7.62 mm coaxial machine gun, a launcher for two Spike-LR ATGMs and a smoke grenade launcher.
The other 8 Pandurs at the disposal of the Czech Armored Forces are vehicles in the armoured personnel carrier version (i.e. without the weapon station with cannon and an ATGMs) in a special adaptation for engineers (KOT-Z) and for medics (KOT-ZDR). These vehicles will probably also be upgraded. The latest additions to the Pandur vehicles are the command and staff (KOVVŠ) and communications (KOVS) armoured vehicles in numbers of 6 and 14 respectively. These two types of special armoured vehicles were delivered to the Czech Army in December 2020 and will not be affected by the upcoming modernisation.
The existing RCWS-30 weapon stations on Pandur vehicles are remote-controlled, but they are first generation, they are characterised by insufficient ballistic protection (they are unmanned and neither the gunner nor the commander is directly threatened, but disabling the weapon station by hitting it even with a light weapon exposes the vehicle to additional risks), and in addition, our army is facing problems with servicing or lack of spare parts at various stages of their use. The particular vulnerability of the RCWS-30, combined with the problem described above, limited the way the vehicles could be deployed, for example, during woodland training, as it was simply not desirable to risk damage to the weapon station. A major problem with the RCWS-30, which to some extent goes against the purpose of unmanned weapon stations and turrets, i.e. primarily to protect the vehicle crew, is the fact that the gunner must leave his seat in the hull when reloading the magazine and is thus exposed to risk.
Exactly what the new weapon station or combat turret of the Czech Pandurs will look like will be seen when the upcoming feasibility study is evaluated and the specific solution selected is presented.