The Pandur II 8x8 CZ is a wheeled Infantry Fighting Vehicle used exclusively by Czech military forces in ArmA 2. It was added with the release of the Army of the Czech Republic DLC.
Overview[]
- Roles:
- Troop transport
- Fire support
| « | The Pandur II 8x8 CZ is an improved all-wheel-drive armoured person carrier vehicle. Czech version differs from its original in thicker armor, reversed V shaped bottom, a new, from inside of the vehicle controlled breakwater, and driver's hatch equipped with night vision aparature. It is armed with 30mm cannon, coaxial machinegun and two guided missiles Spike, mounted on remote controlled turret. Crew consists of 8 soldiers, driver and gunner/commander. Vehicle can be transported by C-130 Hercules. Armoury Description
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Design[]
The Austrian-made Pandur II is the latest model in the Pandur family of armoured fighting vehicles. Using a bigger chassis that supports heavier turrets, the Pandur II can be armed with a variety of differently sized main guns.
Armament
The turret is armed with a 30 mm autocannon that is capable of firing both high-explosive (HE) and armour-piercing (AP) shells at distances of up to 1,500 metres. It also possesses a 7.62 mm coaxial machine gun for use against infantry, along with infrared-guided anti-tank missiles for vehicular targets.
The standard loadout of the Pandur II gives it 140 rounds of HE and 60 AP shells for the main gun, while the coaxial MMG feeds from a single pre-loaded 460-round belt with a further two more belts to spare (for a combined total of 1,380 rounds). The adjacent launcher pods carry two ready-to-fire Spike AT missiles and have two more to reload from for a total of four missiles.
Pandur II in combat.
Features
Designed to combine both mobility and survivability, the Pandur II has a longer wheelbase and bigger hull than its Pandur I predecessor. Its armour offers protection against small arms calibres of up to 7.62 mm, as well as limited protection from 30 mm/40 mm grenade rounds and small Improvised Explosive Devices (IED).
Mobility
Compared to other wheeled APCs/IFVs in its class, the Pandur II is slower than the USMC's LAV-25/Russian BTR-90 and has overall poorer handling versus the U.S. Army's Stryker. Unlike the latter however, the Pandur II retains amphibious capabilities and can ford across bodies of water, granting it all-terrain versatility.
Notable Traits
The Pandur II carries a diverse armament loadout that is similar to that of the Russian BTR-90. Because it packs four ATGMs on top of its 30 mm cannon, the Pandur II can even pose as a threat to Main Battle Tanks if positioned properly. At the same time, this also means that it does not require a separate dedicated AT variant like the Stryker APC if the crew need to fight MBTs.
Drawbacks
Since it has practically the same amount of armour as the Stryker, the Pandur II will not survive cannon fire from MBTs and heavy AT weapons. Like all wheeled IFVs, the Pandur II's crew also need to make full use of the vehicle's mobility to avoid getting trapped in such situations, as attacking these threats head-on generally won't end well for the crew.
Crew Capacity
Not including the crew, the Pandur II has a transportation capacity of eight passengers. The crew on the other hand consists of just the driver and a gunner who also doubles as the vehicle's commander.
Protection[]
The Pandur II has a base armour value of 150.
Successful strikes to any of the following highlighted sections will inflict full damage to the component:
Body[]
The hull can resist up to 150 points of damage.
Engine[]
The engine can survive 75 points of damage before failure. 100% of incoming damage will be shared with the vehicle's main "health" pool. A damaged engine will prevent the Pandur from being able to attain its top speed.
Fuel tank[]
The fuel tank can only take a meagre 21 points of damage before rupturing. 100% of incoming damage will be shared with the vehicle's main "health" pool. Incurred damage will also cause the Pandur to gradually leak fuel over time.
Wheels[]
The Pandur's wheels can only take 45 points of damage before bursting. Destroying them will not affect the Pandur's "health" pool.
Turret[]
The RCWS turret can only take 120 points of damage before failing. 30% of incoming damage is always transferred onto the Pandur's "health" pool.
Disabling the turret will prevent the gunner from adjusting its rotation/elevation but will not stop its weapons from being fired.
Armament[]
NOTE: For specifics on the ATK Mk44's munitions, see its related section listed here.
The gunner position controls all weapon systems. For optics, they have access to a variable zoom camera that can toggle either a day, night or black-/white-hot thermal vision mode:
ATK Mk44[]
General-purpose 30 mm autocannon. Can load and fire HE or AP-type shells.
It can attain a variable fire rate depending on two modes:
- LOW: 200 rounds per minute
- HIGH: 400 rounds per minute
Both modes have identical dispersion values of 0.0005 rad regardless of distance. Zeroing is possible starting at a minimum of 400 m and a maximum of 2000 m (adjustments are made with increments/decrements of 200 m). Switching between munition types is instantaneous.
Spike-LR[]
| Damage type | Base damage value |
|---|---|
| High-Explosive Anti-Tank | 800 |
Anti-tank infrared-guided missile launcher pod.
There is a fixed delay of 5 seconds in-between launches. Missiles have an initial launch velocity of 55.16 m/s and can reach a maximum of up to 430 m/s in mid-flight. It takes up to 30 seconds to fully reload another set of missiles. The warhead has a blast radius of 2 metres. The seeker has a 20% chance of losing lock to defensive smoke countermeasures.
M240[]
| Base damage value | Aerodynamic friction | Initial velocity (m/s) |
|---|---|---|
| 12 | -0.0009324 | 834 |
Coaxial 7.62 mm medium machine gun.
It can attain a fire rate of 800 RPM and has a muzzle velocity of 834 m/s. Accuracy-wise, it has a dispersion of 0.0012 rad at distances of up to 800 metres. It takes 5 seconds for the gunner to reload a fresh belt once depleted.
It can be manually zeroed but has the same range limits as the ATK Mk44 autocannon.
Trivia[]
- Initially upon the DLC's release, the in-game Pandur II did not have amphibious capabilities as it directly inherited its configuration properties from the U.S. Army's Stryker, preventing it from being able to ford across water.
- This was eventually fixed following the latest Steam version updates (as part of the Community Configuration Project/CorePatch updates) which enabled the Pandur II to float across any body of water.[1]
- CorePatch also changed the behaviour of the Pandur II's Mk44 autocannon. Prior to the patches, it always fired in bursts of five shells and there was a mandatory delay whenever the gunner switched shells or ran out of ammunition (and was resupplying).[1]
- Whether it was a mistake or is another case of developer oversight, the Pandur II's Spike-LR missiles are not actually Spike ATGMs but are American-made Javelins instead.[2]
- Due to alpha rendering limitations with ArmA 2's Real Virtuality engine, water and any other transparent surfaces will not be visible if the player rotates their camera in the direction of the transparent surface while looking through the rear storage cage. This is because the cage simply uses an alpha texture to simulate the appearance of a 3D cage with holes (the holes are not actually modelled).
Gallery[]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Mazzon, M et al. 2019, CorePatch, GitHub, viewed 5 August 2023, <https://github.com/Goliath86/CorePatch/blob/master/Changelog.txt>.
- ↑ ARMA 2 Army of the Czech Republic 2012 [Video Game], Bohemia Interactive a.s., \ca\weapons_acr\config.bin, CfgMagazines >> 2Rnd_Spike_ACR
External links[]
See also[]
Vehicles of comparable role and configuration[]
- AFV-4 Gorgon (AAF successor, ArmA 3 only)
 ACR - Vehicles (ArmA 2)
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| Wheeled | ATV • BRDM-2 • Dingo 2 CZ • HMMWV GPK • Military Offroad • Pandur II 8x8 CZ • RM-70 • T810 • UAZ-469 |
| Tracked | BMP-2 • T-72M4 CZ |
| Rotor-wing | Mi-171Sh • Mi-24V |
| Fixed-wing | L-159 ALCA • L-39C • L-39ZA |
| Aquatic | PBX |
| (Parenthesis) denote variants. Operation Arrowhead | Army of the Czech Republic | |