V3S

	V3S
Faction	Takistani Army; Takistani Militia; NAPA; Takistani Rebels; Civilians
Type	Utility Truck
Seats	All variants: 2 seats: 1× Driver; 1× Cab Passenger; Transport variants: 15 seats: 13× Passengers; Reammo variant: 3 seats: 1× Rear Passenger;
Item capacity	Max: 50× Weapons; 200× Magazines; 8× Backpacks;
Top speed	~ 73 km/h
Fuel capacity	100 fuel units
Primary armament	None
Secondary armament	None
Variants	Standard, Open, Ammo, Fuel, Repair, Supply, Salvage
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	PV3S
Faction	EFA; Nogovan Partisans; Civilians
Type	Utility Truck
Seats	All variants: 2 seats: 1× Driver; 1× Cab Passenger; Transport variants: 13 seats: 10× Rear Passengers;
Item capacity	Max: 50× Weapons; 200× Magazines;
Top speed	~ 60 km/h
Fuel capacity	200 fuel units
Primary armament	None
Secondary armament	None
Variants	Transport, Repair, Reammo, Refuel, Civil
Games

V3S refers to a family of 6x6 utility trucks featured in both ArmA: Cold War Assault and ArmA 2.

ArmA: Cold War Assault

The PV3S is used by the civilians of both Nogova and Everon, along with Nogovan Partisan fighters and EFA rebels in ArmA: Cold War Assault.

Overview

Roles:
- Civil transportation
- Troop transport
- Ground vehicle repair
- Refuelling
- Vehicle munitions rearmament

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This Czechoslovakian-manufactured truck has many advantages for use in a warzone. Not only does it have extremely rugged design which gives maximum reliability over extremely rough terrain, but also can be easily fitted to fulfill wide range of functions as fuel truck or launch unit.

Vehicle Description

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Design

A general-purpose, all-terrain utility vehicle, the V3S is a single engine 6x6 truck that is designed for both civil and military purposes.

Features
The PV3S is available in up to four additional variants aside from the baseline transporter. This includes a fuel tanker, munitions carrier, mobile repair and a civilian-only transporter.

Manufactured at almost the same time as the Ural truck (its Soviet-made counterpart), the V3S is similarly designed to be a rugged and multi-role capable vehicle that can be configured for a variety of tasks.

Mobility
The PV3S' overall handling is quite similar to the Ural family but has a slightly better turn rate (though not by much).

However, this does come at the cost of acceleration as the PV3S series takes much longer to reach its top speed even while driving on paved/flat terrain.

Drawbacks
Like the Ural, neither the cab nor rear flatbed of the PV3S provides ballistic protection for its passengers or crew.

Unless absolutely necessary, no model of the PV3S should be sent anywhere near a combat zone as it can be easily destroyed by small arms fire (let alone anti-vehicle weaponry).

Crew Capacity
All variants of the PV3S support both a driver and a single passenger in the cab. The transporter models are able to carry up to ten more passengers who sit in the rear flatbed (not including the cab passenger).

Variants

Baseline variant.

It can transport up to eleven passengers, one in the cab who sits next to the driver and ten in the rear flatbed, which is covered over by a tarpaulin (note that the cover does not provide ballistic protection).

Carries spare parts, tools, and additional components that can repair nearby land vehicles and grounded aircraft.

Has only two seats for the driver and a single cab passenger.

Carries a large trailer fitted onto the rear flatbed. It can resupply the weapon systems used by nearby ground vehicles and landed aircraft.

Although visually identical to transporter variants, the Reammo variant cannot carry any passengers other than front cab passenger (like all other logistics-oriented models of the PV3S).

Has a large fuel tank attached to the rear flatbed. It can refuel nearby land vehicles and grounded aircraft. Contains the same amount of seats as the Repair variant.

Identical to the guerilla-only PV3S truck in all functional aspects. The only difference is that this particular model uses an unmodified paint scheme with no "FIA" markings.

Camouflage

Grey
Guerrilla
Guerrilla - Repair
Guerrilla - Reammo
Guerrilla - Refuel

Grey: Rusted, pale light blue paint scheme with a white tarpaulin cover. Used on civilian V3S trucks.
Guerrilla: Identical paint scheme used on civilian V3S trucks, but with FIA markings spraypainted over parts of the hood and frame. Only used by the Nogovan Partisans and FIA rebels.

Protection

All variants of the PV3S have 30 points worth of armour plating.

Trivia

The in-game V3S is modelled after the real-world 1964 variant of the "V3S" that was then-designed by Praga, a truck manufacturer based in the former Czechoslovakia.
According to his response to a fan question posted to the livestream of Cold War Assault's 20th anniversary of release, it is the favourite civilian vehicle of Bohemia Interactive's CEO, Marek Španěl.

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