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Combat vehicle ASCOD Pizarro     
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Operator:  Spain 

ASCOD TRACKED ARMOURED FIGHTING VEHICLES, SPAIN

The ASCOD (Austrian-Spanish Co-operative Development) family of fighting vehicles is marketed by ASCOD A.I.E. with headquarters based in Madrid, Spain. ASCOD is a jointly owned company set up by Steyr-Daimler-Puch AG of Vienna, Austria and General Dynamics, Santa Barbara Sistemas (GDSBS) of Madrid, Spain.

As well as the infantry fighting vehicle, the ASCOD family includes: LT 105 light tank, anti-aircraft missile carrier, anti-aircraft gun system, anti-tank guided missile carrier, mortar carrier, repair and recovery vehicle, logistics carrier, command and communication carrier, artillery observation post and ambulance.

ASCOD INFANTRY FIGHTING VEHICLE

The Infantry Fighting Vehicle is operational with the Spanish Army where it is called the Pizarro. The requirement for the Spanish Army is for up to 900 vehicles including an initial requirement for 123 infantry fighting vehicles and 23 Command and Communications vehicles. This initial delivery will be concluded by the end of 2002 to be followed by planned production of a further 200 vehicles.

The vehicle is also in full-scale production for the Austrian Army, where it is known as Ulan. Delivery of 112 vehicles has begun and is scheduled to conclude in 2004. Ulan is being built by Steyr-Daimler-Puch.

ARMAMENT

Turret control is electro-mechanical. The weapon system is stabilised in two axes, which allows the vehicle to engage targets stationary or on the move. Elevation is from -10 to +50? with a 360? traverse.

The vehicle's main armament is a 30mm dual feed, gas-operated Mauser MK 30-2 automatic cannon with a 7.62mm coaxial machine gun. The 30mm gun has a rate of fire of 800 rounds/minute and can fire a range of ammunition including APFSDS rounds. The vehicle carries 200 rounds of 30mm and 700 rounds of 7.62mm ammunition ready to fire, and a store of up to 205 rounds of 30mm and up to 2,200 rounds of 7.62mm ammunition.

SELF-PROTECTION

The hull and turret are constructed from all-welded steel armour, which provides protection against 14.5mm armour piercing incendiary rounds over the forward 60? arc and all round protection against 7.62mm weapon attack. Additional ballistic protection is available against up to 30mm APFDS (Armour Piercing Fin Stabilised Discarding Sabot) rounds fired from a 1,000m range over the forward 60? arc, and all round protection against 14.5mm armour piercing incendiary (API) rounds from a range of 500m.

Two sets of three smoke grenade launchers are installed on each side of the turret. ASCOD fighting vehicles can be fitted with laser warning system and NBC (nuclear, biological, chemical) detection system.

FIRE CONTROL AND OBSERVATION

Spanish Pizarro vehicles are fitted with the Mk-10 fire control system from Indra (formerly Enosa), which provides shoot-on-the-move capability and 0.1 mil gun aiming. The Mk-10 has a full solution digital ballistic computer, day channel, thermal channel and laser rangefinder. The first batch of 123 vehicles are fitted with the SVT-02 first-generation thermal imager. The Mk-10 has since been upgraded with a second-generation imager, the VC2, which will be fitted on subsequent vehicles. The VC2 thermal imager is based on a 240 x 4 detector array and operates in the 7.5 to 10.5 micron spectral band. It has wide field of view of 12.3? x 7.7? and narrow FOV of 4.1? x 2.6? (azimuth x elevation).

Austrian Ulan vehicles are equipped with the Kollsman Day Night Range Sight (DNRS) which has a digital computer, day channel and thermal imaging sight with an integrated laser rangefinder. The 8 to 12 micron thermal imager is dual field of view and has magnifications of x 2.8 and x 8.4. An automatic target tracker inputs targeting data to the line-of-sight servo system and into the turret drive.

The commander has a periscopic day sight, a television monitor displaying the image from the gunner's thermal sight and six unity vision periscopes.

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