Combat reconnaissance vehicle BPzV "Svatava"

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1 vehicle, originally owned by the AFCR, is in stock. It has 4 048 Km and 493 Mth.

BPzV Svatava – a reconnaissance fighting vehicle on a BMP-1 track chassis, designed for amphibious reconnaissance operations or for fighting activities at the enemy’s rear.
The crew consisted of 6 members:  commander,  driver,  gunner,  scout - radio operator,  scout - navigator and  scout-operator. Between 1988 and 1990, the ZŤS Detva manufacturing facility produced 200 BPzV Svatava vehicles that were included in the equipment for reconnaissance tank units and mechanised divisions. The improved chassis reaches the BMP-2 parameters.
At the beginning of the 1980s the need for a new reconnaissance vehicle emerged, because the current OT65 was no longer sufficient in all of the important parameters - off-road capability, manoeuvring , weak equipment and reconnaissance devices. The first BPzV Svatava prototype was made in 1985 in the design department at Trenčín and was tested. The final tests, carried out in the second half of 1987, were successful and the Svatava was recommended by the commission to be used in the Czechoslovak People’s Army.
Equipment:
•    PSNR-5 Radiolocator
•    MRP-4 Small Seeker Radiolocator
•    NNP-21 Night Observation Device
•    TNA-3 Navigation Device
•    PAB-2A Compass
•    Laser Rangefinder
•    Laser Irradiation Detection and Indication
•    ÚV-20 Water Plant
•    OS-3 Decontamination Kit