The Austrian 6×6 Pandur I Family

Steyr-Daimler-Puch was a large manufacturing conglomerate based in Steyr, Austria, which was broken up in stages between 1987 and 2001.

The Austrian 6×6 Pandur I Family was developed as a private project with the first prototype completed in 1985. The vehicle was adopted by the Austrian Armed Forces and exported to a number of countries.

In 1998, the production of military vehicles was sold to an Austrian investor company, which named it Steyr-Daimler-Puch Spezialfahrzeug GmbH (SSF). This firm went on to develop the 8×8 wheeled APC which was named the Pandur II (the 6×6 was then renamed the Pandur I) which was of course a larger and improved version of the successful 6×6 with the first prototype completed in 2001. The firm was then sold in 2003 to General Dynamics Land Systems.

The Austrian 6×6 Pandur I Family Operators

Austria – Introduced to the Austrian Army in 1996 (71 vehicles)Belgium – Belgian Army (45 in 5 versions, built in Belgium)Kuwait – Kuwait National Guard (70 in 6 versions, produced by AV Technology),Slovenia – Slovenian Army (85, produced under license, locally known as Valuk)United States – US Army (50, produced by AV Technology as the Armoured Ground Mobility System for USASOC)Royal Solomon Islands Police Force
Equatorial Guinea – (15 vehicles)