Report: Czech army equipping with airborne vehicles carrying Spike anti-tank missile systems
Recently, the production of 60 Enok AB vehicles in an anti-tank variant for the Czech Special forces began
Eyal Boguslavsky
| 22/03/2023
Photo: Rafael
The German website Soldat & Technik reports that the Bavarian ACS Armored Car Systems company has started series production of the anti-tank variant of the airborne vehicle Enok AB, equipped with Rafael's Spike anti-tang guided missiles systems.
In a previous report of the German website from August 2022, it was stated that the first customer of these vehicles are the special forces of the Czech army. At the customer's request, the company developed within one year an anti-tank variant called Tankhunter. Now, according to the website, the production of 60 anti-tank vehicles for these units has started.
The Tankhunter is built on the G 461 platform with a long wheelbase. The long wheelbase is necessary in order to be able to offer the vehicle a sufficiently dimensioned loading area, as the Spike weapon system used in the conversion kit from the Israeli armaments company Rafael can fire both Spike LR and the longer Spike ER (see title picture).
According to Schaubeck, several of the anti-tank guided missiles are stored along the direction of travel in a modular and shock-resistant manner in the cargo hold of the vehicle.
The crew of the Tankhunter consists of four soldiers, the driver, the commander, the gunner and the loader/ammunition gunner. The gunner operates the spike weapon system from a rotating ring carriage with the appropriate adapter. Important for an airborne vehicle, the anti-tank conversion kit is fully air transportable. After unloading from the aircraft, the weapon system can be brought from the transport state to the combat state by the crew in just a few movements using hinges within a very short time.
Recently, the production of 60 Enok AB vehicles in an anti-tank variant for the Czech Special forces began
Photo: Rafael
The German website Soldat & Technik reports that the Bavarian ACS Armored Car Systems company has started series production of the anti-tank variant of the airborne vehicle Enok AB, equipped with Rafael's Spike anti-tang guided missiles systems.
In a previous report of the German website from August 2022, it was stated that the first customer of these vehicles are the special forces of the Czech army. At the customer's request, the company developed within one year an anti-tank variant called Tankhunter. Now, according to the website, the production of 60 anti-tank vehicles for these units has started.
The Tankhunter is built on the G 461 platform with a long wheelbase. The long wheelbase is necessary in order to be able to offer the vehicle a sufficiently dimensioned loading area, as the Spike weapon system used in the conversion kit from the Israeli armaments company Rafael can fire both Spike LR and the longer Spike ER (see title picture).
According to Schaubeck, several of the anti-tank guided missiles are stored along the direction of travel in a modular and shock-resistant manner in the cargo hold of the vehicle.
The crew of the Tankhunter consists of four soldiers, the driver, the commander, the gunner and the loader/ammunition gunner. The gunner operates the spike weapon system from a rotating ring carriage with the appropriate adapter. Important for an airborne vehicle, the anti-tank conversion kit is fully air transportable. After unloading from the aircraft, the weapon system can be brought from the transport state to the combat state by the crew in just a few movements using hinges within a very short time.
