Panus is Preparing to Launch a Custom 8x8 Wheeled Vehicle for the Thai Marines

17 Juni 2019

Panus 8x8 wheeled vehicle prototype (photo : Sompong Nondhasa)

The latest set of images shows the latest automotive products from Panus Assembly Co Ltd., Thailand that has developed a new 8x8 prototype wheeled vehicle that is designed, developed, and built in Thailand.

This new prototype of Panus was identified as a wheeled amphibious vehicle designed to meet the needs of Royal Thai Marine Corps Headquarters of Royal Thai Navy.

Panas armored automotive products that have been put into service or have been tested by the Thai Marines Phantom 380-X1 4x4 armored vehicles that have been deployed for a number of operations and have actually been deployed in the southern border areas.

Including the HMV-150 4x4 armored vehicle that improves the modernity of the basic V-150 4x4 armored vehicle that is stationed in the Panzer Troop Tank Battalion, Marine Corps Brigade that has also been used for testing at the southern border.

Later, Panus Thai Company developed the HMV-420 4x4 armored vehicle that was completely rebuilt. With basic improvements from HMV-150 wheeled armored vehicles and recently developed armored vehicles, modified AMV-420P 4x4 wheeled from armored vehicles, HMV-420, according to the evaluation and comments from previous Thai Army.

Panus 8x8 rubber wheels vehicle in the image set that is understood to be taken at the Panus company factory, showing the prototype car that is completely redesigned, which is based on the pre-existing 8x8 wheeled vehicle that is nearing completion, but at the time of this writing, there was no disclosure of the name and performance data of the car.

The car has a driving station in front of the right with a large view mirror. Next to the back of the chassis, the right side of the car will have a set of engines installed, with a pipe covering the grill out of the car. The rear of the car has a large opening ramp door. And there are two large water jet drives for floating in the water.

At present, the Panzer Corps, Marine Corps Battalion (Marine Tank Battalion, Royal Thai Marine Corps Division) have a Ukrainian wheeled vehicle BTR-3E1 8x8 12 cars, which reported that the car is capable of amphibious operation which is not desirable for such movement while floating in the water (n most of the landing craft training, see BTR-3E1, carried on a large liquefied vessel, LCU, or on a medium-sized LCM vessel, rather than leaving the floating deck of the well deck LPD landing craft in the water exactly like an amphibious vehicle Alligator AAV7A1).

Thousands of amphibians, Amphibious Armored Personnel Carriers (AAPC), developed by the National Defense Institute of Technology (DTI: Defense Technology Institute) and the Office of Research and Development of The Royal Thai Navy military for trial use. It is understood that the Panus 8x8 prototype amphibious wheeled vehicle armored vehicle will be Delivered to the Thai Marines for evaluation, compete with armored wheeled amphibious DTI AAPC 8x8 next.

(AAG)