ASCOD

The ASCOD (Austrian Spanish Cooperation Development) armoured fighting vehicle family is the product of a cooperation agreement between Austrian Steyr-Daimler-Puch AG and Spanish General Dynamics Santa Bárbara Sistemas. Both companies are now divisions of a unit of General Dynamics. The ASCOD family includes the LT 105 light tank equipped with a 105 mm gun, a surface-to-air missile launcher, an anti-tank guided missile launcher, mortar carrier, R&R vehicle, command-and-control vehicle, ambulance, artillery observer, and the AIFV model. In Spanish service, the vehicle is called "Pizarro". The Austrian version is called "Ulan".

The ASCOD (Austrian Spanish Cooperation Development) armoured fighting vehicle family is the product of a cooperation agreement between Austrian Steyr-Daimler-Puch AG and Spanish General Dynamics Santa Bárbara Sistemas. Both companies are now divisions of a unit of General Dynamics. The ASCOD family includes the LT 105 light tank equipped with a 105 mm gun, a surface-to-air missile launcher, an anti-tank guided missile launcher, mortar carrier, R&R vehicle, command-and-control vehicle, ambulance, artillery observer, and the AIFV model. In Spanish service, the vehicle is called "Pizarro". The Austrian version is called "Ulan". ===Deployment history=== ASCOD entered service with the Spanish and Austrian armies in 2002. Despite being part of ISAF, Spain did not deploy the Pizarro IFV owing to its lack of a mine-protection kit. ==Operators== ===Current operators=== (112) Delivered between 2001 and 2005 112 Ulan (IFV) 209 additional Ulan in various versions will be ordered. (261) In service: 204 VCI/C – infantry fighting vehicles 21 VCPC – command and communications vehicles 36 VCZ – sapper combat vehicles Details of the orders: Initial order of 144 Pizarro in 1996, delivery by 2002: 123 VCI/C – infantry fighting vehicles 21 VCPC – command and communications vehicles Second order reduced to 117 Pizarro in 2004 after several cuts, the initial order was for 212 Pizarro, delivered between 2011 and 2015: 81 VCI/C (170 planned initially) 36 VCZ – sapper combat vehicles, only 1 was planned initially Cancelled variants with that order: VCPC, 5 were planned initially VCOAV – forward artillery observer vehicles, 28 were planned initially VCREC – armoured recovery vehicles, 8 were planned initially ==External links== General Dynamics European Land Systems - ASCOD AFV Technical data sheet and pictures Spanish Pizarro from ArmyRecognition.com The Ulan (ASCOD) in the Austrian Armed Forces - technical data and pictures Spain's Ministry of Defence ¿INFANTERÍA MECANIZADA?

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