Mowag Piranha V

The Piranha V Infantry Fighting Vehicle (IFV) is one variant of the fifth generation of the MOWAG Piranha family of vehicles. It was designed by General Dynamics European Land Systems - Mowag GmbH.

Mobility
While the Piranha V is available with a MTU 6V199 TE21 diesel engine producing 430 kW, both Denmark and Spain have opted for a different Powerpack built by the Spanish company SAPA, consisting of a Scania Diesel engine with 480 kW coupled with the SW 624 automatic transmission, and an auxilliary power unit with 75 kW

Operators

 * 🇩🇰 Danish Army - in the process of acquiring 309, first delivered in May 2017, last expected to be in use by 2023.
 * 🇲🇨 Monégasque Carabiniers – 2 Piranha V.
 * 🇪🇸 Spanish Army – 5 units acquired in 2015 as prototypes for the VBMR program, in order to replace the existing BMR and VEC cavalry vehicles. First batch of 300-400 vehicles, to replace in the future a total of 1200 vehicles of several types.
 * 🇷🇴 Romanian Army- 227 units ordered. to be produced locally, 5 will be produced in 2017.