Panserrekonbil m/59

The Panserrekonbil m/59 is a Ringeriker Armored Car serving between 1959 and 1988, it came in several variants over it's service life and saw significant use in the Sorland War it was designed to be cheap, fast, lightly armored and proportionally heavily armed to serve in the Reconnaissance role. At it's time of introduction the PRkB m/59K was projected to be capable of defeating most main battle tanks in service at the time, this capability was however not a long lived one as armor design and technology rapidly improved as was discovered in Sorland.

Production Variants

 * Panserrekonbil m/59: The standard m/59 came equipped with a 60mm Breech-Loading mortar and twin co-axial machine guns, making it quite heavily armed for it's role by the standards of the time. The mortar however had several flaws including a dead zone between the direct and indirect fire methods which made engaging at certain ranges difficult to impossible, this flaw would eventually see most original m/59s replaced with m/59MKs


 * Panserrekonbil m/59K: The m/59K variant was armed with a 90mm low pressure gun, originally designed to provide reconnaissance formations the capability to engage Tanks when conducting screening/delaying actions. It was at the time capable of this, but towards the end of it's service was only capable of defeating "second-rate" MBTs with single shots. As such it found itself more often in fire support roles for the mechanized infantry.


 * Panserrekonbil m/59MK: The m/59MK variant was developed to replace the standard m/59 in 1968 and featured a single 20mm autocannon paired to a dual-feed ammunition supply system, allowing more than one type of ammunition to be loaded at once, it also featured a single co-axial machine gun.


 * Panserrekonbil m/59PvM: The m/59PvM was introduced to increase the capability of the m/59 to engage armored targets with the in light of the rapidly developing obsolescence of the m/59K in that role, it made use of the Panservernmissil m/66 to achieve this.

Operators
 Ringerike
 * Ringerike Hær: The Ringerike Army operated several variants of the Panserrekonbil m/59 across several branches.