Casspir MPV

Fiche

Pertinence pour les conflits

Ceci est la fiche unique du catalogue pour ce système. Il est pertinent pour le module ci-dessous ; le Force Atlas de chaque module montre comment il y est employé.

Opérateurs

United Nations / MINUSMA: Fielded by several troop-contributing contingents; the mission's standard mine-protected transport in the central and northern sectors.

Rôle sur le champ de bataille

Mine-protected transport for MINUSMA contingents in what became the UN's deadliest environment: the IED-laced roads of central and northern Mali. The vehicle embodies the mission's defining fight — against the roadside bomb, not a front line.

Points forts

A V-shaped monocoque hull designed in the 1980s for exactly this threat: crews routinely survived mine and IED strikes that would have destroyed a flat-floored APC, which is why the type recurs in UN missions.

Limites

High, heavy and slow off-road; protection is against blast from below, not against the large vehicle-borne bombs and complex ambushes MINUSMA faced from 2017. Its relevance to the module ended with the mission's withdrawal in 2023.

Identification visuelle

A tall, boxy four-wheeled vehicle with a sharply V-shaped underside, large rectangular side windows and a raised passenger compartment; often in UN white.

Emploi documenté dans les conflits

Documented in MINUSMA convoy and patrol use across the mission's life; IED strikes on Casspirs and similar vehicles appear throughout the Secretary-General's reports on Mali, which is the source for the mission's casualty record. Historical only.

Opérateurs par composante et par service

• MINUSMA Associé historiquement