Pneumatic tire for heavy duty vehicles having a crown portion comprising two working plies (114,116) and a breaker ply (120) radially outward of the carcass body ply wherein the breaker ply (120) comprises a plurality of breaker ply reinforcement elements (122) having a length L of no more than 155 mm, at an angle of 5<60.

An object of the invention is to increase the room for elongation of a tread protection layer, while securing durability. An aircraft pneumatic tire 10 includes: a tread protection layer (12) that is provided at a lower layer of a tread section (22), and that includes plural cords (24) that arrayed in a tire width direction and are each disposed along a wave shaped imaginary line extending along a tire circumferential direction with the tire width direction as the amplitude direction; and cord discontinuity portions (14) where locations of close proximity of the cords (24) to each other are partially omitted in the tread protection layer (12).