On 7th February a meeting of the Minister of Defence Lubomír Metnar and the Chief of General Staff General Aleš Opata with the media was held to present the priorities and plans for the Czech Army for 2019, and to summarize successfully accomplished or running projects: Light Armored Vehicles (CBRN), Very Short Range Air Defence...
Czech stance towards the US decision to withdraw from the INF Treaty – Longterm Perspective for Defence 2035 acknowledged by the National Security Council with focus on development of the heavy mechanized brigade – Czechoslovak Group’s and Tatra Trucks’ companies will be present at IDEX 2019, one of the world's largest defence technology...
The armoured vehicle ASCOD 2 produced by the General Dynamics European Land Systems will join, together with the other three competitors, the largest ever Czech Army's tender for purchase of 210 new Infantry Fighting Vehicles. We've already presented them briefly in a series of articles, together with the official requirements the...
High ranking German officers visited Prague to discuss the affiliation of the 4th Rapid Deployment Brigade with the Bundeswehr’s 10th Armoured Division – Czech Air Force will provide patrols in the Baltic airspace of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia from September 2019 – a memorandum of cooperation signed between the Ministry of Defence...