Ministry of Defence unilaterally withdrew from the contract for the delivery of four PERUN combat vehicles. - The 12th joint exercise of the Czech and Lithuanian Air Forces took place from the 3rd – 10th August. - A purchase contract for delivery of 71 heavy and medium trucks by the TATRA TRUCKS a.s. signed. - The SHORAD system acquisition...
In August 2018, only a few weeks after the 4th anniversary of the lethal attack against Czech troops in Afghanistan, during which five servicemen have been killed by a suicide bomber in Qalandar Khil, another suicide bomber killed three Czech soldiers in Charikar. In total 27 were killed since 1991, during the operation Desert Storm...
At IDET 2019 held in Brno in May, an armoured vehicle-launched bridge using the ASCOD 35 platform carrying the Variable Folding Bridge (VFB) system premiered in the Czech Republic, presented by General Dynamics European Land Systems (GDELS). It is a scissor type made of aluminum alloys and falls into the MLC 50 class. The same vehicle...
Filip Říha appointed Deputy Minister of Armaments and Acquisitions of the Ministry of Defence. - After a year of service, the Czech Company Task Force finished its deployment in Lithuania where it served within the NATO Enhanced Forward Presence Battlegroup. - On 1st August 2019 be planned personnel changes at the General Staff...