There is a lot of monuments and museums dedicated to the military history in the Czech Republic. Many of the famous battlefields of different eras are preserved and offer historic trails to discover the monuments or important and interesting locations. The monuments and museums are administered by a number of institutions.
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...
The Land Forces of the Czech Army consist of Combat Forces, Combat Support Forces and Combat Assistance Forces. The Combat Forces currently form two brigades : the 4th Rapid Deployment Brigade (the „light“ brigade) and the 7th Mechanised Brigade (the „heavy“ brigade), of four battalions each: 2 mechanised infantry battalions, 1 light...