In July 2021, the Slovak Ministry of Defence announced its intention to purchase new wheeled combat vehicles for the Slovak Army, which will in fact join the other three Visegrad Four countries that are also selecting or purchasing new armoured vehicles. Let us just recall here that in the Czech Republic a tender for Infantry Fighting …
The Czech Army is to be reinforced in the future by 62 TITUS armoured vehicles. It is to represent a modern wheeled platform from Czech manufacturers designed for the dynamically changing war theatre of the 21st century. The TITUS was also presented at the IDET 2021 international defence fair in October.
The relevant annex to the published coalition agreement signed by representatives of the SPOLU (ODS, KDU-ČSL and TOP09), Pirates and STAN coalitions shows a certain continuity in the basic features of the state's defence policy. Looking at the general theses, we would not be exaggerating if we estimated that even the current Minister …
After all the surprises and delays we have been able to observe since the spring of 2019 regarding the largest arms contract in the history of the independent Czech Republic - acquisition of 210 tracked Infantry Fighting Vehicles for CZK 52 billion - another obstacle arose for the criticized tender, and it has the potential to stop …