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...
Four vehicles are being considered by the Czech Army to replace the aging BMP-2 Infantry Fighting Vehicles of the Czech mechanized infantry battalions, and other heavy elements of the Army: ASCOD 2, PUMA, LYNX and CV90. A specific topic has entered the debates: should the turret of the basic IFV variant be rather unmanned, or should...
By the end of the last year the Chief of General Staff General Aleš Opata announced the Czech troops will take part at about 200 exercise sessions held both in the Czech Republic and abroad during 2019. Among the large ones there is the Czech Lion 2019, the biggest international exercise held in the Czech Repubic in 2019 with 800...
The Military Research Institute was established as a multidisciplinary research organisation in August 2012 in order to support defence and security capabilities of the army, law enforcement and emergency system in the Czech Republic. VVU bases its business on the results of 55-year-long performance of its predecessors which took...