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 in Iraq, during...
The Czech Army currently deploys two types of 120mm mortars: the Mortar 120 mm PRAM L, type 82, which is a standard vehicle-towed mortar, and the Self-Propelled 120 mm Mortar PRAM S, type 85 (SPM-85 PRAM), a self-loaded mortar system mounted on an elongated BVP-1 (BMP-1) carriage. There are only eight vehicles in service with the...
Amidst the latest news from Russia which appears to have chosen the T-72 Main Battle Tank (MBT) to continue to be the backbone of its Armed Forces (the platform was introduced in 1973), while the new T-14 Armata would not be mass produced due to its excessive price according to bfm.ru, we may look at the details of the T-72M4 CZ...
On 24th July 2017 the Ministry of Defence received approval from the Government to purchase 80 Iveco 4x4 Light Multirole Vehicles (LMVs) for the Army of the Czech Republic in 2020-2024. On 26th July 2018 the Minister of Defence Lubomír Metnar agreed to place the order, the contract with VOP CZ and VVÚ (Military Research Institute)...