By 2025 the Czech Army would acquire not only reconnaissance or surveillance UAVs, which already are in operation by the 53rd Regiment of Reconnaissance and Electronic Warfare, but also tactical drones, Tactical Unmanned Aircraft Sytem (TUAS), with the aim to increase the air strike capability. The general project has been unveiled...
On Wednesday the Government will discuss a commission to purchase 1,500 ballistic AirFrame Helmets by Crye Precision at an estimated price of CZK 37 million (USD 1,7 million, vat excluded). The helmets are meant for the Czech Army’s troops which are part of the NATO Readiness Force (NRF), and would be supplied by the NATO Support...
In November 2017 the Chief of General Staff General Josef Bečvář said that the Army’s planned acquisitions would include new ScanEagle long-endurance, low-altitude Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) from Boeing’s subsidiary Insitu. The drones would be purchased in 2019 under a deal worth about CZK 200 million (USD 9 million). In June...
50 years ago an invasion of 250,000 troops and 4,600 tanks of the Warsaw Pact (Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Hungary, East Germany and Poland) effectively ended the liberalisation reforms by Alexander Dubček's Communist Party of Czechoslovakia known as Prague Spring. Killing 137 Czechoslovak people and seriously wounding 500 on 21st August...