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...
A subject closely related to our previous article on the replacement of the SHORAD/MSAM systems of the Czech Army concerns the acquisition of the Mobile Air Defence Radars (MADR) or Multi Mission Radars (MMR) from the Israeli Elta Systems (ELM-2084). The previous Minister of Defence, Karla Šlechtová, stopped the tender for purchase...
The 25th Air Defence Missile Regiment (part of the Czech Air Force) is formed of two Air Defence Missile Groups. The 251st group is armed with four batteries of the 2K12 Kub (2К12 Куб, NATO reporting name: SA-6 „Gainful“), the 252nd Air Defence Missile Group operates sixteen 9K35 Strela-10’s (9К35 «Стрела-10», NATO reporting name:...
On 2nd August 2018, the first AERO L-159T2 ALCA (Advanced Light Combat Aircraft) light attack and trainer jet for the Czech Air Force made its first flight at Aero Vodochody Airport. Czech Air Force which currently operates 5 L-159T1s with the 213th Training Squadron, ordered three L-159T2 twin seat aircraft with several upgrades...