The 16th Edition of the Tank Day was held by the Military History Institute Prague in the Military Technical Museum in Lešany on 1st September - The Security Information Service warned of the growing threat by “paramilitary groups” - On Tuesday the Ministry of Defence and the General Staff presented essential decisions concerning …
NATO Days 2018 together with the Czech Air Force Days start in two weeks in Ostrava, with the main program up for 15th and 16th September. It is being finalized and offers many interesting inputs by many allied countries. The U.S. Army will present the M1 Abrams MBT, the M2 Bradley IFV and two Apache attack helicopters. Prague Castle …
Two weeks ago the Chief of General Staff Lieutenant General Aleš Opata presented the actual aims and priorities of development and modernization of the Czech Army. We will now present the detailed requirements as they appear in chosen chapters of the document „Modernization Projects of the Czech Army“, and come back to them later …
The Czech Defence Ministry will launch a tender for purchase of 210 new tracked infantry fighting vehicles worth 2.58 billion, within a few months, to replace the BMP-2, while continuing the project of Pandur II, thus the army structure based on a „heavy“ and a „light“ brigade. These would be the main competitors.