Armée tchèque/Czech Armed Forces

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les Gripens tchéques en missions OTAN pour assurer la defense aerienne des pays baltes

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Les forces Tchèque utilise le L85 Anglais?je ne vois pas trop bien sur la photo.

Nachshon a écrit:

Les forces Tchèque utilise le L85 Anglais?je ne vois pas trop bien sur la photo.

Les forces Tchèque commence a utilisé le CZ 805 Bren, pour remplacer le VZ 58 et non le L85 Anglais.

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Czech Army To Sell 134 T-72 Tanks




WARSAW — The Czech Ministry of Defense plans to sell 134 T-72 main battle tanks currently used by the country’s military, reported local newspaper Hospodarske noviny.

The tracked vehicles are most likely to be exported to an African country, according to the Czech newspaper. The sale will be handled by a private company.

“The tanks are still operational, and they can be deployed in case of war,” said Jan Pejsek, the spokesman for the Ministry of Defense. In the past, the Czech Republic had sold many of its T-72s to Algeria, the spokesman said. Pejsek said the Czech Army has been gradually shifting its focus away from tanks in favor of lighter military vehicles with higher mobility.

In addition to the T-72s, the Czech land forces have an additional 30 units of the T-72M4 CZ modernized version of the tracked vehicle. The tanks were overhauled by local defense manufacturer VOP from 2001 to 2006. The amount of the contract was 4 billion Czech korunas ($194 million).

The T-72M4 CZ weighs 48 tons and can carry a crew of three. Its 736-kilowatt engine from the U.K.’s Perkins Engines produces a maximum speed of 38 mph. The tank is fitted with a 125mm gun, a 7.62mm machine gun and a 12.7mm anti-aircraft machine gun.

The Soviet-designed T-72 has been manufactured since 1971, and used by the Czech Army since 1978. In 1993, the newly established Czech land forces had about 1,600 such tanks.

http://www.defensenews.com/article/20120719/DEFREG01/307190005

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Czech Defence Ministry Plans to Complement Equipment of Small Arms Before 2020


A Czech soldier with the new CZ 805 BREN assault rifle. (Photo: Czech Army)

14:38 GMT, July 23, 2012 The Ministry of Defence of the Czech Republic plans to buy approximately ten thousand CZ 805 BREN attack rifles, seven thousand CZ 75 PHANTOM pistols and 500 CZ SCORPION sub-machine guns during next several years.

According to Colonel Pavel Bulant, Director of the Armaments Division of MoD, this quantity should cover needs of all elements of Czech armed forces.

The total cost will exceed a billion Czech Crowns and the purchase is to be made through the framework of a long-term agreement. “Because the ministry is unable to expend this amount at one time, the project will be phased into several years. Based on money available, we would buy a certain number of arms,” Bulant confirms, adding that the Armaments Division at present studies legal and financial aspects of the deal.

All three kinds of weapons, BREN rifles, PHANTOM pistols and SCORPION sub-machine guns have been introduced into units recently and soldiers use them both at home and at foreign missions. Next purchase of several thousand pieces should be started in 2014. “The delivery of almost 8 thousand attack rifles is now in process and will be closed the next year, so we think to start the further phase of the purchase in the subsequent year,“ Bulant explains.

Some five years ago, the Czech military were equipped with 18 kinds of small arms, including 70 types of cartridges in 11 various calibres. That status brought problems in procurement, funding, training and the complicated logistics. The new small arms in unified calibre will make the “handling” more simple and less expensive in future.

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Czechs pressure Sweden on extending jet fighter lease

(Reuters) - The Czech government will start looking for a new provider of fighter jets unless Sweden improves its offer to extend a lease of its Gripen fighters now used by the air force, the Czech prime minister said on Wednesday.

The Czechs' lease of 14 Gripens, made by Saab, runs out in 2014 and the central European country is under pressure to find a cheap replacement or an extension, as the army budget shrinks.

But the NATO member's Prime Minister Petr Necas said on Wednesday the Czechs would prepare a tender to pick a different supplier unless Sweden improves its offer by November.

"If this, for me surprisingly unwelcoming, attitude persists ... we will go ahead with an open tender and the Gripens will either stay or not," Necas told a news conference after the cabinet discussed the latest Swedish proposal.

The government did not give details on the offer. Daily Pravo reported Sweden had offered a small discount to the current price of around 2 billion crowns per year.

The Czechs leased the Gripens in 2004 for 10 years and about 19.6 billion crowns, or $927.89 million under the current exchange rate.

The government is seeking to extend the lease by several years, pending a decision on the long-term future of its air force. ($1 = 21.1233 Czech crowns) (Reporting by Jan Lopatka; Editing by Jon Loades-Carter)

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Czechs Would Like to Operate Supersonic Aircraft Also After 2015


During the NATO Days 2010, the Czech Air force celebrated 10,000 flight hours. (Photo: Saab AB, Milan Nykodym)

14:38 GMT, July 30, 2012 The Czech government have decided that the Defence Ministry will go on in talks with Swedish party over prolongation of a lease agreement on SAAB 39 Gripen aircraft till this November.

The Czech government authorised on 25 July 2012 Defence Minister Alexandr Vondra to negotiate over prolongation of 10-year lease of 14 SAAB 39 Gripen aircraft with Sweden till the end of this November.

If there is no acceptable result reached from the talks, the government is ready to open public invitation to tender over supersonic aircraft fleet for the Czech Republic.

The 19.6 billion Czech Crowns lease agreements with Sweden were signed in Prague on 14 June 2004, while the first six aircraft landed at the Caslav Airbase on 18 April 2005, and the whole delivery was accomplished in August the same year.

The first Gripen supersonics of the Czech Air Force assumed protection of the Czech air space on 1 July 2005 replacing outdated Soviet-made MiG-21 supersonic aircraft.

Besides helping several civilian airplanes to reestablish a radio contact when overflying the Czech Republic so far, four Czech Gripen aircraft served in the NATO Air Policing mission in the Baltics from May to August 2009. Another tour of Czech Gripen Air Policing in the Baltics starts this September.

Czech Gripen aircraft regularly participate in NATO TIGER MEET and a number of other air exercises held in Europe.

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Czech Gripen Aircraft Participate In The Baltic Air Policing.

By departure of the first part of the 2nd ACR Contingent to Lithuania, the Czech Republic goes on with participation in the NATO Air Policing mission in the Baltic States.

The first group of the 2nd ACR Contingent to serve in favour of the NATO Air Policing mission in the Baltics departed the Caslav Air Base on 21 August 2012 by CASA C-295M plane. Further air transports of the rest of 64-member Contingent including four JAS-30 Gripen (SAAB 39 Gripen) supersonic aircraft were planned for 23 and 30 August.

Commander of the Contingent Colonel Petr Lanci assumes an operational task in Lithuania from the Polish Air Force Contingent commander on 1 September 2012, and will hand it over to the Royal Danish Air Force on 4 January 2013. “Using experience from the first deployment, we are ready to fulfil the operational task,” Colonel Lanci says.

The Czech Republic entered the NATO Baltic Air Policing in 2009 deploying the 1st ACR Contingent with four JAS-39 Gripen aircraft which served at the Lithuanian Siauliai Air Base from 1 May to 31 August 2009.

”We consider a two-year interval from the first deployment as an optimal rotation cycle,” Brigadier General Jaroslav Kankia, Deputy Director of the Joint Operational Centre of Czech MoD, says at the departure of air personnel from Caslav to Siauliai.

http://www.defense-aerospace.com/article-view/release/137891/czech-gripens-take-up-baltic-air-policing.html

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JAS-39 Gripen.

tres belle pic avec les canard-tiger

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Czech Air Force patrolling Baltic skies.

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Slimmer But Strong


(Source: Czech Ministry of Defence; issued Nov. 12, 2012)



The Czech military will be slimmer from the beginning of 2014 but still strong. New organisational and command structures will enable the Armed Forces of the Czech Republic to focus on training for defence of this country in close cooperation with other NATO members.

New adminstrative commands of the Land Forces and Air Force will replace from 2014 present operational tactical commands of the Joint Forces and Support Forces. Several newly formed agencies will be in charge of military logistics, medical care, communication and information systems, and personnel affairs. The Ministry of Defence and the General Staff will be slimmer, with downsizing both civilian and military personnel.

New organisation and changes will keep present capabilities of the Czech military even without the level of middle command and management structures. The General Staff will be empowered with direct command functions to use them in specific situations only.

The Czech military will focus on their major mission to ensure sovereignty of the country, and security of its citizens, by intensive and effective training both at home and in cooperation with allied armed forces. No major deployment of Czech forces on foreign operations is planned for years to come.

The planned restructuring of the Czech military has been caused by considerable cuts in funding of the Czech defence department. “Just in last five years, the defence budget was decreased from 55 to 42 billion Czech Crowns,“ Minister Vondra says adding that the Czech military will be slimmer and strong in future.

This is the general outcome of the Command Meeting of the Armed Forces of the Czech Republic held at the Defence Ministry on 6 November 2012. Chief of the General Staff of ACR Lieutenant General Petr Pavel, President of the Czech Republic Vaclav Klaus, and Minister of Defence Alexandr Vondra delivered key speeches at the Meeting. The top level command meetings are held at the Defence Ministry once a year.

http://www.defense-aerospace.com/articles-view/release/3/140150/czech-army-prepares-to-slim-down.html

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PRAGUE -- November 22, 2012 Updated:
PRAGUE (AP) An official says a Czech military plane with one person aboard has crashed near Prague.

Czech military spokeswoman Jana Ruzickova says the subsonic L-159 aircraft crashed Thursday somewhere west of the town of Kolin, which is 50 kilometers (30 miles) east of the capital.

Ruzickova says it is not immediately clear what happened to the pilot, the only person on board.

She declined to give any more details.

The L-159 is a light combat and training plane.

http://www2.wnct.com/news/2012/nov/22/czech-military-plane-crashes-near-prague-ar-2802734/

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CASA plane's anti-missile system fails again







ČTK |
3 December 2012
Prague, Nov 30 (CTK) - The protection system against guided missiles (DAS) of the four CASA transport planes that the Czech military bought has failed in the tests again, Defence Ministry spokesman Jan Pejsek told CTK Friday.

The E15 daily wrote earlier Friday that the anti-missile system does not function properly.

The Czech military received the four CASAs in 2010. The DAS system was to fully operate in July 2011, under the original contract.

The military's tests were to be completed by Friday, but the DAS system did not pass them. If the system passed the tests, the military would have taken the DAS over.

"Unfortunately, despite significant progress in its activities and stability, there are results that do not correspond to the specification in some parameters and these will have to be checked again," Pejsek said about the DAS.

The military tests have been interrupted at request of the supplier, the Czech firm Omnipol.

The ministry does not want to install a protection system from a different producer.

Pavel Bulant, head of the National Armament Office, said the ministry will wait for the producer to remove the defects.

He said the longer the delay, the higher the fine for Omnipol.

The ministry is now considering extending the deadline for the elimination of the defects by one more year, E15 writes.

Pejsek said the defects have not yet been eliminated because the suppliers of some components do not react to the defects flexibly, because adverse weather prevents the testing of some parts of the system and because foreign workers need to have access to classified information.

The Defence Ministry says the CASAs cannot be used in Afghanistan due to the defective DAS. But Omnipol argues that foreign militaries fly planes without anti-missile protection within the Afghan mission.

The Czechs will markedly reduce their military operation in Afghanistan.

The purchase of three CASA C-295 planes for 3.5 billion crowns and the swap of five Czech-made L-159 subsonic fighters for the fourth CASA were approved by the Czech government in 2009.

According to earlier media reports, the acquisition of the CASAs was suspicious and the contract was probably overpriced. Senior ministry officials allegedly pushed the contract through against the will of the military leaders.

Former defence minister Vlasta Parkanova and her deputy Jiri Stanek are prosecuted over the CASA deal.

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Sweden cuts price on Czech combat jets offer-paper

Dec 3 (Reuters) - Sweden has agreed with the Czech Republic to lower the price on an extended lease of Gripen fighter jets after threats to find another aircraft, daily newspaper Lidove Noviny said on Monday, citing the Czech defence minister.

The Czechs' existing contract expires in 2014 for the lease of 14 Gripens made by Saab and the country is under pressure to find a cheap replacement or an extension, as the army budget shrinks.

"The current offer is much more advantageous than the original one," the paper quoted Defence Minister Alexandr Vondra as saying. "The price was reduced by roughly one billion (crowns)," Vondra told the daily.

The daily said this would mean the new price for a 10-year extension of the lease is 14 billion crowns ($721 million), after the Swedes first offered the deal for 15 billion.

The NATO member's Prime Minister Petr Necas was pressuring Sweden in July, threatening the Czechs would prepare a tendering competition to pick a different supplier unless Sweden improves its offer by November.

Vondra should unveil details of the offer at a National Security Council meeting later on Monday. A Defence Ministry spokesman said he would not comment on the issue until it is discussed at the council.

The Czechs leased the Gripens in 2004 for 10 years and about 19.6 billion crowns. The government is seeking to extend the lease by several years pending a decision on the long-term future of its air force. ($1=19.4260 Czech crowns) (Reporting by Jana Mlcochova; Editing by Greg Mahlich)

Mi24P et Mi8MT

Mi-17 (rotor de queue à gauche), d'ailleurs, c'est marqué Mi-17 sur l'affiche de la 2e photo

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Czech Air Force MiG-21

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WARSAW, February 4 (RIA Novosti) - The Czech Republic plans to send combat instructors to Mali to join a military operation against Islamist militants in the north of the country, Czech radio reported citing the foreign minister said.

According to Czech Foreign Minister and First Deputy Prime Minister Karel Schwarzenberg, the participation of the Czech Republic in the anti-Islamist operation, would prove that his country “is a reliable ally that can help the army of Mali.”

“This proposal must be endorsed at a session of the Czech cabinet of ministers and then voted upon in the parliament,” Schwarzenberg said.

The West African nation of Mali has been in crisis since its Soviet-trained president Amadou Toumani Touré was ousted in a coup in March 2012, and a coalition of Islamist groups seized the north of the country.

The 15-member UN Security Council unanimously voted in December to give the African-led International Support Mission in Mali (AFISMA) an initial one-year mandate.

More than 2,000 Chadian soldiers and 500 troops from Niger are being deployed in Niger, near the Mali border, as part of the UN-mandated African force.

A week ago the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) agreed to send additional troops to the country.

France deployed its own military contingent on January 10 to aid Mali’s government, whose army had been retreating before the attack of armed groups with ties to al-Qaeda. The French contingent on the ground now totals 2,800 troops.

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Les Tchèques s’engagent, de façon décisive, dans EUTM Mali

Nicolas Gros-Verheyde /Sahel /

(BRUXELLES2) La participation tchèque à la mission européenne de formation de l’armée malienne ne sera pas négligeable. Le gouvernement tchèque a autorisé, ce mercredi (6 Février) l’engagement de 50 militaires pour EUTM Mali.

« La République tchèque est prête à participer activement à la stabilisation de la situation au Mali en envoyant un contingent d’un maximum de 50 soldats pour 15 mois » a déclaré le Premier ministre, Petr Necas, qui fait aussi office de ministre de la Défense ad interim. Les soldats tchèques ont une « riche expérience dans la formation des forces armées d’autres États. Ils l’ont démontré à plusieurs reprises dans les Balkans et en Irak, et jouent encore aujourd’hui un rôle important dans la formation des forces de sécurité afghanes », a précisé, de son côté le vice-ministre de la Défense, Vlastimil Picek.

30 instructeurs seront disponibles à partir d’avril. Ils seront chargés de la formation des unités mécanisées de l’armée malienne, pour une durée 15 mois (jusqu’à mi-2014). (Cette durée pouvant, au besoin, être prolongée). 20 autres personnels pourraient aussi être disponibles – « en fonction de l’évolution de la mission et des exigences du commandant de la mission » pour la formation des forces spéciales (forces commandos) ou des unités anti-IED (engins explosifs improvisés, selon le communiqué du ministère tchèque de la Défense. Le coût, pour la république Tchèque, est estimé à 220 millions de couronnes (soit environ 8 millions d’euros) financé par le ministère de la Défense.

Cette décision doit encore être avalisée par le Parlement. Ce qui ne devrait pas susciter de problème, normalement. L’opposition sociale-démocrate a déjà marqué son accord à cet envoi, selon l’agence de presse CTK.

Commentaire : un tournant tchèque

Cette nouvelle ne surprendra pas vraiment les lecteurs fidèles de ce blog. Il y a quelques mois déjà, le chef d’Etat-major tchèque avait laissé entendre la volonté de s’engager de façon décisive dans les missions de l’Union européenne. Le départ de Vaclav Klaus du Chateau (la résidence du président Tchèque) et son remplacement par Milos Zeman, plus europhile, rendait possible ce tournant dans la politique tchèque. Le premier geste du nouveau président avait été de hisser le drapeau européen sur sa résidence. Voici un autre geste qui n’est pas que symbolique ! On retrouve ainsi une république Tchèque plus proche de son histoire traditionnelle. Prague pourrait bientôt nous surprendre par d’autres mesures. S’il est confirmé, cela conduira à un tournant majeur à l’est de l’Europe.


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