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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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.


http://www.bruxelles2.eu/?s=en

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Première mission en Afrique pour les paras de Chrudim

Nicolas Gros-Verheyde /Sahel /


Les paras de Chrudim avant leur départ (Crédit : armée tchèque)

(BRUXELLES2) Les militaires tchèques sont fin prêts à partir pour le Mali. Ils devraient être sur place dans la semaine, à la mi-mars. Les derniers paquetages ont été faits vendredi 8 mars. Et le verdict de l’inspection générale de l’armée est tombé : “c’est bon”.

34 militaires chargés de la protection

Le détachement comprendra 34 militaires, dont 32 hommes du 43e bataillon parachutiste de Chrudim, une unité d’élite déployée sur nombre de terrains extérieurs (Balkans, Afghanistan pour Enduring Freedom et IFAS, Kosovo). Il sera chargé d’assurer la protection du siège de la mission de formation de l’armée malienne (EUTM) à Bamako.

« Ce sera la première mission en Afrique, C’est tout à fait une nouvelle expérience, quelque chose d’autre pour nous », a expliqué le chef de l’unité, le Lieutenant Stepanek. « La plupart de l’équipe a travaillé en Afghanistan et nous sommes prêts pour un large éventail de tâches ». Les militaires ont subi une formation courte, tactique (maniement armes à feu, formation des escortes et escorte de personnalité) et également d’appréhension de la région. « Nous avons eu des cours intensifs avec des experts du continent africain pour connaître l’histoire du pays, les pratiques culturelles et la population ».

Les militaires disposeront de trois véhicules LRD 130 Kajman ainsi que trois véhicules blindés Iveco, armés par les nouveaux fusils automatiques BREN, précise-t-on à l’Etat-Major tchèque. Matériel qui va être acheminé sur place par les avions ukrainiens An-124 ou Illyouchine-76 du contrat SALIS.

http://www.bruxelles2.eu/zones/sahel/premiere-mission-en-afrique-pour-les-paras-de-chrudim.html

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Czech Pilots Practice In-Flight Refueling

Czech Gripen pilots completed 80 refueling contacts with German Airbus 310 MRTT tanker in a three-day training recently, says a news report in Ministry of Defence of the Czech Republic’s website.

The report says that it was the first time that an in flight refueling was done in the Czech skies. The refueling, which took place mainly over the Czech Giant Mountains, involved a total of five Gripen pilots and six of 21 Tactical Air Force Base pilots.

The report explains that performing an in-flight refueling is not an easy task. In the final phase of the connection, the pilot must be able to approximate the location of the refueling basket at about 5 km/h. If the connection is successful, the pilot needs to be attentive and make sure that the edge of the basket should be at about 30 cm from the canopy.

"The training has increased number of Czech pilots who are able to refuel in the air and advanced capabilities of our flight and, at the same time, advanced combat skills of all the air force," Captain Pavel Pavlik, Deputy Commander of 211th Tactical Flight says.

http://www.gripenblogs.com

thewa3r a écrit:

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depuis quand la tchequie a des F16
c´est la hollande ca

Bien vu

3 JAS-39C Gripen

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Gripen C


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Czech Defense Ministry To Extend Gripen Jet Fighter Lease
Jul. 15, 2013 - 06:15PM | By JAROSLAW ADAMOWSKI

WARSAW — Czech Defense Minister Vlastimil Picek has announced plans to extend the country’s lease of Swedish Saab JAS 39 Gripen jet fighters, local news agency CTK reported. The current deal will expire at the end of 2014.

Picek said he aims to submit the proposal for the contract extension after the cabinet of Prime Minister Jiri Rusnok is given a vote of confidence by the Czech parliament. The minister also said the new contract would be more advantageous for the Czech Republic.

Rusnok, who was sworn in by President Milos Zeman July 10 following the resignation of Petr Necas, has 30 days to request a vote of confidence.

Under the current deal, from 2004 to 2014, the Czech Republic will pay about 19.6 billion crowns (US $984 million) for the lease of 14 jet fighters. The leasing agreement was signed by the Czech and Swedish governments in June 2004.

Local media have reported that the analyzed scenarios included extending the contract by between three and 11 years for between 5 billion and 14.5 billion crowns.
http://www.defensenews.com/article/20130715/DEFREG01/307150014/Czech-Defense-Ministry-Extend-Gripen-Jet-Fighter-Lease

je comprends pas ces leasings,10 ans pour presque 1B$ et 14 gripen seulement  un achat de new serait plus avantageux

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Czech defence ministry proposes extending warplane lease

(Reuters) - The Czech Republic has tentatively negotiated an extension of the lease of Gripen fighter airplanes from Sweden for up to 14 years, securing the NATO member-state's air defence needs, Defence Minister Vlastimil Picek said on Wednesday.

He said the defence ministry would prepare an amendment to the existing contract by December and the final decision would be made by a new cabinet to be formed after an election on Oct. 25-26.

Picek said negotiators had agreed a discount of 32 percent for the lease of the 14 Saab-made planes, on a 10-year contract from 2004 that was valued at 19.6 billion crowns ($1.01 billion).

"Should somebody think the plane will be out of date after 14 years, on the contrary, it will be only in the middle of its lifespan in 2029," Picek told journalists.

Facing a shrinking military budget, the Czechs said in July they would look for a new supplier of fighter jets if a deal with Sweden could not be reached.

The Czech Republic has been slashing its military spending to around a half of NATO's recommended 2 percent of GDP.

In the political debate on whether to extend the lease, some had proposed giving up supersonic military aircraft altogether.

The planes' equipment will be upgraded to include not only air-to-air but also air-to-ground combat capabilities, Picek said. ($1 = 19.4113 Czech crowns) (Reporting by Robert Muller; writing by Jan Lopatka; editing by Andrew Roche)

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  Republic confirms acceptance of four C295 aircraft

30/10/2013



A Czech Republic delegation headed by the Deputy Minister of Defence Mr. Libor Karásek has confirmed the acceptance of four Airbus Military C295 transport aircraft. The Czech Republic delegation visited different Airbus Military facilities in Spain, including the C295 final assembly line (FAL).

The photograph shows the Czech Deputy Minister of Defence Mr. Libor Karásek, Col. Jaromir Sebesta, Czech AF Deputy Commander, Ramón Bau from the Airbus Military Customer Support organisation, and Agustín Benassar from the Airbus Military Commercial organisation.
 

http://www.airbusmilitary.com/PressCenter/LatestNews/TabId/176/ArtMID/681/ArticleID/306/The-Czech-Republic-confirms-acceptance-of-four-C295-aircraft.aspx