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Resilient Sky 2023: Czech Air Force launches key national air defence exercise

31.8.2023

The two-week home air defence exercise Resilient Sky has kicked off. It will verify and enhance operations planning and control and the very command and control systems through the involvement of more than four hundred service members from all units of the Czech Air Force with dozens of air assets and ground vehicles. It will also see the participation of the national Integrated Emergency System that comprises of the blue light services.

MoU on Cooperation in field of armaments between the Czech Republic and Estonia signed

21.8.2023

On Tuesday, 16th of August, the Director General of the Armaments and Acquisitions Division, Lubor Koudelka, signed a Memorandum of Understanding in field of armaments (MoU) with his counterpart, the Director of the Estonian Centre for Defence Investment (ECDI), Magnus Valdemar Saar. This was done on the occasion of a bilateral meeting taking place during an official visit of the ECDI delegation to the Czech Republic.

The Czech Republic has joined the NATO Innovation Fund!

21.8.2023

At the end of July were taken the final steps to establish the NATO Innovation Fund, the first-ever multinational venture capital fund focused on strategic investments in disruptive technologies.

Minister Černochová: Czech Republic and Germany share perception of current major threats

25.7.2023

Federal Minister of Defence of Germany Boris Pistorius was at a two-day visit to the Czech Republic. He and Minister of Defence Jana Černochová visited the National Memorial to the Heroes of the Heydrich Terror in Prague and later at the Ministry of Defence, they discussed present and future defence cooperation.

Additional MoUs to support defence industrial cooperation with Ukraine

19.7.2023

Last week, Prague was the venue to the third meeting of the Czech-Ukrainian Intergovernmental Commission on Defence Industry. The Czech Republic was represented by Director General of the MoD Defence Industrial Cooperation Division Radka Konderlová, and Ukraine by Deputy Defence Minister and National Armaments Director Volodymyr Havrylov.