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Gripens guard Czech air space 365/24 for eight years

29.8.2013

On the occasion of finalising talks between Czech and Swedish parties on prolongation of a lease agreement of SAAB 39 Gripen supersonic aircraft, Czech PM Jiri Rusnok visited 21st Tactical Air Force Base at Caslav to get more information on operation of these aircraft and conditions of their pilots who guard Czech air space daily for eight years.

RAMSTEIN ROVER 2013 - A Key Exercise Series Continues

21.8.2013

From 2 to 20 September 2013 a new edition of NATO’s Ramstein Rover (RARO) exercise series for Forward Air Controllers (FACs) will take place in the Czech Republic, where it had already been conducted last year.

Pirates had no chance to capture a ship in last six months

19.8.2013

Deputy Chief of the General Staff of ACR Major General Ales Opata received at the end of the last week members of the 7th ACR Group serving in EUNAVFOR Operation Atalanta, European Union anti-piracy off coast Somalia maritime operation, after their successful six-month service at the Operational Headquarters in Northwood, the U.K.

Czech soldiers help save lives in Wardak

12.8.2013

The mentoring does not mean just pure theory and advisory activities. During training and passing experience to their Afghan colleagues, also Czech medics from the 1st Military Advisory Team located at the Solthan Kheyl Base, Wardak, Afghanistan, teach and practice life saving support and treatment of patients as a daily routine.

Holiday season? Training goes on

5.8.2013

There is no training break for soldiers during July and August. But not only training goes on, soldiers have also handed over the last of six temporary bridges to local authorities across the Czech Republic thus assisting people hit by June floods.