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The Czech Air Force ( Czech: Vzdušné síly) [Note 1] is the air force branch of the Army of the Czech Republic. Along with the Land Forces, the Air Force is the major Czech military force. With traditions of military aviation dating back to 1918, the Czech Air Force, together with the Slovak Air Force, succeeded the Czechoslovak Air Force in ...
Ministry of Defence & Armed Forces of the Czech Republic. Ministerstvo obrany. 2016-01-01. Retrieved 25 February 2016. ^ "Aircraft Data 1525, 1985 Let L-410FG Turbolet C/N 851525, Aérospatiale SA-330J Puma C/N 1525". ^ Finnerty, Ryan (17 August 2023).
The Army of the Czech Republic was formed after the Czechoslovak Armed Forces split after the 31 December 1992 peaceful dissolution of Czechoslovakia. Czech forces stood at 90,000 in 1993. They were reduced to around 65,000 in 11 combat brigades and the Air Force in 1997, to 63,601 in 1999, [28] and to 35,000 in 2005.
No. 311 (Czechoslovak) Squadron RAF was a Czechoslovak-manned bomber squadron of the Royal Air Force in the Second World War. It was the RAF's only Czechoslovak-manned medium and heavy bomber squadron. It suffered the heaviest losses of any Czechoslovak formation in the RAF. In the Second World War 511 Czechoslovaks serving in Allied air forces ...
Czechoslovak Air Force. The Czechoslovak Air Force ( Československé letectvo) or the Czechoslovak Army Air Force [1] ( Československé vojenské letectvo) was the air force branch of the Czechoslovak Army formed in October 1918. The armed forces of Czechoslovakia ceased to exist on 31 December 1992. [2]
Czech Land Forces. The Czech Land Forces [4] ( Czech: Pozemní síly) [Note 2] are the land warfare forces of the Czech Republic. The Land Forces consisting of various types of arms and services complemented by air and special operations forces constitute the core of the Czech Armed Forces. [5] Land Forces Command is located in Olomouc.
The squadron's duties included coastal patrols and shipping reconnaissance flights. 312 Squadron pilots at RAF Harrowbeer in Devon in 1942 just after being decorated by Czechoslovak President Edvard Beneš. On 23 June 1942 Sqn Ldr Vašátko was killed in action and Sqn Ldr Jan Čermák was appointed to succeed him. [3]
CSPA tank parade in Prague on Victory Day, 9 May 1985. The Czechoslovak People's Army ( Czech: Československá lidová armáda, Slovak: Československá ľudová armáda, ČSLA) was the armed forces of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ) and the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic from 1954 [1] until 1989. From 1955 it was a member force ...