Some Czechland news

[Marek_Tucan]

Armored Day at our tank museum. Interesting view of new and old equipment. From the new one, Iveco LMV19 light armored vehicle and Pandur II IFV. Plus various other scout vehicles and APCs. Plus few bits of static exposition.
Enjoy!
http://tuccy.rajce.idnes.cz/2010_05_...Day%2C_Lesany/




Coming soon: Complete organisation of Czech armed forces oftoday - once I generate all the pics

[Marek_Tucan]

Okay, so here is first intalment.
The joint Forces of the Army of the Czech Republic consist of:
Ground Forces,
Air Forces,
Joint Forces Support Complet.


Ground Forces consist of:
4th Rapid Deployment Brigade,
7th Mechanised Brigade,
13th Artillery Brigade,
102nd Reconnaissance Bn.


4th Rapid Deployment Brigade consists of:
41st Mechanised Bn (1st Co partially filled with airborne qwualified, 2nd Co standard mech, 3rd Co has no.3 Plt from Volunteer Active Reserves. Mortar Bty 12x120mm towed mortar) being converted from BVP-2s to Pandur IIs,
42nd Mechanised Bn (in transfer from BVP to Pandur),
43rd Airborne Mechanised Bn (Light unit, armed with Land Rover 130 Kajman partly armored vehicles, partly jump qualified),
44th Light Motorised Bn (Light infantry unit).


7th Mechanised Brigade consists of:
71st Mechanised Bn (BVP-2),
72nd Mechanised Bn (BVP-2, mortar battery operated 9 120mm self-propelled PRAM mortars),
73rd Tank Bn (companies 1. - 3. active duty T-72M4, 2. and 3. partly filled, no.4 company is Mechanised, and an Active Reserve T-72M1 company is attached),
74th Light Motorised Bn.


Other Ground Forces units consists of:
13th artillery Brigade (152mm DANA SP howitzer, RM-70 MRL),
102nd Reconnaissance Bn (Light company will switch from light vehicles to Pandur II, Heavy co. operates BVP-2 instead of BPzV)


And just in short, here are organisations of Air Forces and Joint Forces Support Complet:



Cheers!

[PN79]

Nice work.
Just minor note that Active Reserve Tank Company use all variants of T-72 except T-72M4. The reason behind that is probably that army wants to have crews operating all T-72s variants otherwise I don't know.
Regards
PN

[PlasmaKrab]

Hello there,

You were right, I should have checked the pictures first! Great stuff!

While I'm at a complete loss telling what is what in the pre-45 armored cars, the pics of the Pandurs give great coverage. I never realized the OHWS was that big.

On a separate note, the dismounting/mounting of the gun from the Vz.53/59 looks much more straightforward than I thought. How long was it taking in real time?

Keep up the good work!

[Imp]

Nice

[Marek_Tucan]

Thanks to Pavel for correcting me, will try to get more accurate info o other aspects as well - for example on the Airborne Mech Bn, there I had only TOEs for one company.
Plasmakrab, yes, the dismounting was very fast (and surprised me as well) - didn't have a stop watch, but looking at time stamps of the photos, it took ca. minute and a half, mounting it back about the same.

[Marek_Tucan]

Some news from the Land Forces Day of yesterday:
Light troops fire support vehicle, Land Rover 110 Kovboj. Similar in concept to airborne LR 130 Kajman, but with smaller capacity - while Kajman was designed to transport a full squad, Kovbo carries only its crew.
Light fragment protection from front and back. Armament of a DShK HMG or AGS-17 AGL and a PKB.


Rest of the gallery is here:
http://tuccy.rajce.idnes.cz/Bahna_20...nd_Forces_Day/

And two generally cool pics...