Twenty-two bidders have fetched the documentation for the contract at the Defence Ministry. The deal is to be worth 317 million crowns, the server writes. The military would like to receive the first vehicles by early September and the delivery should be completed by next May, it adds. The server writes that the Czech version of the bid, published at the webpage of the European Defence Agency (EDA), speaks about the purchase of Land Rovers, while the English version does not mention them. The government recently approved a Hughes becomes Man City manager ...
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Danes suspected of robbery to be taken to homeland from CzechRep ... proposal by the Defence Ministry under which a part of the money for which armoured personnel carriers Pandur were to be bought would be used for the acquisition of other military equipment, including 20 Land Rovers in the ambulance version. The deal was prompted by the worsening security situation in the Czech military's foreign missions, the Defence Ministry said. Two Czech soldiers have died in Afghanistan this year. The military recently bought eight light APCs to protect more the soldiers. Members of the Czech Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) in the Afghan province of Logar use a number of vehicles Dingo 2. The military police who are deployed in the dangerous province Helmand have bought four Iveco APCs. According to earlier information, the military has more than 516 British Land Rovers of various versions. The troops also use the old Soviet-made UAZs.
(Ceske Noviny)
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