(right) while in Germany to prepare for deployment to Afghanistan. (left) discusses patrol routes with a Croatian Army Sgt. 59 machine gun were of Czechoslovak design.Īfter 1992 (dissolution of Czechoslovakia)Ĭzech Army Sgt. ĭuring the Cold War, the ČSLA was equipped primarily with Soviet arms, although certain arms like the OT-64 SKOT armored personnel carrier, the L-29 Delfín and L-39 Albatros aircraft, the P-27 Pancéřovka antitank rocket launcher, the Sa vz.
In the Eastern Military District, there were two tank divisions, the 13th and 14th, with a supervisory headquarters at Trenčín in the Slovak part of the country. A 1989 listing of forces shows two Czechoslovak armies in the west, the 1st at Příbram with one tank division and three motor rifle divisions, the 4th at Písek with two tank divisions and two motor rifle divisions. About 100,000 of these were conscripts." There were two military districts, Western and Eastern.
"Of the approximately 201,000 personnel on active duty in the ČSLA in 1987, about 145,000, or about 72 percent, served in the ground forces (commonly referred to as the army). The ČSLA offered no resistance to the invasion mounted by the Soviets in 1968 in reaction to the " Prague Spring", and was extensively reorganized by the Soviets following the re-imposition of communist rule in Prague. Although the ČSLA, as formed in 1945, included both Soviet- and British-equipped/trained expatriate troops, the "Western" soldiers had been purged from the ČSLA after 1948 when the communists took power. Four Czech and Slovak-manned RAF squadrons were transferred to Czechoslovak control in late 1945.įrom 1954 until 1990, the Army was known as the Czechoslovak People's Army (ČSLA). Following the downfall of Czechoslovakia and occupation of its Czech part by Nazi Germany in 1939, Czechoslovak units and formations served with the Polish Army ( Czechoslovak Legion), the French Army, the Royal Air Force, the British Army (the 1st Czechoslovak Armoured Brigade), and the Red Army ( I Corps). The Czechoslovak Armed Forces were originally formed after 1918, when Czechoslovakia was created from former Austro-Hungarian areas after the defeat of that country in World War I. 7.3 Officer cadets and military school cadets.
7.1 Enlisted and non-commissioned officers.1.1 After 1992 (dissolution of Czechoslovakia).After the dissolution of Czechoslovakia, the Czech Republic is completing a major reorganisation and reduction of the armed forces, which intensified after the Czech Republic joined NATO on 12 March 1999. From the late 1940s to 1989, the extensive Czechoslovak Armed Forces (about 200,000) formed one of the pillars of the Warsaw Pact military alliance. ) comprise the land forces, the Czech Air Force and support units. The Army of the Czech Republic (Czech language: Armáda České Republiky Chief of the General Staff: Lieutenant general Petr PavelĢ1,057, 8,288 civilian personnel.