Praise The Steph

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🇨🇿Czech & 🇺🇦Ukrainian Army enthusiast, Mil news & Defense technology, tracking Czech equipment (not only) in Ukraine | contact: praisethesteph@gmail.com Twitter: @praisethesteph

Soldiers of the 🇺🇦119th Separate Territorial Defense Brigade during training with their 🇨🇿CZ TSR (Tactical Sniper Rifle) rifles in 7.62x51mm NATO equipped with Vortex Razor HD rifle scopes, bipods, factory-made compensators and Ase Utra S series suppressors.

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🇨🇿Czechia: Joint exercise of forward air controllers (FAC) and unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) operators of the Czech Special Forces. The aim of the exercise was to increase expertise in direct air support procedures during dynamic scenarios simulating an asymmetric warfare environment. 🧵1/3

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🇨🇿 #Czechia: Aero L-39 Skyfox in a new color scheme and with additional fuel tanks departing for the 🇦🇪UAE, where the Let L-410NG from Aircraft Industries will also be on display. The L-39 will be exhibited with a new Phoenix pod from SiNAB Technologies at Dubai AirShow, 17-21 November.

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🇨🇿 #Czechia: OMNIPOL has signed a strategic cooperation agreement with the Australian company SiNAB Technologies. SiNAB Technologies develops and manufactures an autonomous pods, which in its basic version is used for training joint air traffic controllers (JTAC). 🧵1/2

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Members of the 🇺🇦Volunteer Unit "Lyubart" (today's 20th Brigade of Operational Assignment “Lyubart”) with 🇨🇿Czech-supplied Czechoslovak-made vz.58 P rifles in 7.62x39mm caliber during urban combat training near Lutsk, March 2022.

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🇨🇿 #Czechia: Low flight over the landscape of AH-1Z Viper (No.0488) and UH-1Y Venom (No.0493) helicopters of the 22nd Helicopter Air Base Náměšt' nad Oslavou, of the Czech Air Force. Beautiful Buchlov Castle can be seen in the background. The Viper carries 7-round 70mm LAU-68F/A APKWS II launchers.

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🇨🇿 #Czechia: Leopard 2A4 tanks of the 73rd Tank Battalion, 7th Mechanised Brigade, during recent exercises and training courses. Leopard 2A4s are currently the main tanks of the 73rd Tank Battalion and are used primarily for training crews before the arrival of newly ordered Leopard 2A8. 🧵1/2

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#Ukraine/#Russia 🇺🇦🇷🇺: Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has unveiled a new generation of Sea Baby USVs. The modernized Sea Babies are capable of traveling up to 1,500 km and carrying up to 2,000 kg of cargo. They also have more powerful engines and a modern navigation system. 🧵1/2

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🇨🇿 #Czechia: After two years of negotiations, the Military History Institute in Prague (VHÚ) has succeeded in obtaining a donation from Moldova of a BTR-152K armored personnel carrier, which, according to information from historians at the Moldovan military museum Muzeul armatei din Chișinău,… 🧵1/2

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🇨🇿 #Czechia: KBVP Pandur II 8x8 CZ wheeled infantry fighting vehicle of the 42nd Mechanized Battalion of the 4th Rapid Deployment Brigade with camouflage nets and vegetation during the Rapid Trial 2025 exercise, during which they are preparing for deployment to NATO MN BG Slovakia.

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#Ukraine/#Russia 🇺🇦🇷🇺: The Chief of the General Staff of the Czech Army, Karel Řehka, announced that after completing repairs and modernization of 30 T-72M4CZ tanks (and most likely also 3 VT-72M4CZ ARVs), he plans to recommend that the Czech Government donate these tanks to Ukraine.

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🇭🇷 #Croatia: Croatia will join the framework agreement of the Czech MoD for the purchase of Tatra Force trucks. This agreement has currently been signed by Czechia and Slovakia. Croatia is interested in ordering up to 420 Tatra Force trucks, including 6x6 flatbeds and 8x8 container carriers.

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🇯🇵 #Japan: First Patria AMV APC, manufactured by Japan Steel Works under license from Patria, delivered to the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF). Under a contract with the Ministry of Defense from May 2024, Japan Steel Works will produce 26 vehicles in cooperation with Patria. 🧵1/3

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