The Czech army decided to rearm with updated small arms

It became known about the large order of the Czech Ministry of Defense. This order is reported to substantially upgrade the small arms of the Czech army.

According to the latest data, the Ministry of Defense ordered the Czech weapon"(Česká zbrojovka as) 39 thousand weapons for the Armed Forces of the country. The total amount of the contract is about 85 million euros.

The Minister of Defense of the Czech Republic, Lubomir Metnar, said that rearmament is planned to be carried out before 2025.

Metnar:

This will not only allow us to rearm our troops, but also support the Czech industry and preserve jobs during the crisis. We are following the path of modernization of our army.

What kind of weapon are you talking about?

So, it is planned to supply about 16 thousand CZ BREN 2 rifles to the Czech army, more than 21 thousand CZ-10 semi-automatic pistols. Also we are talking about grenade launchers CZ 80 G1, automatic machines Scorpion EVO 3 CZ.

CZ BREN 2 - a modular assault rifle for ammunition 5,56x45 mm and 7,62 × 39 mm. The purchased version is designed for caliber 7,62 × 39 mm. In this modification of the assault rifle, the option of shooting in the 2-shot mode is canceled.

The manufacturer’s website shows the estimated price of such a rifle - in translation to rubles it is about 161 thousand rubles.

Comments

[The leader of the Redskins]

You will need to read more about these samples. In general, as far as I know, Czech weapons are recognized in the world.

[Victor_B]

Perhaps motivated by AK?
Why is this store so bent? After all, the NATO cartridges have less taper than 5,45x39.
The same AR-kovskie shops for 30 rounds are not so crooked.

The purchased version is designed for a caliber of 7,62 × 39 mm.

I answered myself.

[Zaurbek]

The cartridge has a 7,62x39mm conical sleeve and a magazine with an unbent shape is impossible.

[Oyo Sarkazmi]

Quote: Victor_B

I answered myself.

The cartridges are Russian there. But the mechanics are completely different. Czechs have never been armed with AK.

[Same lech]

Enough for a couple of divisions ... and a powerful cartridge for an assault rifle ... why didn’t the Americans give their rifles to the Czechs ... a lot of money allocated.

[lwxx]

why didn’t the Americans give their rifles to the Czechs

We couldn’t get Kalash, but where did the Americans go?

[Same lech]

The service life of the barrel is designed for 20 shots, the technical service life of the rifle as a whole is at least 000 years. The failure rate is 20%

Yeah ... good performance.

[Insurgent]

Quote: lwxx

We couldn’t get Kalash, but where did the Americans go?

It is when ?

However, if there was an attempt to "push" it, then the Czechs, having their own design school and production, acted quite reasonably, refusing ...

[Gray brother]

Quote: lwxx

We couldn’t get Kalash, but where did the Americans go?

Yes, they even delivered their weapons to the fascists - what are you talking about?

"By June 1941, German units were almost a third equipped with Czech weapons. The hands of the Czechs collected a fourth of all tanks, 26 percent of trucks and 40 percent of small arms of the German army. According to the Center for the German War Economy, on March 31, 1944, at the disposal of the Fuhrer from workshops of 857 Czech factories received weapons and equipment for almost 13 billion 866 million Reichsmarks.

Soviet historians, obeying ideological principles, painted a picture of the proletarian solidarity of Czech hard workers with Soviet brothers in the class. Unfortunate Czechs, they say, were driven to the machines almost at gunpoint. And so, suffering unbearably, the work collectives of these 857 Czech enterprises increased their deadly production from year to year.

According to German sources, in 1944 the Czech Republic monthly (!) Supplied to Germany about 11 thousand pistols, 30 thousand rifles, more than 3 thousand machine guns, 15 million cartridges, about 100 self-propelled artillery pieces, 144 infantry guns, 180 anti-aircraft guns, more than 620 thousand artillery pieces. shells, almost a million shells for anti-aircraft guns, from 600 to 900 wagons of aerial bombs, 0,5 million signal ammunition, 1000 tons of gunpowder and 600 thousand explosives. As for the labor productivity of the Czechs, it was not inferior to that of the German workers. "

[lwxx]

Did you yourself understand the meaning of your copy-paste? They did not produce their own small arms. but German. And after the entry of Czechoslovakia into the police department, we were not able to force them to adopt the AK. Although under license they produced Kalash - LADA ČZ 2000 - a small arms system based on the AKS-74, AKS-74U and RPKS-74.

[Gray brother]

Quote: lwxx

They did not produce their own small arms.

Look at the German tourist Czech machine gun Brno ZB vz. 37 quite a produced for the Wehrmacht. They also riveted their pistols - for example, https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/CZ_vz._27
Little info, but you can dig up a lot of things.

[lwxx]

German tourist Czech machine gun Brno ZB vz. 37 quite a while was made for the Wehrmacht.

For the most part, they produced German weapons for the Wehrmacht, a little of their own, but the Wehrmacht ordered and took mainly their own.

[Gray brother]

Quote: lwxx

but the Wehrmacht ordered and took mainly his own.

Czech weapons were on Czech tanks, because they were designed for it - the same machine guns, please.

[lwxx]

Let's not climb into the jungle, initially it was a question of small arms, and so much can be cited as an example.

[Gray brother]

Quote: lwxx

and so much can be cited as an example.

Can. ZK 383 for the Slovak army and SS units for example.

[Insurgent]

Quote: Victor_B

Perhaps motivated by AK?

An earlier and more detailed article about this weapon:

https://topwar.ru/162006-ne-huzhe-chem-staryj-dobryj-bren-cz-805-a1-a2.html

CZ 805 A1 / A2. No worse than the good old "Bren"
4 September 2019

[Gray brother]

Quote: Insurgent

An earlier and more detailed article about this weapon:
https://topwar.ru/162006-ne-huzhe-chem-staryj-dobryj-bren-cz-805-a1-a2.html

The comments on bmpd are much more interesting. There, knowledgeable people shamelessly bow the product)))
https://bmpd.livejournal.com/4003055.html#comments

[Insurgent]

Quote: Gray Brother

knowledgeable people shamelessly bow the product

Here's what ... To know a weapon, you need to feel it in battle ...

Until a certain point in my life, I was very skeptical about the PKK, like a machine gun. But when life forced me to make friends with him, I realized that the machine "with its own money" (properties and characteristics) works wonders for dexterity and skill.

Therefore, those who "know" without operating experience, this is not a guideline for understanding what kind of weapon it is ...

[Gray brother]

Quote: Insurgent

Therefore, those who "know" without operating experience, this is not a guideline for understanding what kind of weapon it is ...

They said the same thing about the G-36, and then to you. Plastic is evil, it is impossible to make loaded elements from it, regardless of what kind of loads there are - mechanical or thermal.

[Oyo Sarkazmi]

Quote: The same LYOKHA

Americans didn’t give Czechs their rifles

Even the Soviet Union was not able to beat the Czechs AK. Externally, the machines were similar to AK, but nothing to do with the shutter and the trigger.

[Insurgent]

Quote: Oo sarcasm

Even the Soviet Union was not able to beat the Czechs AK. Externally, the machines were similar to AK, but nothing to do with the shutter and the trigger.

Sa vz. 58 (Samopal vzor 1958) designed by I. Chermak.

[Sniper Amateur]

Enough for a couple of divisions

There have been no "divisions" in the Czech Republic a long time ago.
Combat composition of the SV: 3 brigades, dep. reconnaissance battalion and 28 dep. mouth in the "housekeeping".

[cost]

Automatic (automatic rifle) CZ Bren 2 BR was developed by the Czech company Ceska zbrojovka in Uhersky Brod and was first shown to the public in 2018 .. The full designation of the model is “CZ Bren 2 BR”, where the last two letters indicate “Battle Rifle” - an unofficial term mainly used in the USA to designate modern automatic rifles chambered for 7,62 × 39

Automatic (automatic rifle) CZ Bren 2 BR uses gas exhaust automation with a short stroke of the gas piston and manual gas regulator. The barrel is locked by a rotary shutter. The receiver is made of aluminum alloy, the trigger box assembly with the store receiver is made of plastic. The weapon has two-sided controls (translator-fuse, magazine latch buttons and shutter delay off). The three-position translator fuse provides firing with single shots and bursts. The cocking handle can be moved both on the right and on the left side of the weapon. The CZ Bren 2 BR is equipped with a folding side and an adjustable plastic butt. The pistol grip has interchangeable rear parts of different sizes. On the receiver and forearm are Picatinny rails for mounting optical sights and other accessories. Cartridges are powered from detachable plastic magazines compatible with the American SR-25 rifles. (in the version under the cartridge 7,62 × 39). The standard capacity of the stores is 25 rounds.
TTX
Used cartridge 7,62 × 39 NATO / .308 Winchester
Type of automation automatic
USM type sa
Length, mm 995
Barrel length, mm 407
Weight unloaded, kg 3.8
Magazine capacity, cartridges 25
Rate of fire: 850, +/- 100 rounds / min.
Life: 20000 shots

[AlexVas44]

Quote: Rich

Used cartridge 7,62 × 39 NATO / .308 Winchester

I could not find anything about such a cartridge. I'm getting old or something. Can I have a reference?

[cost]

Alexander

I could not find anything about such a cartridge. I'm getting old or something.

Do not look, do not waste time in vain. And with memory you are fine. My blooper. Of course, the NATO standard is 7,62 × 51
Thanks for the subtle ironic amendment.

[Pereira]

Reputation is not bad. But no one is buying in bulk. Either the Czechs are not able to quickly provide the quantity, or all the same, quality problems.

[Gray brother]

Quote: Pereira

But no one is buying in bulk.

Hungarians are buying.

Quote: Pereira

Either the Czechs are not able to quickly provide the quantity, or all the same, quality problems.

They made a fashionable plastic receiver in VREN 1 and riveted almost 18000 trunks.
Now they are cutting VREN 2 with steel, because plastic is evil.
After such a file, there will not be many who want to.

[Sniper Amateur]

Reputation is not bad. But no one is buying in bulk. Either the Czechs are not able to quickly provide the quantity, or all the same, quality problems.

Competition with FN and HK - Česká zbrojovka never stood. Unless a very fierce politota was involved.

[Sniper Amateur]

Czech weapons recognized in the world

Yes, not that, and especially so really ...

[Gray brother]

Without a store, it’s not safe from above.

[Lord of the Sith]

Ceska Zbrojovka is a quality weapon. Interestingly, although the country is in NATO, they use the Soviet cartridge 7,62 × 39 mm.
Although they are still using Soviet T-72s.

[L-39NG]

From the Soviet Union there is only a name left. And the engines are not Soviet and shells and those equipment and electronics and guns. By the age of 30, we want German-French, albeit with our participation, to acquire cuttlefish, although after the pandemic, who knows how it will be with finances. Now Moscow Region has been abruptly cut off - people's health is more important

[L-39NG]

7,62x39 and NATO use, a lot of goods, do not throw away

[Sniper Amateur]

they and the Soviet T-72 are still used.

So they were riveted under Czechoslovakia in Slovakia under license - so no wonder.

[iouris]

Interestingly, they have military factories still underground?

[L-39NG]

Enterprises that produced explosives and the like are not underground, but rather like workshops in a trench (in a depression?). otherwise come on, you can talk and take pictures in the delegation. For us, advertising will be.

[The leader of the Redskins]

Is it possible for tourists? My wife and I were going to Prague and Bratislava, but the pandemic adjusted plans ...

[faterdom]

Or they could make motorcycles ... "Jawa" or "CZ" ... and distribute them to pensioners.

[L-39NG]

My pets - Vz. 58 with smart body kits 7,62x39, CZ 805 BREN on the NATO cartridge. Between us, you know, why is it called BREN? I have and am able to specialize with a heavy barrel to order under 308 and with smart optics, and from short cz 75 police bd. While they allow to have those who are not fools and treat guests wisely

[ssergey1978]

7.62x39 cartridge returns its position. The designers and the military again look at him.