Aerial warfare branch of the Czech Republic and Czechoslovakia
Czech Air Force
Vzdušné síly
Emblem of the Czech Air Force
Founded
1 January 1993 (31 years, 3 months)
Country
Czech Republic
Type
Air force
Role
Aerial warfare
Size
53 fixed-wing aircraft 46 helicopters [1]
Part of
Czech Armed Forces
Headquarters
Prague
Motto(s)
Czech: Vzduch je naše moře "The air is our sea"
Commanders
Air Force Commander
Major General Petr Čepelka[2][3]
Insignia
Roundel
Flag
Aircraft flown
Fighter
JAS 39 Gripen, L-159A
Helicopter
Mi-17, W-3A, UH-1Y Venom, AH-1Z Viper
Reconnaissance
Let L-410
Trainer
Aero L-159
Transport
C-295M, Airbus A319
Military unit
The Czech Air Force (Czech: Vzdušné síly)[Note 1] is the air force branch of the Army of the Czech Republic. Along with the Land Forces, the Air Force is the major Czech military force. With traditions of military aviation dating back to 1918, the Czech Air Force, together with the Slovak Air Force, succeeded the Czechoslovak Air Force in 1993.[4][5] On 1 July 1997, the 3rd Tactical Aviation Corps and the 4th Air Defence Corps of the Czech Army were merged to form an independent Air Force Headquarters.
The air force is responsible for securing the integrity of the Czech Republic's airspace through the NATO Integrated Air Defence System (NIADS), close air support to the Land Forces and for transportation tasks including government and state priority flights. In peacetime the air force contributes to tasks originating in the Czech laws and inter-ministerial agreements, for example to the air ambulance service or the SAR role.[6]
Czech JAS-39C/D Gripen multirole fighters fulfill primarily the tasks related to the air defence of the Czech Republic and the NATO within the system of NATINAMDS. In the so-called national reinforcement system the subsonic L-159 ALCA jets could be deployed to fulfil this task too.[7] The radar surveillance of the airspace of the Czech Republic is the responsibility of the 26th Air Command, Control and Surveillance Regiment at Stará Boleslav. Altogether seven radio-technical companies are spread around the country so that they can continuously cover its whole territory.[8]
^"Equipment Size in 2023" (PDF). army.cz. Ministry of Defence. Retrieved 22 February 2023.
^"Vzdušné síly povede generál Petr Čepelka. Jeho prioritou je nábor specialistů a modernizace".
^Kopecký, Josef (8 May 2023). "Pavel jmenoval Koudelku generálem. Zeman to blokoval a mluvil o "čučkařích"" (in Czech). Mafra. iDnes.cz. Retrieved 8 May 2023.
^"The White Paper on Defence" (PDF). The Ministry of Defence of the Czech Republic. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 January 2013.
^"NATO Defence Expenditure: 2009 – 2013" (PDF). Gov.uk. Archived (PDF) from the original on 21 August 2014. Retrieved 14 August 2014.
^Cite error: The named reference Yearbook 2013 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^"Live firing beyond the Arctic Circle". Czech Air Force Yearbook 2012: 32.
^"Czech anti-aircraft defence radars". Czech Air Force Yearbook 2013: 50.
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