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Today the CZ factory is located in the Czech Republic and the handgun is offered worldwide. However, during the Cold War, Czechoslovakia was part of the Warsaw Pact and thoroughly communist in its political outlook. The CZ 75 was the first 9mm semi-auto pistol developed expressly for sale to the West and it offered new ideas in auto-pistol ...
The CZ 52[1] (also known by the Czechoslovak military designations vz. 52, [2] for (vz. - vzor = model) "model of 1952", and CZ 482) is a semi-automatic pistol designed by two brothers, Jan and Jaroslav Kratochvíl, in the early 1950s for the Czechoslovak military. [3] Around 200,000 vz. 52s were made by Česká Zbrojovka in Strakonice from ...
In use by the 601st Special Forces Group and paratroopers. [5] Rifles. CZ 805 BREN 2. Czech Republic. Assault rifle. 5.56×45mm NATO. Standard issue rifle since 2016. In 2015, a new variant of the CZ BREN was unveiled, the Czech Army decided to continue to replace the vz. 58 with this new variant.
After the dissolution of the Second Czechoslovak Republic, many of these weapons saw combat in World War II: with the Axis Slovak Republic and with Nazi Germany after it occupied Czechoslovakia. [1] [2] These weapons also saw widespread use abroad after being sold off to international buyers. [3] [4] [5] [6]
History of Czechoslovakia. With the collapse of the Austria-Hungary at the end of World War I, the independent country of Czechoslovakia [1] (Czech, Slovak: Československo) was formed as a result of the critical intervention of U.S. President Woodrow Wilson, among others.
Škorpion. The Škorpion vz. 61 (or Sa vz. 61 Skorpion) is a Czechoslovak machine pistol developed in 1959 by Miroslav Rybář (1924–1970) and produced under the official designation Samopal vzor 61 ("submachine gun model 1961") by the Česká zbrojovka arms factory in Uherský Brod from 1963 to 1979. The standard version uses .32 ACP ammunition.
CSPA tank parade in Prague on Victory Day, 9 May 1985. The Czechoslovak People's Army (Czech: Československá lidová armáda, Slovak: Československá ľudová armáda, ČSLA) was the armed forces of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ) and the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic from 1954 [1] until 1989. From 1955 it was a member force ...
This is a timeline of the main events of the Cold War, a state of political and military tension after World War II between powers in the Western Bloc (the United States, its NATO allies and others) and powers in the Eastern Bloc (the Soviet Union, its allies in the Warsaw Pact and later the People's Republic of China).