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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 ...
These include weapons that were designed and manufactured in Czechoslovakia and Czechoslovak modifications to existing weapons, like the Schwarzlose machine gun. 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 ...
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 manual safety design, being a dual mode design.
Standard issue pistol since 2012. Replacement of the pistol decided in 2020 for the CZ P-10 C/F. Withdrawal to be completed by 2025, and to be put in reserve. [2] 5,570 initially ordered (2011) 5,500 additional ordered in 2016 [3] CZ P-10 C/F Czech Republic: Semi-automatic pistol: 9×19mm Parabellum: Selected in 2020 as new standard-issue pistol.
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On 20–21 August 1968, the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic was jointly invaded by four Warsaw Pact countries: the Soviet Union, the Polish People's Republic, the People's Republic of Bulgaria, and the Hungarian People's Republic. The invasion stopped Alexander Dubček 's Prague Spring liberalisation reforms and strengthened the authoritarian ...
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.
A preserved fence with watchtower near Čížov (2009). The protection of borders between the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic (CSSR) and several of the capitalist countries of Western Europe, namely with West Germany and Austria, in the Cold War era and especially after 1951, was provided by special troops of the Pohraniční Stráž (English: the Border Guard) and a system of engineer ...