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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 ...
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]
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 ...
Manufactured by the Czechoslovak firm Česká zbrojovka the vz. 82 replaced the 7.62×25mm Tokarev vz. 52 pistol in Czechoslovak military service in 1983. It is a compact, single/double-action, semi-automatic pistol with a conventional blowback action. This type of action allows the barrel to remain solidly fixed to the frame, resulting in ...
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.
Fixed front blade, drift-adjustable notch rear. The Pistole vz. 24 (Pistol Model 24) was the standard Czech Army pistol of the inter-war period. It was an improved version of the pistole vz. 22, which had been licensed from Mauser. Slovakia seized over ten thousand vz. 24s when it declared its independence from Czechoslovakia in March 1939. [2]
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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 ...