The negotiations about the planned US radar base in the Czech Republic has taken a new course as Prague declared its wish to have the Czech army modernized by the Americans.
Concretely, the Czech Republic would like to be assisted by the USA in its planned acquisition of military transport planes and modernization of anti-aircraft defense, informed Czech Television (ČT), a public service broadcaster. So far, the government has been speaking only of scientific and economic cooperation with the USA. "We have asked the USA for cooperation in acquisition of tactical transport aircrafts and we would like to discuss this issue together with radar base negotiations," said the Deputy Minister of Defense Martin Barták. According to the ČT, the Czech Army plans to get two Hercules transport planes that would replace small and obsolete Antonov aircrafts still used for transporting Czech soldiers to foreign missions.
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