Outgoing government approves purchase of four military transport planes

The outgoing government approved the purchase of four Spanish Casa-C-295M aircraft on Monday in a deal worth more than 3.5 billion crowns (168 million USD). The aircraft are being purchased from the Spanish EADS consortium. The transport planes will be brought into use by the Czech army by 2011, they will replace obsolete Soviet-made Antonov An-26 planes. Such Casa-C-295M planes are already used by the Spanish, Finnish and Polish military.

Author: Rosie Johnston