The Czech Republic bypasses Visegrad Group on radar tender

The Ministry of Defence of the Czech Republic has informed through its website that the country plans to draw up a tender for a military radar system independent of the Visegrad Group. The Czechs have decided to exit the Visegrad project and offer a tender only for Czech constructors in an effort to tie the nation's military spending even more with its own industry. Talks between the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Poland have been taking place since June of this year. The Czech side claimed legal complications as the main reason for exiting the project. Besides this, the Czech timeline for initiating a radar is pressing for a 2017 deadline, which may have been unattainable in a joint project.