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A new stage for aviation
Transition to a new fleet of aircraft will bring new assignments to the SVK Air Force. In a relatively short period of time changes are expected to have a bearing on all types of aviation equipment. “The most important thing is to select p…
Sereď-based divers trained search ops at Lake Black Water
Members of the Reconnaissance Diving Section, Sereď-based Engineer Battalion, were undergoing training in a former dredging lake, called Black Water, preparing for a training exercise to test the swimming capabilities of combat vehicles and the…
Multitudinous course in Martin
A course for professional soldiers with the largest number of participants continues running in the Martin-based Training Battalion. On 12 January, the course was joined by 192 soldier trainees in the preparatory state service, and at present, …
Congratulations of Minister of Defence to Veronika Zuzulová
Martin Glváč congratulated the skier Veronika Valez Zuzulová on her best senior result in the World Championship in Beaver Creek, the US. On Saturday, the sportswoman from the Military Sport Centre Dukla Banská Bystrica ended fourth in slalom, …
Martin Glváč: For most servicemen, military is a lifelong career
In the academic year 2015/2016, the Armed Forces Academy of Gen M. R. Štefánik, based in Liptovský Mikuláš, will open four programs of study in present/daily form for high school graduates and will enrol 85 new students. “It is our interes…
Minister at command meeting
SVK Minister of Defence Martin Glváč informed the supreme command of the SVK Armed Forces on a further strategy as to the planned modernization projects. That he did at the command meeting of Chief of the General Staff of the SVK Armed Forces, …
Tests are meaningful
All units, tested within a readiness training test held on the first week of February, fulfilled their tasks. The implementation of skills obtained last year can be viewed as a positive sign, as well as the fact that the tested units proved an …
Armed forces tested
In the early morning hours, Lt Gen Milan Maxim, SVK Chief of the General Staff, ordered a stand-by force activation test in selected military units and facilities of the SVK Armed Forces. The test was executed in an unexpected manner and the un…
Martin Glváč with NATO ministers
SVK Minister of Defence Martin Glváč participated in the meeting of NATO defence ministers in Brussels. The talks were dominated especially by the task performance evaluation of the Readiness Action Plan, which provides a direct response t…
Preparations for UNFICYP
Maj Gen Pavel Macko, 2nd Vice Chief of the SVK General Staff, carried out an inspection of a tactical exercise and the SVK UNFICYP unit’s national certification exercise. “Apart from some trivialities, I can express my satisfaction,” he said. P…
Joint strategy of V4
The countries of the Visegrad Group currently develop a joint strategy in the field of training and exercises. This will be discussed at the meeting of ministers of defence of V4 countries, which is to be held at the end of April in Bratislava.…
Swedish Minister’s visit
Military and technical cooperation and supersonic aviation were the issues raised at the meeting of SVK Minister of Defence Martin Glváč and Minister of Defence of the Kingdom of Sweden Peter Hultqvist. As stated by Minister Glváč, modernizatio…
Response to the recent snow calamity
In response to the recent snow calamity, the chairman of the Trenčín Self-Governing District has requested the SVK Armed Forces to make available heavy equipment, trailers and trucks. Chief of the General Staff Lt Gen Milan Maxim dispatched a m…
Anniversary of Military Police commemorated in Trenčín
In Trenčín, a muster ceremony was held to commemorate the twenty fourth anniversary of the establishment of Military Police. Director of Military Police Col Milan Hamar awarded medals for excellent performance of tasks on the Slovak territory a…
Our next commitment met by procuring new vehicles for soldiers
Minister of Defence Martin Glváč handed over 28 Land Rover vehicles, 12 AKTIS vehicles and 15 TATRA vehicles to soldiers and members of Military Police. In the course of February, the next 42 Land Rovers should be supplied. “This is how we purs…
