Press: Czechs seeking to buy missiles from Israel

The Czech Army aims to boost its air defence capabilities and is planning to buy missiles from the Israeli state firm Rafael, Právo reported on Wednesday.

The Czech Ministry of Defence has been in talks with the company for more than a year about purchasing its Spyder anti-missile system at a cost of CZK 13.7 billion, the daily said.

Czech officials were originally talking about missiles capable of destroying targets at a distance of up to 50 kilometres. However, at the start of the year they changed their demand to missiles that could reach up to 100 kilometres.