Czechs still not happy with their CASA C-295M's...

[Stratofreighter]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/eur ... story.html

Czechs threaten canceling deal to buy 4 EADS military transport planes amid malfunctions

Published: August 1

PRAGUE — The Czech defense ministry is threatening to cancel a $200 million deal to buy four EADS military transport aircraft because they could not be deployed to Afghanistan as a result of technical problems.

It said Monday planemaker EADS CASA, a Spanish unit of Europe’s Airbus holding company EADS NV, must quickly fix a malfunctioning missile protection system on the 295M planes.

Deputy Defense Minister Rudolf Blazek says the military wants to put the planes in use but it would be legitimate to consider revoking the contract if the technical problems won’t be fixed in the coming months.

The Czech military received the planes in 2010 but handed them back this year as the malfunction made their deployment impossible.

[ehusmann]

but handed them back this year

Anybody any idea when that apparantly happened then? Or would it just be a piece of bad journalism?

Erwin

[biesenbeek]

stond er niet eentje Istanbul met de airshow op Izmir ? (dan was er dus minstens eentje toen nog niet 'ingeleverd'...)

oeps.. english only forum i see now....

translation: wasn't there one at Istanbul with the Izmir airshow ?


Rene

[ehusmann]

Izmir not, but there was one at St Dizier. That is also the reason I ask. I suspect they are not really returned, yet.

Erwin

[biesenbeek]

0455 came in at Istabul on the saturday, im almost sure... same one as at St Dizier ?

BTW: kijk je nog ff naar tripplanning ? Ik ben straks naar werk, morgen weer aan het mailen...

Rene

[ehusmann]

Istanbul maybe, but as far as I know there where no Czechs at Izmir.

Erwin

Ps. Yes....

[maurits]

Hi,

Here a pic of the 0455 on the static St Dizier during a heavy rain shower.


Regards,

Maurits

[Jeroen Jonkers]

I saw C295 0454 on the 1st of august on San Pablo.

JJ

[Stratofreighter]

Czech Planes Grounded for 3rd Time This Year

Published: 31 Oct 2011
15:30

PRAGUE - The Czech Army grounded its four CASA C-295M military planes Oct. 31 due to equipment failure, said an army spokesperson, the third time the aircraft have been grounded this year.

The navigation screen and other equipment in a plane Oct. 30 from Seville, Spain, "stopped working during landing," spokesperson Mira Trebicka said in a statement.

"One of the two engines then stopped working.
Army Gen. Vkastimil Picek has ordered the immediate grounding of all planes, until the inquiry has ended."

The two pilots managed to land with one engine.

In 2010, the Czech Army replaced its obsolete Antonov An-26 fleet, which dated from its communist era, with CASA C-295M planes.

The aircraft were already grounded in February following a severe drop in altitude midflight , and again in May after problems with an avionics system.

http://www.defensenews.com/story.php?i= ... =EUR&s=AIR

[Stratofreighter]

http://praguemonitor.com/2012/12/03/cas ... ails-again

CASA plane's anti-missile system fails again

3 December 2012

Prague, Nov 30 (CTK) - The protection system against guided missiles (DAS) of the four CASA transport planes that the Czech military bought has failed in the tests again, Defence Ministry spokesman Jan Pejsek told CTK Friday.

The E15 daily wrote earlier Friday that the anti-missile system does not function properly.

The Czech military received the four CASAs in 2010. The DAS system was to fully operate in July 2011, under the original contract.

The military's tests were to be completed by Friday, but the DAS system did not pass them. If the system passed the tests, the military would have taken the DAS over.

"Unfortunately, despite significant progress in its activities and stability, there are results that do not correspond to the specification in some parameters and these will have to be checked again," Pejsek said about the DAS.

The military tests have been interrupted at request of the supplier, the Czech firm Omnipol.

The ministry does not want to install a protection system from a different producer.

Pavel Bulant, head of the National Armament Office, said the ministry will wait for the producer to remove the defects.

He said the longer the delay, the higher the fine for Omnipol.

The ministry is now considering extending the deadline for the elimination of the defects by one more year, E15 writes.

Pejsek said the defects have not yet been eliminated because the suppliers of some components do not react to the defects flexibly,
because adverse weather prevents the testing of some parts of the system and because foreign workers need to have access to classified information.

The Defence Ministry says the CASAs cannot be used in Afghanistan due to the defective DAS. But Omnipol argues that foreign militaries fly planes without anti-missile protection within the Afghan mission.

The Czechs will markedly reduce their military operation in Afghanistan.

The purchase of three CASA C-295 planes for 3.5 billion crowns and the swap of five Czech-made L-159 subsonic fighters for the fourth CASA were approved by the Czech government in 2009.

According to earlier media reports, the acquisition of the CASAs was suspicious and the contract was probably overpriced.

Senior ministry officials allegedly pushed the contract through against the will of the military leaders.

Former defence minister Vlasta Parkanova and her deputy Jiri Stanek are prosecuted over the CASA deal.