Vienna gets its first ever laser tag game this weekend when Europe’s biggest LaserMaxx arena opens its doors tomorrow (Friday) at a 3,500 sqm battle arena in the 23th district. Founded in 1995, LaserMaxx is the European market leader of professional laser game equipment and LaserMaxx CEO Marcel Rohrs said: “We have 135 arenas in […]
Tag: Defence
Freedom Party (FPÖ) chief Heinz-Christian Strache is outraged over “gender disparities” at the defence ministry after female employees were given flower seeds on Valentines Day.The opposition right-winger asked Social Democratic (SPÖ) Defence Minister Norbert Darabos in an official enquiry: “Does work by male staff count for less at your ministry?”Darabos yesterday (Mon) hit back at […]
The bodies of 77 people were probably buried by the Nazis on the grounds of Graz Belgier barracks, where the Nazi SS Wetzelsdorf barracks was located, it emerged yesterday (Weds).Social Democratic (SPÖ) Defence Minister Norbert Darabos presented news of the finding yesterday.Historian Dieter Binder, the chairman of the military history memorial commission, said the victims […]
Recent polls show that 83 per cent of Czechs believe corruption played a role in the Czech Defence Ministrys 2009 purchase of Austrian light wheeled tanks.Austrian firm Steyr-Daimler-Puch Spezialfahrzeuge (SSF) sold 107 light-wheeled tanks to the Defence Ministry in 2009 for 559 million Euros, but Czech newspaper Mlada fronta Dnes recently claimed that Steyr had […]
Czech Prime Minister Jan Fischer has said he may get the Czech secret service involved in the investigation of Austrian firm Steyrs sale of tanks to the Czech Defence Ministry.Czech business newspaper Hospodarske noviny quoted him in todays (Fri) edition as saying: “It is a question of whether the secret service has any relevant information. […]