Air Force of Serbia
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Air Force of Serbia |
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| Lineup | 1912-1918 2006 |
| Country |
 Serbia
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| Armed forces | Armed Forces of Serbia |
| Armed forces | Air Force |
| Type | Armed forces |
| Strength | about 6,000 men |
| Headquarters | Zemun |
| Patron saint | St. Elias |
| motto | Za slobodu i čast otadžbine "For freedom and honor of the fatherland" |
| management | |
| Chief of Staff of the Air Force and Air Defense | Brigadier General Ranko Živak |
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| Aircraft cockade |
 
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| National emblem ( vertical stabilizer ) |
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The Serbian Air Force and Air Defense ( serb. Ваздухопловство и противваздухопловна одбрана Војске Србије / Vazduhoplovstvo i protivvazduhoplovna odbrana Vojske Srbije - ВиПВО ВС / ViPVO VS , German Air Force and Air Defense of the Serbian Army.) Are an armed force of the Army of Serbia .
history
The idea of a Serbian air force was first postulated in 1893 and should include field airmen . For this purpose, the first officers were sent to Russia for training in 1901. In 1909 the first unit was set up with two Russian Treugolnik balloons. Two German Riedinger balloons followed in 1912.
During the Balkan Wars in 1912, 12 Blériot XI aircraft were purchased from France and Serbia's first air command was established in Niš on December 24, 1912 . The air command included an aircraft squadron, a field airship division, a pigeon post and a water center. The Balkan Wars of 1912 and 1913 survived only 4 airplanes and 2 balloons of the field airmen with whom Serbia entered the First World War in 1914 . During the First World War, the air forces were reorganized with the support of the Allies and were temporarily under the command of the French armed forces in south-eastern Europe. In 1918 the air force had two squadrons with six aircraft squadrons and around 70 aircraft.
With the establishment of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (from 1929 Yugoslavia ), the Serbian Air Force was renamed the Air Force of the Kgr. SHS and formed the nucleus of the later Yugoslav Air Force .
With the disintegration of Yugoslavia in the 1990s and finally with the dissolution of the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro in 2006, the Serbian air force was re-established. Most of the inventory was taken over from the holdings of the Yugoslav and then Serbian-Montenegrin armies.
present
The air defense system of the Air Force of Serbia includes a wide range of Soviet models. Many of them are medium-range weapons, but some short-range models are also used by infantry units. The Luftwaffe mostly flies Soviet and Yugoslav models. The five existing MiG-29B / UBs in 2007 were overhauled and converted to compatibility with NATO aircraft, with one MiG being lost in a crash in 2009. The training aircraft and light fighter-bomber G-4 Super Galeb are to be modernized to the MD version, while the basic trainer Utva-75 is to be replaced by the new Lasta training aircraft . 10 new Orbiter UAV light reconnaissance drones were procured from Israel, while the domestic Vrabac UAV light reconnaissance drone was still in the test phase in 2010.
The Ministry of Defense is planning to modernize the air force and to purchase new combat aircraft, transport helicopters and transport aircraft.
In December 2016, Serbia bought six MiG-29 fighter planes from the Russian Federation. At the beginning of 2017 it was also announced that Serbia would receive several MiG-29s of different versions from Belarus and Russia. Four machines were out of this Agreement on 25 February 2019 Belarus Baranovichi handed over to the Serbian air forces.
In October 2019, Serbia bought another two Mil Mi-17 transport helicopters from the Russian Federation and handed them over to the Air Force. In December, Russia bought four Mi-35M attack helicopters and handed them over to the Air Force.
equipment
Anti-aircraft missile systems
- S-125M1T Neva - 2 battalions
- 2K12 Kub-M - 3 battalions
- Buk M1 - 2 battalions (planned modernization to the Buk-MB version)
Warplanes
Multipurpose fighter aircraft
Fighter bomber
- SOKO J-22 Orao - 28
Training aircraft
Advanced trainer
- Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-29UB - 1
- Soko G-4 Super Galeb - 25 (also used as a light ground attack aircraft)
- SOKO J-22 Orao - 9
Basic trainer / liaison aircraft
- Utva 75 - 15 (will be decommissioned)
- Utva Lasta 95 - 8 (15 are ordered)
Reconnaissance aircraft
- SOKO J-22 Orao - 8
Unmanned reconnaissance aircraft
- Orbiter UAV - Sept.
- Vrabac UAV - in test phase
- Pegaz 011 - prototype
helicopter
Attack helicopter
- Airbus Helicopters H145M - 6
- Aérospatiale SA 341H / SA 342L Gazelle - 33 (license build by SOKO )
- Mi-35M - 4th
Reconnaissance helicopter
- Aérospatiale SA 341H Gazelle - 14 (license build by SOKO )
Transport and multipurpose helicopters
- Aérospatiale SA 341H Gazelle - 16 (license build by SOKO )
- Mil Mi-8 - 6
- Mil Wed-17 - 4
Transport aircraft
- Antonov An-26 - 6
- Antonov An-2 - 1
VIP transportation
- Jakowlev Jak-40 - 2
Individual evidence
- ↑ dragan.freeservers.com. Archived from the original on March 29, 2009 ; accessed on July 27, 2014 .
- ↑ dragan.freeservers.com. Archived from the original on October 15, 2009 ; accessed on July 27, 2014 .
- ↑ rts.rs. Retrieved July 27, 2014 .
- ↑ Belarus to donate MiG-29s, Buk SAMs to Serbia ( Memento from April 10, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Russia to donate MiG-29s, T-72s to Serbia ( Memento from November 5, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Igor Salinger: PICTURES: Serbia receives MiG-29 fighters from Belarus. February 26, 2019, accessed February 27, 2019 (UK English).
- ↑ Стигли руски хеликоптери. Retrieved December 5, 2019 .
- ↑ RTS, Radio televizija Srbije, Radio Television of Serbia: Хеликоптери Ми-35М стигли у Србију. Retrieved December 5, 2019 .
- ↑ Belarus to donate MiG-29s, Buk SAMs to Serbia ( Memento from April 10, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
