Military Technical Institute Belgrade
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Vojnotehnički Institute Beograd |
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| position | W. |
| Supervisory authority | Ministry of Defense of Serbia |
| founding | 1948 |
| Headquarters | Belgrade |
| Web presence | www.vti.mod.gov.rs |
The Military Technical Institute Belgrade ( Serbian - Cyrillic Vojnotehnički Institut Beograd ; abbreviation VTI ) is an authority founded in the former Yugoslavia for the development of weapons systems with headquarters in Belgrade , Serbia and is managed by the Ministry of Defense. The VTI is responsible for the research and development of new weapon systems and military equipment. It has research and testing facilities for the land forces, air force and the Danube flotilla. The TOC - Tehnički opitni centar military technical test center also acts as a certification institute .
history
The institute was founded in 1948. After the break with the Soviet Union, it was supposed to secure arms production in Yugoslavia . Initially it was the military technical institute of the land forces . In 1973 there was a merger with several smaller military-technical research and development institutes.
In 1992 it also assimilated the dissolved Aeronautical Technical Institute Žarkovo and smaller parts of the Nautical Institute in Zagreb, located in Serbia and Montenegro . The institute has changed its name several times since 1992.
Important developers at the VTI were Obrad Vučurović (rocket artillery, Hurricane M-87, Oganj M-77) and Anastas Paligorić (raw artillery, Nora B-52 , Nora M-84 ).
Lineup
The institute has 22 laboratories on an area of 86 hectares and a built-up area of 177,000 m², particularly in Bele Vode near Žarkovo within the former location of the Aeronautical Institute.
Projects
The institute cooperates with the Serbian Army , the Technical Test Center (TOC) and Jugoimport SDPR in the areas of design, testing and marketing of new weapon systems.
In addition to newly developed weapon systems, weapon systems developed in the former Yugoslavia are also being modernized. The institute has a broad spectrum from infantry equipment to heavy artillery and aircraft . In particular, the product lines of the Nora B-52 artillery family, the multiple rocket launchers M-77 Oganj and M-87 Orkan and the Soko J-22 Orao and Soko G-4 Super Galeb aircraft and the vehicles of the infantry Lazar and BOV are known . One focus today is the development of guided missiles and projectiles such as the Alas in cooperation with the United Arab Emirates as well as the further development and increased automation of the Nora B-52 (MGS-25 Aleksandar) wheeled howitzer.
At the time of the Yugoslav People's Army , modern submarines , such as the last Sava class, were developed and produced.
Internationally, the institute worked in particular with Soviet , American , French , British , Canadian , Japanese , German and Iraqi partners. For example, it received the license for the Rolls-Royce Viper Mk 633-47 engine for the Ora J-22 . They were built in Rajlovac. The French company Dassault Aviation cooperated until 1991 in the development of the Novi Avion . The Canadian engineer Gerald Bull helped with the technical development of the Nora M-84 , for whom his company issued SRC licenses for the production of extended-range ammunition. This made it possible to develop a product that is competitive on the world market. The Nora B-52 is therefore the internationally best-selling large device from the development of the VTI. As of 2020, it was exported to five countries. The VTI had developed long-range unguided missiles for the armed forces of Iraq in Saddam Hussein's time. With the R-262 for the M-87 Hurricane, the first unguided rocket with an additional two-stage booster motor was developed, which has not had a counterpart to this day (as of 2020).
In addition to the armed forces of the successor states of Yugoslavia, technical military equipment was exported, in particular, to non-aligned countries. The most important buyers were the countries of the Gulf States, Iraq and Kuwait.
Proving Ground
The institute operated (operates) together with the JNA (until 1992), the VJ (1992 to 2006) the TOC and the Vojska Srbije (since 2006) a number of test areas. The former main test centers for all artillery weapons with a range of up to 50 km were Platamuni on the Luštica peninsula (Montenegro) until 2006 and Krivolak ( North Macedonia ) until 1991 . In Serbia, weapons systems with a range of up to 24 km could and can be tested in the Nikinci Central Test Training Area (Syrmia) in the Opština Ruma . Today Nikinci is next to Peskovi (Deliblatska pesčara) and the Pasuljanske livade the most important domestic training ground for testing weapons systems with larger caliber and greater range. For weapon systems with a firing range greater than 24 km and for all medium surface-to-air missiles, training areas in the United Arab Emirates, Pakistan, Russia and Bulgaria must be avoided.