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At the same time, a Yugoslav fighter group which had been under Soviet instruction at Zemun airfield became operational. From 17 August 1944, when the first Yugoslav Spitfire Squadron became operational, until the end of the war in Europe, Yugoslav aircraft undertook 3,500 combat sorties and accumulated 5,500 hours operational flying. Thus ...
Rifles. Yugo Mauser M1924 Rifle [2] (standard-issue rifle) Carcano 1898. Mannlicher 1895 /24 (converted to FN Yugo Mauser 1924 standard) Mauser-Koka. Serbian Mauser 1899 (many cut down to carbine length) Lebel 1886/93 (supplied from France during WW1) Berthier 1907/15 & 1916 rifle (WW1) Berthier 1892/16 carbine (WW1)
Along with its primary armament, the M-84 is also armed with one 7.62mm coaxial machine gun, and one 12.7mm anti-aircraft gun mounted on the commander's turret. All versions of the M-84 have a crew of three. The commander sits on the right side of the turret, the gunner on the left, and the driver sits centrally at the front of the vehicle.
The situation whereby the Kingdom of Yugoslavia had to acquire or manufacture aircraft from whatever source presented itself meant that by 1941, the VVKJ was rather uniquely equipped with 11 different types of operational aircraft, 14 different types of trainers and five types of auxiliary aircraft, with 22 different engine models, four ...
This is a list of Yugoslav military equipment of World War II. This will deal with the equipment of the military of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and not the various resistance groups active in the country during World War II. This is because these resistance groups are distinct from the Yugoslav military and used a variety of weapons that not fit ...
The Balkan Air Force was a multinational unit, with 15 types of aircraft and men from eight nations: Greece, Co-belligerent Italy, Poland, South Africa, Yugoslavia (two squadrons of fighters), [12] the UK, USA and USSR (a transport squadron). Between its inception and May 1945 the BAF flew 38,340 sorties, dropped 6,650 tons of bombs, delivered ...
Zastava M55. The Zastava M55, also designated 20/3-mm-M55, is a Yugoslavian/Serbian 20mm triple-barreled automatic anti-aircraft gun developed in 1955 and produced by Crvena Zastava (now Zastava Arms company) in Kragujevac, Serbia, for Yugoslav People's Army use and also for the export market. In addition to the basic towed model M55 A2, the ...
Retired. June 1941. Developed into. Ikarus S-49. The Rogožarski IK-3 was a 1930s Yugoslav monoplane single-seat fighter, designed by Ljubomir Ilić, Kosta Sivčev and Slobodan Zrnić as a successor to the Ikarus IK-2 fighter. Its armament consisted of a hub -firing 20 mm (0.79 in) autocannon and two fuselage -mounted synchronised machine guns.