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Allegedly out of date NATO weapons used in bombing of Yugoslavia; CBU-87 cluster bomb (left) and shot down AGM-88 HARM in Belgrade Aviation Museum Suppression of Enemy Air Defences (SEAD) operations for NATO were principally carried out by the US Air Force, with fifty F-16CJ Block 50 Fighting Falcons , and the US Navy and Marines, with 30 EA-6B ...
1994 NATO bombing intervention in Bosnia and Herzegovina, part of Operation Deny Flight; 1995 NATO bombing intervention in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Operation Deliberate Force; 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia as part of the Kosovo War. 1999 NATO bombing of Albanian refugees near Gjakova
On the 10th anniversary of the bombing campaign, Ian Bancroft wrote in The Guardian: "Though justified by apparently humanitarian considerations, NATO's bombing of Serbia succeeded only in escalating the Kosovo crisis into a full-scale humanitarian catastrophe"; citing a post-war report released by the Organization for Security and Co-operation ...
From $7 graffiti to arson and a bomb plot: How Russia’s ‘shadow war’ on NATO members has evolved ... crimes on their behalf. The NATO official said they had observed “an unprecedented ...
NATO was accused of committing war crimes due to the nature of some of the bombing raids. Some Novi Sad residents found it ironic that Novi Sad was so heavily targeted by NATO due to the fact that during the time of the bombing, the city was ruled by the local democratic opposition, which was against the regime in Belgrade.
NATO Headquarters justified the bombing with two arguments; firstly, that it was necessary "to disrupt and degrade the command, control and communications network" of the Yugoslav Armed Forces, and secondly, that the RTS headquarters was a dual-use object which "was making an important contribution to the propaganda war which orchestrated the campaign against the population of Kosovo".
The blast occurred in one of the city's most heavily guarded streets, which runs between the United States Embassy and the presidential palace. The blast did not affect them, nor did it cause substantial damage to the NATO headquarters. [4] It was the first attack on the NATO compound since its construction in 2002. [3]
Ukrainian forces are almost ready to use the Patriot missile defence system on the battlefield to protect their war-hit nation, with the air defence system expected to reach Ukraine soon.