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Order of Merit in the Field of Defense and Security Zdravko Ponoš ( Serbian Cyrillic : Здравко Понош ; born 3 November 1962) is a Serbian politician, former diplomat, and retired general who served as chief of the General Staff of the Serbian Armed Forces from 2006 to 2008.
Emblem of the 250th Air Defense Missile Brigade of Air Force of Serbia and Montenegro. When FR Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) came under NATO attack (Operation Allied Force) in 1999, the 250th Air Defense Missile Brigade was armed only with the Neva-M medium-range air defense system. Its units performed 111 maneuvers, held 88 fire positions ...
One aircraft was hit by friendly fire from the ground. [14] Another four were destroyed on the ground. [ 15 ] During the course of the air war, Serbo-Montenegrin anti-aircraft defenses downed a USAF F-16C and an F-117 Nighthawk , the first stealth aircraft ever to be shot down in combat, along with dozens of UAVs.
Serbian Air Force and Air Defense has in operational use the following equipment: 13 Soviet-made MiG-29 fighter aircraft (10 of which are modernized to SM standard and armed with R-77 missiles), [15] 13 Yugoslav-made J-22 attack aircraft, 2 Spanish C-295 transport aircraft, [16] 15 Russian Mi-35 attack helicopter (armed with Ataka missiles ...
The defense industry of Serbia is the largest in the Western Balkans. Serbia's export of weapons and military equipment in 2021 was valued at $ 1.23 billion ( € 1.13 billion). [ 1 ] It consists of around 200 companies, both public and private, working in many different fields.
Man-portable air-defense system: Used by infantry battalions of the four Army brigades. [77] 9K34 Strela-3 Soviet Union: Man-portable air-defense system: 9K32 Strela-2 Soviet Union: Man-portable air-defense system: 9K38 Igla Russia: Man-portable air-defense system
The Serbian Army (Serbian: Копнена војска Србије, romanized: Kopnena vojska Srbije, lit. 'Serbian Land Army') is the land-based and the largest component of the Serbian Armed Forces.
The Serb Solidarity Fund, managed by Ljubiša Savić, began preparing for the defense of Serb territory in Majevica amid inter-ethnic tensions between Serbs and Bosniaks in 1991 and 1992. Around 2,000 members readily available for military action were stationed and monitored the situation in preparation to defend the Serb population in ...