On the wings of an ´Eagle´

A few days ago, on 25th November 2020, Captain Ana Perišić of the Serbian Air Force and Air Defence (Ратно ваздухопловство и противваздухопловна одбрана Војске Србије) performed her first solo flight on a Soko J-22 Orao (English: eagle) ground-attack and reconnaissance jet, in this way becoming the very first female attack aircraft pilot in... Read More

Modernization of the Serbian Air Force

In our recent article related to the live-fire exercise ´Joint Action 2020´ we have mentioned that, according to the Serbian military authorities, the current training was a great opportunity to show the progress in modernization of the Serbian Air Force and Air Defence, especially when compared to the ´March of the Victors´ exercise from... Read More

´Joint Action 2020´ exercise in Serbia

A live-fire and large-scale military exercise codenamed ´Joint Action 2020´ (Sadejstvo 2020 / Садејство 2020)  is carried out today, on Saturday 10th October, in Serbia. The exercise is organized at the temporary exercise area Pešter, in southwestern Serbia. The current exercise is another one large-scale training of the Serbian Armed Forces, after the ´March... Read More

Chinese UCAVs over Serbia

On Saturday, 4th July 2020, the Serbian Armed Forces officially presented their latest acquisition – a six of CH-92A Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, recently bought from Chinese manufacturer. The official introduction of new Serbian military equipment was organized in Batajnica, with participation of President of the Republic and Supreme Commander of the Serbian Armed Forces... Read More

Serbia officially introduced its new helicopter fleet

On 7th December 2019, the presentation of recently delivered Mi-35 and Mi-17 helicopters to Aleksandar Vučić, the President of the Republic of Serbia and the leaders of Serbian armed forces, officially introduced the new helicopter fleet. As we have already informed in August 2019, the Serbian Air Force and Air Defence acquired from Russian... Read More

´Eagle 2.0´ – the rebirth of J-22

A few weeks ago, one almost unbelievable news was spread over the internet and surprised the aviation world – the Republic of Serbia is going to take J-22 Orao attack aircraft out from the aviation museum and make them not only airworthy again, but also operational in the air force. ´From the museum to... Read More

Antonov An-26 ´71386´

Antonov An-26 (NATO reporting name: Curl) ´71386´ from the 138th Transport Squadron (138. мешовита транспортна авијацијска ескадрила), 204th Air Brigade (Batajnica Air Base) of the Serbian Air Force and Air Defence (Ратно ваздухопловство и противваздухопловна одбрана Војске Србије)  – static display during the Danish Air Show 2014, Karup air force base. The Serbian Air... Read More

Another edition of ´BARS´ joint tactical exercise successfully completed

Another edition of joint Serbian – Russian air force tactical exercise, codenamed ´BARS´ was held between 30th October and 2nd November 2019, at ´Privolzhskiy´ air base near Astrakhan. The exercise was performed with the participation of MiG-29 fighter aircraft and Mi-8AMTSh helicopters from air force and army aviation of both countries. The fifth edition... Read More

Chinese combat UAVs over Europe

According to the official information from the Ministry of Defence, Serbia will be the first European country to operate the Chinese unmanned combat aerial vehicles. The Serbian armed forced will receive nine Chengdu Pterodactyl I (Wing Loong) UCAVs, with the option to buy another fifteen aircraft in the nearest future. This purchase is one... Read More

´Flying tanks´ for Serbia

The official delegation from Serbian Ministry of Defence, led by Aleksandar Vulin, the Minister of Defence, has recently visited the ´Rosviertol´ aviation plant in Rostov-on-Don, where the Mil Mi-35M helicopters for Serbia are manufactured. Vulin was lately visiting Belarus and Russia at the opportunity of the 2019 ´Army Games´, in which Serbian Armed Forces... Read More