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Aérospatiale Gazelle and training flights of the Serbian Air Force future helicopter pilots

6 April 2023 Jacek Domański

Fifty-six years ago, on 7th April 1967, the first prototype of SA 340 helicopter – later known as Aérospatiale Gazelle – performed its maiden flight. Shortly after, the rotorcraft turned out to be one of […]

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55 years in the sky – Aérospatiale Gazelle

28 March 2022 Jacek Domański

For a number of years, Aérospatiale Gazelle was a well-known icon of the French helicopter industry. Designed and developed in the late 1960s, as a successor of Alouette rotorcraft family, the Gazelle was widely used […]

MILITARY AVIATION

´Momentary Response 2021´- Serbian largest military exercise over the years

15 July 2021 Jacek Domański

More than 15,000 of military personnel involved, eight training grounds thorough the country and a series of live-fire training activities held in the second part of June 2021 – that was a large-scale exercise of […]

MILITARY AVIATION

´Griffons´ strike at Deliblato Sands

6 July 2021 Jacek Domański

Beginning of this year´s summer in Serbia was marked by a large-scale tactical exercise of domestic armed forces. A series of training activities under a common name ´Momentary Response 2021´ (Муњевити удар 2021) had started […]

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