Yugoslav People's Army - Read the first post carefully!

[Zeev]

Exemplary Soldier



Jugoslovensko Ratno Vazduhoplovstvo Pilots on pre-flight planning.







M-77 of the Yugoslav People's Army firing.

[Zeev]

40s, 50s and 60s, in the 50s we got SKS and after that AKs

do you know the precise year when JNA starts to adopt the AK as a standard assault rifle?

[Pleonasm]

June 1991?

[tom03]

JNA M-84 MBT during first operations in Slovenia.





ORAO ( museum of aviation belgrade )



SOKO j-20 KRAGUJ


SOKO J1-JASTREB



KAMOV KA-27



An-12



Soko Gazelle



I have a question! Where are all these planes ?
Slovenia and croatia didn't receive none of these planes ; maybe FYROM ?

Bye

[Zeev]

I have a question! Where are all these planes ?
Slovenia and croatia didn't receive none of these planes ; maybe FYROM ?

Bye

a lot have been retired from service, many others were destroyed during NATO agression (mostly migs 29), the rest is still in service (oraos, migs 21 & 29, supergalebs, gazelas, etc)

[Karl Agathon]

No, even Macedonia got zilch from JRV when it comes to planes and helicopters according to http://www.yuairwar.com/mk.asp which is rather good site on the topic of exYU air forces.

[Ichabod]

The Soviets invading Jugoslavia in the event of a Nato Warsaw Pact confrontation...That is perhaps the scenario likely for the period when Tito stood up to Stalin and the west started flirting with Tito, and for a few years after that.

I believe, but not only I, that orientations of all the parties involved in this scenario had already changed by the seventies.

Well actually we had pretty cold relations with the Soviets up until Tito died. In case of war we would have been neutral and the idea was that we would be attacked as a strategical gain (jumping off point),and a Soviet attack was considered more likely that a NATO one.You can also see that the defenses were all prioritized towards a defense of a Warsaw Pact aggression than a sea-borne allied one.There were plans found after the collapse of the eastern countries of invasions of Yugoslavia.

I have some questions:


1. You mean near Zagreb? Once I read somewhere that due to the terrain in northern Yugoslavia, offensive by Warsaw Pact forces are difficult to contain (compared to other parts of Yugoslavia) and that Zagreb was expected to fall within just four days?

Yes,both Zagreb and Belgrade were expected to fall very quickly,the idea was that the Army was to hold it up until the TO and people get to mobilize and arm themselves.

2. Some online literatures mentioned that during the 1973 Yom Kippur War, a Soviet airborne division was stationed in alert mode somewhere in an airbase in Yugoslavia, ready for immediate deployment to Middle East. Can someone confirm this?

Yes,they requested an airfield for a division and we (supporting the Egyptians) allowed it.Can't remember the exact air base but ill look it up.

[Karl Agathon]

do you know the precise year when JNA starts to adopt the AK as a standard assault rifle?

Early 1970s perhaps if M70 in Crvena Zastava AK version relates to production year.

Thompson M1A1 was also used in JNA. It came together with rest of US aid for Yugoslavia after country broke up with Uncle Joe in 1948.

I knew some people who used Thompson in early 1950s in KNOJ units on Albanian border.
Imagine their surprise in 1991. when that "automat" came back on the streets.

[enforcer]

[Hyde]

do you know the precise year when JNA starts to adopt the AK as a standard assault rifle?

Somewhere in the early 60s is suppose, first off with the m-64 (so that would be 1964) and after that moved on to the M-70 in the early 70s. But not sure tough.

[SrB-23Q]

what a great country we had..such a shame it broke up and so violently

amazing pics btw guys..

[-CROAT-SOLDIER-]

Yugoslav military photos from the 50-80s are quite difficult to come across, though I plan on attempting to create a video on it. By the way does anyone know the name of this song?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6NLp...eature=related

[Ichabod]

Yugoslav military photos from the 50-80s are quite difficult to come across, though I plan on attempting to create a video on it. By the way does anyone know the name of this song?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6NLp...eature=related

Don't know,but you can download the video and then covert the song.

[ekranoplan]

That's some Carmina Burana electro remix.

I inherited '65 - '68 JNA edition military encyclopedias, those are full of post war era JNA pictures, including the ones where they still had German WW2 helmets and US weapons. If somebody has those books and two weeks free time, and a scanner...

[Ichabod]

That's some Carmina Burana electro remix.

I inherited '65 - '68 JNA edition military encyclopedias, those are full of post war era JNA pictures, including the ones where they still had German WW2 helmets and US weapons. If somebody has those books and two weeks free time, and a scanner...

Don't have the books but i do have a scanner