April fools day theread?
The Armed Forces of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian: Oružane snage Bosne i Hercegovine, OSBIH Cyrillic script: Оружане снаге Босне и Херцеговине, ОСБИХ) is the official military force of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Bosnian Armed forces were unified in 2005 and are composed of two founding armies: Bosniak-Croat, Army of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Bosnian Serb, Army of Republika Srpska. The Ministry of Defense of Bosnia and Herzegovina, founded in 2004, is in charge of the Armed Forces of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The supreme commander of the Bosnian Armed Forces is the current president of Bosnia and Herzegovina thus the Presidency commands the Bosnian Army Conscription was completely abolished in Bosnia and Herzegovina effective on and from 1 January 2006. There are supposed to be 10,000 Active troops, 5000 Reserve troops, and 500 Civilian staff.
The Bosnia and Herzegovina Defense Law addresses the following areas: the Military of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Government Institutions, Entity jurisdictions and structure, Budget and Financing, Composition of Armed Forces of Bosnia and Herzegovina, War declaration, Natural disasters, Conflict of interests and professionalism, Oath to Bosnia-Herzegovina, Flags, Anthem and Military Insignia, and transitional and end orders.
The Military units are commanded by the Armed Forces of Bosnia and Herzegovina Joint Staff in Sarajevo. There are two major commands under the Joint Staff: Operational Command and Support Command.
There are three regiments that are each formed by soldiers from the three ethnic groups of Bosnia and Herzegovina: Bosniaks, Croats and Serbs and trace their roots to the armies that were created during the Bosnian war. These regiments have their distinct ethnic insignias and consist of three active battalions each. Each regiments three battalions divided evenly between the three active brigades of the Army.
April fools day theread?
Does the Bosnia-Herzegovina air force operate only helicopters? Have the fixed-wing aircraft inherited from the Bosniak and Republika Srpska air forces all been sold off?
Still kinda crazy that these two armies that were fighting each other merged into one force ten years later.
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BiHhas not onlyhelicopters but als fixed wing aircraft fromtheaviationof the Republicof Srpska, whichare now partof theBiHUnified Air Forcemaintainingthe insigniaof the formerRepublic ofPale.Thisaircraftare not currentlyoperatingbut couldbereleased into theflight conditions
BiH has not only helicopters but also fixed wing aircraft from the Air Force of the Republic of Srpska, which are now part of the BiH unified Air Force maintaining the insignia of the former Republic of Pale.This aircraft are not currently operating but could be released into the flight conditions
amazing that there are still aircraft ORAO! if you only have helicopters, and I must say it's a good start
handfull of old helicopters is not really an "air force". at the moment there are hundreds of veterans protesting the slashing of pensions and benefits at the same time the government is not capable of maintaing a small fleet of helicopters. every time they are oredered to get involved in anything (natural disasters) something goes wrong and they have to ground the fleet. judging by the trends new planes and helicopters will probably happen some time next century.
Sorry, wrong thread.
Last edited by RWR; 05-31-2012 at 08:56 AM.