Croatian Military Pictures! - Read the first post carefully!

[fiorellabel]

More on IR 12

Excellent video, only way to better it would be put slow motion feature on it.
Ithink i've noted a thing: portability is not only a question about overall lenght, when running with a bullpup rifle, weapon stay totally inside body silhouette, while with even a short M4 carbine not.

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Special Operation Battalion conducts special operations basic training, also know as Commando training.

This class started a few weeks ago at Josip Jović barracks in Udbina, and Hrvatski Vojnik reporters visited 10 days into training and four days into "hell week", a period when the candidates are pushed to their physical and psychological breaking point. Out of 85 candidates who comprised this class, only 33 remain after ten days.

They still have to endure over 50 days of training split into four phases: month long drill phase when they learn basics of special ops, parachuting, CQC, weapons and explosives familiarization, combat swimming etcetera, followed by 10 day amphibious phase, 10 day mountain warfare phase and two week urban combat and hostage rescue phase.

The final, three week phase simulates operating behind enemy lines. Candidates are given objectives and missions before being sent into the wilderness with no food or water and have to survive for three weeks on their own, conducting recon and other missions while evading BSD teams hunting them.
The last phase finishes with three days of interrogation in a simulated prison camp.

http://www.hrvatski-vojnik.hr/

















Svi so pozvani, rijetki su odabrani.

[Gvozdansko 1578.]

Closing of Immediate Response 2012.

[SATNIK]

How do some people still believe that there is no money in the MOD Budget for a light machine gun Let's take a look at the MOD's procurement plan from 2010:
Business relationships (contracts),of MOD and small catering businesses and restaurants. Already at first glance we can see that for this "business intercourse" in the year 2010 Budget MOD ensure founds of practical ONE million Euro, and at the end it really paid "only" about 500 thousand euros.
link on Croatian http://obris.org/hrvatska/morh-javne...obro-jelo-bas/
The recorder of such contracts is the restaurant Robert near the Udbina base and was paid 1 146 964kn

Gvozdansko 1578 You just pick the wrong choice of machine gun thats all. Just from this theft from 2010 they could have bought for HV
this:
and big brother in 7.62:

But as always in the Croatian MOD has other priorities and their last is the weapons for the soldiers. So will continue to send troops in EU battle groups to use the old Yugo RPK and PKM in inappropriate calibres and old sniper rifles from Homeland war.

[Mujo2000]

So, Albanian and Montenegrin troops participating in the IR 12 have been issued with VHS (precisely VHS-D1 and VHS-K1) while Slovene and BiH Army (Croatian component) use their own weapons.
Is the reason that standard assault rifle of MNE and ALB armies is still the one based on AK and not within NATO standard?

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Awww, just like in the good ol days. Montenegrins fighting Croatians.

[fiorellabel]

Awww, just like in the good ol days. Montenegrins fighting Croatians.

Fact is that it was an exercitation , so they train one qagainst the other in order to get ready to seriously kick some other people face together...
In meantime Kotromanovic had today a meeting with Slovenian MoD in order to organize other 14 common exercises and Pusiç signed a cohomprensive military cooperation agreement with Montenegro... so seems that Immediate Response was only the beginning of thing to come.

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KSF minister visited Kotromanović today and signed a memorandum of understanding.

http://www.morh.hr/en/news-press-rel...C3%87ekua.html













That was quite a reunion. Excellent news about training Kosovo pilots in Croatia, I believe we are already training some Bosnian and Macedonian pilots.

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More photos from BSD basic training, same class I posted photos from last week. Only now they are down to 12 candidates out of original 85.









































Photos by CROPIX

[lucS]

Wow nice pix!! You got some more?

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Here's an article from Jutarnji list whose journalist visited the training at Žirje.

http://www.jutarnji.hr/moj-dan-sa-sp...etara/1035394/

Only in Croatian, sorry.

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Ministry of Defense just published MoD Strategic Plan 2013-2015.

http://www.morh.hr/images/stories/mo..._2012_1806.pdf

In short, new fighters or MiG-21 modernization is certain, Coast Guard patrol boats will be built starting in 2014 with one boat, and then another in 2015. The Air Force will get one AT-802 twin seater to improve pilot training in the type. Some 2500 VHSs have been issued, with a goal of around 14000 by 2015.

[fiorellabel]

So at end of that year there will be 117 Patrias built on a total of 126?

One thing also 56 "nabavljenih oružnih stanica" and 56 " ugrađenih oružnih stanica" means a total of 112 or are they referring to the same item first ordered and built?

[Psycho☻]

So at end of that year there will be 117 Patrias built on a total of 126?

One thing also 56 "nabavljenih oružnih stanica" and 56 " ugrađenih oružnih stanica" means a total of 112 or are they referring to the same item first ordered and built?

I understand as if 56 bought and 56 installed. Total of 56 armed APCs.

[Royal]

More photos from BSD basic training, same class I posted photos from last week. Only now they are down to 12 candidates out of original 85.

Is the nearest guy an instructor or did he have a paper round in Vukovar because he looks older than me....

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A number of qualified BSD operators are taking part in all but the first (drill) phase for refresher training, so he could be one of them. I'd guess his age at 25-30.