Every war the Montenegrin Air Force and the Yugoslav air forces before it have been part of
Montenegro’s own air force, formed in 2006, has never fought; both entries belong to the Yugoslav air forces from which it inherited Golubovci, and both are contested. Where a consolidated sortie or loss figure exists in the official record it is given here; where accounts disagree, the range is shown and the disagreement named. Blank cells are blank because no figure could be verified, not because the fighting was small.
From the Dubrovnik campaign of 1991 to the NATO bombing of Golubovci in 1999.
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| The Dubrovnik campaignYugoslav air strikes around DubrovnikYugoslav Air Force (predecessor) | 1991 | Croatia | MiG-21 | |||
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Yugoslav Air Force aircraft attacked targets in and around Dubrovnik in support of the Yugoslav People’s Army offensive. This is a war of the Yugoslav state, not of today’s Montenegrin Air Force, and it is included only because Montenegro’s air arm descends from the Yugoslav units at Golubovci. English Wikipedia records that Yugoslav Air Force MiG-21s struck Komolac in Rijeka Dubrovačka on 1 October 1991, cutting electricity and water to Dubrovnik, and that aircraft attacked the Hotel Argentina on 3 October, Fort Imperial on 6 October, the Ploče district on 18 October and the city on 20 October. The same article records that on 1 October the Montenegrin interior ministry ordered its special police to support the JNA. The sources checked do not say which bases the attacking aircraft flew from, so no link to Golubovci is claimed here. Croatia regards the campaign as aggression; the Yugoslav authorities of the time presented it as an operation against Croatian forces. Outcome The course of the wider siege after October 1991 is outside the scope of this entry and was not checked. Bases, units and sortie counts are UNVERIFIED. Casualty figures are for the whole siege and are attributed to English Wikipedia.
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| NATO air campaign against YugoslaviaOperation Allied ForceAir Force and Air Defence of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (predecessor) | 1999 | NATO | G-4 Super Galeb, MiG-21, MiG-29and 1 more | |||
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Defended against the NATO air campaign; Golubovci air base was repeatedly attacked. From 24 March to 10 June 1999 NATO bombed the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia over Kosovo. Montenegro was then part of the federation but its government, led by Milo Đukanović, opposed Slobodan Milošević; English Wikipedia notes that Montenegro was bombed several times nonetheless. Golubovci, home of the Yugoslav flying school, was a frequent target: English Wikipedia says the base’s military equipment and infrastructure were badly damaged while the civil terminal suffered only minor damage and the runway was not targeted, and that the G-4 Super Galebs of the Leteće zvezde display team were destroyed there. Figures for the Yugoslav air force as a whole differ widely. NATO’s claim of 121 aircraft destroyed, as cited by English Wikipedia, is more than double the figure of about 50 given in Wikipedia’s article on the Yugoslav air force, which lists 25 MiG-21s, 10 MiG-29s, 24 G-4s and 23 J-22s destroyed, figures that add up to more than its own total and so probably count different things. Serbia and Montenegro regarded the campaign as unlawful aggression; NATO presented it as action to stop repression in Kosovo. Outcome Yugoslavia accepted NATO’s terms in June 1999 and the bombing ended on 10 June. Aircraft losses are contested and the Wikipedia figures are internally inconsistent; no Montenegrin official figure was found. Aircraft destroyed at Golubovci beyond the Leteće zvezde G-4s are UNVERIFIED.
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