{"id":32594050,"date":"2026-11-13T10:41:21","date_gmt":"2026-11-13T09:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/soko-j-22-orao-iar-93-vultur-yugoslav-romanian-attack-jet\/"},"modified":"2026-11-13T10:41:35","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T09:41:35","slug":"soko-j-22-orao-iar-93-vultur-yugoslav-romanian-attack-jet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/es\/soko-j-22-orao-iar-93-vultur-yugoslav-romanian-attack-jet\/","title":{"rendered":"Soko J-22 Orao and IAR-93 Vultur: The Yugoslav-Romanian Eagle"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.et_pb_title_container h1.entry-title { padding-top: 40px !important; }<\/style>\r\n<!-- mfsh:top -->\r\n\r\n<style>\r\n.mfsh-trigger{display:inline-flex;align-items:center;gap:10px;height:44px;padding:0 18px;margin:0 0 26px;border:2px solid 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One left <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/batajnica\/\">Batajnica<\/a>, near Belgrade. The other left Bac&#259;u, in Romania. The timing was deliberate: for political reasons, the two first flights were arranged to coincide.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>In Yugoslavia the aircraft was called the <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/soko-j-22-orao\/\">Soko J-22 Orao<\/a>. In Romania it was the IAR-93 Vultur. Both names mean &ldquo;eagle&rdquo;. It was a twin-engined attack jet built by two socialist countries that did not want to depend on Moscow, and for the aviation industries of both countries it was a major technological leap.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Half a century later, it is still flying in Serbia, and being modernised.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f4f6f9;border:1px solid #e2e7ee;padding:18px 22px;margin:22px 0 26px\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 8px;font-weight:700;color:#0d1117\">Quick Facts<\/p><ul style=\"margin:0;padding-left:18px\"><li style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Names:<\/strong> Soko J-22 Orao (Yugoslavia), IAR-93 Vultur (Romania); both mean &ldquo;eagle&rdquo;<\/li><li style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Programme:<\/strong> YuRom, agreed 20 May 1971<\/li><li style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>First flights:<\/strong> 31 October 1974, Batajnica and Bac&#259;u, on the same day<\/li><li style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Role:<\/strong> Subsonic ground attack, reconnaissance and two-seat training<\/li><li style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Engines:<\/strong> Two Rolls-Royce Viper turbojets, afterburning on later versions<\/li><li style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Guns:<\/strong> Two twin-barrel 23 mm cannon<\/li><li style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Max weapons:<\/strong> About 2,800 kg<\/li><li style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Built:<\/strong> Roughly 200 between the two countries<\/li><li style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Wars:<\/strong> Yugoslav wars of the 1990s<\/li><li style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Today:<\/strong> Serbia only; Orao 2.0 modernisation<\/li><\/ul><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">An eagle for the non-aligned<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>The idea took shape in 1970. On 20 May 1971, the governments of Romania and Yugoslavia signed the agreement that created YuRom, a joint research and development programme. Josip Broz Tito&rsquo;s Yugoslavia and Nicolae Ceau&#537;escu&rsquo;s Romania both wanted military aircraft that did not come from the Soviet Union.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Yugoslavia needed a replacement for its <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/f-84-thunderjet\/\">F-84 Thunderjets<\/a> and a heavier partner for the light <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/soko-j-21-jastreb\/\">J-21 Jastreb<\/a>. Romania wanted to replace its <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/mig-17-fresco\/\">MiG-17<\/a> fighter-bombers. The requirement called for a rugged, simple, easy-to-maintain jet that could fly from grass or damaged runways and use locally built equipment.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>The original plan was more ambitious: a supersonic aircraft in the class of the Anglo-French <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/sepecat-jaguar\/\">Jaguar<\/a>. It died on the engine. Britain would not allow the modern engine the designers wanted to be licence-built in Eastern Europe, so YuRom settled for two Rolls-Royce Vipers, an engine Soko already knew from licence production.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/11\/iar-93a-vultur-romanian-aviation-museum-bucharest.jpg\" alt=\"Romanian IAR-93A Vultur number 112 in green and sand camouflage displayed outdoors at the aviation museum in Bucharest\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">IAR-93A Vultur 112 at the National Museum of Romanian Aviation in Bucharest. Romania&rsquo;s version of the jet shared the Orao&rsquo;s twin Rolls-Royce Viper engines. Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:IAR_93_Bucharest_2012_01.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">VargaA \/ Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Twin Vipers and a missing afterburner<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>The result was a conventional, shoulder-winged twin-jet with swept wings and tail. It carried two twin-barrel 23 mm cannon in the lower fuselage and up to 2,800 kg of bombs, rockets and missiles, and pilots sat on Martin-Baker zero-zero ejection seats. It combined Western and Eastern avionics and weapons.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>The weak point was thrust. An afterburner for the Viper was supposed to follow, but development dragged on for years, so the pre-production and early series aircraft flew without it. Many of the early non-afterburning jets in Yugoslavia were completed as reconnaissance aircraft.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Afterburning versions arrived in the 1980s: the J-22 Orao in Yugoslavia and the IAR-93B in Romania, with more fuel and heavier weapons loads. Even then, the jet stayed subsonic in level flight. It was never the Jaguar its designers had imagined.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0 8px\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9vc-y8COmNQ\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;font-style:italic;margin:0 0 24px\">Weapon Detective&rsquo;s history of the IAR-93 Vultur and J-22 Orao, the joint jet of Romania and Yugoslavia.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Two production lines, one war<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>Romania built its Vulturs at Craiova, in the factory now known as Avioane Craiova, for the <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/romanian-air-force\/\">Romanian Air Force<\/a>. Yugoslavia built its Oraos at Soko near Mostar. Series production ran from 1981 to 1992, and between them the two countries produced roughly 200 aircraft.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Then Yugoslavia broke apart. The Mostar plant was abandoned in early 1992 and heavily damaged in the fighting that followed. The Yugoslav Army stripped out what equipment it could, but series production of the J-22 never restarted anywhere.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>The Orao went to war in the conflicts that destroyed the country that built it, flying ground-attack missions in the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s. Most of the surviving jets ended up in Serbia.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/11\/nj-22-orao-25531-batajnica-2016.jpg\" alt=\"Serbian Air Force two-seat NJ-22 Orao 25531 with crew climbing in via a yellow ladder at Batajnica Air Base\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">The two-seat NJ-22 Orao, built for training and combat, at Batajnica Air Base during a 2016 open day. The two-seater is the basis of Serbia&rsquo;s Orao 2.0 upgrade. Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:NJ-22_Orao_25531_RV_i_PVO_VS1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sr\u0111an Popovi\u0107 \/ Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Romania, under a UN embargo on its former partner and in the turmoil after the fall of Ceau&#537;escu, ended its programme in 1992 with airframes still unfinished on the line, and had retired the Vultur by the early 2000s. Several are preserved, including examples at the National Museum of Romanian Aviation in Bucharest.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Orao 2.0<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>That left Serbia as the last operator. By the mid-2010s only a few of its Oraos were airworthy. In April 2016, at the opening of a new hangar at Batajnica, the <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/serbian-air-force-and-air-defence\/\">Serbian Air Force and Air Defence<\/a> presented a modernisation programme for the type, unofficially known as Orao 2.0, with new navigation and targeting systems and new weapons.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>In 2019 the Serbian Ministry of Defence went further and began examining Oraos that had been stored since the 1990s, because many had flown only around 500 hours against an expected airframe life of 3,000. The plan drew public criticism, and the ministry answered it directly.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #1565c0;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7\"><div><em>&ldquo;Each and every airframe will be carefully examined to eliminate any risk related to making those Oraos airworthy again. The technical assessment will decide if they may be overhauled or not.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>Nenad Miloradovi\u0107<\/strong> &mdash; Serbian Assistant Defence Minister for Material Resources, 2019 (MoD statement, as reported by the Polish magazine afterburner.com.pl)<\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Serbia&rsquo;s Oraos still train with rockets on exercise ranges, and the airworthy jets are concentrated with the 241st Fighter-Bomber Squadron at <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/ladjevci\/\">La\u0111evci<\/a>. For a jet whose prototype first flew when Tito and Ceau&#537;escu were still in power, that is a remarkable run.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/11\/j-22-orao-rocket-attack-sadejstvo-2020.jpg\" alt=\"A Serbian J-22 Orao firing unguided rockets in a dive during the Sadejstvo 2020 exercise\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">A Serbian Orao fires unguided rockets at a target during the joint tactical exercise Sadejstvo 2020 on the Pe&scaron;ter range. Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Sadejstvo_2020_-_J-22_Orao_01.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sr\u0111an Popovi\u0107 \/ Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0 8px\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Sowllgwnfh8\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;font-style:italic;margin:0 0 24px\">Serbian aviation outlet TangoSix at the presentation of the Orao 2.0 modernisation project.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>The Orao never became the fighter of the non-aligned world its founders imagined. It was too slow for that, and the countries that built it did not survive in their original form. But two small air forces got a modern attack jet of their own design, and one of them still trusts it with its ground-attack mission.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><em>Sources: GlobalSecurity.org, afterburner.com.pl (Poland), Serbian Ministry of Defence, TangoSix, Weapon Detective<\/em><\/p>\r\n<!-- mfsh:bottom -->\r\n\r\n<button type=\"button\" class=\"mfsh-trigger mfsh-bottom\" data-mfsh-placement=\"bottom\" aria-haspopup=\"dialog\"><svg><use href=\"#mfsh-i-share\"\/><\/svg>Share this story<\/button>\r\n\r\n<!-- \/mfsh:bottom -->\r\n\r\n<p class=\"mf-photo-credits\" data-no-translation style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;font-style:italic;margin:6px 0 18px\">Header photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:J-22_Orao_25121_241_LBAE_98_(cropped).jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sr\u0111an Popovi\u0107 \/ Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<style>.mfq{margin:34px 0 8px}.mfq h2{font:26px\/1.3 \"Gilroy semiBold\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#0d1117;padding-top:22px;margin:0 0 6px}.mfq .qa details{border-top:1px solid #5C91FF;margin:0;padding:0}.mfq .qa details:last-of-type{border-bottom:1px solid #e2e7ee}.mfq .qa summary{cursor:pointer;list-style:none;display:flex;justify-content:space-between;align-items:center;gap:16px;padding:22px 26px;font:18px\/1.7 \"Gilroy semiBold\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#0d1117}.mfq .qa summary::-webkit-details-marker{display:none}.mfq .qa summary::after{content:\"+\";font:24px Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#3568e0;flex:0 0 auto}.mfq .qa details[open] summary::after{content:\"\\2013\"}.mfq .qa details:hover summary{color:#3568e0}.mfq .qa .a{font:16px\/1.7 \"Gilroy regular\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#454e5e;padding:0 26px 24px}.mfq .qa .a a{color:#3568e0}@media(max-width:680px){.mfq .qa summary{padding:18px 14px;font-size:17px}.mfq .qa .a{padding:0 14px 20px}}<\/style>\r\n\r\n\r\n<section class=\"mfq\"><h2>Frequently Asked Questions<\/h2><div class=\"qa\"><details open><summary>What is the difference between the J-22 Orao and the IAR-93 Vultur?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">The J-22 Orao and IAR-93 Vultur are the same basic aircraft, developed jointly by Yugoslavia and Romania under the YuRom programme. Soko built it in Yugoslavia as the Orao and Romania built it at Craiova as the IAR-93 Vultur. The two nations later developed slightly different afterburning versions.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>When did the J-22 Orao first fly?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">The J-22 Orao and the IAR-93 Vultur first flew on the same day, 31 October 1974. The Yugoslav prototype took off from Batajnica near Belgrade and the Romanian prototype from Bac&#259;u, with the two flights deliberately timed to coincide for political reasons.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>Why does the J-22 Orao use Rolls-Royce Viper engines?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">The J-22 Orao uses two Rolls-Royce Vipers because Britain would not license the more modern engine the designers wanted for production in Eastern Europe. Soko already licence-built the Viper, but the afterburner it needed took years to develop, so early aircraft flew without one.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>Is the J-22 Orao supersonic?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">No. The J-22 Orao is a subsonic attack aircraft. Its designers originally hoped for a supersonic jet in the class of the SEPECAT Jaguar, but the choice of the less powerful Rolls-Royce Viper engines meant the Orao stayed subsonic in level flight, even with afterburners.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>Who still flies the J-22 Orao?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">Serbia is the last operator of the J-22 Orao. The Serbian Air Force and Air Defence flies the type for ground attack and is modernising it under a programme unofficially called Orao 2.0. Romania ended production in 1992 and had retired its IAR-93 Vulturs by the early 2000s.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>What is Orao 2.0?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">Orao 2.0 is Serbia&rsquo;s modernisation of its J-22 and NJ-22 Orao fleet, presented at Batajnica in April 2016. It adds new navigation and targeting systems and new weapons. In 2019 Serbia also began examining stored Oraos, many with only about 500 flight hours, as candidates for overhaul.<\/div><\/details><\/div><\/section>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@type\":\"FAQPage\",\"mainEntity\":[{\"@type\":\"Question\",\"name\":\"What is the difference between the J-22 Orao and the IAR-93 Vultur?\",\"acceptedAnswer\":{\"@type\":\"Answer\",\"text\":\"The J-22 Orao and IAR-93 Vultur are the same basic aircraft, developed jointly by Yugoslavia and Romania under the YuRom programme. 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