Every war the Serbian Air Force and Air Defence and the air forces before it have fought
The record runs through the Serbian, Royal Yugoslav and Yugoslav air forces from which the present service descends. The wars of 1991–1992 and the 1999 NATO air campaign are described differently in Belgrade, in the other successor states and by NATO, and each position is attributed. 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 siege of Skadar in 1913 to the NATO air campaign of 1999.
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| Balkánské válkythe siege of SkadarSerbian Aviation Command (Vazduhoplovna komanda) | 1912–1913 | Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria | Early French-built aircraft | |||
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Reconnaissance flights in support of the siege of Skadar and, in 1913, of the Second Balkan War. The Aviation Command was only a few months old when its aircraft went to war. The Serbian Armed Forces say that during the siege of Skadar in 1913 Serbia became one of the first five countries to use aircraft in combat operations. English Wikipedia dates the first reconnaissance flight to 20 March 1913 and records the death of Sergeant Mihajlo Petrović, the first pilot of Serbian military aviation to be killed; the military airfield at Niš today carries his name. The flying was reconnaissance, not bombing or air fighting, and the numbers were tiny, but it gave the army a lasting habit of using aircraft to see over the next hill. Výsledek The Ottoman garrison of Skadar surrendered in April 1913; the Serbian army ended the wars with its aviation established. Aircraft numbers, types and sortie totals for 1912–1913 were not confirmed in an official source; the date of Petrović’s death is not given here.
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| První světová válkathe Serbian campaign and the Salonika frontSerbian Aviation Command, with French squadrons | 1914–1918 | Austria-Hungary, Germany and Bulgaria | French-built reconnaissance aircraft | |||
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Reconnaissance and artillery observation for the Serbian army; the first aerial evacuation of wounded is credited to Serbia in autumn 1915. Wikipedia records the first exchange of fire between aircraft over Serbia on 27 August 1914 and the arrival of a French squadron in March 1915, which carried much of the air work. In the autumn of 1915 wounded and sick were carried by air in Serbia, which Wikipedia calls the first medical air transport in history. On 30 September 1915, according to the Serbian Armed Forces, the gunner Radomir Raka Ljutovac shot down a German aircraft with a field gun modified to fire upwards, a feat still told as the first downing of an aircraft by ground fire in Serbia. After the retreat of 1915 the Serbian flyers served with the French on the Salonika front until the breakthrough of 1918. Výsledek The Serbian army was driven out in late 1915 and returned through the Salonika front in 1918. Claims of world firsts come from Serbian official sources and Wikipedia and are presented as their claims.
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| The April Warthe Axis invasion of YugoslaviaRoyal Yugoslav Air Force | 1941 | Germany, Italy and Hungary | Bf 109E, Hurricane I, IK-3a 4 další | |||
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Defended Belgrade and the country against the German, Italian and Hungarian invasion and bombed Axis columns. The Royal Yugoslav Air Force went to war on 6 April 1941 with more than 460 front-line aircraft against well over a thousand German and Italian ones. That morning about 300 German aircraft attacked Belgrade in waves; Wikipedia’s account puts the dead at about 4,000. Fighters of the 6th Fighter Regiment, whose traditions the 204th Air Brigade at Batajnica keeps, fought over the capital, and Wikipedia counts at least twenty claims on the first day and a dozen more on the second, at a cost of about twenty fighters shot down. The Royal Yugoslav Air Force article gives Yugoslav claims of 90 to 100 enemy aircraft over the whole campaign; the invasion article gives about 60 German aircraft shot down over Yugoslavia. Factories kept delivering aircraft to the last days, but after eleven days the air force had almost ceased to exist. Some 70 aircraft flew to Greece; three Lockheed 10s, two Do 17Ks, four SM.79Ks and nine floatplanes reached Egypt. Výsledek Yugoslavia capitulated on 17 April 1941, effective at noon on 18 April. Claims and losses differ between sources: Yugoslav claims of 90–100 kills against about 60 German losses recorded by Wikipedia; Belgrade death tolls vary widely between sources and the 4,000 figure is Wikipedia’s.
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| Yugoslav squadrons of the RAF and the Partisan air forceBalkan air warNo. 351 and No. 352 (Yugoslav) Squadrons RAF and Partisan (NOVJ) air units | 1944–1945 | Germany and Independent State of Croatia | Hurricane IIC, Spitfire VB, VC and IX, Yak-3a 2 další | 367 | ||
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Escort, ground attack and reconnaissance in support of the Partisan army. No. 352 Squadron RAF was formed at Benina in Libya on 22 April 1944 as the first Yugoslav-manned fighter unit in the Mediterranean, with personnel from the Royal Yugoslav Air Force and Partisan units. It flew Hurricane IICs until June 1944 and then Spitfires across Yugoslavia, carrying out 367 combat operations in nine months at the cost of 27 pilot casualties, ten of them killed. The Partisan air units also received Soviet Yak fighters and Il-2 attack aircraft. The Yugoslav Air Force was formally created from these units on 5 January 1945, and on 18 May 1945 Nos. 351 and 352 Squadrons, released by the RAF, formed its 1st Fighter Regiment. Výsledek On 18 May 1945 the two RAF squadrons became the 1st Fighter Regiment of the new Yugoslav Air Force. Wikipedia’s Serbian air force article gives 912 combat missions for the 2nd Yugoslav Squadron, which does not match the 352 Squadron article; the lower, unit-level figure is used.
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| The wars of the break-up of YugoslaviaSlovenia, Croatia and Bosnia and HerzegovinaAir Force and Air Defence of the Yugoslav People’s Army (JRV i PVO) | 1991–1992 | Slovenian Territorial Defence, Croatian forces and Bosnian government forces | MiG-21, G-4 Super Galeb, J-21 Jastreba 4 další | 46 | ||
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Air support for the Yugoslav People’s Army and air strikes on targets in Slovenia and Croatia. The Yugoslav People’s Army went into the break-up of Yugoslavia with one of Europe’s larger air forces, and the war turned it against parts of its own country. In Slovenia in June and July 1991 Yugoslav aircraft struck Brnik airport, damaging four Adria Airways airliners, and radio and television transmitters; two Austrian journalists were killed at Brnik, and Slovenian Territorial Defence shot down two helicopters on 27 June. In Croatia, on 7 October 1991, two MiG-21s and two G-4s attacked the Banski dvori in Zagreb while President Franjo Tuđman met the Yugoslav federal president Stjepan Mesić and prime minister Ante Marković; one civilian was killed. Croatia called it an attempt to destroy the seat of its statehood; the Yugoslav defence ministry said the attack had not been authorised by the central command and suggested it had been staged. In 1992 the great cavern base at Željava was blown up, the Serbian Army of Krajina completing the destruction with 56 tonnes of explosives, according to Wikipedia. The legal and political assessments of these wars differ between the successor states, and this page records events rather than verdicts. Výsledek The federal air force withdrew to Serbia and Montenegro, leaving or destroying its bases elsewhere; the Air Force of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was formed on 27 April 1992. Positions differ sharply between Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia and Bosnia and Herzegovina; each claim is attributed. Aircraft losses by cause are not broken down in the sources checked.
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| The NATO air campaign against YugoslaviaOperation Allied Force; in Serbia, the NATO aggressionAir Force and Air Defence of the Army of Yugoslavia | 1999 | NATO | MiG-29, MiG-21, J-22 Oraoa 3 další | |||
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Air defence of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia against NATO air strikes, and ground attack in Kosovo. For 78 days from 24 March 1999 NATO bombed the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia; Wikipedia gives 38,000 combat missions, some 10,000 of them strike missions. The Yugoslav air force could not contest the air: of its few MiG-29s, six were shot down in air combat, and Colonel Milenko Pavlović, commander of the 204th Fighter Aviation Regiment, was killed on 4 May when his MiG-29 was shot down by USAF F-16s; Batajnica has carried his name since 26 June 2019. The air defence did better at survival than at killing. On 27 March the 3rd battalion of the 250th Air Defence Missile Brigade, under Lieutenant Colonel Zoltán Dani, shot down an F-117A near Buđanovci with an S-125, the first stealth aircraft ever shot down; the pilot was rescued. On 2 May the same unit shot down an F-16CJ, whose pilot was also rescued. Wreckage of both is in the Belgrade museum. Serbian officials counted 956 military and police killed and 52 missing in 2013; Human Rights Watch put civilian deaths at 489 to 528. Výsledek The Kumanovo agreement ended the campaign; the bombing was suspended on 10 June 1999 and Yugoslav forces withdrew from Kosovo. Figures are strongly contested: NATO claimed 121 Yugoslav aircraft destroyed, Wikipedia gives about 50, and Yugoslav figures cited by Wikipedia are much lower. NATO’s estimate of Yugoslav military dead fell from 5,000 to about 1,200 against Serbia’s 956. Serbia calls the campaign the NATO aggression; NATO described it as a humanitarian intervention over Kosovo.
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Každé číslo, zkontrolované
- Vojska Srbije: Ratno vazduhoplovstvo i PVOOfficial name, mission, HQ Glavna 1 Zemun, air force day 24 December (1912 Aviation Command), subordinate brigades.
- Vojska Srbije: Istorijat Vojske SrbijeAviation Command at Niš 24 December 1912; Skadar 1913; Ljutovac 30 September 1915; April War 6–17 April 1941.
- Vojska Srbije: 204. vazduhoplovna brigadaBatajnica; squadrons 101, 252, 138, 890; aircraft types; formed as 204th air base 15 November 2011; airfield built 1947–1951; 6th Fighter Regiment tradition.
- Vojska Srbije: 98. vazduhoplovna brigadaLađevci (Morava) and Niš; squadrons 241, 714, 119, 353; aircraft types incl. Mi-35M/P, CH-92, CH-95; formed 13 June 2007.
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