Serbian Air Force Needs and Modernization

Really not the best but for low money it's better than their actual soviet made stuff.

Hope they will test them and say what they think about them.

Is BUK-M3 even for sale?

I posted 2 days ago in the buk thread that rosoboronexport put the Viking (export buk-M3) on their website. So yes it is.

And this looks far more mobile and compact than S-350 or BUK hence easier to hide

No it's not. Also it has 1 radar with SARH missiles which means same drawbacks as your sa-6. Buk has radar for all its launchers and S-350 ARH missiles.

Buk is far more mobile and its off road capabilities allow to hide in forest or better terrains. This one need to stay on roads and cab be easily spotted.

Not to mention that it is chinese made...

Also they offer buk on wheeled chassis.

Anyone has more info on the system.

I see only this picture on google about the system's radar and it seems to not rotate. The missiles are also launched only in one direction. Which makes it even less effective than sa-6. And since the serbian air force is very weak with only 4 or so mig-29A enemy can easily go around and destroy them.

So the 4 system will probably work as 1 system to provide 360° protection which sucks.

I don't see your pictures.

Thanks Cyberspec. But that doesn't change the problem of 1 radar for all the launchers. Multidirectional attacks will be deadly against it. They will need more pantsir.

Very stupid and inefficient. I presume these were dirt cheap then. Otherwise lol.

From what I understood China gave lot of money to help Serbian economy so it's not a real military purchase. It still better to have them than not and they cover a big area.

On April 16, 2021, the An-124 Ruslan heavy transport aircraft of the Ukrainian company Antonov State Enterprise delivered two MiG-29 fighters to Serbia from Belarus. In 2019, Belarus handed over to Serbia four single-seat MiG-29 fighters from the presence of the Belarusian armed forces. The transferred aircraft underwent major overhaul and modernization of the "first stage" at JSC "558th Aviation Repair Plant" in Baranovichi.



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MiG-29s are now capable of mapping the terrain: Serbia is upgrading donated fighters
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The last batch of two MiG-29 fighters arrived on May 17 from Belarus to Serbia. Thanks to this and earlier deliveries, which were free of charge within the framework of military assistance from Moscow and Minsk, the Serbian military acquired a MiG-29 squadron of 14 vehicles (6 of the old buildings were transferred to the Russian Federation, 4 by Belarus, 4 remained from Soviet times).

So far, 10 donated units have been mainly overhauled (one car - mainly in the Russian Federation, the rest - in Belarus), which made it possible to extend their service life. At the same time, due to the replacement of some equipment, a number of improvements were made, in connection with which the aircraft received the designation MiG-29SD.

However, now the Serbian military has more serious work to do. As expected, 11 single-seat aircraft will undergo the second stage modernization and will be brought to the level of the MiG-29SM; 3 two-seaters, given the more modest equipment and combat capabilities, are likely to undergo more modest improvements.

MiG-29s are already being converted to the SM version, turning into multi-role fighters. According to the Serbian edition of Tango Six, on May 18, the Ministry of Defense reported for the first time that in this iteration the aircraft, thanks to the radar, are able to map the terrain [for work on ground targets], and therefore new air-to-surface weapons have already been purchased. Also, modern means of active electronic countermeasures are installed.

https://en.topwar.ru/183086-mig-29-sposobny-kartografirovat-mestnost-serbija-moderniziruet-podarennye-istrebiteli.html

The ceremony of accepting four MiG-29 fighters from Belarus to the Serbian Air Force

On June 10, 2021, at the "Colonel-Pilot Milenko Pavlovic" airbase of the Serbian Air Force in Batainitsa, a solemn ceremony was held for the transfer of four MiG-29 fighters transferred to Serbia by Belarus. Let me remind you that in 2019, four single-seat MiG-29 fighters from the presence of the Belarusian Air Force were transferred to Serbia as part of the provision of military-technical assistance. The transferred aircraft underwent major overhaul and modernization of the "first stage" at JSC "558th Aviation Repair Plant" in Baranovichi. Now the number of fighters of this type in the Serbian Air Force has increased to 14 units.







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