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Aleksandar Vulin and the Chief of Staff of the Serbian Army, General Milan Mojsilovic, visited members of the Air Force and Air Defense who are firing from the plane in the area of the “Pasuljanske livade” Military Complex with the aim of preparing a joint tactical exercise with combat shooting “Sadejstvo 2020”. in October in Peshtera.
The Defense Minister pointed out that today, after more than 20 years, our “moments” fired an air-to-ground missile for the first time, and that after several decades, military pilots have the opportunity to fire combat shots.
“Decades have passed, a whole generation of pilots has never had combat shots. Today it is completely normal. Today we do it regularly, we train our pilots like the largest and most modern armies in the world do. We are preparing for a great exercise. “. “Cooperation 2020 ‘, which will take place in Peshtera in October, and there we will show everything we have adopted, everything new. There we will show a new Serbian army that is capable of fulfilling all tasks,” announced Vulin.
The commander of the 204th Airlift Brigade, Colonel Brane Krnjajić, explained that aviation combat operations were carried out with MiG-29, G-4 and “Eagle” jets at ground targets.
“The MiG-29 aircraft operated with S-8 missiles for the first time in this range. These maneuvers were not practiced before. Furthermore, the G-4 aircraft participated with crews trained in S-5 missile action, according to ground targets, and the eagle plane “It operated with 250 kg FAB bombs. With this shooting today, we have practically confirmed that aviation is ready for the next phase of training, which will begin next week as part of the final preparations for exercise ‘Cooperation 2020’, “said Krnjajic.
He stressed that today’s battles were carried out with great success, with excellent results.
Preparations for the exercise “Cooperation 2020” were also attended by the Deputy Minister of Material Resources Dr. Nenad Miloradovic, Commander of the Air Force, and Major General of Air Defense Dusko Zarkovic, Deputy Commander of the Air Force and Brigadier General of Air Defense Zeljko Bilic, Deputy Commander of the Army Brigadier General Vladeta Baltic, Chief of Staff for the development and equipping of the General Staff of the Serbian Army, Brigadier General Milan Popovic and the Commander of the 250 Anti-aircraft Missile Brigade, Brigadier General Tiosav Jankovic.
