Frankly, whatever happens I think it would be a mistake to do more than buying a few more second hand FULCRUMs and upgrading the whole ‘fleet’ (of 10-12 aircraft*) to SMT standard. The rest of the money can then be spent on as much domestically produced kit as possible, i.e. the SMTs would be able to drop domestically produced LGBs and fire Grom-2 missiles in the ground attack role, G-4s could have an M added and also use domestic a2g weapons, M-84s could be upgraded to AB1 standard etc. Helicopters are probably the other foreign purchase that will be necessary – damn. These are probably top of the list of big purchases so expect to see Pumas (or similar) with Serbian markings some time in the future. Personally I would prefer Ka-60s but thats just because they look so much better 😎 .
* ideally 10 single seaters and two UBs (which don’t have to be upgraded anyway).
That would be an ideal soultion. We have the potential that is true, we have the skills. We also have people that care only about themselves(read – polititians).If everything goes well, and the budget gets well planned,i see an option ,similar to the one you stated above ink, realistically happening.
Lets hope this becomes the usuall view at the airbases around Serbia:
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