If I am reading above article correctly ,especially part that is saying “safety, logistics and maintenance, pilot training, and search and rescue ” it looks that Serbian Air Force will be equipped with US combat aircrafts , most likely F-16 and most likely date of their introduction will be sometimes in 2008/2009 and that wail nicely fit with previous announcements that MiG-21 will be pulled out of service by 2010.
Now there is interesting question ..what will happen with planed refurbishment of current MiG-29 and purchase of additional MiG-29.Are we going to have situation that Serbian Air Force will operate both types for some period of time.(one squadron of MiG-29 and one squadron of F-16)
I already made a thread about Serbian Air Force.Its unnecessary to create more threads for each subject.
Anyhow,what tells you they will get F-16s in 2008/2009?There is no money for that.
If everything goes according to plan 5 Mig-29s will be sent to Russia for overhaul as of next year and in the meantime the only fighter aircraft will be the Mig-21s. I am not aware of any plans to purchase additional Mig-29s in the near future.
And for the serbian,if we dont have ties with USA,do you propose we get Mig-25s and Mi-6s as you said in your earlier posts?
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