Any news on the restructure of the AF?

The loss of Monte Negro has further reduced the airspace of Serbia and has also taken out the requirement for any naval operations (i.e. Anti-ship and Anti-submarine).

Another interesting point is that the loss of the Navy means more funds will be freed up in the future unless they get diverted into other projects.

There are no news at this time.

The separation of the Montenegro is also freeing us of the burden of operating a Navy (which is more or less non functional) and Naval Air Wing(Ka-25s and Ka-27s have been retired in the year 2000). Also,the airplanes and helicopters presently situated at Podgorica AB will be relocated somewhere else in Serbia (Ladjevci AB most probably) and therefore we would would pay for operating from one base less which is a good thing.

Speaking of the reduced airspace,it is better this way as there is less area to cover.

In Montenegro,there will be no Anti-ship of Anti-submarine force as it will concentrate mostly on patrols and SAR duties.

That costs 5.8 million dollars?! Just for some radios and transmitters and screens? You could buy equipment like that at radio shack for probably under a thousand dollars (not the exact same obviously but the same level of technology). Someone is making a killer profit somewhere…

For some reason, our Mig-29’s have always looked uglier to me than some other countries’ Mig-29’s. I can’t figure out why, maybe it’s the paint scheme or maybe they’re just not shined up nice or something.

Our Mig-29s are one of the earliers production Mig-29s.As i said before,they were delivered in 1987 but, they were produced at the beginning of the 1980s and stored in Russia for couple of years before delivered to us.

These photos were taken in the end of 2005.

You can notice the testing of the R-60 engine and its avionics(domestically manufactured) and the Sa-6 missile radar antenna(from SA-6 i suppose as there are a lot of Sa-6 cones in the background and the size is appropriate to that of an Sa-6 missile).