Its not only that, Serbia and China have a great partnership, especially since 2014.
In 2014:
Serbia and China sign 13 agreements and memorandums
http://www.b92.net/eng/news/business.php?yyyy=2014&mm=12&dd=18&nav_id=92609
Jun 2016:
China's Xi highlights Serbia trade as Beijing signs 22 deals...
From Airbus helicopters website:
Airbus to Qualify Serbian Industry as Maintenance Partner and Supplier
The Republic of Serbia will acquire nine H145M helicopters from Airbus. The contract for procurement, associated services and related industrial cooperation was signed in Belgrade between...
"Poly Group" interested in projects in defence industry
Belgrade/Davos, 18 Jan 2017 – Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic met today in Davos with Director of "Poly Group", with whom he discussed joint projects in the production of arms and military equipment.
Vucic said that the mentioned company...
Anti-materiel Rifle M12 - Black Spear
Price - 6500$
These are factory prices under which factory sold these rifles to different countries. I must mention that prices are probably related to the amount of rifles ordered and other similar things.
Serbia is developing ALAS and SPIDER missiles. ALAS is ground to ground, or sea to ground missile, and SPIDER can be also fired from the helicopters. You should know that MANPAD is short from MAN Portable Air Defense system. ALAS and SPIDER are not air defence systems. And they are not meant to...
Max range depends on ammunition used, and since all those modern 155mm howitzers have the main armament with same characteristics (155mm 52cal gun), when using the same ammunition the max range will be similar.
And don't be to excited about all those max ranges from the producers catalogs...
Pakistan delegation led by maj general Farhan Akhtar (chief of artillery department) is visiting Serba, in organization by Yugoimport SDPR.
They were received yesterday by Serbian Defence minister Zoran Djordjevic.
Djordjevic and Akhtar agreed that the establishment of new partnerships...
Under this agreement 6 of these helicopters will go to army, and 3 to police helicopter unit. Also according to our prime minister Airbus will donate 4 more of these helicopters to Serbia (total number 13).
The signed contract includes:
- The purchase of nine helicopters H145M with the...
These Mig 29 are donation from Russia:
9.12 RF-92185 Blue14
9.51 RF-92196 Blue75
9.51 RF-29166 Blue101
9.13 RF-93709 Blue04
9.13 RF-93713 Blue31
9.13 RF-93717 Blue10
Together with 4 Serbian Mig 29, they are all supposed to be modernized to BM standard. Price for overhaul, modernization...
Russia has their own interests, just like any other superpower, nobody denies that. I am just sick from all those bulshit newspaper articles about rising tensions in the Balkans, every time when someone even farts here. Yes there are tensions in the Balkans, but if you took all armies from ex...
Bunch of crap as usual. We are buying those six Mig 29, because if dont do anything we will end up without any fighter planes in 2018. And since we are poor country, this is the only possible stop gap measure that we can afford in situation like this. Reasons are simple. We already have four Mig...
Azerbaijan is actually really active in intention to become as independent as possible concerning their defence industry. I don't know how much you guys are familiar that they are also cooperating with Serbian defence industry. They had 30 million dollars deal for technology transfer with...
Serbia actually have more than 212 tanks. Those 212 are in use in 4 tank battalions of the four land brigades of the Serbian Army (15th, 26th, 36th and 46th tank battalion). Each battalion with 53 tanks (command tank plus four companies with 13 tanks each). Additional tank battalion is formed...
Both Nora B 52 and Denel T5-52 have the main gun with same specifications (155mm 52cal), so firing range actually depends on the ammunition used. And since the gun is more or less the same, so is the firing range for both howitzers. With 155 mm HE M107 round range for both of them will be around...
After all this time Serbian army is becoming the fourth user of Nora B52. 6 of them will be presented at military parade in Novi Sad tomorrow, and soon after that handed over to Serbian army.