Balkan war history

MiG - 21 in aircraft shelter on military airport Dubinje In 1999, the Military Airport Dubinje near Sjenice was destroyed by NATO bombs. There is no airport in Yugoslavia suffered such aggressive and intense bombing as the Sjenica Airport. Thousands of bombs hit the airport and its surroundings. Today Aerodrome and the surrounding pebble landscape look like the surface of the Moon. Dubinje was home to the JNA squadron of the JNA and the Yugoslav Army, Galeb, Orlov, and Supersonic Mig - 21. The airport is ruined today and abandoned. Despite a large number of unexploded ordnance, it is only used by locals who lock the sheep and cattle in that area. Bunkers, where supersonic aircraft were located, are now being used as barns and hay storage space. abandoned aircraft shelter At an altitude of over a thousand meters, Dubinje had the largest runway in Yugoslavia, 2.5 kilometers long. The runway and airport with several planes were destroyed by NATO bombing in 1999....

aircraft Arno HD-320 Factory airplane and seaplane dragon was a Yugoslav airplane factory who worked in the period from 1927 to 1946 in Zemun. Established in prefabricated barracks on 15 March 1927 in Zemun in street Tošin bunar 27, and the founders were engineer Jovan Petrovic and industrialist Dragoljub Šterić. Dewoitine D.27. the first metal plane made in the Zmaj factory At the beginning, Zmaj's airplane factory had the task of repairing planes and producing simple spare parts. Production space did not allow significant production. Only the relocation of the Zmaj to a new location in 1928 in Karadjordjeva street in Zemun, allow for serious industrial production gain. New workshops, new machines were acquired and new employees of all specialties received. In this way, the Zmaj was able to respond to requests for production of 32 aircraft Arno HD-320 with engines Salmson of 90 kW (120 hp) and ten school seaplane Arno HD-41H with floats. The first aircraft was...

The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia had forty military facilities for strategic purposes, including several underground air base. Such objects were the greatest military secrets. One of these underground airfields located near Mostar. Zeljava-Bihac Airport was the most significant and most expensive military facility in the former Yugoslavia. It was built under the veil of secrets, as well as all the then Yugoslav cold-war objects for special purposes. Recognizing that the Zeljava project (built in 1958-1968) is very demanding and costly, this construction has been going on for a long time, and construction of several smaller subways for underground hangars, air base, so similar objects as in Bihać was built in Split (underground object Cetina built in 1969.-1970), Pristina (Morava building), Podgorica (then Titograd) object Šipčanik and Mostar (the Buna facility was built in 1969-1971. ). The construction of these facilities has been intensified...

The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia had forty military facilities for strategic purposes, including several underground airbases. Such facilities were the largest military secrets. One of these underground airbase which is located near Split in Croatia. Realizing that the project Zeljava (built 1958 to 1968) very demanding and expensive and the construction of long does it take, we started with the construction of several smaller undermine for aircraft - underground hangars. Such underground structures were built in Split (Cetin underground facility built 1969 to 1970), Pristina (object Morava), Podgorica (former Titograd) the object Šipčanik and  Mostar (Buna facility built 1969 to 1971). Hawk - 21 front entering the underground facility Cetina Until '91 Divulje were heliport (also alternate aerodrome) and in its composition had the naval part. They were looking the best. Probably still look so nice ... The people from the airport...

The headquarters of SOKO, which still exists, the surface is 450.000m², and the main plant, there are plants in Citluk, Grude, Ljubuski and Nevesinje, with a total of approximately 8,000 employees (of which 5,000 in the parent plant. Soko was a Yugoslav aircraft manufacturer based in Mostar, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina. The company was responsible for the production of many military aircraft for the Yugoslav Air Force. In 1948, the Yugoslav leadership came up with the idea to build a factory for program production aircraft. The idea was realized next when the Yugoslav Government took the decision to build a factory in Mostar. The reasoning was set to be the factory located in the area of the main sources of electricity and materials for production, but the key is the selection of Mostar was the distance from the eastern borders of Yugoslavia at the time of turbulent relations with the USSR. How important was that the Sokol had to move aircraft factory Ikarus in Zemun...