Balkan war history

The system of air surveillance, reporting and guidance developed in the postwar period. In the National Liberation War developed only certain features of the system. Immediately after the war, with a development of other arms and services, started the organization and creation of material and personnel basis for the organization of the system air surveillance and reporting. Establishing the VOJIN (Aero monitoring, reporting, and guidance) made in 1953 when it organized a system for air surveillance and reporting (VOJ). At the end of 1945 from the collected staff and equipment, was established in Zagreb School center PAA, in which, in addition to professional and combat training, intensive service studied air surveillance and notification. Parallel to this the units PAO starts the process of organization of service of air surveillance and notification. By the end of 1946, collected a number of qualified PA sighting radar "Würzburg" and one surveill...

M-70 AB is the most widely used assault rifle, also one of the last Zastava rifles manufactured in Yugoslavia. It is derived from the Soviet Kalashnikov AK-47. Today there are many copies. One of the most famous is Serbian, because of improvements that have been incorporated into it. Produced in Kragujevac, as a variant of known rifle Kalashnikov AK-47. It is known as the "The gypsy". Uses ammunition 7,62x39 mm. This is the semi-automatic civilian version of the Yugoslavian Zastava M70AB2, built by Century Arms International. The M70s also have a grenade-launching sight and gas cut-off on the gas block and are capable of launching rifle grenades. To launch them a 22 mm diameter grenade launching adapter is screwed on in place of the slant brake or another muzzle device. Iraqi Police officer holds a Zastava M70 AB2. The best results are achieved when targeting of live force. Individual fire on the ground precision is up to 400 m, and 500 m in t...

Now one of the world's greatest attractions, in fact, the plane that once belonged to Josip Broz Tito, until he got bored! In fact, formally was owned by JAT, but was used only for the purposes of lifelong Yugoslav president .JAT got it in 1958. Immediately after Tito had ordered the plane converted into a luxury aircraft that would be used by him and his famous guests. However, in 1975 Tito was bored with this plane and sold to the Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda who was also used as a VIP plane. When in Africa, came the era of jet airliners, Kaunda has left aside, so that the plane had just parked on an auxiliary runway of the airport in Lusaka. Here is Chris Schutte, operator of a small airline in Windhoek (Windhoek Eros), the capital of Namibia, encountered this plane. Initially, he had intended to buy for spare parts for their DC - 4 but found that this DC - 6 has her brother (eng. Phrase - sister plane, serial number 45564), which rolled off the ...

Carcano Modello 1891 infantry rifle Carcano is the frequently used name for a series of Italian bolt-action, magazine-fed, repeating military rifles and carbines. Introduced in 1891, this rifle was chambered for the rimless 6.5×52mm Carcano cartridge (Cartuccia Modello 1895). It was developed by the chief technician Salvatore Carcano at the Turin Army Arsenal in 1890 and called the Modello (model) 91 or simply M91. Successively replacing the previous Vetterli-Vitali rifles and carbines in 10.35×47mmR, it was produced from 1892 to 1945. The M91 was used in both rifle (fucile) and carbine (Moschetto) form by most Italian troops during the First World War and by Italian and some German forces during the Second World War. The rifle was also used during the Winter War by Finland, and again by regular and irregular forces in Syria, Libya, Tunisia, and Algeria during various postwar conflicts in those countries. Carcano Model 1891 TS Carbine The Type I Carcano rifle was...

The German forces in attack Operation Snowstorm (Ger. Schneesturm) was a strategic operation of the Wehrmacht against partisans in Bosnia. Guided by the winter, from 21 to 29 December 1943. In the Yugoslav historiography, the first stage of operation is known as Krivajska operations because it is guided in the valley of the river Krivaja. Its goal was to surround and annihilate the 3rd Shock Corps NLA. This operation was part of the Sixth enemy offensive. After the first stage of the operation "Schneesturm" in eastern Bosnia, the second stage of the operation was continued in western Bosnia. The second stage was quite ambitious, destroy the supreme leadership of the National Liberation Movement of Yugoslavia, which was then in the region of Jajce, and the leader of the movement, Josip Broz Tito. Within the second phase of the operation "snowstorm" in January 1944, made the two corps operations: Operation Waldrausch ("Hook forest"...

Pistol M88 is a single action weapon, characterized by reliability and precision. The pistol is a semi-automatic weapon with a safe system of locking and triggering. It functions on the principle of short recoil of the barrel. It is the ideal defense weapon, easy to handle and maintain. Credit: Zastava M88A Tokarev 9mm pistol photo owner by  Einar Kramer The pistol is fed from a detachable magazine with secure fitting and releasing. The pistol is put to safety position when the hammer is pulled "to the first cam". The pistol has fixed iron sights. Metal parts of the pistol are made of high-quality alloy steel. Hand grip covers are made of selected walnut or of the polymer. Standard finish is blue. The M88 had limited use in the Yugoslav army and police because it  was replaced with guns of the series CZ 99 who had more capacity. Since that the gun was made available for civilian use, the M88 began used as a gun during training in m...