Thursday, September 18, 2008

Serbia Eyes Bosnian Serb Military Jets

Serbia wants to purchase surplus military jets from Bosnia’s Serb-dominated Republika Srpska entity to supplement its own air force, a defence official says.

During a recent visit to the Republika Srpska capital, Banja Luka, Dragan Sutanovac, Serbia’s Defence Minister, said that the military is interested in purchasing former Yugoslav J-22 Orao, J-21 Jastreb attack jets and G4 Super Galeb advanced trainers.

“Depending on the state of readiness of those aircraft, we might supplement our own strike and reconnaissance squadrons, which are seriously short of resources,” a Defence Ministry official said recently on customary condition of anonymity.

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