[quote][b][url=/v3/forum/europe-14/topic/ratno-vazduhoplovstvo-i-protiv-vazdusna-odbrana-serbie-329/?post=18688#post-18688]rafighter[/url] a dit le 25/12/2007 à 18:50 :[/b] [quote]Air Force marks 95th anniversary The Serbian Army (VS) Air Force marked the 95th anniversary this Monday with a ceremony at its Batajnica base. The idea to introduce an air force in the Serbian army is first mentioned in a document entitled, Decree on Formation of the Army, dated August 2, 1893. The decree envisaged "establishment of a hot air balloon unit" in each division of the Army of the Kingdom of Serbia. Some twenty years later, in 1912, a group of the Kingdom officers was sent to France to attend a pilot training course. While the pilots were trained, airplanes were bought, and on the order of Defense Minister Radomir Putnik, an Air Force command was formed on December 24, 1912, in the southern town of Niš. Thus Serbia became one of only 15 countries in the world that had a military aviation at the time. The Air Force has suffered in the past decades along with the rest of the Army, with officers' training, equipment and status steadily eroding. But the Defense Ministry has plans to revitalize the country's aging warplane fleet and has in the past year provided the pilots with basic conditions for training, almost completely lacking since 1999.[/quote] http://www.b92.net/eng/news/society-article.php?yyyy=2007&mm=12&dd=24&nav_id=46441[/quote]