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I have never seen so much militarization on TV....practically every Sunday night on RTS.

In fact I believe this is serious propaganda and visual compensation for the lack of serious modern weapons and technology. A situation which is unlikely to improve for many a year.

No perspective enemy needs to employ serious researchers to find out the strengths and weakness of the Serbian Army. All they need to do, is to watch the Sunday TV military program, go to youtube, or go to military photos, where members of the Serbian Army release their own photos, as soon as they fart!

http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/sho...y!/page381

How professional is that?

You try searching the internet or that forum for actual current photographs of the British Army, which incidentally is a professional army also.

On watching the last military TV programme, I was extremely surprised by the definition and role of the military police.

They are meant to keep you the country's arm forces in check, that your units engage lawfully in combat. That military law is practice, and punished when broken or abused. They are the police that polices the army....and not its citizens. That's the role of the civilian police!

Unfortunately the Army is still lead, by remnants of the communist SRFJ, which were the successors to the Communist partisans. Obviously the doctrine is still evident, as the programming is a prime example of this.

Who need to militarized the TV airwaves. The Partisan tunes are now replaced the the first World tunes.

The Military Show/Tattoo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eE3IKSCjCEc

Is a far effective way of reaching the public, and providing it with excellent entertainment. Showing off the skill levels of the arm forces, in a variety of fields.

What's embarrassing is to continuously "pipe your own horn" using quite clearly outdated military equipment. Which leads the nation to a false sense of security.

Which quite clearly shows that the military leaders of the country, have failed to look back into the military history of the nation. As they have no idea who they have been fighting over the pass 2 millenniums!

These are the armaments being sent to Syrian Rebels!

http://static2.businessinsider.com/image...ssiles.jpg

http://www.trunews.com/wp-content/upload...OW-tow.jpg

http://www.darkgovernment.com/news/wp-co...-rebel.png

You will learn more by identifying your mistakes, identifying your weaknesses, and having a critical assessment of the arm forces, undertaken by completely professional and independent military journalists and specialists.

These are best TV military programs, as they usually mean the resignation /firing of incompetent individuals (if such a concept ever exists in such a country of nepotism)! They also should be catalyst for change and improvement!

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Serbia ranked 60th in world by military strength

VIENNA - Serbia is ranked 60th in the Global Firepower's (GFP) 2014 World Military Strength Rankings, where power scores are determined for a total of 106 countries based of manpower and equipment and other important factors such as the defense budget.

The United States is at the top of the GFP list with around 8,300 tanks, nearly 14,000 aircraft and a defense budget of more than USD 600 billion.

Runner-up Russia is the greatest power on land, having about 15,500 tanks, but it came in second in the rankings for having “only” 3,082 aircraft and “only” 766,000 active-duty soldiers.

Despite an active frontline personnel of approximately 2.3 million members, China is the world’s third military power, with “only” about 2,800 aircraft, which is far behind the United States. China also has about 10,000 tanks and its total naval strength is 520.

With their defense budgets of USD 76 billion and 126 billion respectively, Russia and China are in the same league, but far below the United States.

In Europe, the strongest in military terms is the UK, which sits in the fifth place ahead of France and Germany.

When it comes to Serbia, the GFP website states that its military has 52,000 active frontline members, 212 tanks, 720 armored fighting vehicles, 168 total aircraft, a total naval strength of 19 vessels and auxiliaries, and a USD 830 million defense budget.

The website also states in brief that the Serbian military is an all-volunteer force and that it participates in world peace-keeping endeavors.

Of the countries in the region, we find Croatia ranked 46th and Slovenia in the 94th place.

The GFP list makes use of over 50 factors to determine each nation's power index score, based on available official data, but also information provided by intelligence services.

The website, however, states that nuclear capability is not taken into account, while geographical factors and natural resource reliance for use and production influence every country's ranking.

The Ohio guard........FU!

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Serbia Wastes Cash Earmarked for Jet Upgrade
Security think tank says millions of euros earmarked for upgrading out-of-date Super Galeb jets has been spent elsewhere, as ministries haggle over the cost of the project.
Maja Zivanovic BIRN Belgrade

Supergaleb G-4 airplane I Photo: Wikimedia/Srdjan Popovic
A new report by the think tank Belgrade Centre for Security Policy, BCSP, shows that Serbia’s Defence Ministry spent 7.4 million euros from 2013 - earmarked for the modernization of the ancient Super Galeb G-4 fighter jet fleet - on other purposes, because the project has still not got a go-ahead from the government.

The project to upgrade the 10 or so Super Galebs, which date back to the 1980s, has been called the most valuable of the three major projects of the Defence Ministry in recent years.

The BCSP survey, presented this week, recalled that modernization of the Super Galeb G-4s was a long-term strategic decision, designed to maintain the air power of the Serbian armed forces, whose future had been the subject of much speculation for years owing to the lack of money to purchase new aircraft.

“Our findings … point to serious deficiencies in planning, which are preventing the timely and realistic use of the ministry’s money,” Katarina Djokic, from BCSP, told BIRN.

The Super Galeb G-4s, designed mainly for advanced flight training and for pilots in combat, were used as “fire support” on the Serbian military’s last exercise, codenamed “Morava 2016”, which suggests the armed forces count on their potential use in combat operations as well.

However, Djokic added that although the modernization project had not been realized, from 2013 until last year the Defence Ministry had still spent 7.4 million euros of its funds on it.

Upgrading the Super Galebs is included in this year’s ministry budget as well. By the end of 2017 it is predicted that Serbia will have spent 4.4 million euros on that purpose.

Djokic said the ministry told the BCSP that the upgrading project had not started because the government still had not approved it.

Because of that, the money was spent on equipping the lab facilities of the Military Technical Institute, the “Moma Stanojlovic” Institute of Aviation and the Technical Test Center, as well on maintenance of other aircraft.

“All of those could be called justified needs, but question is why is it not in the budget?” Djokic asked.

She added that Serbia’s plans to obtain MiG fighter jets from Russia raised another question, about whether modernization of the Supergaleb G-4s was still necessary.

The Ministry of Defence was not available for immediate comment. However, its previous answers to BCSP confirmed that the government had not approved realization of the project due to the reluctance of the Ministry of Finance to approve the cash.

“Since the Ministry of Finance was unable to approve additional funds that would provide multi-year funding of this project, there were … no conditions for implementation of the tender procedure for the selection of a strategic partner from abroad,” the ministry told BCSP last October.

The ministry said it had in the meantime conducted “preparatory activities for implementation [of the project] through development of capacity of institutions to be active participants in the project.”