Ministry of defence Republic of Serbia
 
01.12.2009.

ODBRANA brings to you



Opening of “Jug” military base on Cepotina. The existence of a military base in Bujanovac municipality is a guarantor of safety and peace in this part of Serbia. All our citizens who want peace and stability in the region and best international relations should be happy that this base is open. However, all those who do not want peace and are involved in an organized crime should have every reason not to feel happy”, as President Tadic said while opening the largest and the most modern military base in the region..

Only through cooperation, understanding and dialogue, can we reach a final solution. I am certain that what is good for Serbia is good for the region and vice versa, as Minister Sutanovac emphasized in Sarajevo, where he led the delegation of MoD at the conference of the American-Adriatic Charter.

A new tool workshop was opened in Uzice based arms factory “Prvi partisan”. A solution is being sought to relocate those parts of the manufacturing facilities of the factory where explosive ordnance is produced into better locations, and to secure better working conditions, as Minister said stressing that soon they would present a solution which would satisfy both the citizens of Uzice and the employees of the factory.

His Holiness, The Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church, Pavle was buried on Thursday, 19 November in the Rakovica monastery of St. Archangel Michael. Some 600000 souls and who knows how many more saw the late patriarch to his final resting place, dedicating their every thought to him, and expressing their gratitude for the exemplary behaviour worthy of a wholly man and all the messages to humanity left behind him.

The topic of this issue is cyber safety. Cyber threats are dangerous depending on the technology used, and we can expect an increased number of these threats. Serbia has capacities to address the problem of threats to cyber space, as it is clear that an autistic approach is just not acceptable.

“Man is a being full of contradictions, as he is capable of the most glorious and the most atrocious deeds, while at the same time not knowing why this is so, or at least other people can’t seem to explain it. When I first started researching violence, I was an anthropological optimist, believing that the end of violence was quite possible, but now I know that this is clashes with human nature”, as dr Dragan Simeunovic states in his interview.

In only three years, since the establishment of 204th aviation base, units stationed at Batajnica air base have intensified their flight training, have raised the quality of their pilot and technical personnel, have modernized the airfield infrastructure thus growing into a respectable air force.

It is not easy to enable and train 5000 soldiers in only two years and arm them with all the necessary skills for successful work in SAF units. In the fifth training center in Zajecar, this has already been achieved thorough an effective and better quality training starting from accommodation facilities, training fields all the way to experienced command and instructors personnel.

Apatin and Pozarevac municipalities presented their most important acknowledgements-October award in the training centers stationed in these towns, to Colonels Zeljko Obradovic and Vinko Markovski.

In “Backa” barracks in Backa Toploa garrison, 17th mechanized battalion, Army first brigade has been relocated. Thanks to professional and responsible attitude of the members of the battalion, this unit has a leading position in the brigade.

The Union of Serbian War and Peacetime Military Disabled Persons, an organization established on 28 November 1919, in Slavonski Brod, Croatia has shared the fate of the state for almost nine decades. Today it is an non-political, humanitarian, interest organization advocating and protecting the rights of all the war victims. It has a respectable leadership, and 111 municipality unions with 28000 members. They say that they have managed to get a better status but that a lot of work still lies ahead.


At the time when people usually dwell on their own problems, the family of Lt. Col. Zoltan Slovak from Pancevo took upon themselves to take care of a six-month old girl Maria. Besides their two sons, Stefan a cadet in the Military Academy and Vladimir, a student of a secondary technical school, Zoltan and his wife Verica who wished fervently to have more children, accepted to be providers for a baby who brought much joy to their lives.

The renovation of the great hall of SAF GS. The main building of SAF GS and the Ministry of the Army and the Navy was in 1928 pronounced the most beautiful building in Serbia. The Great War Hall could be singled out due to its elegance, beauty, and monumental building. The toll of time has affected the building, but thanks to the efforts of the Institute for Conserving Belgrade Monuments, its original appearance, importance and sparkle were restored to it.

Producing new metal amalgamations in order to reduce the reflection of the weapons used is one of the current efforts of arms manufacturers and of military and university labs striving to develop better technologies of camouflage. Most of these research yield amazing results.

German underwater commandos-successors to Kampfschwimmer divers of WWII, are being trained in the Baltic in order to be enabled to address all threats to unconventional underwater warfare.

For the first time in its history, Russia has ordered foreign weapons as it was not able to meet its needs for weapons at home. It ordered unmanned aircrafts from Israel, which are unparalleled, and which are used even by the USA armed forces, while at the same time ordering a commando helicopter carrier.

Tesla fest aims at presenting imagination, creativity. And farsightedness of innovators as well as other numerous ideas which aim at improving man’s environment, making it a safer and more humane place.

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