02.08.2010.
Latest ODBRANA brings to you
Minister Sutanovac received the peace mission participants in Lebanon and Congo. This is the first time for the Serbian peace keepers to leave for a peace mission as part of the Spanish contingent as they have been in Congo since 2003. This is 15th rotation.I flew on Galeb G 4 plane thus wishing to express my trust in the equipment and the personnel we have and the pilots flying these planes as well as our maintenance technicians.
Brig. Gen. Sreto Malinovic, Deputy Air Force Commander in his interview on occasion of the aviation day-2 August stresses that the periods of crisis and sanctions as well as of training in very cruel conditions have left a deep mark so it is no wonder that these new generations are feeling the consequences of these events! But men are the wealth we must not lose, as they are facing such challenges with their work, willpower and ideals sometimes incomprehensible to others, thus nourishing this spirit.
A good step in developing a sound search and rescue system in emergency situations is establishing air crews which would be on call 24/7, all year round.
Arms fair in Paris, Eurosator 2010, has gathered 1300 exhibiting companies this year with Yugoimport-SDPR representing our country. The MoD and SAF delegation visited this manifestation, led by Assistant Minister Ilija Pilipovic, assistant minister for material resources.
You can read some very interesting pages in the logs of Serbian peace keepers in Congo.
A photo story from the exercise performed by 63rd parachutist battalion in Oresac.
Transport company of 5th logistics battalion is the best equipped transport unit in our defense system, with drivers who have transported some 40000 people, seven tons of cargo, and have covered 500.000 km, have a reputation of very safe traffic participants.
Summer season at Tara military tourist facility has been very successful, where the dearest guests are children., while this year, under the auspices of Nasa Srbija humanitarian organization children from regional countries will socialize.
The medical team of the Army First Brigade in cooperation with the institutions of local self-government and emergency situations departments of Severno Backi and Srem district have examined some 100 citizens of Kevi and Stara Bingula villages,
It has been 65 years since the first atomic bomb exlosion. On 6 August 1945, at 08:15 local time, the first nuke was dropped on the Japanese town of Hiroshima from 9000 m altitude.
The city was wiped out, with the number of casualties reaching 78000 to 100000 while 51000 have suffered minor and major consequences of atomic bomb and radiation. Three days later a second atomic bomb was dropped. The world from then on was never the same. A new atomic ear began.
A new plane A400M will be completed despite all obstacles. Thousands of job posts depend on the success of the project across EU. There is an objective need-despite programs of modernization, the fleets of those countries interested in buying this air craft are in danger of becoming obsolete.
International Farnboro 2010 exhibition has shown that the list of states which will master the production of fighter jets will soon be enlarged.
Another photo coverage from the Roman town of Viminacium. In the vicinity of Pozarevac, under 450 acres of soil, there are whole squares, a legionary camp and a town that will reveal the life of Roman legionaries and citizens. This is a great archaeological site of Viminacium, the capital of the Roman province of gornja Mezija, which spanned over the major part of today’s Serbia.
Miroslav Kusmuk who was only 22 when he was injured during the civil war in Sarajevo in the spinal cord, leaving him paralyzed for ever . ever since then he has been waging his own personal war teaching us how to preserve the lust for life and sense in himself. He can write with the side of the pinky of his right hand, but his mind remain clear, his will firm and his heart at ease. His novel “The wolf”, with the second edition just to be released, testifies to all of this.
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