08.06.2011.
Joint Tactical Exercise "Wind Storm 2011"
Joint Tactical Exercise with the members of the Serbian Armed Forces Air Force and Air Defence "Wind Storm 2011" has been conducted at the test site "Centa", today. Participants in the exercise were the units of 204th and 98th air brigades with aircraft Eagle, Supergaleb, MiG-29, An-26, and helicopters Mi-8 and Gaza as well as the units of 250th missile brigade with rocket systems "Neva" and "Cub" with the support of the 126th Early Warning Brigade with TPS-70 radar. The purpose of the exercise was to improve training level of AF&AD command and units in the process of operational planning, organizing, and conducting operations in air support to the Army.
The exercise was attended by state secretaries in the Ministry of Defence Zoran Jeftic and Igor Jovicic, AF&AD Commander, Brigadier General Ranko Živak, and Chiefs of Departments of the Serbian Armed Forces General Staff. Congratulating commanders and complete personnel of the units on a successful execution of the exercise, State Secretary Zoran Jeftic said: - We attended the realisation of the planned training activities that will have their culmination in the missile test site Shabla in Bulgaria, in August this year. After a longer period of time, AF&AD enters a practical rhythm of conducting exercises and I believe that in Shabla we will repeat the last year's considerable success when we achieved almost hundred percent performance, Jeftic pointed out.
- Today we have attended the performance of exercises at the level of AF&AD branch, whose units will participate in similar activities at the level of the Serbian Armed Forces and in the most important activity, at the missile test site Shabla, Bulgaria, in the next few months. In this exercise, units of the level of battalion, division and squadron are engaged. A preliminary assessment is that the exercise went very well, and the final analysis will be conducted in the days that follow, said Brigadier General Ranko Živak stressing that the commitment and motivation of all the engaged members were at the highest possible level.