08.10.2014.
Intensive preparations for the parade
Nearly 3,000 members of the Ministry of Defence and the Armed Forces of Serbia are intensively preparing for the defile on October 16 in Belgrade in honor of the 70th anniversary of liberation of the Serbian capital in the Second World War and the centenary of the beginning of the Great War. Infantry echelons are practicing military steps marching as of today at the Military Academy, motorized echelons at Batajnica Airport, while overhauling crawler vehicles echelons will practice the parade program from October 12 at the route which they will pass on the day of the ceremony. Riverine Flotilla vessels are preparing at a location near Usce.At the day of the parade, infantry and motorized echelons will pass through the Nikola Tesla Boulevard, and citizens will have the opportunity to see combat armored vehicles, tanks, artillery equipment, air defence and special purpose means. The vessel echelon will sail down the Danube, from Kalemegdan to Zemun, and the spectacle, last seen in our country in 1985, will be completed by flights of the air defence echelon.
The infantry echelon will consist of ten sub-echelons of members of the Army, Air Defence, Training Command, Guard, Special Brigade and Military Academy. They will carry regiment flags from the Great War, flags of units that took part in the liberation of Belgrade in the Second World War and current flags of Armed Forces units.The motorized echelon will consist of 14 sub-echelons of mobile arms and military equipment used by the Armed Forces of Serbia, while the last echelon will consist of systems yet to be introduced to active use.
The parachuting landing at the broader area of the monument “Eternal Fire”, between the Nikola Tesla Boulevard and the Danube, will present 30 members of the 63rd Parachuting Battalion.
VIDEOGALLERY- Preparations [FLV]
