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The Serbian Armed Forces has a wide variety of equipment, mix of older Yugoslav and Soviet products (dating back to the 1980s and even 1970s) and new equipment, either domestically-produced from Serbian defence contractors or acquired from foreign producers (main suppliers being France, China, Russia, and to a lesser extent Germany).
'Serbian Land Army') is the land-based and the largest component of the Serbian Armed Forces. Its organization, composition, weapons and equipment are adapted to the assigned missions and tasks of the Serbian Armed Forces, primarily for operations on land. It is subordinated to the Serbian Ministry of Defense. [2]
The General Staff of the Serbian Armed Forces (Serbian: Генералштаб Војске Србије, romanized: Generalštab Vojske Srbije) is the highest authority within the Serbian Armed Forces and a significant command entity with numerous organizational units under its direct command.
The rump state, then named Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, participated in the Yugoslav Wars with limited direct intervention of its own armed forces. Following the end of the Wars and the constitutional reforms of 2003 by which the state was renamed "Serbia and Montenegro", the military accordingly changed its name.
In the autumn of 1912, Serbia got the aircraft for its armed forces. and on 24 September 1912 by the Act of the Minister of Army Radomir Putnik, an Aviation Command was established in Niš. Serbian Aviation (Srpska avijatika) comprised the Aircraft Detachment (which counted 12 aircraft), the Balloon Company, the pigeon post and the airbase ...
The Guard of the Serbian Armed Forces (Serbian: Гарда Војске Србије, romanized: Garda Vojske Srbije) is an honour guard unit of the Serbian Armed Forces under the direct command of the General Staff. Besides ceremonial duties its main tasks include security and logistics missions.
In the Balkan Wars and World War I this title was used to designate the highest military rank in the Royal Serbian Army (equivalent of the Field Marshal in other armies). This rank was introduced by the 1901 Law on the Organization of the Army and has been awarded only during the war for "special merits of top-ranking generals".
Serbian leaders recognized the importance of strategic factors, the role of the army and security challenges of those times while making decisions. In 1808 the creation of a single regiment of infantry and another of mounted cavalry, marked the creation of the first uniformed and fully equipped regular Serbian forces.