Was there any gunpods that yuga used on those or not? I’ve yet to see the thing’s manual yet even though it is available through slovenian army’s archives.
I would remove the S-92 as you point out, it was just demonstrated. Juga did place order but much like the orders for the T-10A it was never fulfilled.
Plus. If the leak holds true. We will see the S-92 next to Jugo aircraft. Just under the polish TT.
But hypothetically. Lets say Juga did get its own tt. I think a better fit would be the soviet aircraft that Jugoslavia didn’t get from the Bulgarians or even the Albanians.
I would also say remove the Ca.311. Its just an overall worse version of the Ca.310.
Looks good to me! My dad is from there so I would love to represent the country in my favorite game. I hate to say this, but I think it would at least take a while considering there isn’t anything about the country except the Royal Yugoslav Air Force roundel. Only recommendations would be “stretching” some lines out. Maybe try and put the Su-25 in 7. (and im guessing the L-# jets are MiGs?)
the L in front of some names stands for “Lovec” which is (literally) translated to hunter or rather as English knows it: fighter. It’s similar with the J-# aircraft where the J stands for “Jurišnik” translating to attacker. No idea what the G stands for tho
There is literally a MiG-23ML in the Belgrade Aviation Museum and its missing from this tree.
Correction:
Source 1: “In 1989 IQAF sent 10 MiG-23ML to Yugoslavia for overhaul and intense maintenance. During the Gulf War II, these airframes were kept stored in Serbia until -and according to some sources -they were serviced on 2002.”
Source 2: “10 MiG-23ML (export subvariant B) with registrations 23252, 23269, 23292, 23267, 23260, 23279, 23288, 23278, 23290 and 23272 came to Zmaj for mid-level overhaul. Out of these aircraft only 23269 has been overhauld. That MiG-23 flew to Željava AFB and than to Batajnica AFB by pilot Omer Avdaković. Aircraft was handed over to Moma Stanojlović Air Force Technical MRO Institute, while other 23s were put in storage at 160th Logistic Support Base at Pančevo, city near Belgrade. For some time, 23269 formed part of the open exibition of the YAF Museum at Nikola Tesla Int’l. Now it is in Moma Stanojlović Depot.”
It is likely that the aircraft did not arrive with their original munitions and, if needed, could only be armed with R-60s or older missile systems available locally, unless they were modified to carry MiG-29 compatible ordnance which was most likely never carried out.
Now these could apparently be Iraqi MiG-21SMTs. Yugoslavia did not operate MiG-21SMTs, so it could be another interesting addition. According to the source they also featured a distinct camouflage pattern (as seen on the photographs).
“Regarding 21s, only 8 Iraqi MiG-21SMT remained in Yugoslavia. As I said, despite SMT designation they are actually bis variant with addition of air condition system. During NATO aggression against the FRY radars were stripped from IQAF MiGs and used for imitation of AD radars. Also airframes were put to visible locations as baits imitating FRYAF Fishbeds but they were recognized because of their camouflage so none has been destroyed. They are now in Moma Stanojlović Depot but in poor state. Iraqi officials were briefly interested in them but lost interest after inspection of the state of aircraft and after they were informed on possibilities and cost to back them in flyable condition.”
“I know some Iraqi AF, Libyan AF and Sudan AF aircraft did underwent maintenance at Zmaj. I have seen pictures of Libyan AF MiG-21bis 209, Sudanese AF MiG-21US 300 and Iraq AF MiG-23ML 23269.”
“In July 1991 there were 56 aircraft of different types in the “ZMAJ” institute: 13 aircraft in working order were transferred in July 1991, while 43 non-operational aircraft were evacuated along with all spare parts, i.e. 1,329 components, in the first half of December 1991.”