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He said his government is considering a deep reform of the army and that military service will be compulsory for men and voluntary for women.
Serbia seems to be preparing for a war scenario. Just a few days after reaching an agreement with the French government for the purchase of Rafale fighter jets, another initiative to increase military capabilities is coming to life in Belgrade.
The president of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, while attending today a military training of a Serbian special unit, declared that soon Serbia will introduce a law on compulsory military service.
He said his government is considering a deep reform of the army and that military service will be compulsory for men and voluntary for women. According to Vucic, this law would increase the number of recruits who would be ready to serve in the army in any possible case.
Vucic added that the army's mandatory time would be for a period of 75 days. He emphasized that this initiative will come to life within a year and promised that during the time the young people will perform the mandatory service they will be paid.
" 75 days is minimum. Five times less than I served. We would give monetary compensation for the time spent in the barracks. We must make that decision quickly" , he said, reports "Danas".
According to him, it is 100 million new from the budget, but that would be returned to the country many times over. He said that it has been agreed that the barracks will be rebuilt in different parts of Serbia.
We remind you that the France-Serbia deal for the purchase of 12 "Rafale" aircraft has a cost of 3 billion euros. This is Serbia's biggest arms deal since it split with Montenegro in 2006.
Belgrade has limited cooperation with Moscow since Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and condemned the break, but unlike EU and other Western countries, it has not imposed sanctions on Moscow.
Serbia's army and air force are dependent on Soviet technology, but Serbia has bought helicopters and transport planes from Airbus, radars from Thales and surface-to-air missiles from France's Mistral.
But what are the planes that France is expected to give to Serbia?
Dassault Rafale literally means "blast of wind" or "blast of fire" in a more military sense. It is a French twin-engine, delta-wing canard multi-role fighter aircraft designed and built by Dassault Aviation. Equipped with a wide range of weapons, the Rafale is intended to perform air superiority, interdiction, aerial reconnaissance, ground support, deep strike, anti-ship strike and nuclear deterrence missions.
In the late 1970s, the French Air Force and French Navy were looking to replace and consolidate their existing fleet of aircraft. To reduce development costs and increase future sales, France entered into an agreement with the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy and Spain to produce a "European fighter of the future" of. Subsequent disputes over the division of labor and differing demands led to France's pursuit of its own development program. Dassault built a technology demonstrator which first flew in July 1986 as part of an eight-year flight test program, paving the way for project approval. The Rafale is distinct from other European fighters of its era in that it was built almost entirely by one country, including most of France's major defense contractors, such as Dassault, Thales and Safran.
Many of the aircraft's avionics and features, such as direct voice input, the RBE2 AA Active Electronically Scanned Radar (AESA) and the frontal infrared search and track (IRST) sector optronique sensor, have been developed and manufactured locally. for the Rafale program. Originally scheduled to enter service in 1996, the Rafale suffered significant delays due to post-Cold War budget cuts and changes in priorities. The aircraft is available in three main variants: the single-seat Rafale C version, the two-seat Rafale B version and the carrier-based single-seat Rafale M version.
Introduced in 2001, the Rafale is being produced for both the French Air Force and carrier-based operations in the French Navy. The Rafale has been marketed for export to several countries and has been selected for purchase by the Egyptian Air Force, Indian Air Force, Qatar Air Force, Hellenic Air Force, Croatian Air Force, Indonesian Air Force and United Arab Air Force. Emirates Air Force. The Rafale has been used in combat over Afghanistan, Libya, Mali, Iraq and Syria.
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