Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said he will increase spending on the modernization of the country’s Armed Forces, including the possible purchase of French Rafale warplanes. It has been reported Bloomberg.
Serbia previously relied on Russian MiG-29s, but after February last year it became almost impossible to buy spare parts.
“It’s not because of the Russians,” Vučić stressed.
The head of state also noted that the country’s armed forces should be “much, much stronger”.
Earlier, Vučić said that Serbian authorities have ordered a third Pantsir anti-aircraft missile and weapon system and electronic warfare systems from Russia, but the country has not yet placed an order. fail catch these. According to him, 10 years ago Belgrade had a MiG-29 that could take off, and now Serbia has 14 modernized warplanes at its disposal.
After watching the results of the Fire Shield exercises before that, Vucic spent a year to go past Negotiations with France for the purchase of new Dassault Rafale fighters.