{"id":3384,"date":"2019-12-28T04:31:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-28T01:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/?p=3384"},"modified":"2024-04-08T05:08:22","modified_gmt":"2024-04-08T02:08:22","slug":"new-mi-17v-5-hips-for-serbia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/?p=3384","title":{"rendered":"New Mi-17V-5 Hips for Serbia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

THE RATNO vazduhoplovstvo i protivvazduhoplovna odbrana (RV i PVO, Serbian Air Force and Air Defence) took delivery of three new Mi-17V-5 helicopters at Batajnica air base on October 16. <\/strong>

\"Serbian
Serial 12493 is one of the Serbian Air Force and Air Defence\u2019s three newly acquired Mi-17V-5s. Dimitrije Ostojic (Photo by Martin Fox)<\/em>

The Hips arrived in Serbia on board a Russian An-124 transport. The same day, the second of five H145M helicopters contracted for the RV i PVO was ferryflown from Germany.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two previous Mi-17V-5s, serials 12491 and 12492, have served with the 890. me\u0161ovita helikopterska eskadrila (890th Mixed Helicopter Squadron) since July 2016, in basic unarmed configuration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The three new helicopters, serials 12493, 12494 and 12495, are in combat configuration with four external hardpoints, ASO-2V flare dispensers and armour around the cabin and engines. Serials 12494 and 12495 are additionally equipped with clamshell cargo doors that can be removed for paratrooper training.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Source:<\/strong> Aleksandar Radic \/ AirForces Monthly – 28 December 2019<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bogdan Gabriel Curcea<\/a> <\/strong>(East Europe <\/a>– Romania<\/a> and Serbia <\/a>XAirForces News <\/a><\/strong>Editor)
bogdan.gabriel.curcea@gmail.com<\/a> <\/a>– Facebook.com\/bogdangabriel.curcea <\/a>– Twitter.com\/BogdanG_Curcea<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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