01.06.2016

New issue of ODBRANA

The largest exercise ever since the establishment of the Serbian Armed Forces, code-named Morava, started on 23rd May and will last until 5th June. The exercise involves units from tactical to strategic and operational levels. It includes operating capacities of terrestrial and airborne components of our Armed Forces, but also a number of members of from the reserve component and units under working duty. In May, members of our Armed Forces carried out a series of major exercises, and journalists and photographers of Odbrana magazine are bringing the words and images from the scene. In the new issue, among other things, you can read an interview with the Commandant of the Military Academy Major General Goran Zekovic, and the story of the success of the Serbian Special Forces members at a competition in the UK.

IN FOCUS – Command-post exercise of the Serbian Armed Forces: MORAVA 2016

INTERVIEW – Major General Goran Zekovic, Commandant of the Military Academy: SCHOOL DESKS ARE WAITING FOR THE MOST SUCCESSFUL ONES

DEFENCE – The multinational exercise "Platinum Wolf 16": A CHALLENGE FOR THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN

Exercise of the firefighting unit of the Mixed Artillery Brigade: FIRE WILL NOT PASS

Military medical demonstrative exercise "Spring 2016": TOGETHER THEY CAN DO MORE

Andja Grubisic – nurse of the year at the MMA: FIRST JOB POSITION, ANOTHER FAMILY

SOCIETY – Monument to the Unknown Hero on Avala: POWER OF ANONYMITY

Moma Boskovic, a journalist at his best age - THERE ARE LESS AND LESS ACES

ARSENAL – New generations of mine protective clothing and equipment: CONTINUOUS ADVANCEMENT AND IMPROVEMENT

40 years since the first flight of the "Utva-75" training aircraft: WOULDN’T GO TO PENSION

WORLD – Albanian terrorism: SURVIVAL UNDER CONSTANT PRESSURE

CULTURE – Exhibition "The army in your camera lens": CERTIFICATE OF GOOD COMMUNICATION

FEUILLETON – Creation and operation of the SA and SS detachments (2): ARCHITECTS OF EVIL

HISTORY - 180 years since the birth of Jovan Dragasevic: INTELLECTUAL GIANT

SPORT – Members of the Serbian Armed Forces in the best competition in the UK "sharp eye" SERBIAN specials

Balkan Jump of Friendship 2016: PARATROOPERS – GUARDIANS OF MEMORIES

Members of the Ministry of Defence and the Serbian Armed Forces at the "assembly of Sports": MIX OF SKILLS AND MUSIC

Serbian championship in practical shooting: "COBRAS" SHOOT QUICKLY AND ACCURATELY

SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT – 145 – One hundred years of Cinema Section: WITNESS OF HISTORY

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