Photos Yugoslav Wars

[SamWell]

Russian volunteers in Bosnia, righ guy is legendary https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoly_Lebed

 

[BravoZulu]

Yugoslav Army Soldiers and Serbian volunteers moving a Croat civilian after they entered Vukovar, November 18 1991

 

[BravoZulu]

New Zealand M113 armoured personnel carriers in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1995

 

[Visniewski]

Hello everybody,

A question regarding the use of a certain firearm in Yugoslavia and beyond:
In August of 1972 the company Yugoexport ordered 500 Ingram M11 (aka MAC-11) machine pistols in .380 ACP, along with 500 M11 holsters, 500 Sionics suppressors w/ holsters and 1500 spare magazines, delivered in early 1973. Does anybody happen to know what organization used these, military or police? Any photos showing Ingrams in Yugoslavia? All of these had the original Powder Springs Military Armament Corp. (MAC) serial numbers of 3-3-00xxxxx scheme. Some of the guns were retained by post-YU countries - the one that recently joined my collection came complete with a Slovenian MoD warehouse book (but one started in 1999 - long after YU and Civil War). The holster and suppressor holster (the latter sadly vacant ) are typical 1970s Cobray stuff, does not appear to be much used, if at all. Which is easy to understand after visiting the shooting range: the vicious little popper is even less useful than a Skorpion, however hard to believe that might seem. Shortly after the Yugo sale the MAC gone bankrupt, which is probably why next small machine pistols bought by YU were the M84 (Czech Sa-61 Skorpions).

Best,
Leszek

 

[BravoZulu]

Army of Republika Srpska soldiers, somewhere in Bosnia, in the '90s

 

[Royal]

Hello everybody,

A question regarding the use of a certain firearm in Yugoslavia and beyond:
In August of 1972 the company Yugoexport ordered 500 Ingram M11 (aka MAC-11) machine pistols in .380 ACP, along with 500 M11 holsters, 500 Sionics suppressors w/ holsters and 1500 spare magazines, delivered in early 1973. Does anybody happen to know what organization used these, military or police? Any photos showing Ingrams in Yugoslavia? All of these had the original Powder Springs Military Armament Corp. (MAC) serial numbers of 3-3-00xxxxx scheme. Some of the guns were retained by post-YU countries - the one that recently joined my collection came complete with a Slovenian MoD warehouse book (but one started in 1999 - long after YU and Civil War). The holster and suppressor holster (the latter sadly vacant ) are typical 1970s Cobray stuff, does not appear to be much used, if at all. Which is easy to understand after visiting the shooting range: the vicious little popper is even less useful than a Skorpion, however hard to believe that might seem. Shortly after the Yugo sale the MAC gone bankrupt, which is probably why next small machine pistols bought by YU were the M84 (Czech Sa-61 Skorpions).

Best,
Leszek

Never saw one in all my years in the Balkans. Plenty of other wierd and wonderfull stuff but never a MAC-11.

The M84 wasn't Czech, it was licence made by Zastava. The Czech-made models in Yugo service were called the M61. They saw service side by side, mostly used by aircrew.

 

[11E]

Dispersal area of the Glamoc Highway strip Leopard 2A4 of 11th Tank Battalion loading training rounds for an exercise in the surrounding hills.

 

[11E]

We had a Royal Netherlands Marines detachment at the base in Novi Travnik and in their opinion tankers were fat gays so they painted the T-34, which we had as monument, pink.

So we painted it dark blue with white which were the colours of our regiment.

 

[11E]

Mobile Checkpoint consisting of one tank and two YPR-765PRI with infantry in Turbe, BiH. The tanks were from A-team, 11(NLD) Battlegroup which had a armoured infantry platoon attached of 42nd Armoured Infantry Battalion

Duty at the radio-relay station close to the Paljemik broadcast antenna near Sisava. Two tank crews or one infantry squad was rotated on a 7 day schedule. Nice location with breathtaking views. Also you was completely on your own, not supervised with just one task, keep everything up and running. It is a long time ago (1997/1998) but the rifle was the Diemaco C7 with, IIRC, ELCAN optics.

 

[11E]

New Zealand M113 armoured personnel carriers in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1995
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Thats a long way from home...

 

[Royal]

That had a Bn outside Vitez. Good guys, They gave me a load of trauma packs when they started packing up to go home at the end of UNPROFOR (we stayed into IFOR) for which I was very grateful over the following weeks.

 

[Dranouter]

@Visniewski They have a mac-11 at the war museum in Belgrade on display. Dating back from the Yugoslav war. Link below.

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[SamWell]

Russian volunteers in Bosnia, righ guy is legendary https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoly_Lebed
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[BravoZulu]

A boy holding an AK-47 given to him by UÇK (Kosovo Liberation Army) soldiers. (1999)

 

[Kadir93]

Croatian Police officers during Croatian War of Independence.

 

[BravoZulu]

Serbian T-54/T-55 tanks passing through Bujanovac

 

[BravoZulu]

Militiamen of the Croatian National Guard take a defensive posture behind a sandbag bulwark during the fighting against elements of the Yugoslav Peoples Army, SR Serbia Territorial Defense and Serb paramilitary groups at the Battle of Vukovar; eastern Slavonia, August or September of 1991.

 

[morris]

American armored vehicles of the WWII and post-war period, sold to Yugoslavia, took an active part in the Balkan wars in 91-99.

 

[BravoZulu]

The tail of an Etendard IV PM reconnaissance aircraft of Flotilla 16 after being hit by a SA-14 missile above Goradze, ex-Yugoslavia. Aircraft carrier Clemenceau, 15 April 1994.

The pilot, Corvette Captain (OF-3) Clary couldn't get the plane under 300km/h, max landing speed was 257km/h. The carrier had to speed up to 32 knots.

 

[ao_sepia]

American armored vehicles of the WWII and post-war period, sold to Yugoslavia, took an active part in the Balkan wars in 91-99.
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original gun of M-4 less power than M-18 gun?

American armored vehicles of the WWII and post-war period, sold to Yugoslavia, took an active part in the Balkan wars in 91-99.
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M-18 gun more power than T-54/55 gun?

why change?