Serbia Gets Four MiG-29 Aircraft From Belarus - Defense Minister

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BELGRADE (Sputnik) - Belarus has supplied Serbia with four MiG-29 fighter jets as part of defense industry assistance, Serbian Defense Minister Aleksandar Vulin said Sunday.

"From Belarus we have received four MiG-29 aircraft, which will be repaired and upgraded under the same scheme as the six aircraft received from Russia. Under the agreement of [Serbian] President [Aleksandar] Vucic and [Belarusian] President [Alexander] Lukashenko, Belarus donated planes to us, and we are very grateful for that," Vulin told Serbia’s Politika newspaper in an interview.

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Earlier this month, Vulin told Sputnik that Serbia was discussing the delivery of additional jets with both Russia and Belarus after receiving six Mig-29 aircraft from Russia last year. In addition, Serbia was expecting the delivery of 30 T-72s tanks and 30 BRDM-2 armored reconnaissance vehicles from Russia in the near future, although no deadline had been set yet, according to the minister.

 

The MiG-29 is a twin-engine jet fighter aircraft, first developed in the Soviet Union in the 1980s, which is currently used in over two dozen countries across the world.