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The Army of Serbia is acquiring a Chinese-produced anti-aircraft projectile system called the FK-3, the specialized Balkan Security Network website reported on Aug. 2, noting that the deal was already arranged and paid for.
According to the website, a 2019 annual business report released by the Jugoimport-SDPR public enterprise mentions the acquisition, in particular in a passage stating that import deals totalled USD620.3 million, the largest of which is the procurement of the FK-3 anti-aircraft system.
The Chinese FK-3 first appeared in media reports two years ago as a system that will modernize Serbia's territorial anti-aircraft defense capabilities.
"Articles on this always connected the acquisition of the FK-3 to meetings between presidents Xi Jinping and Aleksandar Vucic. One example is the broaching of the topic in July 2018, when a delegation from the Serbian Defense Ministry visited the Beijing firm and saw the FK-3 and FM-3000 systems," the website reported, adding that the tactical and technical specifications of the FK-3 were a mystery, as it was a system intended for exporting which had no prior users before Serbia ordered it.
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