Aleksandar Vucic, Pasuljanske Livade (BETAPHOTO/Defense Ministry/Darimir Banda)
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic attended a firepower demonstration of the Serbian Army's new weapons systems at the Pasuljanske Livade facility near Cuprija on July 25.
After the exercise, Vucic told reporters that the objective of the demonstration was to foster coordination and direct connections between drones and the firing positions of military units.
He said that enormous sums were being poured into the army and announced even more spending on foreign drones but also weapons produced by the domestic weapons industry.
"It is our job to prepare, to be a factory of deterrence. Investments in the army are huge, there is no other way for us to survive in the geopolitically turbulent region," the president said.
The joint tactical exercise dubbed, Joint Response 2023, included 743 members of the Serbian Army and 56 weapons systems while the exercise was attended by Minister of Defense Milos Vucevic and Republika Srpska President Milorad Dodik.
The exercise showcased the firepower of the modernized Orao fighter-bomber, the CH-95 unmanned aircraft, the modernized M-84 AS 1 and AS2 tanks, the unmanned Mali Milos platform, the modernized Oganj multiple rocket launcher, the Gvozdika self-propelled howitzer and the self-propelled PASARS artillery and rocket system.
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