11.10.2014.
Finishing preparations for the military parade
Preparations for the military parade which will be held on October 16 are coming to a close. Tomorrow, the final practice of the motorized echelon begins. Combat vehicles have been near Belgrade Usce for several days, and as of tomorrow will practice the defile on the route that they will pass the next Thursday.The motorized echelon will consist of 14 sub-echelons of mobile arms and military equipment used by the Armed Forces of Serbia, while the last echelon will consist of systems yet to be put to active use. The motorized echelon which will pass down Nikola Tesla Boulevard will include “PUCH“, “DEFENDER” and “PINCGAUER“ terrain motorized vehicles; means of telecommunication and informatics will be presented on “TAM 110” and “TAM 150” motorized vehicles.
Citizens will also have the opportunity to see air defence means of the artillery and missile units: 40mm cannon L-70 “BOFORS”, anti-aircraft missile units “KUB” and “NEVA”, means of artillery units - self-propelled multi-tube missile launcher 128mm “OGANJ” and 152 mm towed gun-howitzer M84 “NORA”, high mobility motorized vehicles “HMM WV – HAMER”, police combat vehicle VPB M-86 and combat armored vehicle POLO M-83.
Aside from that, means of engineering units and arms and military equipment in development at the Military Technical Institute and the public company Yugoimport-SDPR will be presented, and, lastly, the striking force of armored and mechanized units – combat infantry vehicles BVP M-80A and M-84 tanks.Vessels from the formation of the Riverine Flotilla which will participate at the military parade, Oct 16, also arrived at the New Belgrade port. This will be a unique defile on water which will move on the right bank of the Danube River simultaneously with the Army echelon defile.
It will include the river patrol craft (RPC-111), special purpose ship “Kozara” (BPN-30), station for demagnetization of ships “Sabac” (RSRB-36), a group of river minesweepers (RML-341, RML-332, RML-336 and RML-335) a group of armed landing crafts (DJC-411, DJC-412 and DJC-413) and a group of river patrol crafts (RPC-22, RPC-213, RPC-214 and RPC-216).
