Saddam Hussain's Mig... Serbia

The small details of the Yugoslav and Serbian Air Force show that Serbia, in addition to “Mig, has Russian Mig Iraqis, who belonged to Saddam Hussein.

In fact, the former Yugoslavia took from the Iraqis to repair 19 Mig 21 and Mig 23. Airplanes were accepted on the eve of the breakup of Yugoslavia in 1991.

However, Yugoslavia's collapse affected Iraq from taking its Mig.

Borisha Moyve, pilot instructor, for Sputnik, explains how the Iraqi Mig came to Serbia.

In 1991, the Supreme Command issued an order for relocation, d.m. th. Their shift from vulnerable countries to safe areas. On the basis of this order, there were shares with the initiative itself and one of them is “para-basion” of the Iraqi Mig from Bihac, in part of Batajnica airport”, he said.

Even though it was speculated about the number of Iraqi planes that ended up in Serbia, Mavew says that Mig 21, one with two seats and five with one seat, in parts dismantled across the ground, arrived in Belgrade, where they were placed at the “Moma Stanojlovajq” Institute.

A Mig-23 was at the Surchin Air Force Museum for a while. It was a very interesting example, since this plane had participated in the Iraqi-Iracian war. In later years, all the techniques that have been at Batajnica Airport were thrown into a meadow, while a copy that was placed in the museum following the intervention of people from the US Embassy moved back to Batajnica Airport. According to my knowledge, this technique is still in Serbia “, Ma persecuted Mojo explains.

He says these planes were stolen parts that were valuable.

By contrast, in 2009 Iraq had asked Serbia for 19 Mig 21 fighter planes and Mig 23, which 20 years earlier had been brought to Yugoslavia for remonts.

“Aeroplanes are not capable of piloting, nor can they be arranged for flights without large investments”, General General Miloje Miletic had declared.