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- Mechanized Brigade Equipment Holdings
- Light SP-SAM Group
- Armored Brigade Equipment Holdings
- Light SP-SAM Group
- Mountain Brigade Equipment Holdings: Mountain Infantry Battalion
- Air Defense Group
- Infantry Brigade Equipment Holdings Light Infantry Battalion
- Mixed Artillery Group
- Mixed Anti-Armor Group
- Territorial Infantry Brigade Equipment Holdings Territorial Infantry Battalion
- Note 1
General Note: Yugoslavia maintained a large military organization for the size of its nation, focused on territorial defense. Equipment and manning levels likely varied widely in different units. Note 1: Mechanized Brigade Organization (3838 men, 63 or 83 tanks, 82 APC/IFV) 2 Mechanized Battalions 2 Armored Battalions: Mixed Artillery Group Mixed Anti-Armor Group Engineer Battalion Recon Company Engineer Battalion
83 x MBTs - T-55 (1st, 15th, 32nd, 36th had 83 tanks - rest had 63) 3 x Recce Tanks - PT-76B 86 x IFVs or APCs - M-80A or M-60P 3 x armored recce cars - BRDM-2 5 x ARVs - TZI-55 (TZI-55 was a generic designation for all T-55 based ARVs) 4 x Bridge tanks - TNM-55 (also generic designation for all T-55 based bridge layers) 7 x command/signal APCs - BTR-50PU Mixed Artillery Group 12 x SPH - 2S1 6 x MRL - 128mm M63 "Plamen" 12 x 120mm mortars - M74 or M75 6 x command/signal APCs - 1vxx series based on the MTLB and SNAR-10
12 x SPAA - ZSU-57-2 6 x SP-SAM - Strela-1M (SA-9b) 3 x AD command vehicle (BTR-60 derivates) Anti-Armor Group 12 x SPGs - M-36 6 x SP-ATGM - M-83 or 9P133 (BRDM-2 Sagger-C)
3 Armored Battalions Mixed Artillery Group Light SP-SAM Group Engineer Battalion Recon Company Engineer Battalion Armored Brigade Equipment Holdings: 104 x MBTs - T-55 or M-84/84A (officially; in practice, 94-94 tanks) 3 x Recce Tanks - PT-76B 61 x IFVs or APCs - M-80A or M-60P 3 x armored recce cars - BRDM-2 5 x ARVs - TZI-55 4 x Bridge tanks - TNM-55 7 x command/signal APCs - BTR-50PU Mixed Artillery Group 12 x SPH - 2S1 6 x MRL - 128mm M63 "Plamen" 12 x 120mm mortars - M74 or M75 6 x command/signal APCs - mix of the 1vxx series based on the MTLB and SNAR-10
12 x SPAA - ZSU-57-2 6 x SP-SAM - Strela-1M (SA-9b) 3 x AD command vehicle (BTR-60 derivates) Note 3: Motorized Brigade Equipment Holdings: 18 howitzers (105mm M2/M101, 105 M56, 122mm D30J, 122mm M38 for reserves) 24 81mm or 82mm mortars total 24 120mm mortars 35 M57 or M80 AT rocket launchers 96 M79 Osa AT rocket launchers 48 Recoilless Rifles (M60, M60A) 30 AT-3 ATGM 20 20mm AA Guns 24 triple 20mm AA guns 21 SA-7 or similar variants
3 Mountain Infantry Battalions Artillery Group Air Defense Group Engineer Battalion Mixed Anti-Armor Group Recon Company
3 Mountain Inf Co with light weapons Recce Ptn with light weapons 12 81mm M68 or 82mm M69 mortars 2 M2-HB HMG, 4 MMG (M84 or M53) 3 ATGM, 3 M79 Osa or RB M57/M80 Mixed Artillery Group 12 105mm howitzers (M56, M101, maybe some M102) 12 120mm mortars M74 or M75 12 120mm mortars UBM-52 6 command/signals vehicles
12 Light AA guns (various types of towed 20mm guns) 12 Light SAM (SA-7B, SA-7BY, SA-14, SA-18, SA-16)
6 ATGM (AT-3, AT-3C, AT-4) Note 5: Infantry Brigade Organization 3 Light Infantry Battalions Mixed Artillery Group Air Defense Group Engineer Battalion Mixed Anti-Armor Group Recon Company
3 Light Inf Co with light weapons Recce Ptn with light weapons 6 or 12 81mm M68 or 82mm M69 mortars 2 M2-HB HMG, 4 MMG (M84 or M53) 3 ATGM, 3 M79 Osa or RB M57/M80 Mixed Artillery Group 12 122mm D30J howitzers 6 128mm M63 “Plamen” MRL 12 120mm mortars M74 or M75 6 command/signal vehicles
12 Light AA guns (various types of towed 20mm guns) 12 Light SAM (SA-7B, SA-7BY, SA-14, SA-18, SA-16)
12 100mm T-12/MT-12 or 100mm M87 AT Guns 6 ATGM (AT-3, AT-3C, AT-4)
2-3 Territorial Infantry Battalions Artillery Group Air Defense Group Engineer Battalion (local construction personnel) Anti-Armor Group (support units, such as signals, were much smaller than regular army counterparts)
(usually 3 infantry companies, but varied widely) Artillery Group 12 howitzers or guns – could be anything from US M101 or Yugo M65 105mm, German WWII 105mm guns rechambered for US 105mm ammo, USSR 76mm guns, etc 12 mortars – officially should be various 120mm models, but could have been US 81mm, UK 3”, etc
12 Light AA guns – could be virtually anything, including a variety of 20mm Oerlikons, 20mm Bredas (Italian WWII), USSR 14.5mm twin or quad, .50cal quads or various makes, German WWII 20mm single or quads, etc Note 7: Readiness Levels A qualification: at least 4 active Bns/groups and 60-100% of equipment and personal. B qualification: 2-3 active Bns/groups and 15-60% of equipment and personal. R qualification - no active Bns/groups and up the 15% of equipment and personal. Note 8: Equipment Holdings – list is rather incomplete. Yugoslavia kept basically every piece of equipment from World War II on Armor: 10 Soviet T-72M, 65 Czech T-72M, 750-980 T-55 (lower number may be those serviceable), 290 M-84, ~75 M-84A, 105 M-47 (reserves), 208 T-34/85M/M1 (reserves) SP AT Guns: 180 M-36 Jackson, 112 M-18 Hellcats, 12 SU-100 M-44 (reserves) APCs/IFVs/Recon: 420 M-60P, 420 M-80A, 180 BOV (BMP copy), 12 BTR-60PB (internal security), 6 TAB-71 (internal security), 67 BRDM-2 SP ATGM: 18 BRDM-1 Snapper (2P27), 24 BRDM-2 Sagger (2P122), 60 BRDM-2 Sagger (2P133), 90 BOV-1 (M-83) Towed Artillery: 105 M2/M101 105mm howitzers, 48 155mm M1/M114 howitzers, 25 203mm M2/M115 howitzers, 180 130mm M46 guns, 92 152mm M84 howitzers, 150 128mm M-63 Plamen MRL Self Propelled Artillery: ~80 122mm 2S1, ~40 128mm M-77 Oganj SP MRL, 12 262mm M-87 Orkan SP MRL Anti-Aircraft Artillery: 400 37mm M39, 128 40mm Mk1, 60 40mm M-1, 250 57mm S-60, 300 Bofors 40mm L/70 SP AA: 130 M53/59 and M53/70 (triple 20mm?), 80 BOV-3, 6 BOV-30, 60 ZSU-57-2, 100 SA-9, 20 SA-13 Yugoslav Air Force 1. 3 Air Corps, integrating air defence fighters, SAMs and artillery: a. 12 Fighter-Ground Attack Squadrons with 25 J-20 Kraguj (assigned to TO), ~80 Jastreb, 60 Super Galeb, 55 Orao-2 b. 13 Fighter Squadrions with 112 Mig-21PF/M/bis, 18 Mig-21U, 14 Mig-29A, 2 Mig-29UB c. 4 Recon Squadrons: 1. Tactical Recon: 24 J-21 (two seat Galeb), 20 Jastreb RJ-1, 25 Orao-1 2. Strategic Recon: Mig-21R (L-14i), L-16i and L-17i (local designation for Hughes recce pod equipped Mig-21MF and Mig-21bis).
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