Serbian Air Force- Stuck at the crossroads.

Versus said:
Because the rule in the "balance of power" game is not based on "Will" but on "Can" and it dictates that if Croatia is more powerful than Serbia it will launch an attack. Its reality, nothing more. That is the main reason for ongoing arms race in the Balkans and those things, well, never end well. Oh, but they do. Unfortunately discussing the reasons for it, is not the subject of this thread but I will try to explain in the autopsy thread.
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Granted relations with Croatia aren't good at the moment, the thing is relations between both nations have seen their ups and downs since the breakup of Yugoslavia and today is no different. Some local town burning effigies of the other sides politicians in public square may be in poor taste but it is not a sign of imminent war. As I said before Croatia would be kicked out of the EU if it ever attempted to attack Serbia. The chances of such a war breaking out in this generation is as near to zero as you can get. Climate change is probably a greater threat to Serbia going forward than Croatia will ever be.
 
Monash said:
Granted relations with Croatia aren't good at the moment, the thing is relations between both nations have seen their ups and downs since the breakup of Yugoslavia and today is no different. Some local town burning effigies of the other sides politicians in public square may be in poor taste but it is not a sign of imminent war. As I said before Croatia would be kicked out of the EU if it ever attempted to attack Serbia. The chances of such a war breaking out in this generation is as near to zero as you can get. Climate change is probably a greater threat to Serbia going forward than Croatia will ever be.
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We will see. But you are right about weather, this summer was an absolute nightmare in terms of wildfires and that issue needs to be addressed urgently.
 
Also, as it was expected an unconfirmed rumor emerged today that the fine print in the contract includes transfer of our MiG-29 fleet to France where they will be inspected and transferred to Ukraine. This means that we will lose fighter cover a lot sooner as I expected. This is getting better and better by the minute if proven to be true.
 
Well, the Rafale deal details are slowly emerging. It seems that, they are purchased without weapons and that currently negotiations with MBDA are in progress. With a mind boggling price of 250 million euros per aircraft with no weapons, the MBDA deal will surely add at least 500 to one billion more to make them, hypothetically operational. This purchase opened up another subject that was expected to emerge and that is the acquisition of the Advanced Jet Trainer since the current fleet of G-4 trainers is getting obsolete. All in all, this insane decision is bound to balloon to a couple of billions more in the upcoming decades.
 
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