Post by ukron on Mar 8, 2022 13:02:20 GMT
Many are unaware that the history of military aviation owes a lot to the Balkans, after all it was there that the first "air combats" took place during the infamous and totally forgotten Balkan wars, others will talk to you in detail Soviet or NATO air forces and totally forget to mention the Yugoslav air force (which seems only to exist during 90s).
Yet that would be ignoring one of the most painful stories of contemporary aeronautics, that of a country (now defunct), an ambitious manufacturer (who has largely disappeared) and an unknown project. which could have led to a direct competitor to the Eurofighter Typhoon or the Rafale.
SOKO (Falcon in Serbo-Croatian) is the direct descendant of Ikarus, based in Mostar (today in Bosnia), the company will be responsible for developing and producing aircraft for the Yugoslav Air Force, on he owes him small successes such as the J-22 Orao fighter/ground attack aircraft or the G-2 Galeb advanced training aircraft.
In the late 1980s, the gradual collapse of the Eastern bloc showed Yugoslav authorities their dependence on Moscow for air superiority fighters, if there was an order for Mig-29As to replace the aging Mig-21; SOKO is responsible for developing its own fighter in 1990.
And that's good because at the same time Dassault Aviation is working on the Rafale; moreover English-speaking sources (especially wikipedia and Flight International) seem to confirm that French engineers collaborated with their colleagues from SOKO.
In any case, this would explain the strong resemblance that the Novi Avion maintains with Dassault's delta/canard fighter.
SOKO and the government of Belgrade will bet on the Novi Avion for export, seeking partnerships with Rolls-Royce or General Electric which will not succeed, oh irony for lack of political changes within the country, after all Belgrade remained a country from the east.
Well advanced, several models had been produced and there remained only the choice of engine before the flight of a prototype (1992) the Novi Avion did not survive the disintegration of Yugoslavia.
Very close to the Rafale in its structure (despite a smaller size and the fact that it would probably have been a single-engine, most likely powered by a Snecma M88), the Novi Avion would have been a very acceptable 4th generation fighter and which would have had its chances of exporting.
Too bad.
(Artistic representation of a Novi Avion in the colors of the Yugoslav Air Force, it is very likely that the machine would have carried a weaponry similar to that of the first batch of Dassault Rafale.)/ Sahara at Serbian Wikipedia.
Yet that would be ignoring one of the most painful stories of contemporary aeronautics, that of a country (now defunct), an ambitious manufacturer (who has largely disappeared) and an unknown project. which could have led to a direct competitor to the Eurofighter Typhoon or the Rafale.
SOKO (Falcon in Serbo-Croatian) is the direct descendant of Ikarus, based in Mostar (today in Bosnia), the company will be responsible for developing and producing aircraft for the Yugoslav Air Force, on he owes him small successes such as the J-22 Orao fighter/ground attack aircraft or the G-2 Galeb advanced training aircraft.
In the late 1980s, the gradual collapse of the Eastern bloc showed Yugoslav authorities their dependence on Moscow for air superiority fighters, if there was an order for Mig-29As to replace the aging Mig-21; SOKO is responsible for developing its own fighter in 1990.
And that's good because at the same time Dassault Aviation is working on the Rafale; moreover English-speaking sources (especially wikipedia and Flight International) seem to confirm that French engineers collaborated with their colleagues from SOKO.
In any case, this would explain the strong resemblance that the Novi Avion maintains with Dassault's delta/canard fighter.
SOKO and the government of Belgrade will bet on the Novi Avion for export, seeking partnerships with Rolls-Royce or General Electric which will not succeed, oh irony for lack of political changes within the country, after all Belgrade remained a country from the east.
Well advanced, several models had been produced and there remained only the choice of engine before the flight of a prototype (1992) the Novi Avion did not survive the disintegration of Yugoslavia.
Very close to the Rafale in its structure (despite a smaller size and the fact that it would probably have been a single-engine, most likely powered by a Snecma M88), the Novi Avion would have been a very acceptable 4th generation fighter and which would have had its chances of exporting.
Too bad.
(Artistic representation of a Novi Avion in the colors of the Yugoslav Air Force, it is very likely that the machine would have carried a weaponry similar to that of the first batch of Dassault Rafale.)/ Sahara at Serbian Wikipedia.
