Croatian military photos

well cost of them is another thing, and usually gets well beoynd reasonable arguments. But as in doctrine level, missile boats are still usefull to a navy of Croatian size...or better say, to a navy of country size of Croatia.

But what comes to the budgetary cuts, the best way has always been to cut from there, were the expenses are most extravagant, or simply cut in all services. Its rather short minded to focus on two of three important sectors of country like Croatia, whit huge coastline and importance to commercial shipping.

I agree with some of the things you have said… But we are not starting an arms race… Army will be much smaller; there will be only one tank brigade whit M-84s and AFVs and one mechanized infantry brigade, plus few military police, special forces, NBC and engineering battalions … Now that’s really is no threat to any neighbor…
Basically army is just trying to replace big amounts of old soviet and ex. Yugoslav equipment whit small number of modern system and to prepare itself for NATO membership…
New fighters will only replace migs after 2010 and one squadron is really not a threat to nobody …
As for Navy they are only trying to repair assets they have and since they already have missile boats and equipment for them they are trying to find founds to maintain them… It is not like they are trying to build more of them and I doubt that operational costs for 3 FACs and spare part for RBS-15s cost hundred millions… There is nothing that can replace them currently that we can afford and we still have huge coastline to patrol…
Helicopters will be delivered from Russia as payment of ex. CCCP dept (same way Hungarians got Mig-29s), radar air defense system is delivered in 2003 and currently is being installed, and currently there are no plans for new SAM…

I just thought of this...Since Croatia will probably be fighting its wars on land, why not develop a naval platform that can support the ground troops? Basically what I'm suggesting is a sort of gunboat, except on steroids. It would basically be a floating artillery platform, with plenty of artillery to fire inland and put a lot of rounds into an area, in a fashion that is very difficult to counter or predict. When it is based on land, you know that artillery's rounds are only going to come down a certain number of miles from "the front". But if you have a ship with a bunch of artillery on, and you are in an area like the Balkans with a lot of countries on a small area of coastline, this would be a useful tool. Your land based artillery might be 50 miles away from a valueable enemy supply depot, but if it is close enough to the ocean you can just sail down with a couple of these boats and blow it up. They would be far cheaper than missle boats and would serve Croatia's interests much better. Any ideas for a name?

Goll will like this idea. Cuz of the artillery.

well in modenrn world any sort of 'monitors' wuld be too vunerable to air thread...Basicly all ships are, thats why trend is going more towards bigger platforms. But Croatia do operate some old yugoslavian landing craft that could be in theory, fitted whit old naval artillery, to use as support craft....

its was a mess to cross croatia with my ford mondeo, it must be impossible with a mbt

ger_mark said:

its was a mess to cross croatia with my ford mondeo, it must be impossible with a mbt

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Well my friend that would depend about time of the year and the part of Croatia you went true… During a Tourist season I would be weary happy driving MBT. That would be great way to avoid those traffic jams

Mig and AN-32b


Migs and USN F-14


Migs, USN Hornets and Tomcat


PC-9


PC-9 and 2 Italian AMXs

US-Croatian SF during joint exercise


Croatian MP with croatian RT-20 20mm anti-material rifle


Croatian MP with croatian RBG-6 grenade launcher


Orkan MRLs


Taifun MLRs

Croatian MP in Afganistan

Joint exercise whit USAF