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BELGRADE - Serbia and Republika Srpska are observing a day of mourning on Sunday for the seven people killed in the crash of a helicopter that was rescuing a five-day-old baby whose life was in danger.

Serbia and Russia to conduct air force drills

MOSCOW -- Military pilots from Russia and Serbia will conduct joint training exercises in September 2015, the Russian Defense Ministry has announced.

Defense Minister Nikolay Nenchev has said he is strongly determined to ensure that a final solution about the overhaul of Bulgaira's aircraft fleet could come as early as 2015.

The acquisition of either new or second-hand NATO-compatible aircraft is "something we cannot afford to delay anymore," he argued in an interview with Standart daily newspaper published Friday.

What a coincidence! The mighty Turkish Air Force has decided to decommission its last batch of eight RF-4E reconnaissance aircraft shortly after two such aircraft and one F-4E crashed in a span of six days. Gen. Abidin Ünal, commander of the elite Combat Air Force unit, ruled out any technical failure for the serial crashes of Feb.

BELGRADE - Two multinational exercises with the Russian Armed Forces are planned for 2015 to improve the Serbian Armed Forces (VS) capabilities, spokesperson for the Serbian Defence Ministry and Figate Captain Jovan Krivokapic has told Tanjug.

"Land forces, Air Force and anti-air defence units will take part in the exercises, which will be held in Russia," Krivokapic explained.

Two Turkish pilots who were killed after their jet crashed in the Central Anatolian province of Konya during a training flight were laid to rest on March 6, following a military ceremony in Eski?ehir.

There has been intense activity at the Air Force base in Diyarbakir, Turkey, as Ankara is considering whether to help Iraq in the fight against Islamic State, media sources say.

Aircraft are being regularly scrambled, and troops have been instructed to "react" in case of hostility from IS, according to reports.

Heavy clashes erupted on March 5 between Syrian regime forces and rebels near an intelligence headquarters the opposition had tried to seize in a spectacular attack, a monitor and security source said.
      

Two pilots have died after a Turkish Air Force F-4E crashed in the Central Anatolian province of Konya on the morning of March 5, the second such accident in less than two weeks.

An F-4E aircraft that took off for a training flight at 09.00 from Eskisehir airbase crashed one hour later in Konya, the Turkish Armed Forces said in a statement on its website.  

Pakistan is to make its own proposal to Bulgaria concerning the overhaul of its aircraft fleet, media reports suggest.

Currently the US, Italy and Sweden have been bidding to answer Bulgaria's need to have a squadron of 16 fighter jets replacing the existing one which is made up of Russian-made outdated MiGs.