5th Air Reconnaissance Regiment

5th Air Reconnaissance Regiment
5. puk VOJIN
Active 1955 - 1992
Country  Yugoslavia
Branch Yugoslav Air Force
Size 2 battalions
Part of 2nd Corps of Air Force and Air Defense
Command Zagreb
Disbanded 1992

The 5th Air Reconnaissance Regiment (Serbo-Croatian: 5. puk VOJIN / 5. пук ВОЈИН) was an air reconnaissance and guidance regiment established in 1955 as 275th Air Reconnaissance Regiment, part of the SFR Yugoslav Air Force.

History

The 275th Air Reconnaissance Regiment was established on June 8, 1955, from 105th Air Reconnaissance Battalion and 109th Air Reconnaissance Battalion with command at Zagreb. With "Drvar" reorganization plan in 1959, regiment was redesignated in to 5th Air Reconnaissance Regiment.

The regiment participated in combat operations in Slovenia and Croatia in 1991. Later that year it was withdrawn to Bosnia and Herzegovina. The regiment's command had to be transformed on January 20, 1992, to 2nd Air Reconnaissance Regiment, with command at Sarajevo, but due the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina started has started same year, its establishment has never been completed.[1]

Assignments

Previous designations

Commanding officers

References

  1. Dimitrijević, Bojan. Jugoslovensko Ratno Vazduhoplovstvo 1942-1992. Beograd, 2006, p. 390.
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