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Throughout its existence, the Jugoslovenska Narodna Armija (Yugoslavian People’s Army, or JNA) strove to develop domestic tank designs in order to break its dependence on foreign suppliers. The initial projects involved either reusing already available components or simply improving an available design. None of these ever advanced beyond the prototype stage. The first successful locally-produced tank, although a licensed copy, was the M-84, which entered service in the second half of the 1980s. Despite being a competent design, the Yugoslavian Military High Command wanted an even better-performing tank, which would lead to the Vihor project.
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Sources:
M. C. Đorđević (2015), Odbrana Magazine
M. Jandrić, Seventh Decade of the Military Technical Institute (1948. – 2013.)
B. B. Dumitrijević (2010), Modernizacija i intervencija, Jugoslovenske oklopne jedinice 1945-2006, Institut za savremenu istoriju
M. Dragojević (2003) Razvoj Našeg neoružanja VTI kao sudbina, Zadužbina Adrijević
Magazine Poligon 2/2018
https://www.vs.rs/sr_cyr/o-vojsci/naoruzanje/oklopne-jedinice
srpskioklop.paluba.info/vihor/opis.html
srpskioklop.paluba.info/m84/opis.htm
VIHORog/reboot/whirlwind-mystery-yugoslavias-m-19-heavy-tank-188810
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Throughout its existence, the Jugoslovenska Narodna Armija (Yugoslavian People’s Army, or JNA) strove to develop domestic tank designs in order to break its dependence on foreign suppliers. The initial projects involved either reusing already available components or simply improving an available design. None of these ever advanced beyond the prototype stage. The first successful locally-produced tank, although a licensed copy, was the M-84, which entered service in the second half of the 1980s. Despite being a competent design, the Yugoslavian Military High Command wanted an even better-performing tank, which would lead to the Vihor project.
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Article: tanks-encyclopedia.com/vihor-m-91
Sources:
M. C. Đorđević (2015), Odbrana Magazine
M. Jandrić, Seventh Decade of the Military Technical Institute (1948. – 2013.)
B. B. Dumitrijević (2010), Modernizacija i intervencija, Jugoslovenske oklopne jedinice 1945-2006, Institut za savremenu istoriju
M. Dragojević (2003) Razvoj Našeg neoružanja VTI kao sudbina, Zadužbina Adrijević
Magazine Poligon 2/2018
https://www.vs.rs/sr_cyr/o-vojsci/naoruzanje/oklopne-jedinice
srpskioklop.paluba.info/vihor/opis.html
srpskioklop.paluba.info/m84/opis.htm
VIHORog/reboot/whirlwind-mystery-yugoslavias-m-19-heavy-tank-188810
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An article by Marko P
A script by Marko P
Narrated by Alcazar
Edited by Thundershark
Sound edited by Alcazar
