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5th Air Reconnaissance Regiment

Field	Value
unit_name	5th Air Reconnaissance Regiment
5. puk VOJIN
dates	1955 - 1992
country
branch	Yugoslav Air Force
size	2 battalions
command_structure	2nd Corps of Air Force and Air Defense
garrison	Zagreb
garrison_label	Command
disbanded	1992

5. puk VOJIN

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 Later that year it was withdrawn to Bosnia and Herzegovina.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 to the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina which started the same year, its establishment has never been completed.

Assignments

3rd Aviation Corps (1955–1959)
5th Air Command (1959–1964)
5th Air Defense Zone (1964–1966)
15th Air Defense Division (1966–1986)
5th Corps of Air Force and Air Defense (1986–1992)
2nd Corps of Air Force and Air Defense (1992)

Previous designations

275st Air Reconnaissance Regiment (1955–1959)
5th Air Reconnaissance Regiment (1959–1992)

Commanding officers

Colonel Anton Požeg
Colonel Himzo Malohodžić
Colonel Nikola Robić
Colonel Živorad Grbović
Lt. Colonel Borivoje Kovač
Colonel Milenko Stojkovski

References

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

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