25th April 1999. Covert mission of Serbian pilots vs NATO aviation at Rinas airport, Tirana, Albania
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 NATO attacked the country that had been a member of UN, with no declaration of war, and against all International laws. That "DAY WILL LIVE IN INFAMY" [F.D. Roosevelt, 1941.] According to Wikipedia "The NATO bombing of Yugoslavia was the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation's military operation against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia during the Kosovo War. The air strikes lasted from March 24, 1999 to June 10, 1999.". However, that was no "military operation", nor "air strikes", nor "Kosovo war". That was classic terrorist attack, with no declaration of war, on an sovereign State, a member of UN. That was the full scale aggression of 13 NATO countries, namely Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom, and United States of America on Serbia and Montenegro. That was no "Kosovo War", because the attack was conducted on the whole S.R. Yugoslavian territory. The first target, on the March 24, at 19:45 (7:45 p.m.) was the town of Novi Sad, more than 500 km to the North from Serbian Autonomic Province of Kosovo and Metohija. The air strikes were accompanied by land offensive on the South Serbian borders, mainly from Albania, and F.Y.R. Macedonia. The attackers consisted of Albanian regular Army, terrorists of so called "Kosovo Liberation Army", NATO special forces, supported by NATO artillery and air-force. NATO aggressor and Shqiptar terrorists gotta have one thing in mind, an one thing only, as gen. Douglas MacArthur said - We came through and we shall return! You can count on that! |
So far NATO officials acknowledged losing three combat planes (the USAF F-117A on March 27, the USMC AV-8B Harrier on May 1, and the F-16CG-40-CF on May 2), two attack helicopters (AH-64 Apache on April 26 and another Apache on May 5), between 30 and 32 unmanned reconnaissance vehicles, including at least 16 American, 7 German, and 5 French UAVs. Interestingly enough NATO acknowledged all of the UAV losses mentioned by Yugoslav military officials - 30 - and, perhaps, even more.
Official NATO reports and statements made by various NATO officials indicate that about 10 NATO planes made emergency landings. Two F-117As sustained extensive damage (the F-117A 86-0837 was damaged on April 21 during landing; and another F-117A lost a part of its tail section due to a nearby SA-3 SAM explosion). An RAF C-130K Hercules transport plane crashed on June 11 in Albania. The aircraft was delivering a British SAS unit that was trying to beat Russian paratroopers to the Slatina base. The US Army OH-58 combat reconnaissance helicopter crashed on May 26 in Bosnia.
According to Yugoslav army officials, NATO lost 61 planes, 7 helicopters, 30 UAVs, and 238 cruise missiles. These numbers include only those NATO aircraft that crashed inside Yugoslavia. Distribution of aircraft kills among various units and branches of the Yugoslav Armed Forces is as follows: 3rd Army: 34 planes, 5 helicopters, 25 UAVs and 52 cruise missiles (according to an official statement by General Nebojsa Pavkovic, commander of the 3rd Army, on June 12, 1999); Navy: 3 planes, 3 UAVs and over 5 cruise missiles (from an official statement by the FRY Navy Commander, Milan Zec, June 10, 1999); 2nd Army: 24 planes, 2 helicopters, 2 UAVs (reported by Major General Spasoje Smiljanic in his interview to Politika newspaper at the end of April), 30 cruise missiles; 1st Army: 6 planes, 129 cruise missiles (reported by General Ninoslav Krstic in his interview for the "Vojska" magazine on May 24, 1999.) If you add up these numbers, provided by various Yugoslav military officials, you will see that the number of planes reported to have been shot down is 67 and not 61...
Exactly one month after the beginning of aggression on Yugoslavia (Serbia) in 1999 NATO officials prepared celebration of their 50th anniversary. However they have been facing greater challenge – what to do with the war against Yugoslavia ( Serbia), to intensify bombing at the price of new civilian casualties and damage, (which, if aired or published could return to the coalition like a boomerang) or to start a ground offensive primarily using KLA (Albanian terrorists) as infantry?
War drums in Washington signalized that anything but total victory would actually be considered a defeat for the West. They were aware that the air strikes didnt’ break the spine of the Yugoslav military, the morale of the army and the people was high and they were united in one desire – to resist.
Western analysts initially believed that it would take not more than few days of bombing and Belgrade will capitulate, but soon it proved to be wrong. Yugoslavia (Serbia) did not fail as NATO expected. The speed of the staged scenario was implemented with an amazing counter-effect. NATO intervened to allegedly prevent humanitarian tragedy, but the true humanitarian disaster actually expanded and accelerated. NATO ‘preventive’ aggression destabilized other countries, and it has spread to Macedonia, with uncertain consequences for the status of Kosovo. In the first postmodern war such a confusion would be fun if it hasn’t been bloody.
On 22. April 1999. Viktor Chernomyrdin, appointed IC negotiator, arrived to Belgrade in an attempt to find a compromise and terminate the war. On that day the Yugoslav air defense received strict orders not to act because of the Russian negotiator’s flight. NATO was aware of all so they took a chance and an American fighter-bomber F-16 flew from the Hungarian border to Belgrade in the radar shadow of Victor Chernomyrdin’s civil aircraft and dropped a nearly three tons bomb on Serbian underground facility STRAZEVICA. Stratagem, or a violation of international laws of war? On their return the Russian pilots were using completely different corridor and the plane suddenly found himself above the Serbian infantry-artillery unit in Srem. They opened fire with all they had, including pistols and rifles. They didn’t hit.
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The Gang of war criminals: (Left to Right) Hashim Thaci,
UCK (KLA) leader; Bernard Kouchner, UN Administrator
of Kosovo; Gen. Sir Michael Jackson, KFOR Commander;
Agim Ceku, Commander of KPC; Gen. Wesley Clark,
NATO Commander.
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Just three days later, the pilots at the airport Golubovci near Podgorica drew the maps for a covert mission, without neither permission nor knowledge and approval of Command in Belgrade – they planned to perform an attack on Rinas airport near Tirana, Albania, where U.S. battle group “Hawk” with 24 helicopters “Apache” and 82. Airborne Division from Fort Bragg, North Carolina was situated.
In dawn of 26 April six air crafts Made in Serbia G-4 “Super Galeb” took off, who were part of the acro-group “Flying Stars”. Since they were flying only ten feet above the waves in order to avoid NATO and Albanian radar control, it took them less than 20 minutes to reach the targets in Albania, near Rinas airport. They came from the direction of the rising sun and have been visually difficult to detect.
Initially rockets and grenades hit the training camp of Albanian terrorists near the Rinas airport, and one G-4 targeted the U.S. helicopters. They destroyed nine “Apache” and three more were badly damaged.
Italian state television only once reported (the same day) about the attack on the airport Rinas. That news has been banned from further broadcast. Russian news agency Itar-Tass reported that the Rinas airport near Tirana was closed for traffic on 26 April and few days later, the Italian interior minister flew away to the airport after the visit to Tirana. The first news reported about the loss of an American “Apache” ” on a routine flight” and it coincides exactly with the 26 April. Also, the Albanian delegation on the way back from a meeting in the Council of Europe in Strasbourg did not land on Rinas airport but in Vlora.
At a press briefing in Brussels, NATO spokesman, the Italian Air Force Brigadier General Giuseppe Marani these days without a visible reason spoke with admiration about Serbian pilots.
The day after the action at Albania, Rinas airport, NATO bombed three times severely, airport Golubovci near Podgorica, specifically targeting the underground facility of the airport Tuzi, where they found aircraft G-4 of the acro-group “Flying Stars”. The building was demolished and all the planes in it destroyed. One of the Yugoslav pilots when he was given a military medal, said he receives it for a successful accomplishment in a secret mission.
It’s been many years since then, and under international law Serbia had every right to retaliate on those states that have their own territory and airspace “rented” for the aggression against our country. However, the pilots of the action at the Rinas airport did not want to talk. The Guantanamo for Serbs (Hague kangaroo tribunal) and everything that happened with generals from Serbia determined their decision. So, as for the pilots and their safety, this story never happened. Officially, no. Unofficially, the “Flying Stars” flew into a legend.
Special sign of “arrogance” and bravery of our pilots was attack on the airport in Tirana. There was stationed a squadron of 12 Apache helicopters with drones that were to be air support for the terrorist “Atlantic Brigade”, which was assigned to cross the border over Kosare and Gorozup, invade Serbia together with NATO forces and take soldierly Metohija and later Kosovo.
“Atlantic Brigade” consisted of about 6,000 Albanians volunteers from abroad with American instructors. With the other terrorist KLA groups retreated into Albania, they were to perform the ground attack during NATO air campaign.
Thus, the total force that attacked the Kosovo border is around 20,000 foreign fighters with mostly American trainers and Special Forces. In order to back up our soldiers in defence of our borders, the pilots repeatedly flew to combat in the area. The first of these attacks occurred on 13 April when 4 of our planes attacked the Atlantic Brigade preparatory camp which was located near the village of Kamenica in northern Albania. On that occasion they shot down an Apache of Atlantic Brigade and caused serious losses.
Our air forces attacked NATO training camps near the border of Kosovo and Metohija, and repeated it on 05 May when the 3 Serbian Eagle and 2 Seagull at short intervals and repeatedly attacked the aforementioned Atlantic Brigade.
According to an ITAR-TASS review of the article published by the Foreign Military Review magazine of the Russian Defense Ministry, Yugoslav aviation prevented the use of American AH-64 Apache attack helicopters during the Kosovo conflict. The “NATO Losses in the War with Yugoslavia” article, the Foreign Military Review writes: “… the biggest sensation was the number of troops lost by NATO. Not just NATO pilots were killed in Yugoslavia, but also search-and-rescue troops that were tasked with locating downed pilots. Yugoslav air defenses have shot down no less than five NATO helicopters, which resulted in deaths of about 100 troops of the Alliance.”
According to the Foreign Military Review, the reason why Pentagon did not use Apaches in Kosovo “...had nothing to do with technical problems with the helicopters or insufficient training of their flight crews, as was often stated by NATO officials. The only reason was the April 26 attack carried out by Yugoslav “Galeb” fighters against “Rinas” airport located near Albania’s capital of Tirana, where the Apaches were based. That day two groups of these light helicopters were destroyed and over 10 helicopters were damaged.”
A similar operation was carried out by Yugoslav AF on April 18 against the airport in Tuzla, Bosnia, used as an emergency landing site for NATO aircraft. As the result of this attack some fifteen NATO aircraft have been destroyed on the ground. The Foreign Military Review writes: “Despite the fact that American aircraft dominated NATO operations, they weren’t the only aircraft shot down by Yugoslav air defenses. Among the destroyed aircraft were five German “Tornadoes,” several British “Harriers'” two French “Mirages,” Belgian, Dutch, and Canadian aircraft. On June 7 the USAF lost a B-52 strategic bomber, while on May 20 a B-2A “Spirit” was shot down.”
Serbs are chivalrous warriors: American "Special Forces" POW returned to "daddy" specially sent from US. Serbs do not fight children!
Eternal glory to all the heroic defenders of Serbia and eternal damnation to cowardly NATO aggressor which will live in infamy, for ever, and ever!!!
Initially rockets and grenades hit the training camp of Albanian terrorists near the Rinas airport, and one G-4 targeted the U.S. helicopters. They destroyed nine “Apache” and three more were badly damaged.
At a press briefing in Brussels, NATO spokesman, the Italian Air Force Brigadier General Giuseppe Marani these days without a visible reason spoke with admiration about Serbian pilots.
The day after the action at Albania, Rinas airport, NATO bombed three times severely, airport Golubovci near Podgorica, specifically targeting the underground facility of the airport Tuzi, where they found aircraft G-4 of the acro-group “Flying Stars”. The building was demolished and all the planes in it destroyed. One of the Yugoslav pilots when he was given a military medal, said he receives it for a successful accomplishment in a secret mission.
It’s been many years since then, and under international law Serbia had every right to retaliate on those states that have their own territory and airspace “rented” for the aggression against our country. However, the pilots of the action at the Rinas airport did not want to talk. The Guantanamo for Serbs (Hague kangaroo tribunal) and everything that happened with generals from Serbia determined their decision. So, as for the pilots and their safety, this story never happened. Officially, no. Unofficially, the “Flying Stars” flew into a legend.
“Atlantic Brigade” consisted of about 6,000 Albanians volunteers from abroad with American instructors. With the other terrorist KLA groups retreated into Albania, they were to perform the ground attack during NATO air campaign.
Thus, the total force that attacked the Kosovo border is around 20,000 foreign fighters with mostly American trainers and Special Forces. In order to back up our soldiers in defence of our borders, the pilots repeatedly flew to combat in the area. The first of these attacks occurred on 13 April when 4 of our planes attacked the Atlantic Brigade preparatory camp which was located near the village of Kamenica in northern Albania. On that occasion they shot down an Apache of Atlantic Brigade and caused serious losses.
Our air forces attacked NATO training camps near the border of Kosovo and Metohija, and repeated it on 05 May when the 3 Serbian Eagle and 2 Seagull at short intervals and repeatedly attacked the aforementioned Atlantic Brigade.
According to an ITAR-TASS review of the article published by the Foreign Military Review magazine of the Russian Defense Ministry, Yugoslav aviation prevented the use of American AH-64 Apache attack helicopters during the Kosovo conflict. The “NATO Losses in the War with Yugoslavia” article, the Foreign Military Review writes: “… the biggest sensation was the number of troops lost by NATO. Not just NATO pilots were killed in Yugoslavia, but also search-and-rescue troops that were tasked with locating downed pilots. Yugoslav air defenses have shot down no less than five NATO helicopters, which resulted in deaths of about 100 troops of the Alliance.”
According to the Foreign Military Review, the reason why Pentagon did not use Apaches in Kosovo “...had nothing to do with technical problems with the helicopters or insufficient training of their flight crews, as was often stated by NATO officials. The only reason was the April 26 attack carried out by Yugoslav “Galeb” fighters against “Rinas” airport located near Albania’s capital of Tirana, where the Apaches were based. That day two groups of these light helicopters were destroyed and over 10 helicopters were damaged.”
A similar operation was carried out by Yugoslav AF on April 18 against the airport in Tuzla, Bosnia, used as an emergency landing site for NATO aircraft. As the result of this attack some fifteen NATO aircraft have been destroyed on the ground. The Foreign Military Review writes: “Despite the fact that American aircraft dominated NATO operations, they weren’t the only aircraft shot down by Yugoslav air defenses. Among the destroyed aircraft were five German “Tornadoes,” several British “Harriers'” two French “Mirages,” Belgian, Dutch, and Canadian aircraft. On June 7 the USAF lost a B-52 strategic bomber, while on May 20 a B-2A “Spirit” was shot down.”
Eternal glory to all the heroic defenders of Serbia and eternal damnation to cowardly NATO aggressor which will live in infamy, for ever, and ever!!!
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