Yugoslav OOB 41 additional aircraft

[DRG]

I'll put this inf on file.

The real question is how many of these were used for ground attack becasue in the game we are not interested in pure fighter aircraft

Don

[zastava128]

Good point. The problem is that Yugoslavia was not involved in any wars from 1946-91, so we really have no idea if the fighters would have been pressed into fulfilling a role they weren't designed for. That said, let me list what I know about the roles of the aircraft:

Bell 47G and Mil Mi-2 Hoplite: they're helos, obviously.

Ikarus S-49 and Republic P-47D Thunderbolt: fighter-bombers.

Lisunov Li-2 and Petlyakov Pe-2FT: bombers.

Mikoyan MiG-21PFM: fighters, but I can tell you from experience that MiG-21s were used for ground attack during the Yugoslav Wars 1991-95.

Soko G-2 Galeb: ground attack aircraft, and used as such during the Yugoslav Wars.

Yakovlev Yak-9: Yak-9s are usually considered fighters, but Yugoslavia used the TD variant, which could carry bombs.

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Messerscmitt BF-109G, Spitfire MK V: fighters. Used as ground attack in Yugoslavia during World War 2, but I don't know if they would have been used as such in a hypothetical Cold War era conflict (such as a Soviet invasion after the Tito-Stalin split in 1948, or an escalation of the Trieste Crisis in the early 50s).

North American F-86 Sabre: fighter. However, the Indo-Pakistani war of 1965 proved it was certainly capable of ground attack. Would the Yugoslavs have used them as such I can't say.

Yakovlev Yak-3 Ubiytsa and Canadair CL-13 Sabre: from what I can tell, these were pure fighters - they can safely be left out.