Homemade Vehicles of the Bosnian War ( 1992 - 1995 )

Maršala Tita APC - 12th May 1993 During the Siege of Sarajevo: a makeshift ARBiH (Bosnian Muslim Army) armored vehicle, a small truck covered with sheet steel and painted in camouflage colours on Mula Mustafe Bašeskije street. – Ozren’ and ’Kosava’ IRAM , In Bosnia, these tools were called ’Ozren’ and ’Kosava’ - Republika Srpska : - Armoured TAM 5000 PA with K-61 37mm (M1939). FAP-13 truck, armored and armed with an M-48 cannon ZSU M-53 / 59 of the Bosnian Serb army with additional rubber booking, in the background the BMP M-80A and ZSU BOV-3 - American armored car M-8 “Greyhound“ with a tower of the Yugoslav BMP M-80 with a 20-mm gun of the army of the Muslim-Croatian federation. – Light armored cars based on UAZs took an active part in the fighting by the Serbian police. Created and homemade armored cars based on army truck TAM-150 - Republic of Krajina : Gladni Jura (Hungry Jurik) / Kristijan (Christian) - homemade ULT-150 landmine clearance vehicle based on loader - Krajina Express - The Bosnian war was probably the last war in which an armored train, called the Krajina Express, was used in hostilities. It was created by Krajinsky Serbs in the Knin railway depot in the summer of 1991, and was successfully used until 1995, while in August, 1995, during the Croatian operation “Storm”, was not surrounded and was derailed by its own crew. The armored train included: - anti-tank self-propelled artillery installation M18; - 20-mm and 40-mm anti-aircraft systems; - Launcher 57-mm missiles; - 82-mm mortar; - 76-mm gun ZIS-3. Krajina missile system - They called it the Krajina missile system. Strange combination of Dvina (P-15) and P-15 (Styx-2) PB missile launchers, without combat capabilities. Shown at the Vidovdan Parade in 1995 in Slunj. - Hurricane missile barrel on the gun carriage of an old German 88mm PA cannon, probably as a training tool - Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia : Croatian Defence Council (Croatian: Hrvatsko vijeće obrane or HVO) Kralj-Tvrtko APC - 29th May 1993 During the Siege of Sarajevo: an improvised HVO (Bosnian Croat) armored personnel carrier of the King Tvrtko Brigade, based on a lorry chassis, outside HVO headquarters in the city. - L - HIAV – ( Croatian Engineering Anti-Terrorist Machine ) Unimog S404 IFV - Autonomous Province of Western Bosnia ( Autonomna Pokrajina Zapadna Bosna ) , Capital Velika Kladuša - Fikret Abdic’s The People’s Defense of Western Bosnia ( NOZB ) – with 10,000 fighters Population 40,000 living in an area of 69 miles. Songs : - 505 Buzimska Viteska Brigada - Bosanska Artiljerija - Arkanovi Tigrovi Pesma UZIVO - Oj Alija, Aljo! - Republika Srpska i Krajina Instrumental Heavy Cover - Zmajevi ( Bosnian Panteri - Zapadna Bosna APZB NOZB - 1995 ) - Warriors forward! Bojovnici, naprijed! #bosnia #military #tanks