5th Air Reconnaissance Regiment

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.

5th Air Reconnaissance Regiment 5. puk VOJIN
Active	1955 - 1992
Disbanded	1992
Country	Yugoslavia
Branch	Yugoslav Air Force
Size	2 battalions
Part of	2nd Corps of Air Force and Air Defense
Command	Zagreb

History

The 275th Air Reconnaissance Regiment was established on 8 June 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 Later that year it was withdrawn to Bosnia and Herzegovina.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 20 January 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.^[1]

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

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