Minister Stefanović visited "Orao" JSC in Bijeljina

Today, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense PhD. Nebojsa Stefanovic, together with the Minister of Economy and Entrepreneurship of Republic of Srpska Vjekoslav Petricevic, visited the "Orao" JSC for production and overhaul in Bijeljina, at the end of a two-day visit to Republic of Srpska.

Stefanović thanked for the warm welcome and emphasized that this is a strategic company that extends the life of our "Orao" airplanes by engine overhauls, and in that way enables our Air Force to have greater capacities to further modernize its fleet.

- The future is important for us. We want to talk about how to continue further cooperation, to make it even more intensive, then how to provide new licenses and not worry about whether there will be knowledge, ability and capacities to overhaul engines for our planes - said Minister Stefanović.

He stressed that today's talks were very constructive and focused on finding answers to the challenges, given the current coronavirus pandemic, in order to ensure that this company, which is equally important for both the Republic of Serbia and the Republic of Srpska, continues to work well.

Minister Stefanović expressed great satisfaction with the two-day visit to Banja Luka and the talks he had yesterday.

- After Dodik's visit to Serbia and harmonization of the most important strategic issues, President Vučić reminded that today Serbia and Srpska are in the closest possible relations. This two-day visit was dedicated to important activities at the level of the defense industry. They are important because they provide strategic opportunities for the Serbian defense system, but also certain strategic opportunities for the Republic of Srpska, such as new jobs - the Minister of Defense pointed out and added that he had excellent talks with Dodik, Prime Minister Viskovic and Minister Lukac.

Minister Petričević thanked Minister Stefanović for his visit to  "Orao" JSC and pointed out that the meetings held in the past month speak enough about the commitment of the governments of Republic of Srpska and Serbia on the issue of intensifying cooperation in the field of purpose-built industry.

- We expect the continuation of cooperation in the next month, where we will have certain more concrete positions, and regarding the realization of projects that have started and some projects in the future - said Minister Petričević.

Ministers Stefanović and Petričević met with the general manager Mladen Stojanović and the management of the "Orao" JSC and visited the Memorial Room dedicated to the fallen fighters that worked in "Orao" JSC.

"Orao" JSC Bijeljina is the only company of the overhaul of aircraft turbojet engines for aircraft from the operational use of the Republic of Serbia Army in the region, and probably on a global scale. Engine overhaul refers to VIPER series 600 engines manufactured by Rolls Royce, for ORAO and G-4 aircraft, and to a lesser extent for R13-300 and R25-300 engines for MiG-21 aircraft. In the previous period, work was done on mastering the overhaul of RD-33 engines for MiG-29 aircraft, including repairs and testing of engines of this type.

In the previous period, a significant volume of cooperation between the Ministry of Defense of Serbia and "Orao" institute was achieved. Last month, a contract was signed in Belgrade on the overhaul of VIPER engines for ORAO and Super Galeb G-4 aircraft, which will enable usage of an additional number of ORAO and G-4 aircraft for use in our Air Force. The value of the contract signed by the representatives of the Logistics Directorate (J-4) of the General Staff of the Serbian Army, "Jugoimport-SDPR" state-owned company and "Orao" JSC is 3.7 million euros and it is one of the most important individual contracts between the Ministry of Defense and Army of Republic of Serbia has with the purpose-built company from Republic of Srpska.

 

Source: Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Serbia

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