The 1st Army Brigade ( sr, 1. бригада Копнене војске, 1. brigada Kopnene vojske) is a mixed (mechanized infantry and armoured) brigade of the
Serbian Army.
History
The brigade was formed on July 31, 2006, from units located in Vojvodina and Mačva: Novi Sad Corps and parts of the 1st Armoured Brigade as well as 402nd and 485th Pontoon Battalion. In 2007 brigade was again reorganized, with 110th and 111th Poonton Battalion being subordinated to the
Serbian River Flotilla
The Serbian River Flotilla ( sr, Речна флотила, Rečna flotila) is a tactical brigade-level brown water naval branch of the Serbian Armed Forces. Patroling on the Danube, Sava, and Tisa rivers, it is tasked with environmental polici ...
.
Structure
Brigade's units are spread out throughout the territory of northern Serbia, mostly
Vojvodina and
Mačva, from the border with
Hungary on north to
Croatia and
Romania on west and east, to western Serbia to the south. It consists of mechanized infantry, armoured, artillery, air defence artillery, engineer, signal and logistics units.
*10th Command Battalion - Novi Sad
*11th Infantry Battalion -
Pančevo
Pančevo (Serbian Cyrillic: Панчево, ; german: Pantschowa; hu, Pancsova; ro, Panciova; sk, Pánčevo) is a city and the administrative center of the South Banat District in the autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbia. It is located on ...
*111th Infantry Battalion -
Loznica
*12th Self-propelled Artillery Battalion -
Bačka Topola
*13th Self-propelled Multiple Rocket Launcher Artillery Battalion -
Sremska Mitrovica
Sremska Mitrovica (; sr-Cyrl, Сремска Митровица, hu, Szávaszentdemeter, la, Sirmium) is a city and the administrative center of the Srem District in the autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbia. It is situated on the left bank ...
*14th Air-defence Artillery Battalion - Pančevo
*15th Tank Battalion - Sremska Mitrovica
*16th Mechanized Battalion - Sremska Mitrovica
*17th Mechanized Battalion - Bačka Topola
*18th Engineer Battalion - Novi Sad
*19th Logistics Battalion - Novi Sad
Equipment
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M-84
The M-84 is a Yugoslav main battle tank, a variant of the Soviet T-72. The M-84 is still in service in Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kuwait.
Development and production
Development
The M-84 is based on the Soviet T-72M (expo ...
main battle tank
*
BVP M-80
The BVP M-80, is a tracked Yugoslavian-made infantry fighting vehicle, produced from the 1980s until the country's collapse in the 1990s.
Development
Early research and development of the M-80 began in 1969, with testing of the first completed pr ...
infantry fighting vehicle
*
BTR-50
The BTR-50 (BTR stands for ''Bronetransporter'' (БТР, Бронетранспортер), literally "armored transporter") is a Soviet amphibious armored personnel carrier (APC) based on the PT-76 light tank. The BTR-50 is tracked, unlike mos ...
command armoured personnel carrier
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BRDM-2 armoured reconnaissance vehicle
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2S1 Gvozdika
The 2S1 ''Gvozdika'' (russian: link=no, 2С1 «Гвоздика», "Carnation") is a Soviet self-propelled howitzer based on the MT-LBu multi-purpose chassis, mounting a 122 mm 2A18 howitzer. "2S1" is its GRAU designation. An alternative Rus ...
122mm self-propelled howitzer
*
M-77 Oganj 128mm self-propelled multiple rocket launcher
*
PASARS-16 short-range
surface-to-air missile
A surface-to-air missile (SAM), also known as a ground-to-air missile (GTAM) or surface-to-air guided weapon (SAGW), is a missile designed to be launched from the ground to destroy aircraft or other missiles. It is one type of anti-aircraft syst ...
system
*
Strela 10 short-range surface-to-air missile system
*
Bofors L/70 40mm anti-aircraft gun
*engineer and logistics vehicles and equipment
Traditions
Anniversary
The anniversary of the unit is celebrated on November 9. On that date in 1918 7th Infantry Regiment of the
Royal Serbian Army has liberated Novi Sad in World War I.
1st Brigade Day, Novi Sad city (Serbian)
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Patron saint
The unit's slava
Slava may refer to:
Ships
* ''Slava'' class cruiser, a modern Russian warship
** Soviet cruiser Slava (1979), now Russian cruiser ''Moskva'', a ''Slava'' class guided missile cruiser sunk during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
* Russian ba ...
or its patron saint is Saint Nestor.
References
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External links
1st Army Brigade Web Page
Brigades of Serbia
Military units and formations established in 2006