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Novosti News Service – Bar, Wednesday, 1 July 1942

Today keels were laid on the third and fourth escort sloops of the Project 1942 Theta; two vessels of this type are currently completing in the yard’s fitting out basin and they are expected to be completed this autumn.


Novosti News Service – Belgrade, Thursday, 16 July 1942

The test programme for the Soko Orao fighter aircraft continues; pilots from several Warsaw Pact air forces have had the opportunity to fly the aircraft and it is hoped that the aircraft will be cleared for low-rate production sometime in the forthcoming year.


Novosti News Service – Bar, Friday, 31 July 1942

The fourth and last of the Project 1941 Delta light destroyers was completed today and formally named Mitrovica. She now begins her trials and will soon take her place in the nation’s naval force, guarding Yugoslavia’s growing merchant fleet and its overseas commerce.

Domestic Ground Ordnance Production

M35 Service Pistol : 600
M29 Service Rifle : 3,600
M28 Machine Rifle : 750
M32 Machinegun : 750
M37 Submachinegun : 6,000
M39 Aircraft Machinegun : 675
M37 Tank Machinegun : 210
M35 Mortar : 210
M27/31 Mortar : 120
M40 Rocket Launcher : 100
M40 Divisional Gun : 60
M30 Light Antiaircraft Gun : 60
M36 Light Antiaircraft Gun : 60
M40 Field Gun-Howitzer : 60
M32 Hand Grenade : 57,000
Small Arms Ammunition : 15,000,000
Artillery Ammunition : 186,000


Domestic Vehicle Production for Royal Yugoslav Army

Skoda 6ST 4-ton Truck : 90
Zastava M40 0.25-ton Truck : 225
Zastava M41 1.5-ton Truck : 225
LT.38 Light Tank (gun tank) : 10
Salvage Tank on LT.38 Chassis : 0
Assault Howitzer on LT.38 Chassis : 10
Anti-tank Gun on LT.38 Chassis : 30
Lazar Armoured Reconnaissance Vehicle : 30
Nemanja Armoured Car : 30


Aircraft Deliveries

Bucker Bu181 : 15
Soko Jastreb : 48
Soko Zmaj : 20
Ikarus IK-4 : 5

Novosti News Service – Belgrade, Friday, 14 August 1942

Ceremonies held today marked the retirement from service of the BFW Bf109 interceptor and the Handley Page Hereford maritime strike aircraft. Numbers 31 and 32 Squadrons at Ladevci Air Base, Kraljevo handed over the last of their Augsburg eagles and are now mounted on the Soko Jastreb, and at Dubinje Air Base, Sjenica, Number 82 Squadron took to the air with its new Soko Zmaj attack bombers.


Novosti News Service – Sarajevo, Monday, 24 August 1942

The first pre-production example of the Drzava Fabrika Aviona Type 222 Vihor advance training monoplane was delivered to the Royal Yugoslav Air Force Test Centre here. It is anticipated that service testing will take up most, if not all, of the remainder of the year and a decision on procurement of a quantity of the aircraft is not expected before January.


Novosti News Service – Durrës, Monday, 31 August 1942

The armoured gunboats Odra and Tisa have completed their trials and working up, and have formally joined their sisters, the Neretva and Drina, as part of the Second Coast Defence Group here.

Novosti News Service – Bar, Wednesday, 2 September 1942

The first of the large Project 1942 Kappa destroyer leaders was launched to day and immediately moved to the fitting out wharf where her construction is to be completed. Work began immediately in clearing the drydock wherein she had been constructed in order to prepare for the keel-laying of the second ship of the class, which is expected for next month.


Novosti News Service – Durrës, Sunday, 13 September 1942

The fleet tender Petrovic Karageorge and the six motor torpedo boats of the Tenth Flotilla arrived in the port today to complement the defences of the port alongside the armoured gunboats of the Second Coast Defence Group.


Novosti News Service – Belgrade, Monday, 28 September 1942

The Army Demonstration Battalion received its first issue of M40 Rocket Launchers to replace its elderly M34 Antitank Rifles. The unit will develop tactics and assist in the preparation of field manuals for this new element of the Army’s panoply.