Angkatan Darat Yugoslavia

Angkatan Darat Yugoslavia (Serbo-Croatian: Kopnena Vojska – KoV, Cyrillic script: Копнена Војска – КоВ) adalah salah satu cabang Tentara Rakyat Yugoslavia (TRY) dari tanggal 1 Maret 1945 sampai 20 Mei 1992 saat pecah Perang Bosnia.

Angkatan Darat Yugoslavia
Emblem of the Yugoslav People's Army Ground Forces
Aktif1945–1992
Negara Yugoslavia
Jumlah personelsekitar 600,000 personel dan ada 2.000.000 cadangan
Bagian dariTentara Rakyat Yugoslavia (TRY)
H/QBelgrade
Ulang tahun22 Desember 1945
PertempuranPerang Yugoslavia
Perang Sepuluh Hari
Perang Kroasia
Perang Bosnia
DibubarkanBreakup of Yugoslavia (1992)
Tokoh
Last commanderColonel General Života Panić

Sejarah

Asal Muasal Angkatan Darat ini berasal dari para Partisan Yugoslavia di wilayah pendudukan Nazi Jerman selama masa Perang Dunia ke-2, dan pada tanggal 1 Maret 1945 Partisan itu disusun lagi menjadi sebuah tentara yang bernama Angkatan Darat Yugoslavia (Jugoslovenska Armija) dan pada 22 December 1951 ulang tahun ke-10, menambahkan kataRakyat (i.e. Narodna) jadinya menjadi Angkatan Bersenjata Rakyat Yugoslavia (ABRY).[1]

Pada September 1968 dibentuk Pasukan Pembela Wilayah (PPW) untuk membantu Tentara Rakyat Yugoslavia (TRY) dalam hal penjagaan perbatasan.

Tugas

See also: Perang Yugoslavia and Perang Sepuluh Hari

Perang Sepuluh Hari/Perang di Slovenia

Saat pecah Perang Sepuluh Hari banyak dari Prajurit TRY dan tidak mengetahui kenapa dan apa yang sedang mereka lakukan di wilayah Slovenia Timur karena sehari sebelum Slovenia merdeka Tentara TRY Dikirim dengan tergesa-gesa menuju ke timur slovenia hanya dalam waktu satu hari. Tetapi hasil yang di dapatkan begitu mudah untuk menguasai Slovenia karena pemerintahan mereka belum siap sedangkan TRY yang sudah berpengalaman selama Perang Dunia ke-2. Meskipun suksses tetapi tetap saja Slovenia merdeka dan telah diakui oleh banyak negara jadi TRY menarik mundur pasukannya untuk menghentikan Kroasia merdeka.

Peralatan

Galleri

Tank and armoured brigades

Perlengkapan

Artillery

Perlengkapan

Rank and uniforms

Rank

According to the Army Law of 1 October 1982 the Land Forces had five categories of ranks; general officers, senior officers, junior officers, Non-commissioned Officers, and soldiers.

Enlisted

The soldier and NCO ranks were private first class, corporal, junior sergeant, sergeant, sergeant first class, senior sergeant, senior sergeant first class, warrant officer, and warrant officer first class. Privates first class, corporals, and junior sergeants wore one, two, and three red chevrons, respectively, on a background of olive-green, blue-gray, or black—corresponding, respectively, to the ground forces, air force, or navy. In the land forces and air forces, sergeants, sergeants first class, senior sergeants, and senior sergeants first class wore single thin yellow-gold chevrons with one, two, three, and four yellow-gold stars, respectively. Warrant officers and warrant officers first class wore two yellow-gold chevrons with one and two gold stars respectively.

NCOs[2] Soldiers[2]
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Ranks in Serbo-Croatian Zastavnik I klase
Заставник I класе
Zastavnik
Заставник
Stariji Vodnik I klase
Старији Водник I класе
Stariji Vodnik
Старији Водник
Vodnik I klase
Водник I класе
Vodnik
Водник
Mlađi vodnik
Млађи водник
Desetar
Десетар
Razvodnik
Разводник
Ranks Warrant Officer, 1st class Warrant Officer Senior Sergeant 1st class Senior Sergeant Sergeant, 1st class Sergeant Junior Sergeant Corporal Private

Officers

Insignia for commissioned officers were worn on shoulder boards in olivegreen for the land forces. Shoulder boards were piped with single and double yellow-gold braid, respectively, for junior and senior officers. General officers wore shoulder boards piped with twisted gold cord.

Junior officer ranks were sub-lieutenant, lieutenant, lieutenant, captain, and captain first class and their shoulder boards had one, two, three, and four small yellow gold stars, respectively.

Senior officer ranks were major, lieutenant colonel, and colonel and their shoulder boards bore one, two, or three large yellow-gold stars respectively.

General officer ranks were major general, lieutenant colonel general, colonel general, and general of the army. General was the rank created for federal secretary of people's defense in 1955 and it was abolished in 1974. Army general officers wore a crossed sword and cannon and one, two, three, four and five gold stars.

Tito was the only person to hold the rank of Marshal, and the position was abolished shortly after his death. The shoulder board insignia featured the Emblem of Yugoslavia.

Generals[3] Officers[4]
Ranks in Serbo-Croatian General
Генерал
General Armije
Генерал Армије
General Pukovnik
Генерал Пуковник
General-Potpukovnik
Генерал-Потпуковник
General-Major
Генерал-Мајор
Pukovnik
Пуковник
Potpukovnik
Потпуковник
Major
Мајор
Kapetan I klase
Капетан I класе
Kapetan
Капетан
Poručnik
Поручник
Potporučnik
Потпоручник
Ranks General General of the Army Colonel General Lieutenant Colonel General Major General Colonel Lieutenant Colonel Major Captain, 1st class Captain Lieutenant Sub-lieutenant

Uniforms

Enlisted and NCO's

Soldiers and NCOs were issued uniforms field and service uniforms, while NCOs were authorized a dress uniform. Military school cadets wore soldier's uniforms. Soldiers' winter and summer uniforms were made of light or heavy wool and cotton in olive-green. All soldiers wore neckties of the same colors except in summer, when the uniform shirt was worn with an open collar.

There were several variations on the basic soldier's uniform and women's uniforms were of the same style as those for men with a skirt being substituted for trousers. Paratroops wore an olive-green beret instead of the standard garrison or service cap.

Mountain troops wore distinctive stiff field caps with semi-rigid visors and earflaps. They wore loose winter shirts under which additional layers could be worn. The shirt itself had a lining and a collar that could be turned up to cover the neck and chin. The trousers worn by mountain troops extended just below the knee, with a strap and buckle closure. Leather leggings, heavy wool socks, and foul-weather capes also were worn by the mountain troops.

Several different patterns of camouflage uniforms were worn by select units.

Officers

Officers had to buy their field, service, dress, and full dress uniforms. They wore insignia on the lapels of the field uniform shirts. The service uniform differed only in a few details from the basic dress uniform. The shirt buttons of the dress uniform were yellow-gold instead of the service color. The trousers, jackets, and overcoats were piped red along the seams. The dress cap visor showed the same piping as the officer's shoulder boards. The general officer's dress cap had a chin strap of twisted gold cord. Other officers wore plain plastic or leather chin straps. Full dress uniforms were blue and were worn with a yellow-gold sash belt lined with the appropriate service color. Cap emblems all included a red star with yellow-gold rays, given distinctive configurations according to branch. Airborne officers had the red star resting on a silver parachute against a blue background. Cap emblems for general officers showed the same gold wreath as the shoulder boards.

See also

Templat:Yugoslav People's Army

References

Further reading

  • Jane's Intelligence Review, June 1993