Yugoslav Army/Serbian Police
1990-1998
Former Yugoslav republics did not have any rule how to camouflage paint and the same goes for Serbia.

Most painting was done by initiative of the unit commander and usually on limited numbers of units.

Most common colors where brown and black painted on the existing SMB(Olive/drab green) in a form of stripes and spots in variety of differed sizes and shades.

There is great book about Military Vehicles in Croatia, you can check PDF here-
http://biblioteka.mycity-military.com/biblioteka/V.....1-1995.pdf

First organized camouflage painting in Serbia was not performed by the army, but Serbian Police.
Most trucks, APC...had brown and black spots/small stripes and that varied in size and shape-








In the second half of the 1990's, then Yugoslav Army overhauled and purchased some new FAP trucks for the Swedish Radar System Giraffe. They where painted in Swedish Splinter Pattern-



...More coming up!!!

1998-1999
In Early spring of 1998, Serbian army and Police started operations against the KLA in the province of Kosovo.

Some Army units took initiative, and started sporadic painting, mostly coping Serbian police brown and black amoeba/spots-





As a part of the preparations for a possible NATO air campaign, Serbian(YU) AirDefence was concentrating on deception, hiding, using camouflage nets and other techniques, as well as camouflage painting-








More coming up...

This are some different and unique solutions and variations-
BDRM strela during the 1999.


There is an interesting story that this pattern was actually created in the 1970's.


Up armored truck-


Nora spots-


4 colors spots on Puch-


Jigsaw(m-93 uniform pattern)-


Bov with vertical stripes-


NATO VAriation-



Praga VJ, 1999-


Praga variation, VJ, 1999-


Praga VRS, 1993-


m-80, VRS, 1995 Bosnia


VJ BDRM strela variation, 1999-




VJ, 1999, m-80 4 colors variation-


Serbian Police/Zandarmerija-


Free Crayola Artists,


NAto VAriation, 1999


Zastava NATo VAriation, 2009-


Police, 2009-


Puch, 2010-

Last year, Serbian army has adopted new rules and regulations for vehicle color schemes, as well as new uniform with digital pattern

According to Lieutenant Colonel Milan Kulic(mee-lan Cool-eech), "...the colors are standardized according to Serbia's environment, and patterns created for most vehicles..."
http://www.politika.rs/rubrike/Drustvo/Nove-uniforme-u-pet-boja-Srbije.sr.html

In last year, most overhauled vehicles (BOV, m-80, BDRM, TAM trucks...) where painted in 3 colors scheme. Green with Brown and Black spots and/or stripes, depending on the size.








Also, some of the new Land Rovers and FAP-1118 trucks have the very same scheme.








One of the overhauled m-17 of the Serbian got the same look.





It is interesting that JNA (Yugoslav Peoples Army) never officially adopted color scheme for the land forces, as they did for the Air Force. Around 1963, Army tried to implement some rules for different seasons and areas of the country, and and it was decided to to experiment in 329th Armored Brigade. From the start, there where some problems, since "Duga" color pallet did not have requested colors in their pallet. By the October 1964, new pattern was on one t-34;t-54b, m4a3,TZI M-74 and 3 M-47, as well as OT M-60 in fall scheme. Painting was done by hand and patterns was previously marked by chalk. They used Olive Green(Drab), light "leaf" green; creme/ocer; black and white for winter. In June of 1965, camouflage coloring was perofrmed during the military maneuver to test how it can be done under the war conditions. m-4a3 tank Platoon crew complitd the task in less than 3 hours. 6 tanks where done correctly, while 4 had some small corrections. For some reason YPA never implemented this and all of the vehicles stayed in SMB(gray olive color).
I have never found any photos about this.

Coming up-Yugoslav Army; Army of Serbian and Montenegro and Serbian Army camouflage schemes.

GVOZDIKA


m-80


BOV-


PUCH, LR Defender-

Here is fap 1118

PM M71

Hello Neighbor! Very interesting,thanks for posting!

Hello komshiya or sused, glad you like it!

Quick drawings-

WOW

Thanks a million Milan for those incredibly interesting pics!

If you don't mind, I have a question for you

I'm building this JNA T-55



It looks painted with a pale gray-green

What would be the best paint to replicate this color?

What is the closest federal standard code for this kind of green?

Many thanks in advance

Cheers

Do you know did we catpure or get any BRDM strela's from JNA,im curently reading the Bojan Dimitrijević book about JNA 1946-2006 but im still not on that part,more pics or draws or anything on it would be very useful,i'd like to build one.
I have few pics of the BRDM from turanj,but there's no Strela on it.

Kind regards komshya!

Sven, I'm not sure about that.

Mauro, JNa used typical Olive Gray Green color, not sue what the name for it is but Ill found out for you!

Vojska Srbije, Serbian Army