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The surviving Soko J-22 Oraos of the Serbian air force all retained their camouflage pattern in dark sea grey and dark green by 1999, although this showed traces of the removal of their white three-digit serials on the nose and of former RV i PVO insignia, replaced with the new – so-called ‘Pepsi’ – Yugoslav tri-colore insignia. This jet, serial 25104 was operated by the 241st Fighter-Bomber Squadron (98th Fighter-Bomber Aviation Regiment), home-based at Ladjevci AB. On 25 March 1999, it was flown by the sqauadron CO, Major Zivata Djurić, in an attack on UCK positions in central Kosovo, in the configuration shown here, armed with four Yugoslav-made (but French-designed) FAB-250M79 general purpose bombs. Djurić was either shot down by ground fire, or crashed due to poor visibility, and killed. Note the locally manufactured chaff and flare dispenser below the rear fuselage. (Artwork by Tom Cooper)

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