Serbian President Aleksandar Vu?i? confirmed on March 12 that his country has purchased CM-400 supersonic ballistic missiles from China.
“We have a significant number of missiles and we will have even more,” Vu?i? said in an interview with Radio Television of Serbia.
He added that the Serbian Armed Forces have already successfully integrated Chinese missiles into the Russian MiG-29 fighter jets they own.
His statement comes after a specialized military forum recently published photographs showing several fighter jets of the Serbian Armed Forces.
One aircraft was allegedly armed with a Chinese long-range air-to-surface missile, designated CM-400.
The other, according to the report, was carrying an LS-6 aerial bomb, also made in China.
Vucic said the Chinese missile planes were “accidentally filmed”.
He did not answer the reporter’s question about how much the Chinese missiles cost.
“The missiles are terribly expensive. We got them at a small discount,” Vu?i? said.
He added that their range is 200 to 400 kilometers and that they are missiles with great destructive power.
The Prime Minister of Croatia, Andrej Plenkovic, reacted to this purchase.
He said his country – a member of the European Union and NATO – would talk to its allies about the issue.
“We will talk to our NATO partners and warn them about such weapons, which are innovations in the arsenal of the Serbian Army,” Plenkovic said.
However, he added that he does not expect such a powerful weapon to ever be used against neighboring countries, such as Croatia or any other state.
Serbia, despite warnings from Brussels and Washington, is expanding its military cooperation with China.
According to data from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), in the period 2020–2024, Serbia imported the most weapons from China (57%), followed by Russia (20%) and France (7.4%).
Reacting to Plenkovic’s statement, Vu?i? said that “Zagreb will not decide what Serbia will have.”
He said that Serbia “is preparing for the possibility of an attack by the alliance being formed by Pristina, Tirana and Zagreb.”
He added that, during a visit to India in mid-February, Plenkovic assured him that military cooperation between Croatia, Albania and Kosovo is not directed against Serbia.
“I heard that and that’s it. But do I still have a dose of worry and fear? Yes, I do,” Vu?i? said.
In March 2025, Croatia, Albania and Kosovo signed a Declaration on cooperation in the field of defense and security, which Serbian officials described as a threat to Serbia’s security. / Taken from REL