Yugoimport SDPR
Native name | Југоимпорт–СДПР |
|---|---|
| Government owned | |
| Industry | Defense |
| Founded |
Belgrade, Serbia (6 February 1997) First founded 18 June 1949 |
| Headquarters | Belgrade, Serbia |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Jugoslаv Petković (General director) |
| Products |
Small arms Combat vehicles Munitions |
| Services | Engineering, consultancy, training |
| Revenue |
 €91.68 million (2013)[1] |
 €4.13 million (2013)[1] | |
| Total assets |
€220.60 million (2013)[1] |
| Total equity |
€52.80 million (2013)[1] |
| Owner | Government of Serbia (100%) |
Number of employees | 646[1] |
| Website |
www |
Yugoimport–SDPR (Serbian: Југоимпорт–СДПР) is a Serbian state-owned intermediary company for the import and export of defense-related equipment, with the headquarters in Belgrade, Serbia.
The company was founded in 1949 in what was then Yugoslavia, for the needs of the Yugoslav defense industry.[2] Today the company represents the Government and military industrial complex of Serbia in the sphere of importation and exportation cooperation of defense equipment and related services. Company works together with the Serbian Army, Military Technical Institute Belgrade and many private companies in Serbia and around the world in developing new weapons and systems. The company also provides weapons design, consulting, construction and engineering services.[3] SDPR opened new "Complex Battle System" factory in Velika Plana, Serbia for producing combat vehicles.[4]
Arms trafficking
Yugoimport has been implicated in smuggling weapons to customers that were under embargo, such as Syria and the Ghaddafi regime in Libya.[5][6] Yugoimport also sold arms to Iraq and built several bunkers for the Saddam Hussein regime.[7][8] The Boka Star was seized whilst shipping arms to Iraq, including fuel for Scud missiles.
Products
- Bumbar AT Missile System
- M-84AS M-84 Tank Upgrade
- Nora B-52 Self-propelled Howitzer
- Lazar BVT MRAV
- Lazar 2 MRAV
- LRSVM Morava MLRS
- BOV M10 APC
- BOV M11 APC
- SOKO SP RR
- Sora 122mm Self-Propelled artillery
- ALAS (missile)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 "Основни подаци из консолидованог финансијског извештаја за 2013. годину". Agencija za privredne registre Srbije. Retrieved 18 June 2014.
- ↑ Yugoimport company background
- ↑ "Company Overview of Yugoimport-SDPR J.P.". Bloomberg Businessweek.
- ↑ "Srbija ima fabriku složenih borbenih sistema" (in Serbian). Al Jazeera Balkans. 29 December 2012. Retrieved 17 June 2013.
- ↑ Chivers (8 March 2011). "Qaddafi’s Arms Bazaar, Slowly Exposed". The New York Times.
- ↑ "Identification and Disruption of Clandestine Arms Transfers". UNDP. 31 August 2007. Retrieved 4 August 2013.
- ↑ "Iraq's Bunker Busters". Time Magazine. 26 May 2003. Retrieved 4 August 2013.
- ↑ "Yugoslavia 'sold arms to Iraq'". CNN. 23 October 2002. Retrieved 4 August 2013.
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