Yugoimport SDPR

Coordinates: 44°19′18″N 20°24′57″E / 44.32167°N 20.41583°E / 44.32167; 20.41583

Yugoimport–SDPR
Native name
 Југоимпорт–СДПР / Jugoimport–SDPR
State-owned enterprise
Industry Defense
Founded 6 February 1997 (1997-02-06) (Current form)
18 June 1949 (1949-06-18) (Founded)
Headquarters Belgrade, Serbia
Area served
 Worldwide
Key people
 Jugoslаv Petković (General director)
Products Small arms
Combat vehicles
Munitions
Services Engineering, consultancy, training
Revenue Decrease €185.51 million (2017)[1]
Decrease €26.45 million (2017)[1]
Total assets Increase €349.89 million (2017)[2]
Total equity Increase €141.00 million (2017)[2]
Owner Government of Serbia (100%)
Number of employees
 392 (2017)
Subsidiaries Utva Aviation Industry
Website www.yugoimport.com
Footnotes / references
Business ID: 07051751
Tax ID: 100001790 [3]

Yugoimport–SDPR (Serbian: Југоимпорт–СДПР / Jugoimport–SDPR) 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.[4] 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.[5] SDPR opened new "Complex Battle System" factory in Velika Plana, Serbia for producing combat vehicles.[6]

Engineering

Yugoimport built many military and civilian objects in several countries around the world including airports, hospitals, command posts etc.[7] In 1990's and before that Yugoimport built many civilian and military facilities for the country of Iraq,under Saddam Hussein's regime.[8]

Partnership, transfer of technology and licensing

Yugoimport had many high profile technology transfers with a goal to establish arms or ammunition production in target friendly country. Some of most known is the export of the M-87 Orkan MLRS' technology to Iraq and many other licenses to many countries. Most recently there were production licenses bought by Azerbaijan [9] to produce grenade launchers,along with Algeria and India for small arms and ammunition production. A contract was signed in Algiers,on November 2011 forming a joint-venture for the construction of three arms factories in Algeria for the manufacturing of individual weapons and the ammunition for a total amount of 400 million USD.[10] The latest ammunition production license was done under the "Made in India" program and is worth 2.8 billion Euros.[11]

Products

BOV M11 APC
SORA self-propelled 122mm gun-howitzer
LRSVM Morava is a multiple rocket launcher system

Anti-Armour Systems

Tracked Armored vehicles

Artillery systems

Armored vehicles

  • Premax 39 Multirole combat boat

Aircraft and UAV

Antiaircraft systems

  • PASARS-16 "Terminator" Hybrid Air Defence system

Ammunition's

Many different calibers including small arms and large artillery weapons

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "БИЛАНС УСПЕХА (2017) - Jugoimport-SDPR". apr.gov.rs (in Serbian). Retrieved 20 July 2018.
  2. 1 2 "БИЛАНС СТАЊА (2017) - Jugoimport SDPR". apr.gov.rs (in Serbian). Retrieved 20 July 2018.
  3. ↑ "Основни подаци о привредном друштву". apr.gov.rs (in Serbian). Serbian Business Registers Agency. Retrieved 28 February 2018.
  4. ↑ Yugoimport company background
  5. ↑ "Company Overview of Yugoimport-SDPR J.P." Bloomberg Businessweek.
  6. ↑ "Srbija ima fabriku složenih borbenih sistema" (in Serbian). Al Jazeera Balkans. 29 December 2012. Retrieved 17 June 2013.
  7. ↑ http://www.yugoimport.co.rs/engineering/about_us/history.htm
  8. ↑ "Iraq's Bunker Busters". Time Magazine. 26 May 2003. Retrieved 4 August 2013.
  9. ↑ http://news.az/articles/78216/print
  10. ↑ http://www.economist.com/node/17862268
  11. ↑ https://seenews.com/news/defence-relaince-serbias-yugoimport-to-join-forces-on-ammo-production-in-india-572905
  12. ↑ "ARMOURED MULTI-PURPOSE COMBAT VEHICLE 4x4 - BOV M16 MILOSH | SDPR - Yugoimport". www.yugoimport.com. Retrieved 2017-05-21.
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