SOKO Super Galeb in flight

The Super Galeb was widely promoted on International Aerial Events in an effort to sell it abroad, but without success. There was a plan to modernize and upgrade the Super Galebs at the start of the 90s to give it the ability to operate with ground attack and air-to-air missiles but this wasn't done.

 

When the Yugoslav Civil War started, Super Galebs were widely used by their new owners against each others (three of them being lost to AA guns and missiles), but in the end due to a lack of spare parts only Serbia kept using them. Montenegro actually sold their old and unused airframes to Serbia in 2012.

 

During the Kosovo War, many Serbian Super Galebs were lost to aerial attacks, namely seven airframes of the National Aerobatic team. Currently, around 20 of them are still in use by Serbia with plans to perform a modernization to extend their operational lifes well into the 2030s.

 

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