Serbian President Aleksandar Vu\u010di\u0107 inaugurated a factory to assemble Israeli-designed combat drones, expanding defense cooperation with Israel and announcing plans for at least three more plants across the country.<\/p>\n
The project brought together Israeli defense company Elbit Systems and Serbia\u2019s state-owned arms producer Yugoimport SDPR. Vu\u010di\u0107 outlined plans to employ around 100 people and supply advanced equipment to Serbia\u2019s military and the armed forces of other countries.<\/p>\n
He described the drones as capable of flying into buildings and pursuing targets. According to Clash Report, he said they \u201cgo through windows and chase the opponent.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Vu\u010di\u0107 announced the opening in an Instagram post on Thursday. He said the need to protect confidential production processes prevented him from inviting the press.<\/p>\n
The president also outlined ambitions to expand production with Israel, announcing plans for at least three additional factories with Israeli partners elsewhere in Serbia.<\/p>\n
The opening followed Vu\u010di\u0107\u2019s announcement in April of joint drone production with Israel, aimed at strengthening Serbia\u2019s defenses and expanding arms exports.<\/p>\n
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The partnership built on earlier Serbian purchases of Israeli military equipment. According to Reuters, Serbia bought Elbit\u2019s PULS artillery systems and Hermes drones for $335 million in early 2025, followed by roughly $1.6 billion in purchases of long-range missiles, drones and electronic warfare equipment that August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Serbian President Aleksandar Vu\u010di\u0107 inaugurated a factory to assemble Israeli-designed combat drones, expanding defense cooperation with Israel and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":620484,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":["post-620483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=620483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/620484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}