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Empty Handed:
Just read about Yugoslavia's atomic bomb bid over on Secret Projects, here:

http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,20049.0.html

In OTL the project was scrapped in the early 60s and looked at again in the mid-70s.

I found it fascinating and definitely food for thought. Any speculation on what would have happened had the project come to fruition and an air-deliverable weapon become available circa the mid-60s? What would replace the F-84s? Does relations with the Soviet Union stay frosty or thaw? Would we have seen Yugoslav F-101Cs, B-66s, maybe F-105Bs or is it more Yak-28s and Su-17s?

What about the 70s timeframe? Buccaneers, Corsair IIs, Etendards, Fencers?

Loads of options!

Litvyak:
Two possibilities - either shunned by both sides our courted even harder by both sides.

If 'A', more reliance on domestic development and cooperation with other non-aligned states, and eventually, maybe a nuclear-capable Orao, or a joint YU-SA effort to develop a new fighter, be that Novi Avion or Carver...

If 'B', things could get really interesting! Imagine some Su-24s escorted by F-101s, or some A-10s with MiG-29s for cover? :D Okay, maybe this is implausible but it could be fun...

... all that said I think the likeliest result would've been essentially the same as India's path.

.....aaaaand, when the Secession Wars begin, they're a much nastier thing, and those lovely cities like Zagreb, Sarajevo, Belgrade, Osijek, Banja Luka and whatnot all get hit with tacticals, and the entire ex-YU ends up becoming like a live action game of Twilight: 2000 on a grand scale... :(

Alvis 3.1:
Wow, that's....terrifying. Considering what lay in the future of Yugoslavia, we're most likely all better off that they never built them. Certainly the Yugoslavians are better off.
I can'tr even begin to imagine what sort of effect their own bomb would have made on East-West stability. Made things more or less stable? I'm of the mind that it would have made things less, as it would have fed the Russians mindset of encirclement. Yoiks.


Alvis 3.1

tsrjoe:
hmm, interesting stuff,  Yugoslav F.84 or MiG.21 with underwing nuke ? (both types being carriage capable) certainly be a subtle whiff on the table (kindv like SAAF. Buccaneer, with 'Red Beard like' shape, and Swedish Lansen or A.36 with 'B.43/57 like' shape !)

i wonder if any drawings will appear of a nominal casing shape for an airdrop weapon as have other states proposed nuclear 'shapes' ?

 8) joe

GTX_Admin:

--- Quote from: Alvis 3.1 on July 28, 2013, 12:32:26 AM ---Wow, that's....terrifying. Considering what lay in the future of Yugoslavia, we're most likely all better off that they never built them. Certainly the Yugoslavians are better off.

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Agreed.

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