IAR-93 Origins - Espionage or Local Development.

[tomcat1974]

Hi I was browsing on some Mil Photo forums and I saw SoKo J-22 Orao.
Folowing that topic someone started divagating on something interesting..

Some extracts:

Flight testing

The Yugoslav prototype 25002 made its first flight on November 1976 from Batajnica airfield near Belgrade, with Major Vladislav Slavujevic at the controls.

The third aircraft, numbered 003, a pre-production two-seater version, made it's first flight on July 4, 1977. But was lost almost a year later due to tail flutter problems.

The story goes that romanian inteligence in britain or germany not sure,...got somehow incomplete blueprints of some british designed plane(i think it was lower part of the plain where the landing gear is etc,...) and then romania offered yugoslavia to try to produce plain at 50/50 costs but it wasnt posible because they were missing many details so at the end they(yugos) bought plan from the brits and built upper part of the plane on it themselfes.



Mytzu what is the story behind it?
Despite the serbs presenting the plane with air-ground missiles , some sources said that was only planned, but never developed.

Any opinions about it?

[Iamandi]

If it is true, maybe the blue prints were from planes/planned planes for what resulted in SEPECAT Jaguar. Even above one of the japanese planes is this suspicion. I will post some details later.

Iama