Military Technical Institute Belgrade


Military Technical Institute Belgrade is a major Serbian aircraft and weapons designer, headquartered in Belgrade, Serbia and governed by the Serbian Ministry of Defence. VTI is a top-level military scientific research institution in Serbia, dealing with research and development of new weaponry and military equipment as well as with upgrade of the inventory for all three services of the Army: Land Forces, Air Force and River flotilla.

Institute history

After the World War II, Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia had a need to independently develop military technology and reduce dependence from foreign supply with given political situation of that time and future political course. By a decision of the Secretary of Defense and a proclamation by the President of FPRY Josip Broz Tito, VTI was founded in 1948 as the Military Technical Institute of the Land Forces ) in Belgrade.
In 1973, the VTI was integrated with several smaller military research and development institutes.
In 1992 it assimilated the dissolved Aeronautical Technical Institute in Žarkovo, and minor parts of the Nautical institute from Zagreb, supposedly as an effort to reduce developing cost and maintenance. Since 1992 the Institute has changed name several times, reflecting the political changes in the country, starting with Technical institute of the Military of Yugoslavia.
Currently used name is Military technical institute Belgrade. Neither the translation of the name to other languages nor the corresponding acronym have ever been unambiguously defined; both VTI and MTI have been used in English-language documents, against the widely accepted practice not to translate such acronymes.

Today

The institute has 22 laboratories, and it is situated on 212 acres, with 177.000 square meters laboratories and office space, mostly in Bele Vode, on the premises of the former Aeronautical Technical Institute. The Institute obtained the certificates of compliance to the SRPS ISO 9001 and SRPS ISO/IEC 17025 standards.

Projects

The institute cooperates with Serbian Army, Technical Testing Center and Yugoimport SDPR in designing and testing new weapons systems.
VTI developed more than 1300 military systems and weapons. However, not all of them entered use in the Yugoslav Army.
LThe list includes weapons and systems of other companies in which VTI was partly involved in some stage of developing and those systems are given with references. Institute was in charge for domestically produced weapons systems under licence and modification and modernization of such weapons with introducing new technologies and making new materials and tools for production. There are several new weapons developed from licences products that surpass originals in performance. Examples of licences used for domestic new weapons is a licence for tank T-72.

Aircraft

Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGV)

Armoured Vehicles

Tanks

Field artillery

Unguided missiles

MIP 11, TV Homing Heads for Guided missiles, Laser Homing Heads for Guided missiles, System for acoustic source localization - HEMERA, inertial guidance systems for missiles, Explosive reactive armour M99, Battery command and control system for Nora B-52, M07G Mortar ballistic computer, Tank engine protection from wrong start-up, system for automatic control and jamming of mobile telephony, Radio jammers against remotely controlled improvised explosive devices, Software packages for command and control of air defense assets from the command and control centers, MOMS surveillance-sighting system

Upgrades modernization and modifications

Neva-M1T, SA-341, Upgraded Howitzer 105 mm M56/33, Upgraded Howitzer 105mm M101/33, Programs for modernization of the T-55 family of tanks,including their Chinese derivatives, as well as of the T-72 family of tanks, Upgraded BTR-50

Specialized laboratories

Institute exhibited in Partner Serbia armaments fairs, participated in IDEX UAE fair under SDPR and organized OTEX scientific-technical gathering.

Subdivisions

Making of technical documentation, films and books represents an important part of VTI as publisher, it represents institute output and quantifier of more than sixty years involvement in R&D missions. The Institute possesses technical documentation for over 1300 items of weaponry and defense equipment developed through institute history that are introduced in service in the armed forces. This documentation being intellectual property of MoD, it has an outstanding value and use for future projects.

Media

Robot Milos in action - story about development and use, presented by official Serbia RTS state defense TV channel "Dozvolite" -