#Romania

Designed as a joint venture between Romania and Yugoslavia, the IAR-93 Vultur (known in Yugoslavia as the J-22 Orao) was their answer to the SEPECAT Jaguar. First taking to the skies in October of 1974, the IAR-93 was the primary strike fighter of the Yugoslav and Romanian air forces for a time, and even today is still in service with Serbia. In War Thunder, the IAR-93B is a good strike platform, but can also be a deceptively capable fighter if played correctly.

The Romanian MiG-29 Sniper was a cancelled program to upgrade Romania’s fleet of MiG-29 Fulcrum aircraft with modern Western technology. These upgrades include the addition of a digital radar warning receiver and a modernized cockpit with colored MFDs and a western-style HUD. In the skies, the Sniper performs like its Soviet, Hungarian, and German counterparts, but it has the added advantage of being equipped with more modern avionics.

The Soko J-22 Orao (Yugoslavia) and the IAR-93 Vultur (Romania) were twin-engine, subsonic ground-attack and reconnaissance aircraft. Jointly developed in the 1970s, they represented the industrial and military independence of both nations from the Soviet bloc; Yugoslavia and Romania signed an agreement to share costs and engineering under the codename “Project YuRom” (Yugoslavia-Romania) with the shared objective of creating a light tactical fighter capable of replacing Soviet ground-attack aircraft and operating from short or improvised dirt runways.