{"id":243377,"date":"2026-03-13T13:51:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T09:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=243377"},"modified":"2026-03-13T14:10:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T10:10:13","slug":"nato-partner-serbia-purchases-chinese-ballistic-missiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/243377\/","title":{"rendered":"NATO partner Serbia purchases Chinese ballistic missiles"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Serbia recently purchased Chinese CM-400AKG air-to-surface ballistic missiles for its air force, becoming the weapon&rsquo;s first European operator, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/nato-partner-serbia-admits-buying-chinese-missiles-after-photos-leaked-2026-03-13\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reuters<\/a> writes, citing Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We have a &#8203;significant number of those missiles, and we will have even more,&rdquo; &#8203;Vucic said.<\/p>\n<p>The publication states that Serbia is striving to balance its partnership &zwnj;with NATO and aspirations to join the European Union with its centuries-old religious, ethnic and political alliance with Russia and strategic ties with China.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Serbia recently purchased Chinese CM-400AKG air-to-surface ballistic missiles for its air force, becoming the weapon&rsquo;s first European operator, Reuters writes, citing Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic. &ldquo;We have a &#8203;significant number of those missiles, and we will have even more,&rdquo; &#8203;Vucic said. The publication states that Serbia is striving to balance its partnership &zwnj;with NATO and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":243367,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,43,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-world","category-other-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":243378,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243377\/revisions\/243378"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}