Serbian president confirms his country owns Chinese supersonic missiles after photo leak

‘We have a significant number of those missiles and we will have even more,’ Aleksandar Vucic said, adding they were ‘extremely effective’

Serbia’s president confirmed late on Thursday that his country possesses Chinese supersonic surface-attack cruise missiles, after photos of the weapons attached to Serbian fighter jets leaked online.

Photos, which began circulating on social media and defence blogs earlier this week, showed missiles believed to be Chinese-made CM-400AKG cruise missiles attached to Serbia’s Russian-made MiG-29 planes.

“We have a significant number of those missiles and we will have even more,” he added.

He declined to give further details but said they were “extremely expensive” and “extremely effective”.

Purported to be the export version of China’s YJ-12, experts believe the missiles can travel close to hypersonic speed.