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It all started back in 1998...
... Novalogic published the F16/MIG29 arcade sim pack, which interested lot's of people from around the world willing for some exciting air actions using two excellent military jets.
Easy multiplayer interface, nice graphics at that time, low needs on pc ressources and possibility to play it with a 56k modem, the game was very popular. Servers were 24/7 crowded.
Lots of squads started to be created, and novalogic skies were in fire, burning all the time. We were lots of serbs flying scattered in different squads, but majority was part of the =RAF= Russian Air Force which was really huge, with more than 100 members then. They accepted us and treated us like real brothers. In march 1999, in the very begining of the NATO agression on the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, serbian simmers started to get all united in a squad called Yugoslav Patriotic Squadron =YUPS=.
In real life, outside of the windows of those virtual fighter pilots the real skies were burning, (average of 800 top military NATO fighters-bombers from a coalition of 19 countries ), bombing every day and night, and the yugoslav AA firing from ground trying to protect how they can their citizens...)
AA lights & fire were visible on from all sides.
Well, those girls and guys did their best in the virtual skies to revenge the motherland in their way.... when electric power & IT connections were in function.
At the end of bombings, in june 1999, lots of those peeps, stoped to play the game, and the YUPS squad stoped it activities.
But few of them, with true love for air actions remained active...
It was the time to get all those fellas united in one unique and strong serbian squad : =4c= tooSERBtooSTRONG, which was created on September 17, 1999.
The Squad was founded by Rade "=4c= Savo Srpski" Marinkovic, with the help and support of Zoran "=4c= Mad Vulture" Samardzic (aka Kabalah), Mario "=4c=Galeb", Borko "=4c= SerbsProud", Zarko "=4c= Airman" Colovic and Dragan "=4c= Conrad".
The =RAF= squad leader, Gen. Russian Wolf fully supported it and we continued to fly with them as a strong alliance.
first squad logo
We had lots of matches, scrimmages, and participated on tournaments. We were ranked first in the brother tournament organised between 4 yugoslav squads (=4c=, Serbian Eagles, Vitezovi, Yups reactivated ) and russian =RAF='s.
From arcade novalogic to realistic simulation....
The release in 2001 of the hardcore sim from Eagle Dynamic, Flanker 2, had a strong impact on few of our members, and we adopted it as part of our squad activities.
We realised how powerful that sim was, and stoped completely to play novalogic sims. Spreading squad activities... As the sky wasn't enough for us, we have spread our activities to the ground battlefields the incredible Operation Flashpoint.
=4c= tooSERBtooSTRONG =4c=
Ground Force Amblem We've played Operation Flashpoint Resistance during 2 years, from 2002 to end of 2003.
During that period we were taking part of the European Flashpoint League, and did good results.
Return to the skies...
December 2003, finally the long awaited sim LOCK ON hit the shelves.
Beautiful graphics, 8 different playable aircrafts, new members... all ingredients for a serious
new squad logo
A new squad structure has been decided, giving responsability to the right people, in order to have efficient results in all needed areas of activities.
Begining of 2004, the =4c= Academy is created to train new pilots and rookies.
Trainings are organized on a regular weekly basis (3x / week).
In 2004, we took part of the International Lock On league, and finished ranked 2nd.
Actually you will often see us in the skies of Hyper Lobby MP servers.
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