250th Air Defense Missile Brigade The 250th Air Defense Missile Brigade ( ) is a joint tactical unit of Serbian Air Force and Air Defense . It consists of three rocket missile air defense battalions , three self - propelled rocket missile air defense battalions and a command company . The command of the brigade is based at " Banjica " military barracks , located in Banjica , a suburb of Belgrade . Three " Neva " battalions are deployed around Belgrade , first one at Jakovo , second one at Zuce , and another one at Batajnica Air Base , while three " Kub - M " battalions are deployed near the towns of Niš , Novi Sad and Kragujevac . The Brigade was formed during the existence of Yugoslavia , serving in the militaries of both the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia . Following the dissolution of Yugoslavia , it continued to serve in the military of Serbia . During the 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia , the Brigade shot down an F - 117 Nighthawk , believed to be the first shootdown of a stealth aircraft , and the only loss of an F - 117 in combat . History . The 250th Air Defense Missile Brigade history goes back to November 25 , 1962 , when 250th Air Defense Missile Regiment ( 250 . raketni puk PVO , 250 . rp PVO ) of JRV i PVO was established in Belgrade with the task of defending that city , which was at that time the capital of Communist - controlled Yugoslavia . Between 1962 and 1980 , the 250th Air Defense Missile Regiment was armed with S - 75 Dvina ( NATO designation : SA - 2 Guideline ) high - level air defense system and its structure was composed of four rocket and one rocket - technical battalions . In 1966 1st and 2nd Missile battalions , rocket - technical battalions and part of regiments command were sent to Soviet Union , rocket - polygon for missile shooting of PVO units " " Ashuluk " " near Astrakhan . The shooting was done on September 30 . This task was successfully accomplished . The 250th Air Defense Missile Regiment international military public represented itself in the best possible way , and in the beginning of October Regiment returned from the USSR . This was the first time that a Yugoslav People ' s Army unit went abroad for its task execution , so the preparation for shooting is dedicated to the special attention . The 250th Air Defense Missile Regiment changed its name to 250th Air Defense Missile Brigade in 1980 as a result of its expansion with four rocket and one rocket - technical battalions of the S - 125M Neva - M ( SA - 3 Goa ) medium - level air defense system . The next evolution in the structure of the 250th Air Defense Missile Brigade took place in 1992 when that unit acquired the 350th Air Defense Missile Regiment ( 350 . raketni puk PVO , 350 . rp PVO ) that regiment being armed with S - 125M Neva - M has been pulled off from Slovenia following that country declaration for independence from the rest of Yugoslavia . This change finally initiated the long - waited retirement of the Dvina rocket system from the structure of the 250th Air Defense Missile Brigade . When JNA was officially dissolved in May 1992 , the unit joined the newly formed Military of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia as part of Air Defense Corps of FRY Air Force and Air Defense . In period from 1994 to 1996 missile battalion armed with S - 75 Dvina air defense system were disband . 1999 combat experience . When Yugoslavia came under NATO attack ( named Operation Allied Force ) in 1999 , the 250th Air Defense Missile Brigade was armed only with the Neva - M medium - level air defense system . The brigade was active during 78 days of NATO attacks 24 hours per day . Its units performed 111 maneuvers , occupied 88 fire positions and relocated its equipment to more than one hundred locations . It was attacked from the air with bomb and missile strikes more than a hundred times . On March 27 , the 3rd Battery under command of Colonel Zoltán Dani shot down a stealth F - 117 Nighthawk using a modification of the Neva - M system . The Nighthawk , sporting the markings " AF 82 806 HO " crashed in the vicinity of the village of Buđanovci , near Ruma in Srem . It was believed to be the first confirmed shootdown of a stealth technology aircraft . On May 2 , a USAF F - 16CJ Fighting Falcon was shot down by the 250th Brigade in area of Novi Sad close to the village of Nakučani , near Šabac . The aircraft was flown by USAF Lt . Colonel David Goldfein , commander of the 555th Fighter Squadron . Reorganization . The last significant moment in the history of the 250th Air Defense Missile Brigade took place in October 2004 when Neva - M armed 450th Air Defense Missile Regiment ( 450 . raketni puk PVO , 450 . rp PVO ) ceased to exist after it was previously transferred from the town of Kraljevo ( where it was deployed for 12 years after being pulled out of Macedonia in 1992 ) in the Belgrade area where it was integrated into the structure of the 250th Air Defense Missile Brigade . The recent integration of all Serbian Army Kub - M systems within the 250th Air Defense Missile Brigade marked the end of the existence of three other Serbian air defense units : the 230th Self - Propelled Air Defense Missile Regiment ( 230 . samohodni raketni puk protivvazduhoplovne odbrane , 230 . srp PVO ) based in the town of Niš , the 240th Self - Propelled Air Defense Missile Regiment ( 240 . srp PVO ) based in the town of Novi Sad and the 310th Self - Propelled Air Defense Missile Regimen ( 310 . srp PVO ) based in the town of Kragujevac . Previously , in 2004 , Serbian - Montenegrin Armed Forces disbanded another Kub - M unit - the 60th Self - Propelled Air Defense Missile Regiment ( 60 . srp PVO ) based in the town of Danilovgrad and responsible for the defense of Montenegrin capital Podgorica . Tasks . 250th Air Defence Missile Brigade units perform the following tasks : Equipment . The main equipment of a brigade consists of Soviet - made surface - to - air missile systems S - 125M1T " Neva " and 2K12 " Kub - M " and supporting equipment , as surveillance and surveillance - acquisition radars P - 12 and P - 18 for " Neva " , reconnaissance - radar station P - 40 with reconnaissance - aviation radar 1RL - 128D - 1 and PRV - 16B altitude assessment radar for " Kub " . In addition the units are armed with 9K32 " Strela - 2 " man - portable , shoulder - fired , low - altitude surface - to - air missile systems ( MANPAD ) . The Neva systems have been modernized to S - 125M1T standard with an upgraded digital radar receiver DP / P - 12 which enables operation from a location 500m away from the radar cabin .