Technical Test Centre

Technical Test Centre is a military research institution of Serbian Armed Forces, authorized for conducting final, verification and homologation tests of armament and military equipment, as well as for providing metrology services for the whole system of defence.

Technical Test Centre
- Armament Department
- Electronics Department
- Vehicles and River Means Department
- Metrology Department
- Aircraft Department
- Flight Test Centre
- Nikinci Testing Ground

Technical Test Centre is directly subordinated to the Equipment and Development Directorate (J-5) of Serbian Armed Forces General Staff.

The Centre undertakes its activities at three different locations. The headquarters and majority of laboratories are located in Belgrade, in 445 Vojvode Stepe Street. Testing Ground is located in a village Nikinci, whereas Flight Test Centre and Aircraft Department are located at "Colonel-Pilot Milenko Pavlović" Military Airfield

The organization of Technical Test Centre is adjusted to the completion of tasks in specific areas of expertise. Sectors and centres represent a base of the Centre. The sectors are organized into departments, i.e. laboratories. In order to conduct testing of complex systems, working teams are being established and they comprise different subject matter experts.

Technical Test Centre consists of HQ Platoon, Armaments Department, Electronics Department, Department for Vehicles and Naval Assets, Metrology Department, Aircraft Department, Flight Test Centre and Testing Ground "Nikinci".

Scientific Work

In the field of scientific work, Technical Test Centre members manage or participate in different research projects, work on their own professional specialization, and give their contribution to the improvement of the whole scientific work within the Centre.

In accordance with the modern requirements of equipping Serbian Armed Forces with armaments and military equipment (both as a result of its own development and from the foreign market of ready-made products) and modernization of the existing systems, Technical Test Centre acquires new methods for testing and evaluating armaments and military equipment by using contemporary knowledge and testing and evaluation equipment.

Services provided by Technical Test Centre

Technical Test Centre provides numerous services both for the Ministry of Defence and Serbian Armed Forces and users that are not a part of the Defence System. Services provided by the Technical Test Centre are as follows:

Testing armaments and military equipment,
Testing, inspection, certification of technical products, as well as calibration and inspection of measuring equipment,
Services performed upon authorization given by relevant ministries and agencies,
Issuing certificates and statements for EMC.

Background of TTC

Development and research in the field of armaments and military equipment have had a long tradition in the Serbian military. The first Air Force Test Group was established on December 14, 1933.

After the Second World War, the Central Military Technical Laboratory was established in 1945. Air Force Test Centre was established in the same year, and it continued the work of the Air Force Test Group.

Training ground Nikinci – the central testing ground for the military industry – was established in 1951.

Technical Test Centre was established on March 22, 1973, by transforming seven military technical institutes of the Army. Parts of former institutes for testing and assessing the quality of armaments and military equipment became a part of a new Technical Test Centre, together with the testing grounds "Nikinci" and "Prevlaka". Testing ground "Prevlaka" was moved to other location in 1992, and it became a testing ground "Luštica".

Naval Test Centre was established in 1990 in a naval base "Lora" in Split. Up to 1991, it had worked closely with the Naval Institute in Zagreb. After the collapse of the former state, Naval Test Centre was moved to Tivat, and its headquarters was in Naval Overhaul Institute "Sava Kovačević", where it continued its work as a testing body authorized by the Navy Sector of Yugoslav Armed Forces General Staff.

Due to its achieved results, Technical Test Centre entered the Register of Military Scientific Institutions on April 27, 1983.

In June 1998, the Federal Government reached a decision on the approval of the Technical Test Centre Statute, which made Technical Test Centre a military scientific institution in the form of a research centre.

Upon Minster of Defence’s Decree Air Force Test Centre and Naval Test Centre have been integrated into Technical Test Centre since August 1, 2006. According to the new organization of Technical Test Centre, testing ground "Luštica" is not its part any longer.