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- 60,000 rounds for AA weapons;
- 5,100 rockets for multiple rocket launchers and self-guided rockets.
So far Operation Spider has used up 756 tons of fuel over and above routine consumption
(581 tons of D-2 and 175 tons of motor petrol), and 9 tons of lubricants. (...)
Th e SVK fuel reserves have practically hit rock bottom. (...)
Th e troops of the Autonomous Province of Western Bosnia (Fikret Abdić’s followers)
were delivered 7,260 infantry weapons. (...)
Munitions must be procured for completing the operation if the ARBiH 5 th Corps is to
be defi nitively defeated in the fi eld within two months:
- infantry weapons, 9,055,314 rounds;
- fi eld guns and howitzers, 36,059 shells;
- tanks and self-propelled artillery, 7,191 shells;
- rounds for AA weapons, 164,022;
- rockets, 275.
Th e total cost (basic materiel, munitions, fuel and lubricants) so far amounts to 28.6
million dinars; if the operation is completed in two months, the additional cost will be
26 million ND.(...)
Th e total outstanding debt to the army suppliers exceeds 4.7 million dinars. Th is indicates
a very marked lack of liquid funds which creates additional problems because some
companies have already announced they would discontinue supply because of unpaid
bills.
Professional soldiers have not yet received their pay for November; the sum required is
1,750,000 dinars, with a very low point value (average pay 181 dinars). Compensations
have not yet been paid either to reservists and conscripts in military service; the necessary
amount is 3,137,305 dinars (average 94 dinars for conscripts and 20 dinars for soldiers),
bringing up the total to 4,887,306 dinars.
Moreover, and that is a separate problem, one-off cash payments cannot be paid in
cases of death or physical injury. Th is would require 140,000 dinars. Th e response of the
families of the people killed or disabled is extremely unfavourable.
Out of the total amount allocated from the General Staff budget (32,095,689 dinars),
59.68% was spent on personal and 40.32% on material expenditure. Average monthly
allocations amounted to 2.6 million dinars or 66.87 dinars a month per soldier. Material
expenditure per soldier for the entire period from 1 January to 12 December 1994
amounts to 376.14 dinars. (...)
Let me note that, in the case of total aggression on the RSK, the VSK lacks the required
munitions, fuel, clothing, footwear and food reserves. (...)
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Original, typewritten, Cyrillic script
HR-HMDCDR, 2, box 371
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