On Monday, March 9, 2026, the Serbian defense portal Tango Six was the first to report and publish a photograph of a Serbian MiG-29SM multirole aircraft carrying two Chinese CM-400AKG quasi-ballistic air-to-surface missiles with a range of at least 250 km.
Photo: Tango Six
According to the Serbian portal, the declaration of the purchase, though not explicitly, had already been made on February 16 this year, when the Chief of the General Staff of the Serbian Armed Forces, Gen. Milan Mojsilović, told the media that there are plans to acquire another squadron of multirole aircraft (in addition to the 12 Dassault Rafale ordered on August 29, 2024), as well as basic trainer aircraft and transport aircraft.
He also mentioned the planned procurement of long-range surface-to-air missiles, guided artillery ammunition, and long-range strike drones. He added that Serbia had already obtained 300-km-range ammunition for the PULS multiple launch rocket systems, Hermes 900 Kochav unmanned aerial vehicles, and RM-70 Vampire rocket launchers. Speaking about the PULS system, the Serbian general noted that in the aviation segment there is ammunition with a similar maximum range.
The Serbian Air Force and Air Defence (Ratno vazduhoplovstvo i protivvazduhoplovna odbrana Vojske Srbije, RV i PVO) operates 15 aircraft from the MiG-29 family, including four MiG-29SM donated by Belarus on April 24 and May 17, 2021, four MiG-29A and two MiG-29UB donated by Russia in October 2017, and three MiG-29B and two MiG-29UB inherited from Yugoslavia. These are complemented by 17 SOKO J-22 Orao light attack aircraft.
Given this configuration, only four MiG-29SM aircraft are likely capable of carrying the new Chinese missiles.
CM-400AKG
The CM-400 family includes quasi-ballistic (aeroballistic) missiles designed for both anti-ship and anti-radiation missions, developed and produced by the Chinese state-owned corporation CASIC (China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation). In the export variant, the range is estimated at 250 km, while the Chinese domestic version may reach up to 400 km. The missile can also attack land targets, which is why it is often described as multirole munition.
The CM-400AKG was unveiled during the 9th China International Aviation & Aerospace Exhibition (Airshow China) in Zhuhai near Hong Kong, held November 13–18, 2012. The first operator became Pakistan, which integrated the missiles with its CAC/PAC FC-1/JF-17 Block III light multirole fighters (a contract for 60 missiles was signed in 2017 and 2018).
The missile is 5.1 m long, 400 mm in diameter, and has a launch weight of 910 kg. It carries either a 150-kg high-explosive warhead or a 200-kg penetrating warhead, and can reach speeds of up to Mach 4.5 in the terminal phase of flight.
This variant is equipped with a passive radar seeker, enabling it to detect and destroy sources of radar emissions, which makes it effective for suppression of enemy air defenses (SEAD) missions.
Guidance is carried out using satellite navigation signals (GNSS) supported by inertial navigation, while in the terminal phase the missile uses an infrared/optoelectronic sensor (or a passive radar seeker in the anti-radiation version), providing an accuracy of 5–10 meters.
Following last year’s armed conflict between India and Pakistan, representatives of the Pakistan Air Force revealed that the CM-400AKG version delivered to Pakistan has a range of 400 km, a speed of Mach 5, and a passive anti-radiation mode. Pakistan claims that such a missile destroyed the radar of an Indian S-400 Triumf battery near Adampur in Punjab, although India has not confirmed this claim. It remains unclear whether Serbia received missiles with similar parameters, as Pakistan is considered a closer ally of China.
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