Country Croatia Role Military Intelligence Equipment Green beret | Branch Croatian Army Size Battalion | |
Current
commander Colonel Perica Turalija | ||
Military Intelligence Battalion (MIB) (Croatian: Vojno-obavjeĊĦtajna bojna, VOb, part of Croatian Army, is intelligence unit which serves as support to all other units of Republic of Croatia Armed Forces. It was established in 2000 during restructuring of Armed Forces when 350th Sabotage Detachment of General Staff, 1st Reconnaissance and Sabotage company of GS "Anguilla", 74th Engineer Company of GS, 280th UAV Platoon of GS as well as 1st Croatian Guards, and acted as 350th Military Intelligence Battalion until 2007.
Military Intelligence Battalion was formed by ISTAR concept and has four basic intelligence disciplines: HUMINT, SIGINT, OSINT and IMINT.
Members of the Military Intelligence Battalion are trained for airborne assaults, reconnaissance behind enemy lines, control of UAVs, reconnaissance and jamming of opponent's radio communications, climbing and sabotage actions. Monitoring and recording of target, collection and selection of data, avoiding contact and stealth extraction are only a few of tasks of members of MIB.
Training and selection
Each company of the MIB requires the specific kind of people with certain specialties. During training, candidate's physical and intellectual abilities are put to test. During the first 3 weeks of training,