The Yugoslav Navy (Serbo-Croatian: Југословенска ратна морнарица, Jugoslavenska ratna mornarica, lit.

The Partisans had operated many small boats in raids harassing Italian convoys in the Adriatic Sea during World War II.

[1] The Soviets granted a license to build eleven additional Shershen units in Yugoslav shipyards developed for this purpose.

[1] Four Una-class midget submarines and four Mala-class swimmer delivery vehicles were in service in the late 1980s.

The Una-class boats carried five crewmen, eight combat swimmers, four Mala vehicles, and limpet mines.

[1] The navy operated ten Osa I-class and six Rade Končar-class missile boats.

[1] Seventeen Mirna inshore patrol boats and thirteen older Kraljevica submarine chasers also were available.

[1] The navy used amphibious landing craft in support of army operations in the area of the Danube, Sava, and Drava rivers.

Minor surface combatants operated by the navy included about 80 frigates, corvettes, submarines, minesweepers, and missile, torpedo, and patrol boats in the Adriatic Fleet.

[1] The fleet was organized into missile, torpedo, and patrol boat brigades, a submarine division, and minesweeper flotillas.

[1] Navy had a support of one antisubmarine warfare helicopter squadron based at Divulje on the Adriatic for coastal operations.

[1] After the collapse of the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro (the final dissolution of Yugoslavia), the 108-th missile brigade for coastal defense, the 88-th fleet of submarines, the hydrographic Institute of the navy in Lepetani and the naval testing center were disbanded in 2007.