The parade with members of the armed forces marching through Vukovarska Street will start at 1800 hrs, after President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic, who is the armed forces' supreme commander, issues the order for the parade to start.
A four-kilometre-long column of 3,000 servicewomen and servicemen will proceed along Vukovarska Street, from Drziceva Street towards Savska Street.
The parade will include 300 army vehicles plus 30 aircraft.
A three-volley salute is to be fired to mark the very start of the military part of the event, and the salute is to be followed by flights of three MIG-21 aircraft over the venue.
An infantry march will proceed then.
Among the greatest attractions of the parade are two PzH 2000 howitzers, each weighing 50 tonnes, which will be displayed on the day of the parade. The two state-of-the-art pieces of artillery have a range of between 30 and 80 kilometres and can fire 10-13 rounds per minute. The parade will also feature Patria armoured vehicles, MRAP (mine-resistant ambush protected) vehicles, Humvees, M-84 tanks, BVP M-80 infantry fighting vehicles, Iveco trucks, mortars, medical vehicles, M-ATV off-road fighting vehicles, a mobile field kitchen, various vessels, motorcycles and other vehicles and equipment.
An air show by fighter jets will close the military segment of the event with Wings of Storm, a Croatian air force aerobatic display team, taking part in that programme.
The official anthem for this occasion will be performed by a 13-year-old girl from Rijeka, Mia Negovetic, and the Croatian Navy “Sveti Juraj” acappella band.
Ceremonies marking Victory Day, observed on 5 August, will be held on Wednesday in Knin. That southern Croatian town, which used to be a stronghold of Serb insurgents, was liberated on 5 August 1995, and after Croatia's troops entered Knin, a 20-metre-long Croatian flag was displayed at noon that day on the fortress overlooking the area.
Operation Storm was launched at 5am on August 4, 1995, and within the following 84 hours 10,400 square kilometres or 18.4 per cent of Croatia's territory was liberated. About 200,000 soldiers and police took part in the biggest operation of the Homeland Defence War, 174 of whom were killed and over 1,400 wounded. Operation Storm marked the end of the war in Croatia, created conditions for the peaceful reintegration of the eastern Danube River region, spared the northwestern Bosnian town of Bihac from the fate of Srebrenica, and enabled the return of refugees and displaced persons.