Bulgaria will receive the first eight of the contracted sixteen F-16 Block 70 aircraft next year, caretaker Defence Minister Atanas Zapryanov announced in Dolna Mitropolia. Two aircraft will arrive at the end of March and the remaining six at the end of..
For the first time, Bulgaria will allow Turkish fighter jets to fly into the Bulgarian airspace . The government approved a memorandum of understanding between Bulgaria and Turkey for cross-border air policing operations. The agreement must be approved..
Bulgaria has never stated or offered to donate its MiG-29 fighter jets to Ukraine, Minister of Defense Dimitar Stoyanov said. He questioned the credibility of leaked documents and suggested that they had been redacted. Stoyanov..
Poland will supply Ukraine with an initial batch of four MiG-29 fighter jets, Polish President Andrzej Duda announced . According to him, this will happen in the next few days, and the plan is for the country to receive a total of 12 planes later. On..
The 9 March Russian missile attacks against the entire territory of Ukraine are the biggest since the beginning of 2023, leading to civilian deaths, and water, electricity and heating outages. The situation is most difficult in the regions of..
Sweden and France are the only two countries that can provide replacement fighter jets until the first eight US F-16s ordered and paid for by Bulgaria arrive in the country, military experts have concluded. The Swedish Gripen and the French Mirage..
The Ambassador of Bulgaria to the United States, Georgi Panayotov, offered congratulations and asked critical questions in the social media after the decision of Bulgaria’s National Assembly to approve the purchase of 8 more F-16 fighter aircraft...
In addition to Sweden, France has also responded positively to Bulgaria's request for fighter jets to replace MiG-29s until the arrival of the first F-16s from the US, Brigadier General Nikolai Rusev, commander of Graf Ignatievo airbase, told BNR...
By a decision of the caretaker cabinet, Bulgaria will purchase another eight F-16 fighter jets from the US. In this way the Bulgarian Air Force will have a full squadron of 16 new fighter aircraft, caretaker Defence Minister Dimitar Stoyanov said, as..
Bulgaria will negotiate with France and Sweden to use their fighter aircraft until the first US-made F-16 jets are received in 2025, Bulgarian Minister of Defense Dimitar Stoyanov said. Talks with the French delegation are..
