Against the background of the unprovoked war in Ukraine, we learn that Bulgaria is a very strong NATO ally. We continue to work together on many topics related to our common security, the United States Ambassador to Bulgaria Herro Mustafa said in an..
Two Bulgarian scientific institutions - the Institute "Big Data for the benefit of the intelligent society" (GATE) at Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski ”and the Institute of Defense “Prof. Tsvetan Lazarov” have been selected as NATO test centres for..
The Royal Netherlands Air Force has redeployed four F-35s to Graf Ignatievo Air Base in Bulgaria. The fighter jets will perform enhanced airspace protection tasks jointly with Bulgarian Air Force until 31 May this year. The Air Forces of..
From April 5 to 7, military equipment will move through the territory of Bulgaria . Convoys will transit from Greece to Romania. Railway military convoys will follow the same route. Helicopter flights from the US Army in Europe from Romania to the Novo..
I expect the Bulgarian government to consider all possible options for the purchase of 8 more planes for our fighter aviation , President Rumen Radev commented on the US approval for Sofia to buy 8 more F-16s, adding them to the 8 already paid for...
NATO has announced that four new multinational battle groups have reached their first level of combat readiness in Slovakia, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria, reports BGNES news agency. After the extraordinary NATO summit at the end of March ,..
“We will protect Bulgaria. And defend every inch of Allied territory. One for all and all for one,” NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg stated in a video address to the 47th National Assembly of the Bulgarian Parliament, and PM Kiril Petkov, on..
The region is dependent on Russian gas, we discussed how to convert some of the pipelines to work with liquefied gas from Turkey and Greece , we discussed Corridor 8, coordination on migrants, defence strategies and food security, Prime Minister..
Bulgaria's MiG-29 aircraft do not have a Friend or Foe identification system and are operationally incompatible with NATO aircraft. Allied forces aircraft and systems would consider them as targets , explained to BNR prof. Todor Tagarev, former..
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky again demanded a fraction of the military hardware from NATO nations on Saturday. Ukraine needed just 1% of NATO's aircraft and 1% of its tanks and would not ask for more, he said. "That is what our partners..
