Bulgaria’s Minister of Defense Krasimir Karakachanov is to meet on Sunday with the commanders of Graf Ignatievo air base. Minister Karakachanov is to get acquainted with the state of the fighter jets and the aviation equipment used by the country’s air..
The Chief of Defense of the Republic of Bulgaria Lieutenant General Andrey Botsev took part at the 11 th annual meeting of Balkan Chiefs of Defense and General Staff held in Athens, the Bulgarian Ministry of Defense announced. The conference aims at..
Bulgaria’s President Rumen Radev and European Commissioner for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs Elżbieta Bieńkowska discussed in Sofia possibilities to boost cooperation between the EU countries in the IT field, defense and space..
The new fence on the Bulgaria-Turkey border will be built in short terms. Hopefully, it will happen by the end of 2016, Bulgaria’s outgoing Minister of Defense Nikolay Nenchev said on Sunday. Nikolay Nenchev assured that he would assist Bulgaria’s..
In 2015 the exports of Bulgaria’s defense industry saw a 50% increase year on year, Bulgaria’s Minister of Defense Nikolay Nenchev announced during the official opening of the 12 th International Defense Equipment Exhibition HEMUS 2016 in the city of..
The Bulgarian army must be modernized and fortunately that process has already started, the newly-appointed Director of the Defense Institute of the Bulgarian Armed Forces Professor Todor Tagarev told the Bulgarian National Radio on Sunday ahead of the..
Bulgaria’s Ministry of Defense informed that it launched a public tender for the supply of ten engines for MIG-29 fighter jets. The engines can be either new or repaired. They will be used to extend the life-span of five fighter jets, Sega daily..
Bulgaria’s cabinet approved at its regular weekly sitting three projects to the tune of EUR 500 million which concern the purchase of new fighter jects, two patrol ships and extension of the lifespan of the MIG-29 fighter jets. The operational..
