Bulgarian armed forces | Български въоръжени сили

[Cosmin]

Hind once again


Cougar in front of Kaliakra cape


I love your Cougars and their camo, which fits perfectly with that particular background.

[Ivanski]

10x, Cosmin

some new vehicles from the Daimler-Benz contract:

[JuMPer]

they better show those 13 000 units

nice, tnx

[Ivanski]

Some old and new Special forces pictures ,mostly about famous Bulgarian 68-th special forces brigade-former 68-th Airborne regiment (along with some other units - BUSOF, Black sea sharks, etc).



















From a sea training:

[Ivanski]

Some more pics of Mi14-s Haze (naval aviation). They're going to be replaced by Eurocopter Panthers.











really crazy machine

[avtomat]

Ivanski you keep browsing the airgroup2000 forum don't you . Mi-14 is really a grate piece of machinery, such a pity that the new Panthers wont match his capabilities

[Ivanski]

Yep , as for the Panthers they should operate on the new multi-role corvettes that should be build here (somewhere in time ). But the deal with the Frenchie is pretty much frozen and can hardly become a reality in the near 5 years due to the lack of funds, or to be more exact lack of thinking politicians here. So we will enjoy the Hazes for some more time anyway

[avtomat]

I also visit the airgroup2000 forum regulary since im intrested in everything about aviation. My point is that the guys there have hopes about those corvettes being constructed somewhere in the near future (and i think information posted there can be trusted), so who knows...

Originally Posted by Preslav

Ники, ти да не си не в друг часови пояс, а дневен? Утре е вторник.
Относно корветите - стискай палци, скоро ще има развитие по проекта. И може би най-накрая ще се осъществи и моето и твоето желание "Армарис" най-накрая да стъпят здраво на българска земя.

This is one of our navys' future beauties. Isn't she lovely:

[Ivanski]

She is but AFAK the situation here is one major project or another - to be specific the multi-role fighters or the corvettes in the next few years, and from what I've heard the fighters should be priority as a modernization level at least in the next 3-4 years. Anyway the military budget is very tight for 08 and 09, let's hope the serious stuff will start in 2010.

[avtomat]

Scale model of Bulgaria navys' "gowind 200" corvette (Hemus 2008):

[Делян]

are they really buying the corvette?

[Делян]

I am glad that the army is being modernized. I still remember the old Soviet piece of crap that we used to and still have. Professional army is the way to go......

[Делян]

Originally Posted by Ivanski

Slava can take the distance between Varna and Bourgas with only one refueling and two stops for repairs

a great shot from "Thracian spring 2008" BUL-US air force co-exercise in Bezmer air base.

the participants:

Is this Ogi's picture? Most of the good pictures are his!

[Ivanski]

For that particular ,I think the Americans took it, and the guys from airgroup2000 posted in the forum afterwards.

[avtomat]

Originally Posted by Делян

are they really buying the corvette?

Unfortunately not . But Armaris is the winner of the contract for building 4 multy purpose corvettes, so we hope those scale models turn into real vessel as soon as possible.
And as Ivanski wrote:

She is but AFAK the situation here is one major project or another - to be specific the multi-role fighters or the corvettes in the next few years, and from what I've heard the fighters should be priority as a modernization level at least in the next 3-4 years. Anyway the military budget is very tight for 08 and 09, let's hope the serious stuff will start in 2010.

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[Ivanski]

Since when "МВР" stands for Armed forces

edit: the new MD said yesterday at Graf Ignatievo that there is a possibility our AF to get some f16's for free in order to purchase in the near future the ultra-modern F35s which will be great, it sounds too good to be true.

[ВОДА]

It was a joke but IMO they are very well armed!

[Cosmin]

What's MBP? Bulgarian Police Special Response Unit? In Romania we have SPIR in Bucharest and DPIR at county level.

Edit: ok, I see their the Gendarmerie. What are your police special forces then?

[Ivanski]

МВР (MVR) Stands for Ministry of internal affairs.
HСБОП (NSBOP) -the other signature is for an anti organized crime unit, the other most famous special police units are the Gendarmerie, ДОТИ (DOTI) - operative technical information , СОБТ (SOBT) - anti terrorist squad, etc.
You can see pics in the police thread