Bulgaria to acquire new fighter jets

[Bugarash 1893]

Some real movment on this field after more than 20 years of downfall.

Bulgarian Govt Moves to Formalize Fighter Jet Purchase



Bulgaria's Defense Minister Anyu Angelov plans to table to the Cabinet by the end of October 2012 the long-anticipated proposal for the purchase of new fighter jets for the Bulgarian Air Force.

This has been made clear by Gen. Angelov who explained that the Cabinet's decision will formalize the plan of the Defense Ministry for the purchase of new fighter jets for the Bulgarian Air Force.

Thus, Angelov will receive a mandate for formal talks with potential suppliers, the Bulgarian Defense Ministry having already had communication with them.

After the Borisov Cabinet declared ambitious plans in 2009-2010, in 2011, Bulgaria's purchase of new jet fighters for its outdated air force became ever more remote, after in October 2012 Bulgaria's Defense Ministry admitted it will not be starting the tender in 2012, as it planned.

The delay was caused by the fact that instead of receiving a budget equaling 1.5% of the GDP in 2012, the Defense Ministry's total funding will amount to only 1.2% of the GDP.

In September 2011, in a "butter before guns" statement, Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov said the country was in no hurry to pick a brand of strategic fighter jets and to make a purchase.

According to the investment plan of the Bulgarian Defense Ministry made public in April 2011, it will pour 1 B EUR in armament purchases and military modernization projects by 2020. About half of this sum was expected to go for the purchase of new multi-purpose fighter jets for the Bulgarian Air Force.

Bulgaria will most likely choose from among the fighter jets of Swedish company Saab called Gripen, US-made F-16, and Eurofighter Typhoon, after in the spring of 2011, the Defense Ministry surveyed USA, France, Germany, and Sweden for their offers. Bulgaria will probably buy 8 new fighter jets, with 2015, the indicative delivery date, likely to be pushed back by 1-2 years.

[Bugarash 1893]

Btw let me add that this purchase would reestablish Bulgaria on a even stronger base as the country with the second strongest air force and army on the balkans.

[Onur]

Btw let me add that this purchase would reestablish Bulgaria on a even stronger base as the country with the second strongest air force and army on the balkans.

OK but what for?

Which neighboring country might be the target of Bulgaria`s air force? Bulgaria can never match with Turkey, this is already out of question. Even Greeks gone bust while trying to do that with 100s of billions Euros loans. You cannot match with Greece either. So, Bulgaria might attack Romania, Serbia or Macedonia with these war planes?

Imo, it`s a waste of Bulgarian taxpayers money.

[Anusiya]

Btw let me add that this purchase would reestablish Bulgaria on a even stronger base as the country with the second strongest air force and army on the balkans.

cewl.

[Mary]

OK but what for?

Which neighboring country might be the target of Bulgaria`s air force? Bulgaria can never match with Turkey, this is already out of question. Even Greeks gone bust while trying to do that with 100s of billions Euros loans. You cannot match with Greece either. So, Bulgaria might attack Romania, Serbia or Macedonia with these war planes?

Imo, it`s a waste of Bulgarian taxpayers money.

They're required to have it as part of NATO. If they don't have their own planes, they have to pay other countries for patrolling their airspace. That's what the Baltic countries do (or did).

[morski]

OK but what for?

Which neighboring country might be the target of Bulgaria`s air force? Bulgaria can never match with Turkey, this is already out of question. Even Greeks gone bust while trying to do that with 100s of billions Euros loans. You cannot match with Greece either. So, Bulgaria might attack Romania, Serbia or Macedonia with these war planes?

Imo, it`s a waste of Bulgarian taxpayers money.

It's for defence purposes, not attack.

[Anglojew]

Which neighboring country might be the target of Bulgaria`s air force? Bulgaria can never match with Turkey, this is already out of question. Even Greeks gone bust while trying to do that with 100s of billions Euros loans

A Greco-Bulgarian-Cypriot-Georgian-Serbian-Armenian-Israeli-Kurdish alliance would defeat Turkey. The ethnic Turkish birthdate is far lower than Kurdish so I predict turkey will lose its European lands and its illegal occupations of Kurdistan and Northern Cyprus and be a far reduced territory this century. For 500 years Turkey has alienated it's neighbors committing genocides against Greeks, Armenians and Assyrian Christians as well as brutally occupying the Balkans etc and these countries will eventually right these past wrongs and liberate Kurdistan and Cyprus from the Turkish yoke.

[Trun]

So, Bulgaria might attack Romania, Serbia or Macedonia with these war planes?

Do you Turks think only for attack? Unlike you, we think for defence, and it is very useful, having some aggressive neighbors.

[mysticism]

^That's good, the way some act here you'd think they want to carve out pieces of all their neighbors.

[morski]

^That's good, the way some act here you'd think they want to carve out pieces of all their neighbors.

Typical Serb behaviour.