Amidst increasing tensions with Russia and its actions in the Black Sea, Bulgaria is rapidly moving forward with modernizing its armed forces and investing in Western arms deals.
Bulgaria needs a lot of new equipment to modernize its armed forces: mainly armored vehicles, radar systems for the air force and navy, new artillery systems compatible with NATO standards, air-defense systems, and drones.
With no agreed-on military modernization framework in place, arms talks are continuing, with negotiations to acquire combat vehicles and weapons systems for navy and coast-guard ships reportedly the furthest along. The two MMPVs were purchased in 2020 when Krasimir Karakachanov from the right-wing VMRO-DPMNE was defense minister. Karakachanov opted for the ships without the missiles, so as to keep the costs down and make the deal more palatable to parliamentarians who would have to approve it.
In 2021, the Defense Ministry nixed talks with two companies over the potential purchase of ICVs -- Finnish-based Patria and General Dynamics of the United States -- saying that their offers of more than 2 billion levs were higher than the amount the National Assembly had approved. The failure to fill this need was deemed"critical" by Defense Minister Tagarev in his recent lecture at the military academy.for $1.
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