Minister of Defence in the caretaker government Georgi Panayotov denied rumours that the MiG-29 fighter aircraft are going to be grounded after the incident in the Black Sea in which a pilot was killed. During a meeting with the personnel at..
“Unfortunately biological material has been found from the MiG-29 aircraft which went missing. It will be handed over for DNA analysis, ” Chief of Defence Admiral Emil Eftimov stated at a press conference in Varna. The search operation for the..
The search for the missing MiG-29 fighter jet and pilot Valentin Terziev continues. The operation covers an area of 20 nautical miles in the Black Sea, where the international military exercise "Shabla-2021" was held. Whatever happened, it was..
There are little hopes of finding the pilot of the Bulgarian jet that disappeared from the radars during a military exercise over the Black Sea near Shabla, Prime Minister Stefan Yanev said at a press briefing in Varna, BNR reporters informed ...
“The purchase of the F-16 fighter aircraft has nothing to do with the MiG-29s and they will remain in service in the Bulgarian army until 2030,” said Minister of Defence Krasimir Karakachanov for the Russian TASS news agency. "Yes, they..
The government has allocated more than 8 million euros to replace the engines of eight MiG-29 jet fighters of the Bulgarian Air Force and extend their life span until the order for delivery of the new US F-16 fighter jets is completed. This creates the..
“As cabinet minister I am a lobbyist for Bulgarian taxpayers; for spending their money on something worthy”, Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Krasimir Karakachanov told bTV channel today. He pointed out that the Air Force needs reliable..
It is unacceptable and unprofitable not to buy new jet fighters and spend the money on maintenance of current combat aviation. In this way Bulgarian President Rumen Radev replied to the minister of defense who said he was looking for options to..
Defence Minister Krasimir Karakachanov has announced that he discussed, with the management of the Russian MiG corporation, different options for its experts to make an estimate of the cost of possible repairs to the 15 MiG-29 fighters owned by the..
The prosecutor’s office is filing a second charge against outgoing Defence Minister Nikolay Nenchev. Like the first charge – for the repair of the MiG-29 fighters – the second charge is again for malfeasance, this time in connection with a..
