US and Bulgaria Air Forces to Hold Joint Drills at Graf Ignatievo Air Base

Politics | June 6, 2008, Friday // 00:00
US and Bulgaria Air Forces to Hold Joint Drills at Graf Ignatievo Air Base: US and Bulgaria Air Forces to Hold Joint Drills at Graf Ignatievo Air Base A total of 25 Bulgarian and US fighters are going to take part in the joint drills starting next week. Photo by Yuliana Nikolova (Sofia Photo Agency)

Ten F-16 fighters of the US Air Force are going to arrive at the Graf Ignatievo Air Base close to Bulgaria's second largest city of Plovdiv over the weekend for the joint drills that are to start next week.

The Bulgarian Air Force is going to take part with fifteen MiG-29 and MiG-21 fighters.

The Bulgarian and US pilots are going to have their exercises in air combat under conditions very close to the real ones.

The first flights have been scheduled for Monday. The drills are going to last for two weeks.

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