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“We take very seriously the matter what we will do, so that the Bulgarian Air Force to have planes to fulfill its missions”, Mladenov said. Photo by BGNES
Bulgaria needs new multirole jet fighters, and this will be a priority of the Defense Ministry.
Defense Minister, Nikolay Mladenov, announced this Thursday during his visit in the “Graf Ignatievo” airbase.
He expressed his surprise that none of the previous governments had not started procedures for buying new jet fighters, when they new that the flight capability of the ones the army had would expire in 2012-2014.
“We take very seriously the matter what we will do, so that the Bulgarian Air Force to have planes to fulfill its missions”, Mladenov said.
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