Bulgarian and US officials will visit on Thursday a disposal depot storing tonnes of obsolete munitions outside Sofia three years after it was rocked by a series of powerful explosions, shaking apartment blocks and panicking thousands.
Bulgaria's Defense Ministry is planning to assign a private company with the task of selling unneeded weapons, ammunition and specialized equipment.
Over one hundred Bulgarian rangers are being sent off Monday with an official ceremony to Bosnia and Herzegovina on a peacekeeping mission.
The Bulgarian Ministry of Defense has published a public procurement for some EUR 5 M for security guard services at its sites across the country.
The manufacturing of small arms and light weapons as well as of civilian products will continue to dominate Bulgaria's military-industrial complex, according to a report of Business Monitor International (BMI).
Bulgaria is opening a one-stage tender to sell the 35.8% minority stake it still holds in one of the largest military factories in the country, Arsenal Kazanlak, which produces arms suitable for use by NATO.
Bulgarian Defense Minister Anyu Angelov and Gen. James Jones, US President Barack Obama's former national security advisor met Thursday to discuss key aspects of national and international security.
An expert group of the Bulgarian Defense and Foreign Affairs Ministries is working on a strategy for the withdrawal of the country's rangers from Afghanistan.
The Bulgaria-bound detonators that have been stolen from a train in Romania are parts of shells that were supposed to be repaired in a Bulgarian plant, the CEO of the receiving Bulgarian company Sage Consultants AD told Novinite.com (Sofia News Agency).
A private Bulgarian company, not the Bulgarian Army, was supposed to receive the four containers with detonators bound for Bulgaria that have been stolen from a train in Romania, according to the Bulgarian Defense Ministry.
Bulgaria's government has not stopped poring over a possible strategy to pull out its forces from Afghanistan, or to transform its mission there, according to Defense Minister Anyu Angelov.
A company of 165 rangers, including 13 women, is departing Thursday to Kabul, Afghanistan, to take part in the NATO ISAF mission.
Bulgaria will send on Thursday its 21st contingent to Afghanistan.
Only about 450 soldiers in the Bulgarian Army are from Bulgaria's major ethnic minorities, according to data announced by Defense Minister Anyu Angelov.
The US missile defense shield will cover the entire territory of Europe, including all Bulgaria, according to US Undersecretary of State Ellen Tauscher.
As the Bulgarian army is seeking to fill 72 job positions in its guardsmen unit, it considers appointing its first female "guardsmen".
Bulgaria and Israel are going to hammer our agreements for close cooperation in defense, their Prime Ministers Boyko Borisov and Benjamin Netanyahu announced after the historic joint sitting of their Cabinets in Sofia.
Greece has supported Bulgaria's aspiration to become the permanent seat of the South-Eastern Europe Brigade after 2015.
NATO is ready to cooperate with Russia on the missile shield issue but there is much to be resolved, Alliance Secretary-General Anders Fog Rasmussen has stated at a NATO-Russia Council meeting, where the two sides again failed to agree on a joint missile
The talks for a joint missile defense system in Europe between NATO and Russia have reached a dead end, according to Dmitry Rogozin, Russia's Ambassador to NATO.
Bulgaria needs to spend more on defense, accourding to President Georgi Parvanov, who was in the Black Sea city of Varna Thursday, the seat of the Bulgarian Navy.
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