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VILNIUS, (BM) - Lithuania wants NATO to reframe its mission of protecting the Baltic airspace with more of a combat punch in mind, as nations in the region consider their defensive posture toward Russia, learned BulgarianMilitary.com, quoting Defense News. Leaders from the southernmost Baltic country previously told alliance officials that they…

PANAGYURISHTE, (BM) – Your briefly report on September 30 in last twelve hours from BulgarianMilitary.com: Revolutionary Guards commander: Iran has encircled Israel from all sides An Iranian Revolutionary Guards top commander threatened Israel, warning against an Israeli attack on Iran, Radio Farda reported. "If Israel makes a strategic…

MOSCOW, (BM) - Gen. Joseph Dunford, the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, admitted that NATO’s military advantage over Russia had eroded in past years, learned BulgarianMilitary.com, quoting the Newsweek magazine and TASS. Read more: The U.S. and NATO Improve Intelligence Sharing to Weaken Russian Influence "Russia is a competitor…

WASHINGTON, (BM) - The U.S. should step up its distribution of intelligence with all NATO members to weaken Russian influence attempts and to help unify the alliance, in the event Russia targeted an attack against a NATO ally, a new report says. “Intelligence-sharing could be particularly critical in the early phases of a conflict with Russia,…

PANAGYURISHTE, (BM) – Your briefly report on August 27 in last twelve hours from BulgarianMilitary.com: Russia’s Bastion coastal defense systems wipe out enemy warships in Baltic drills The combat teams of the Baltic Fleet’s Bastion coastal defense missile systems practiced striking enemy surface ships in drills on the Baltic coast of…

PANAGYURISHTE, (BM) – Your briefly report on August 13 in last twelve hours from BulgarianMilitary.com: Russian jets force NATO’s F-18 away from Shoigu’s plane over Baltic Sea NATO’s F-18 jet tried to approach the plane of Russia’s Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu over the international waters of the Baltic Sea only to be forced away by…

PANAGYURISHTE, (BM) – Your briefly report on August 9 in last twelve hours from BulgarianMilitary.com: Trump plays ‘troops withdrawal’ card against Germany The Trump administration has suggested on Friday that it might withdraw U.S. troops stationed in Germany unless Berlin increases its defense spending, Anadolu Agency reported. …

BRUSSELS, (BM) - Mr. Stoltenberg explained that the INF Treaty had come to an end due to Russia's deployment of the SSC-8 missile system, which is nuclear-capable, mobile, hard to detect, and lowers the threshold for the use of nuclear weapons in armed conflict, learned BulgarianMilitary.com. Read more: NATO’s Maritime Exercise, Breeze 2019,…

BERLIN, (BM) - Rheinmetall is taking on a key role in equipping the NATO spearhead Very High Joint Readiness Task Force 2023 (VJTF 2023), which will be furnished by the German Bundeswehr, learned BulgarianMilitary.com, according Rheinmetall statement. Contracts have now been awarded to a consortium for the “System Panzergrenadier VJTF 2023”…

VARBA, (BM) - NATO's maritime exercise, Breeze 2019, is underway in Bulgaria, BulgarianMilitary.com reports, quoting Novinite.com. Commodore Josee Kurtz from Canada, in command of the naval exercise, told reporters Wednesday in the port city of Varna that they are in the Black Sea to be with their partners and allies. "Russia also has a…

ASPEN, (BM) - NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on Wednesday sought to downplay the disagreement between Turkey and NATO over Ankara’s decision to purchase a Russian-made missile defense system, insisting that the fracture does not suggest Turkey is turning away from the west and towards Russia, learned BulgarianMilitary.com, quoting Defense…

LONDON, (BM) - More than 45 international air chiefs and military commanders from 39 countries and NATO will be among 550 delegates at the largest ever gathering for the Chief of the Air Staff’s Air & Space Power Conference (ASPC 2019) in London on 17-18 July, learned BulgarianMilitary.com, according Royal Air Force statement. Chief of the…

SOFIA, (BM) - According NATO`s report five European countries (Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Turkey) stored 150 U.S. nuclear bombs in Europe, learned Bulgarianmilitary.com, quoting NOVA TV and according a publicly available report by NATO. Read more: A Polish General Threatened Russia with a Nuclear Strike Quoting the same…

PANAGYURISHTE, (BM) – Your briefly report on July 15 in last twelve hours from BulgarianMilitary.com: Landmine kills 11 pilgrims in southern Afghanistan At least 11 pilgrims including seven children were killed and on Monday when their vehicle set off a landmine in southern Afghanistan, Reuters reported. The blast happened in the Khakrez…

PANAGYURISHTE, (BM) – Your briefly report on July 12 in last twelve hours from BulgarianMilitary.com: TV: IAEA finds traces of radioactive material at Iran site flagged by Netanyahu Inspectors from the UN’s nuclear agency have found traces of radioactive material at a building in Tehran that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu identified last…

PANAGYURISHTE, (BM) – Your briefly report on July 10 in last twelve hours from BulgarianMilitary.com: Pakistan says India-made anti-tank mine found in Nullah Dek An India-made anti-tank mine was recovered from Nullah Dek near Kartarpur corridor in Pakistan's Punjab province, India Today reported. According to District Civil Defence…

SOFIA, (BM) - The Bulgarian Military District Prosecutors' Office is investigating the current and former heads of the Defence Information Service at the Ministry of Defence - General Plamen Angelov and General Svetoslav Daskalov, for unauthorized grant of access to classified information. Read more: Bulgarian Servicemen Participate in the…

PANAGYURISHTE, (BM) - Your briefly report on July 05 in last eight hours from BulgarianMilitary.com No breakthrough with Russia on INF treaty dispute - NATO's Stoltenberg NATO and Russia did not make significant progress on saving the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) in talks at the alliance headquarters on Friday, Reuters…

MOSCOW, ANKARA, BRUSSELS, (BM) - Your briefly report on July 04 in last eight hours from BulgarianMilitary.com news team: S-400, Pantsyr air defense crews strike enemy cruise missiles in Crimea drills The crews of S-400 long- and medium-range surface-to-air missile systems and Pantsyr medium-range missile/gun launchers practiced…

PANAGYURISHTE, (BM) - Your briefly report on July 04 in last 12 hours from BulgarianMilitary.com news team: Mass grave containing 200 bodies uncovered in Raqqa As many as 200 corpses, including of some people believed to have been killed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL or ISIS) group, have been found in a mass grave near…