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PANAGYURISHTE, (BM) – Your briefly report on December 6 in last twelve hours from BulgarianMilitary.com: Su-34 fighter-bombers hold highly maneuverable aerial battle in Urals drills The crews of Su-34 fighter-bombers sharpened their skills of conducting a dogfight single-handedly and as part of an air group and practiced interaction with…

LONDON, (BM) - Qatar's deal with the United Kingdom in 2018 to procure Eurofighter Typhoon multirole fighters and BAE Systems Hawk advanced jet trainers is the largest deal to have been supported through UK export credit, it has been revealed, learned BulgarianMilitary.com, quoting Jane`s. Read more: RAF Lossiemouth Has Received a Fourth…

PAMAGYURISHTE, (BGM) - A militant attacked a security forces patrol in Lebanon’s northern city of Tripoli on Monday night, killing two police officers and two army soldiers, Reuters reported. Two security sources told Reuters the police and army had encircled the gunman in a building after he threw a bomb at security forces in a government…

DOHA, Qatar (BulgarianMilitary.com) - The U.S. State Department approved the sale of 24 AH-64E Apache attack helicopters to Qatar at an estimated cost of $3 billion, learned BulgarianMilitary.com, quoting Defense Post. Qatar has requested to purchase 24 AH-64E Apache Guardian helicopters, eight AN/APG-78 Fire Control Radars (FCR) with Radar…

AL UDEID AIR BASE, DOHA, Qatar (BulgarianMilitary.com) - B-52 bombers ordered by the White House to deploy to the Persian Gulf to counter unspecified threats from Iran have arrived at a major American air base in Qatar, learned BulgarianMilitary.com according to information from U.S. Air force and New York Post. Read more: B-52 in Gulf…

TRIPOLI, Libya (BulgarianMilitary.com) - Qatari Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdul Rahman Al Thani called for the effective disarming of Khalifa Haftar, leader of Libyan National Army, and the withdrawal of his troops from its recently-held areas, according La Repubblica newspaper, learned BulgarianMilitary.com, quoting Memo. The…

TRIESTE, Italy (BulgarianMilitary.com) – At the beginning of last week Fincantieri announced that the keel laying ceremony of the first Doha-class corvette, which was ordered to the company by the Qatari Defence Ministry within the framework of the national naval acquisition program, took place at Fincantieri’s shipyard in Muggiano (La Spezia) on…

TRIESTE, Italy (BulgarianMilitary.com), 2 August 2018, Editor: Galina Zdravkova, Photo credit: Fincantieri/The official ceremony for the start of building of the first of the Doha class corvettes for the Qatari Navy On 30th July 2018, the Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri announced that the company has started building the first of the Doha class…

ANKARA (Turkey), April 25, 2018, Author: Galina Zdravkova (Bm), Photo: defensenews.com Altay tanks manufactured by the privately owned Turkish-Qatari company BMC will be delivered to Turkey under a multibillion-dollar contract, reported Defense News. The awarding of the contract involving serial production of the Turkish first indigenous,…

PARIS (France), April 3, 2018, Author: Galina Zdravkova (Bm), Photo: © Airbus Helicopters The newly acquired twenty-eight NH90 helicopters of Qatar will be equipped with RTM322 engines, said Safran on March 28. Safran Helicopter Engines that is the world's leading manufacturer of helicopter engines with address  of the Head Office in Paris…

PARIS (France), March 30, 2018, Author: Galina Zdravkova (Bm), Photo: Dassault Qatar down paid for twelve more Dassault Rafale jet fighters, reported Defense News. “The exercise of the option for the purchase of 12 additional Rafale fighters for Qatar comes into effect today,” Dassault announced on 27th March. The total number of the…

PARIS (France), March 15, 2018, Author: Galina Zdravkova (Bm), Photo by Yoan Valat/AFP via Getty Images Florence Parly, the Minister of the Armed Forces of France, welcomed the signed with Qatar contract for the purchase of 28 (twenty-eight) NH90 medium twin-engine multirole military helicopters from NHIndustries (NHI) in Aix-en-Provence,…

Just a day after giving a simulation flight for Bulgarian President Rumen Radev, Emmanuel Macron signed a strategic agreement for billions USD with the Emir Of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani. The agreement is commercial and concerns the sale of over 490 French land machines for the Qatar`s Land Army and Dessault Rafale fighter jets for the…