Yesterday, just as expected and reported, the last submarine was decommissioned from Bulgarian Navy. The decommissioning of Romeo (Project 633) class BNS Slava means the termination of Bulgaria’s submarine force after 94 years. The Romeo class, derived from the German Type XXI submarine, by Soviet Union in 1950. BNS Slava was given to Bulgarian Navy in 1986. She is well beyond her useful... Continue Reading →
The Bulgarian contribution to NATO's Operation Unified Protector, the frigate F-41 BS Drazki returned home from Libya. She has left Bulgaria on 28 April 2010 and served 37 days in Mediterranean, patrolling the seas of the coast of Libya. As of the first week of May she was not given the task to inspect cargo ships or fishing boats. Later she has interrogated 46... Continue Reading →
>U-402 Konstantin Olshansky. NATO photo.Exactly at midnight of 23th March 2011, the Ukrainian Ropucha 1 class landing ship U-402 Konstantin Olshansky Sevastopol to conduct Non-Combatant Evacuation of Ukranian citizens trapped in Libya.She has passed through Bosphorus on 24 March 2011 early in the morning and left Turkish territorial waters late at night.According to Ukrainian Goverment Portal the ship can accommodated 500 to 600... Continue Reading →
>Bulgarian defense ministry allowed women to serve in submarine force but the Bulgarian parliament slammed the door as it decided to decommission the country’s only submarine.The Romeo class (Project 633) class submarine, Slava was inoperational since 2000 anyway, and as reported earlier, she has been slated for decommissioning.Bulgaria's defence ministry on Thursday lifted a ban on... Continue Reading →
>The Russian naval website rusnavy.com reports that Russian Black Sea Fleet will receive six Admiral Gorshkov class (Project 22350) frigates, six Lada (Project 677) diesel submarines, two Ivan Gren class (Project 11711) large landing ships, four ships of other projects, modernized bombers Su-24M instead of obsolete versions, and ASW aircrafts, Il-38 instead of amphibious aircrafts... Continue Reading →
>Bulgarian Defense Minister Anyu Angelov, stated that the life of the only operational Bulgarian submarine Slava has expired, and it will probably be retired in the coming months.“Calling it a submarine force is too strong because any such unit must include at least two vessels. As you know, we have only one submarine. Its life... Continue Reading →
>The Bulgarian news portal novinite.com reported that Bulgaria was planning to but two second hand minehunters from Netherlands in 2014.Currently Bulgarian Navy has one Tripartite class minehunter 32 BNS Tsibar in active service. The ship originally destined for Belgian Navy was decommissioned in 2007 after 20 years of service. She was re-activated and transferred to... Continue Reading →
>According to the Blackseafor commander, the On-Call Naval Force of Black Sea navies BlackSeaFor has left the Bulgarian port of Varna to conduct its next stage of exercises. The April 2010 activation of BlackSeafor is scheduled to end on 27th April and is commanded by Bulgarian Navy.As reported earlier, the first stage of the exercises... Continue Reading →
>Bulgaria is not sending a warship to Somalia. And this time this decisions seems to be definitive. So end of the stroy. According to Bulgarian news portal novinite.com, Bulgaria Defense Minister Nikolay Mladenov has stated that the 41 Drazki” (Intrepid) frigate will not be sent to the Gulf of Aden to participate in operations against... Continue Reading →
>I guess, I was a little bit zealous yesterday when I wrote about Bulgarian contribution to the fight against piracy.At the moment is not clear whether a Bulgarian warship will be sent to the Gulf of Aden or not. Apparently the intent is here but the funding is yet to be found. According to Rear... Continue Reading →
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