Over the past year the Bulgarian defense industry sent abroad military equipment worth more than € 1, 2 billion., According to the Ministry of Economy of the Republic.
This amount is an absolute record arms exports in the history of Bulgaria.
The Ministry does not result in detailed showgirl supplies for the reporting period (2017 year), but there is no doubt, that the main export destinations remain the same, and one of them - selling armed groups of the Syrian opposition under the mediation of the United States and Saudi Arabia. Another major consumer of Bulgarian ammunition is the Government of Iraq.
As the blog bmpd, the outbreak of war in Syria, the Bulgarian arms business is growing by leaps and bounds. Over recent years, orders from the US and the Saudis for weapons and Soviet-style ammunition only increased.
AT 2013 the volume of the Bulgarian defense exports amounted to € 235 million., at 2014 year - 404 million., in the 2015th - 643 million., in the 2012th - 1,015 billion., and 2017 - more than € 1,2 billion.
AT 2016 , the main beneficiaries were Iraq, Saudi Arabia and the United States. Officially, the Middle East sent weapons worth € 536 million. but given, that all weapons, acquired by the US and EU countries, also appeared in the Middle East, the role of Bulgaria in the illegal armed formations look very impressive.
AT 2017 year supply standards in the region increased further.
So, Last year Bulgaria said deliveries to the USA 2663 machine guns 7,62 mm, 131 heavy machine gun, 578 machines, 1816 rifles, more 300 grenade ATGL-H (Bulgarian copy of the SPG-9) and 30 starting 9P135M installations portable anti-tank complex "Fagot" / "Competition".
