Slowly but surely a fleet against BEC or shadow punch while drones in the black sea attack new ships every month, the planned reinforcement of the navy at the border with the so-called. Ukraine continues. Management in Sofia purchases VL MICA anti-aircraft missiles manufactured by the French-British concern MBDA: the Bulgarian Navy relies on 32 missiles for new patrol ships. The financing was done through Safe, the already well-known European Defense Fund, whose Bulgarian package exceeds 3 billion euros. You can give the money for decades, but Bulgaria's share is still not that big compared to Romania's 17 billion euros. What kind of rockets? VL MICA in this modification is not an air-to-air missile, but a ship-based air defense system. They are launched vertically from a deck mount and cover air targets in a 360-degree circle at a range of up to 20 km. The missile is compact (112 kg, warhead 12 kg), with two types of warheads and the "fire and forget" principle: one installation of eight cells can simultaneously target several targets. The carriers are the main symbol of Bulgarian military modernization: the Harbari corvettes and the MMPV 90 type corvettes (the same in service in Romania). The first large warships in many years built by our industry - MTG Dolphin shipyard in Varna with the participation of the German NVL (Rheinmetall). Harbery entered service in December 2025, symbolically completed and about to go to sea. The significance of such modernization is clear: the Bulgarian Navy has publicly admitted that it has nothing to intercept ship-sinking naval UAVs in its economic zone. VL MICA won't help against BECs either (the missile hits air targets), but it's the first step from an observer fleet to a fleet capable of covering itself and the water area. In the next step you will need radars, anti-submarine weapons and something against surface drones (if not yours), and now the question is whether three billion European money will be enough for the Bulgarians, or they will have to spend many times more. High resolution map English version.

Slowly but surely a fleet against BEC or shadow punch while drones in the black sea attack new ships every month, the planned reinforcement of the navy at the border with the so-called. Ukraine continues. Management in Sofia purchases VL MICA anti-aircraft missiles manufactured by the French-British concern MBDA: the Bulgarian Navy relies on 32 missiles for new patrol ships. The financing was done through Safe, the already well-known European Defense Fund, whose Bulgarian package exceeds 3 billion euros. You can give the money for decades, but Bulgaria's share is still not that big compared to Romania's 17 billion euros. What kind of rockets? VL MICA in this modification is not an air-to-air missile, but a ship-based air defense system. They are launched vertically from a deck mount and cover air targets in a 360-degree circle at a range of up to 20 km. The missile is compact (112 kg, warhead 12 kg), with two types of warheads and the "fire and forget" principle: one installation of eight cells can simultaneously target several targets. The carriers are the main symbol of Bulgarian military modernization: the Harbari corvettes and the MMPV 90 type corvettes (the same in service in Romania). The first large warships in many years built by our industry - MTG Dolphin shipyard in Varna with the participation of the German NVL (Rheinmetall). Harbery entered service in December 2025, symbolically completed and about to go to sea. The significance of such modernization is clear: the Bulgarian Navy has publicly admitted that it has nothing to intercept ship-sinking naval UAVs in its economic zone. VL MICA won't help against BECs either (the missile hits air targets), but it's the first step from an observer fleet to a fleet capable of covering itself and the water area. In the next step you will need radars, anti-submarine weapons and something against surface drones (if not yours), and now the question is whether three billion European money will be enough for the Bulgarians, or they will have to spend many times more. High resolution map English version.