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After the first phase of the war with Germany a number of these were lost and 01.01.1945 the Bulgarian army had 8 555 light machine guns (5 340 8mm Madsen, Zbrojovka and Steyr MG-30 and 3 215 7.92mm MG-34) and 4 605 heavy machine guns (3 505 8mm Maxims and Schwarzlose and 1 012 7.92mm MG-34). [ 40 ]
The government of the Kingdom of Bulgaria under Prime Minister Georgi Kyoseivanov declared a position of neutrality upon the outbreak of World War II. Bulgaria was determined to observe it until the end of the war; but it hoped for bloodless territorial gains in order to recover the territories lost in the Second Balkan War and World War I, as well as gain other lands with a significant ...
B. Bombing of Sofia in World War II. Bulgarian 1st Occupation Corps. Bulgarian resistance movement during World War II.
In limited use with the 101st Alpine Regiment. [citation needed] AR-M4SF. Bulgaria. Assault rifle. 5.56×45mm NATO. 7.62×39mm. Carbine rifle made by Arsenal Jsco and used by the Joint Special Operations Command and the Bulgarian Military Police. Produced locally. [citation needed] AKM.
Bulgarian partisans enter Sofia on 9 September. Bulgaria was in a precarious situation, still in the sphere of Nazi Germany's influence (as a former member of the Axis powers, with German troops in the country despite the declared Bulgarian neutrality 15 days earlier), but under threat of war with the leading military power of that time, the Soviet Union (the USSR had declared war on the ...
The five tank brigades (9th Tank Brigade at Gorna Banya in Sofia, in the 1st Army, 5th and 11th in the 2nd Army and the 13th Tank Brigade at Sliven, [21] and the 24th Tank Brigade at Aytos [22] in the 3rd Army) included three Tank Battalions, with T-72 main battle tanks or T-55; a motor Rifle Battalion, with BMP-23 infantry fighting vehicles or ...
Total: 1,342,612. The Balkans campaign of World War II began with the Italian invasion of Greece on 28 October 1940. In the early months of 1941, Italy's offensive had stalled and a Greek counter-offensive pushed into Albania. Germany sought to aid Italy by deploying troops to Romania and Bulgaria and attacking Greece from the east.
World War II military equipment of Bulgaria includes all military equipment designed, built, or operated in Bulgaria during the World War II era (approximately 1920 to 1945). Subcategories This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.