Military Equipment of Bulgaria - Armoured Vehicles

Armoured Vehicles

Name Origin Type Number Photo Notes
Armoured fighting vehicles
T-72M2 Soviet Union Main battle tank 80 350 in reserve
BMP-23/30 Bulgaria IFV 114 Locally designed Infantry Fighting Vehicle with a 23-mm automatic cannon, 9K111 Fagot anti-tank guided missile launchers with a total of six missiles and an SA-7 Grail MANPADS
BMP-1P Soviet Union IFV 100 Soviet tracked Infantry Fighting Vehicle with a 73-mm smoothbore gun
BTR-60PB Soviet Union APC 681 About 30 of them are modernized to the BTR-60PB-MD1 standards
MT-LB / MT-LBu Bulgaria APC 512 Light multi-purpose vehicle; mostly used as an Armoured Personnel Carrier (APC)
BRDM-2 Soviet Union Scout car 24 Armoured scout car
9P148 "Konkurs" Soviet Union Anti-tank vehicle 24 Anti-tank vehicle based around the BRDM-2 with five AT-5 Spandrel missiles
Plasan Sand Cat Israel Patrol vehicle 25 4x4 armoured patrol vehicle used by the Military Police service
M1117 United States Patrol vehicle 7 4x4 multi-purpose armoured patrol vehicle; 6 deployed in Afghanistan
HMMWV United States Multi-purpose vehicle 82 50 deployed in Afghanistan
Mercedes-Benz G-Class Germany Armoured jeep 600 4x4 armoured and non-armoured jeep; partially armed with locally produced PKM machine guns

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