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Bulgaria: workers on strike against the lack of armed forces modernization

Sofia, Bulgaria - A protest against Ministry of Defence as it has not started the Mi-17, Mi-24 and Mig-29's update yet

Bulgarian Government had scheduled the resort to updates and upgrades for part of its combat aircraft fleet, within the modernization process of its own armed forces after joining NATO. The vehicles involved should have been in particular the Mil Mi-17 Hip and the Mi-24 Hind helicopters but also the Mig-29 Fulcrum light fighters. This, as Bulgarian workers in the defence industry hoped, should have...

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Rome, Italy, 05/19/2005 16:23
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