Self propelled artillery 2S1 Karamfil (Russian name Gvozdika, Гвоздика, carnation) Novo Selo Training Area, June 2019.
The 2S1 has a 122mm howitzer. It is based on a stretched MTLB hull.
Bulgar music video of 2S1s doing their thing, 12JUL2017:
Column of BTR-60PBs on the Novo Selo Training Area, 13JUN2019. Notice that the exhaust system on the Bulgarian BTR-60s is different from the original BTR-60 design.
Rear view of two BTR-60PBs (Brone-TransporteR, Броне-TранспортеP, Armored Transporter) on Novo Selo Training Area, 12JUN2019.
BTR-60PB, Novo Selo Training Area, 11JUN2019.
BTR-60 tags along with a Bradley.
2K12 Kub (NATO reporting name SA-6 Gainful) Bulgarian National Air Defense Training Center, June 2019.
The 2K12 missiles are facing over the rear of the hull, June 2019.
2K12 launching a medium range radar guided anti-aircraft missile.
Video by Laurens Vermeire, 2K12 live fire, 18JUL2017:
NATO video, 2K12 live fire, 18JUL2017:
Ohio National Guard Sergeant First Class, of the 174th Air Defense Artillery Brigade, walks past a 9K33 (NATO reporting name SA-8 Gecko), June 2019.
MTLB during NATO Saber Guardian/Strike Back, 05JUN2019.
Notice the use of rubber mats to protect the asphalt road.
U.S. Marine Corps video by Corporal Kelly L. Street, MTLB mortar carriers (incorrectly identified by the USMC as BMP-23!), 13JUL2016:
Launching a round from a MTLB mortar carrier, 13JUL2016.
Bulgar MTLBu leads a MTLB, 25JUN2015.
Bulgar infantry dismount their BMP-1, Anevo Training Area, 25APR 2018.
“Mount up!”
BMP-1 (Boyevaya Mashina Pekhoty, Боевая Машина Пехоты, Combat Vehicle Infantry) during combined arms live fire exercise titled Peace Sentinel near the village of Koren, 19JUL2017.
Bulgar BMP-1s play follow the leader to a USMC M1A1, 28OCT2015.
Bulgar BMP-1s ‘invade’ Hohenfels, Germany, 25OCT2012.
Bulgarian 2S1 based BMP-23, Hohenfels, Germany, February 2020.
Bulgar designed and built BMP-23s ‘invade’ Hohenfels, Germany, 25JAN2020.
BMP-23, live-fire exercise during Platinum Lion at Novo Selo Training Area, 17JUL2019. In the above photo try to locate the World War Two era T-34 based SU-85/SU-100, being used as a gunnery range target.
It is armed with a 23-mm gun, 9K111 Fagot (Фагот, bassoon) anti-tank guided missile launchers (NATO reporting name AT-4 Spigot), and 9K32 Strela-2 shoulder launched anti-aircraft missiles (NATO reporting name SA-7 Grail).
Bulgarian BMP-23s, October 2009. The BMP-23 is not based on the BMP-1 or BMP-2, but on the 2S1 hull.
Video of BMP-23s during a public demonstration of force, 08OCT2009:
Soviet era Armor used by NATO: BULGARIAN T-72
Soviet era Armor used by NATO:
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Soviet era Tanks used by NATO: