Defense industry of Bulgaria

[1] Despite having local arms factories, until 1944 Bulgaria relied mostly on imports to equip its military.

Nevertheless, the Bulgarian defence industry was capable of producing training and light attack aircraft, such as the DAR-10 and Laz-7.

After the installment of a Communist government the same year, the country started a process of massive industrialization, but continued to import equipment.

annually, trade partners being mostly Egypt, Algeria, Angola, North Korea, Libya, Syria, Iraq, Cuba and Vietnam.

After the loss of Warsaw Pact and secondary markets, surplus weapons, as well as newly manufactured items, were illicitly exported to a variety of countries and rebel groups across Africa and Asia.