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Bulgaria’s First MMPV 90 Corvette Begins Sea Trials
The lead ship of the two 2,300 ton MMPV 90 corvettes for the Bulgarian Navy, a design by the German shipbuilder NVL Group and constructed
17 November 2025
The lead ship of the two 2,300 ton MMPV 90 corvettes for the Bulgarian Navy, a design by the German shipbuilder NVL Group and constructed
Bulgarian shipbuilder MTG Dolphin launched “Smeli” (Brave), the second multipurpose modular patrol vessel (MMPV) for the Bulgarian Navy.
The first of two MMPV 90 corvettes for the Bulgarian Navy was launched at the MTG Dolphin Shipyard in Varna.
German shipbuilder NVL Group laid the keel of the first of two corvettes for the Bulgarian Navy in Varna, Bulgaria on June 17, 2022.
Germany’s NVL Group, formerly Lürssen Defence, and its local shipyard partner MTG Dolphin, on December 3rd joined representatives of the contracting authority to launch construction of the first of two Multipurpose Modular Patrol Vessels (MMPV) for the Bulgarian Navy in Varna, Bulgaria.
Saab will provide and integrate the combat system for the Bulgarian Navy’s new Multipurpose Modular Patrol Vessels, MMPV….
The NATO Communications and Information (NCI) Agency has begun work on a project to upgrade several of Bulgaria’s air defence radars, aircraft and naval vessels to the new NATO Combat Identification System, the NCI communication team said on March 17.
The Bulgarian Navy received an additional Airbus Helicopter AS365N3 + Dauphin II (tail number 905) naval helicopter on December 6, 2019, at the Chaika airfield in Varna. This unit was procured as a replacement of the AS565MB Panther that crashed in 2017.
The head of the Bulgarian Ministry of Defence (MoD) alerts that the Navy’s modernization efforts might get side-lined due to costly acquisition of new, multirole fighter jets from USA.
The Bulgarian Ministry of Defence informed that three companies decided to make a bid in the ongoing tender for new modular patrol vessels. The preferred bidder should be announced this summer.
