Country profile 路 public, aggregate figures
Bulgaria
Bulgaria fields 27,000 active soldiers and 3,000 reservists, with 90 tanks and 15 combat aircraft. It shares a land border with 5 countries. Below is how the model plays out a war on each of those borders.
Bulgaria in numbers
Active soldiers
27,000
Reservists
3,000
Tanks
90
Armoured vehicles
500
Artillery
200
Combat aircraft
15
Helicopters
30
Defence budget
$2.0bn
GDP
$100bn
Population
6.5m
Compiled from public sources and pinned to a versioned snapshot. Values marked as estimates are labelled as such on the data sources page. Not operational information.
Simulated wars involving Bulgaria
Bulgaria vs North Macedonia
Ceasefire, front frozen after 288 days
Bulgaria vs Serbia
Defender holds after 190 days
Greece vs Bulgaria
Ceasefire, front frozen after 103 days
NATO's eastern flank vs Russia
Side A achieves its objectives after 53 days
Romania vs Bulgaria
Ceasefire, front frozen after 346 days
Turkey vs Bulgaria
Ceasefire, front frozen after 152 days
Neighbours
Build your own scenario with Bulgaria
Pick who it fights, who joins in, the season and how much of the reserve is called up, then watch the front move day by day.
Model-generated simulation on public, country-level data. Not a prediction. No operational, classified or real-time information is used.