Country profile 路 public, aggregate figures
Bulgaria
Bulgaria fields 36,950 active soldiers and 3,000 reservists, with 215 tanks and 19 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
36,950
Reservists
3,000
Tanks
215
Armoured vehicles
500est.
Artillery
200est.
Combat aircraft
19
Helicopters
30est.
Defence budget
$2.8bn
GDP
$131bn
Population
6.4m
From free public sources: Wikipedia's country lists (citing the IISS Military Balance), the CIA World Factbook and the World Bank. Figures marked est. have no free source and are model estimates; every value's source is 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.