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Nomenclature

·         Mobilization Base – structure with command, some personnel and stored hardware, waiting for reservists if necessary.

·         Reserve Territorial Regimental Commands - similar structure with main mission protection of borders with non-belligerent states in wartime.        

Land Forces Chief Headquarters – Sofia

Direct Reporting Units

 

55th Engineer-Sapper Brigade (Detachment 28880) – Belene

76th Artillery Brigade (Detachment 34560) – Kabile

Tochka (SS-21 Scarab) ballistic missiles and BM-21 Grad MLRS

62nd Communication Brigade (Detachment 28860) – Gorna Malina

1st Armored Rekon Regiment (Detachment 28610) – Svoboda

38th NBC Protection Regiment (Detachment 42600) – Musachevo

65th Engineer Regiment (Detachment 36790) - Nova Zagora

59th NBC Protection Regiment (Detachment 22790) – Gorna Oryahovitza

78th Roads & Bridges Building Regiment – Stara Zagora

 

91st Engineer Regiment – Plovdiv

24th Air Defense Mobilization Base (Detachment 36790) – Nova Zagora

National Guards Unit (Detachment 54800) – Sofia

Ceremonial duties

 

Operative Forces Command HQ Plovdiv

 

HQ unit (Detachment 22100) - Plovdiv

 

2nd “Tunjanska” Light Infantry Brigade[1] (Detachment 48430) - Stara Zagora

5th “Shiptchenska” Mechanized Brigade (Detachment 22160) – Kazanlak

9th “Gornobanska” Mechanized[2] Brigade (Detachment 34340) – Sofia

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[1] Here “Light” means that unlike the mechanized brigades it is armed with wheeled vehicles mainly. 2nd Mechanized Battalion reports to Multinational Peacekeeping Forces of South-Eastern Europe (MPFSEE, aka Balkan Brigade)

[2] Previously armored.

 

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