May 16 (SeeNews) - Bulgaria's government said on Wednesday it decided to ask parliament to approve the expenses related to the planned acquisition of a total of 16 fighter jets in two stages and 150 armoured vehicles.
The first stage of the project for the purchase of fighter jets envisages the acquisition of no less than eight aircraft for a total of some 1.8 billion levs ($1.1 billion/ 920.3 million euro), the government said in a statement.
The estimated value of the 150 combat vehicles is 1.46 billion levs, according to the statement.
(1 euro = 1.95583 levs)