site.btaNo-Fly, No-Sail Zone Declared in Shabla Area for Air Force Aerial Target Exercise, August 27-31

111 MILITARY - FIRING PRACTICE - NO FLY, NO SAIL ZONE

No-Fly, No-Sail Zone Declared in Shabla Area
for Air Force Aerial Target Exercise,
August 27-31


Sofia, August 27 (BTA) - Bulgarian Air Force aircraft started Monday practising firing at aerial targets at the Antiaircraft Artillery Range near the Black Sea town of Shabla. The training, led by the head of the Graf Ignatievo air base, Brigadier General Dimiter Petrov, continues until August 31, the Defence Ministry said in a press release on Monday.

Some of the participating aircraft take off and land at the Graf Ignatievo air base, near the southern city of Plovdiv, and others, from the airstrip in Balchik, near Shabla.

A temporary no-fly and no-sail zone is in force in the area of Shabla between 8:30 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. from August 27 through 31, 2018.

During that period, the seaspace enclosed between Cape Kartalborun, Cape Kaliakra and a line running at 55 nautical miles (100 km) parallel to the coastline and the airspace at an altitude of up to 20,000 m above the sea surface will be closed to civil navigation and aviation.

For the time of the exercise, warplanes and helicopters will be overflying the settlements east of Dobrich, some at a low altitude. RY/ZH//