STATUS OF AIR NAVIGATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS WITH STATE AIRCRAFT IN THE REPUBLIC OF BULGARIA AND ITS NEIGHBORING COUNTRIES

Abstract

The modern development of civil aviation is closely related to the development of aviation with state
aircraft, a large part of which are used to perform military flights. The better organized the activities of state aircraft
in a country, the greater freedoms are granted to civil aircraft.
A new point is that the modern security environment is characterized by high unpredictability and increased use of
new drone technologies. In the near future, the problems caused by the need to integrate the activities of unmanned
aircraft in an airspace predominantly used by manned aircraft until now are to be solved.
Each country is free to construct the rules for this integration in its own unique way. The state aviation management
system built so far, known as state aviation, has a direct relationship with the degree of development of civil
aviation. With the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, military transport aircraft are often used to transport the sick.
The need for rapid movement of armed forces requires the granting of the corresponding freedom of movement of
military aircraft through the airspace of both its own country and neighboring countries. The relevance of the report
is determined by the fact that until now there are no known studies of the available military aviation management
systems under the conditions of freely available information resources. By comparing the status of existing aviation
management systems with state/military aircraft in the Republic of Bulgaria and in neighboring countries, new
knowledge is gained about the management and use of military aviation resources in peacetime.