Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bulgarian Fire (cruise missile)


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The result was delete. Doczilla @SUPERHEROLOGIST 21:26, 13 July 2022 (UTC)

Bulgarian Fire (cruise missile)

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This article appears to be a hoax. The only cited sources that mention this missile are nearly exactly the same text, by the same author (I couldn't find any mention of some "Bulgarian Fire" in the "Nova Zora" article). This text is not even on the subject of this hypothetical missile, but on a flare-up between Bulgaria and Turkey in 1989, which probably is another hoax: it does not even have its own WP article, despite the fiery rhetoric supposedly employed and the scale of the resulting military build-up; it isn't even mentioned in 1989 in Bulgaria. Generally, it just looks like the product of some Bulgarian nationalist's wet dream, in which the "Bulgarian fire" is only mentioned as a detail. A Google search only returns this article, and a forum thread about this article (where they say that it's most likely some bullshit). Google news and books don't give anything either. BilletsMauves (talk) 15:49, 6 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Military and Bulgaria. Shellwood (talk) 16:47, 6 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete I'm calling bull plop on this one, the Soviets very much ran the space program in the Soviet world and the Warsaw Pact nations were subservient to them. Maybe in Albania where they told Stalin to shove it this would be a remote possibility. Zero sources and frankly this is the first I've heard of the Bulgarians having anything close to a domestic missile industry. Oaktree b (talk) 20:32, 6 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Bulgaria barely had a locomotive industry at the time, they were either built in Romania, the USSR or Czechoslovakia. The best East Germany could do was the Trabant, I'd very highly doubt the Bulgarians could develop a cruise missile without foreign assistance. Oaktree b (talk) 20:37, 6 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Albania, between its split from the Soviet Union and the fall of communism, was more Stalinist than the Soviets. It was Khrushchev that they told to shove it. Phil Bridger (talk) 15:55, 7 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete After reading through some of the sources, this appears to be the local Bulgarian name for S-300 Missile Batteries. Fbifriday (talk) 20:57, 6 July 2022 (UTC)
 * DeleteA combitation af the lack of non-Bulgarian sources and the implausibility of the article. A thermobaric warhead capable of destroying the whole of Istanbul?!?. I think not.TheLongTone (talk) 11:59, 8 July 2022 (UTC)


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