After it lost its lucrative markets in the Arab world in the beginning of the 1990s, the Bulgarian arms industry had to rely on unknown foreign brokers and murky export deals with wrong end-users.
Pošto je izgubila lukrativna tržišta u arapskom svetu početkom 90-ih godina, bugarska industrija oružja morala je da se oslanja na nepoznate inostrane posrednike i mutne izvozne poslove, pa je oružje često zavrsavalo u pogrešnim rukama.