February 18th
The Bulgarian Army has publicly confirmed that an order for 900 Brossel TAL trucks and 300 Minerva M20 off-road cars was made in late 1935, and deliveries have already begun.
February 19th
The Bulgarian Navy, in company with two Turkish destroyers, makes its scheduled port call at Aden. On February 23rd, the fleet will arrive in Doha, where it will stay for five days before steaming to Jubail, Saudi Arabia.
28 February
The Bulgarian Navy arrives at Jubail.
March 1
Bulgarian firearms designer Ilia Radichkov has presented a new semiautomatic rifle for review by Army officials. The new design, dubbed the Samo-Tovarene Pushka Radichkov 36 or STPR-36 (Self-loading Rifle, Radichkov, year 1936) is a dramatically different design than Radichkov's earlier "Voyvoda" SLR, demonstrated last year for the Army as well as possible foreign clients.
Radichkov has spent a great deal of time in Switzerland over the past four months, working with the designers at Schweizerische Industrie-Gesellschaft. The Swiss influence shows in several design cues shared between the intial STPR-36 design and the K-31 Schmidt Ruben rifle, including a similar stock, sights, trigger, and bayonet.
March 21
The Bulgarian Army has announced that it will be tentatively purchasing two thousand STPR-36 rifles to be manufactured in Switzerland and exported via J.P. Sauer & Sohn. The rifles will be used for field testing by the infantry. Half of the production will be chambered for 8mm Mauser (7.92x57mm), while the other half will be chambered for a narrowed-down 6.5x55mm round, which the Army reportedly favors due to lighter recoil and slightly better ballistics.
March 23
The 4th Torpedo Boat Division has returned from its cruise to the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea. Naval officials pronounced the exercise to be quite satisfactory, having proceeded without major incident.