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This is a list of main warships operated by the Romanian Navy during the Second World War.It includes major surface warships and submarines. Each surface warship in this list is armed with at least two main guns of a caliber greater than 4 inches (102 mm) or with torpedo tubes, and has a range of over 1,200 km (650 nautical miles).
Shoulder-fired/mounted weapons AG-9: Recoilless rifle: 73mm Romania: Romanian version of SPG-9. Capable of firing thermobaric ammunition. [31] AG-7: Rocket-propelled grenade: 40 mm Romania: Romanian version of RPG-7; standard anti-tank weapon at infantry squad level. [32] M72A5 LAW: Light rocket-propelled grenade: 66 mm Norway
List of Romanian-built warships of World War II; List of main Romanian Navy warships of World War II This page was last edited on 13 November 2020, at 12:34 (UTC ...
On the capitulation of Romania in August 1944, the German warships were ordered to leave Romanian harbours. However, when the Soviet minesweeper T-410 Vzryv, accompanied by Amiral Murgescu, was sunk by a German submarine, the Soviet Navy accused the Royal Romanian Navy of betrayal and seized all vessels using this excuse on 5 September 1944. [35]
4 China. 5 France. 6 Germany. 7 India. 8 Italy. ... Type 96 25 mm AT/AA Gun - gun used on almost all Japanese warships of World War II. Russia / Soviet Union ...
These Romanian warships had a standard displacement of 543 tons and a full load displacement of 775 tons. They measured 62 meters in length, with a beam of 8.5 meters and a draught of 2.3 meters. Armament consisted of two 88 mm guns plus one twin 37 mm and three single 20 mm anti-aircraft guns, as well as two depth charge throwers.
Built at the Galați shipyard in Romania between 1938 and 1941; initially intended only as a minelayer, but eventually she was also armed and employed as a destroyer escort Tenders Constanța Italy: Submarine tender: Cruiser-sized submarine tender, largest purpose-built Romanian warship of World War II, built in Italy and entered service in 1931
China has long sought to produce its own supersonic and eventually hypersonic anti-ship system since the 1980s. High speed missiles are seen as the most effective means of attacking modern warships. Only Russia, China, and India (BrahMos, which was co-developed with Russia) have so far successfully developed and deployed such weapons.