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All of the aircraft listed below were completed before the end of World War II. Prototypes are omitted from the list. Unless specified otherwise, all aircraft machine guns have the caliber of 7.92 mm. All of the data is sourced from: [1] JRS-79B
These were followed by native-built aircraft and imports from Italy (flying boats) and Germany (floatplanes), resulting, by the time of the Second World War, in a sizable and active force of over 70 watercraft. Currently the Romanian Naval Aviation consists of Grupul 256 Elicoptere (256th Helicopter Group) equipped with IAR 330 Naval helicopters.
The naval war in the Black Sea commenced with the Raid on Constanța on 26 June 1941, the only encounter between major warships during the entire campaign. [1] The Romanian flotilla leader Mărăști and the destroyer Regina Maria together with the minelayer Amiral Murgescu defended the port against the Soviet cruiser Voroshilov and the Leningrad-class destroyer leaders Kharkov and Moskva.
Alexandru Ioan Cuza, the founder of the Romanian Navy. The Romanian Navy was founded in 1860 as a river flotilla on the Danube. After the unification of Wallachia and Moldavia, Alexandru Ioan Cuza, the ruling Domnitor of the Romanian Principalities, decided on 22 October 1860 by order no. 173 to unify the navies into a single flotilla, the Danube Flotilla Corps. [1]
The only major design changes were to substitute Italian diesel engines (OM BXD 150 CV (148 hp) six-cylinder types as used in the Littorina diesel trains) for the three German Deutz truck engines and to replace the German 7.5 cm deck gun with a 76 mm/40 gun. The anti-aircraft armament was usually protected with sandbags or concrete blocks.
Four vessels of the German M1940 type were acquired by the Romanian Navy in 1943. They were built locally from German materials. 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.
Anti-aircraft artillery ZU-2: 2×14.5mm anti-aircraft machine gun Romania: 60: Romanian manufactured version. There is also a 4×14.5mm version called the MR-4, [118] essentially a ZPU-4, but with a two-wheel carriage designed locally. [119] M 1980/88 2 × 30 mm anti-aircraft gun Romania: 300 [32] Gepard: Self-propelled anti-aircraft gun ...
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).