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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.
Romania: Trainer 25 Retired in 1930 1924 Potez XV: France: Reconnaissance/bomber 120 Retired in 1939 1924 Morane-Saulnier 35: France/Romania: Trainer 42 Retired in 1935 1925 Blériot-SPAD S.61: France: Fighter 100 Retired in 1935 1926 Fokker D.XI: Netherlands: Fighter 49 Retired in 1938 1926 Rabo: Romania: Trainer 1 Retired in 1930 1927 Caudron ...
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 IAR 37 prototype was flown for the first time in 1937 to meet a requirement for a tactical bombing and reconnaissance aircraft. The IAR 37 was an unequal-span single bay biplane with a fixed tailwheel landing gear and powered by a licensed copy of the Gnome-Rhône Mistral Major radial engine called the IAR K14-II C32 with 870 HP.
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 ...
The IAR.79 was a cantilever low-wing monoplane bimotor, with a retractable taildragger undercarriage.The fuselage of the IAR.79 was made of a welded tubular steel frame and covered with duralumin in the forward section, duralumin and plywood on the upper fuselage surface, and fabric on all other surfaces [3] The wings were of all-wood construction, with the trailing edge flaps and leading edge ...