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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.
Fighter: 50: 2 x 13.2 mm FN Browning heavy machine guns 4 x FN Browning machine guns IAR 80C: Fighter: 50: 2 x 20 mm Ikaria autocannons 4 x FN Browning machine guns IAR 81: Fighter and dive bomber: 50: 6 x FN Browning machine guns (4 for 10 of them) 2 x 13.2 mm FN Browning heavy machine gun (10 of them) 1 x 225 bomb 2 x 50 kg bombs IAR 81A ...
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).
1st Air Corps (Romania) 48th Fighter Squadron (Romania) 53rd Fighter Squadron "Warhawks" 1942 medium tank (Romania) A. ... Romanian Navy during World War II;
The IAR 80 was a Romanian World War II low-wing monoplane, all-metal monocoque fighter and ground-attack aircraft.When it first flew, in 1939, it was comparable to contemporary designs being deployed by the airforces of the most advanced military powers such as the Hawker Hurricane and Bf 109E. [2]
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]
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.
Naval battles involving Romania (1 C, 18 P) Pages in category "History of the Romanian Naval Forces" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.