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On 3 May 2011, the president of Romania Traian Băsescu announced the location for the SM-3 systems: former Air Force base Deveselu in the Olt County. [69] The system includes 3 batteries with 24 SM-3 Block I rockets, manned by approximately 200 US soldiers (with a maximum of 500) initially under Romanian Air Force overall command. [69]
The 1st Surface to Air Missiles Brigade "General Nicolae Dăscălescu" (Romanian: Brigada 1 Rachete Sol-Aer), is the main air defense unit of the Romanian Air Force. Its headquarters are located in Chitila. [1] The brigade was created on August 1, 1973, by merging the 18th and 19th Mixed Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiments.
Badge of the former 6th Special Operations Brigade. In the late 1990s, the Romanian Armed Forces considered the possibility of creating a unified special operations force. The Romanian Joint Chiefs of Staff had discussions in which they sought to decide whether to keep the existing orders of battle of elite units incorporated into each separate category of forces (ground forces, the air force ...
Romania: Fighter 1 Used for aerobatic training Retired in 1940 after an accident 1934 Consolidated Fleet 10G: US/Romania: Trainer < 430 Retired after 1948; one on display at the Military Museum in Bucharest 1934 IAR 12: Romania: Fighter 1 Retired in 1935 1934 IAR 14: Romania: Fighter 21 Retired in 1940 1934 IAR 15: Romania: Fighter 1 Crashed in ...
Romania has taken part in the War in Afghanistan since July 2002, with Romanian contingent being increased from 962 to more than 1,500 troops in 2009. [ 35 ] [ 36 ] The armed forces also took part in the War in Iraq from 2003 to August 2009, in which the losses of the Romanian contingent amounted to 3 soldiers killed and at least 11 wounded.
The Air Force branch of the Royal Romanian forces in World War II was officially named the Aeronautica Regală Română (ARR, lit. ' Romanian Royal Aeronautics '), though it is more commonly referred to in English histories as the Forțele Aeriene Regale ale României (Royal Romanian Air Force, FARR), or simply Forțele Aeriene Române (Romanian Air Force).
The Romanian Army took an interest in aviation from the earliest days, facilitating the construction of the Vlaicu I in 1910. The next year, the Army formed the Aviation Group, which over the next few years was equipped with locally manufactured Farman biplanes under license and also acquired two Blériot monoplanes, several Bristol-Coandă monoplanes and two Morane Type F monoplanes.
Licensed built after the Chinese Type 59–1, itself a copy of the Soviet 130 mm towed field gun M1954 M-46. Romania also produced a 76 mm mountain gun designated M82 and a 120 mm mortar designated M 1982. SU-100: 100 mm self-propelled anti-tank gun Czechoslovakia: 23-47 [46] [47] In storage. Acquired by 1957. [264] Used as firing range targets ...