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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).
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]
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 ...
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
Type 001 aircraft carrier Liaoning Type 071 amphibious transport dock (Yuzhao class) Type 905 replenishment ship (Fuqing class). The ship types in service with the People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) include aircraft carriers, submarines, (both nuclear and conventional), amphibious transport docks, landing ships, tank, landing ships, medium, destroyers, frigates, corvettes, missile boats ...
The monitor Brătianu in 1913. The class was based on similar Austro-Hungarian river monitors, such as the Körös and Temes classes. The Romanian warships were larger and had a main armament of three 120 mm naval guns in individual turrets, two 120 mm howitzers, four QF guns of 47 mm and two 6.5 mm machine guns.
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