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Romanian soldiers during a training exercise. The rifle is the Mannlicher M1893, the standard service rifle of the Kingdom of Romania at the time.. Between 1914 and 1916, 59 Romanian factories along with numerous private contractors produced a total of 400,000 artillery rounds and 45 million small-arms cartridges.
Romanian military equipment of World War I; 0–9. 10.5 cm Feldhaubitze M.12 This page was last edited on 21 November 2024, at 11:03 (UTC). ...
16 Kingdom of Romania. 17 Russian Empire. 18 Sublime State of Persia. ... Gatling gun (Pre World War 1) Field guns. Krupp 50mm Mountain Gun; Krupp 7.5 cm Model 1903;
The Romanian Army was quite large, with over 650,000 men in 23 divisions, but it suffered from poor training and equipment, particularly when compared to its German counterparts. Meanwhile, the German Chief of Staff, General Erich von Falkenhayn , had correctly reasoned that Romania would side with the Allies, and had made plans accordingly.
Map of the 27 August 1916 torpedo attack NMS Bujorescu and NMS Catinca. During the night of 27 August 1916, just after Romania declared war on Austria-Hungary, three Romanian small torpedo boats (the old 10-ton Rândunica and the two converted hydraulic service vessels Bujorescu and Catinca, each armed with two torpedoes in wooden tubes) attacked the Austro-Hungarian Danube Flotilla stationed ...
Romania is to start the acquisition procedure of a military satellite intended for communications in 2024. [260] It was noted at BSDA 2024 that Israel Aerospace Industries will provide the Romanian military with satellite systems and discussions were held with the COMOTI Institute [ ro ] for fulfilling the offset agreement.
Not counting any World War I-era obsolete heavy gun that may have still been in service, the only piece of heavy artillery operated by the Romanian Army during the Second World War was the 150 mm Skoda K-type gun. Known in the Romanian Army as M34, 180 pieces of this model were acquired between 1936 and 1939.
Tanks came about as means to break the stalemate of trench warfare.They were developed to break through barbed wire and destroy enemy machine gun posts. The British and the French were the major users of tanks during the war; tanks were a lower priority for Germany as it assumed a defensive strategy.