Romanian Artillery
1932 34 tank gun mareșal.
Romanian artillery. Romanian artillery soldier with shirt and cap model 1952 epaulettes and service branch pin model 1948 the soviet occupation of romania led to a complete reorganisation of the romanian land forces under the supervision of the red army. 1 x 45 mm 20k mod. Added to these completed projectiles there were cartridge components 70 million bullets and 110 million primers and artillery shell components 250 000 fuzes. The romanian artillery was of decidedly mixed quality.
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. Many field batteries were still horse drawn with tractors mainly being issued to heavy batteries containing modern models. The government of romania had issued a request for 54 himars launchers which was approved by the us congress. Romania artillery post by yan 06 mar 2007 18 02 hi can anyone give me a list of the artillery used by the romania army from 1920 to 1944 please i have checked on the romania in ww2 webb site only to find a lot of the data missing thanks yan.
On 9 august units from the two romanian divisions supported by the entire artillery of the corps tried in vain to regain the lost ground. The approved foreign military sale also included 162 gmlrs warheads 54 atacms missiles 30 lcrr practice rockets and 24 advanced field artillery tactical data systems plus 30 humvees and logistics vehicles. There were also 4 aaa battalions groups with 163 guns. Romanian artillery at the beginning of world war two romanian field artillery consisted mainly of french and czechoslovakian made weapons.
314 divisional artillery batteries with 1 428 guns 42 army corps artillery batteries with 168 guns 18 mountain artillery batteries with 72 guns 6 horse artillery batteries with 24 guns. The corps artillery regiments had the latest czech and french motorized 105mm and 150mm guns and were probably quite good by german standards. The artillery at the end of 1919 romanian army had 381 artillery batteries with 1 840 guns of which.