Equipment of the Romanian Armed Forces

Land Forces

Note: some of the land based equipment in this section is owned by the Air Force or Naval Forces, not the Land Forces.

Small arms

PSL

SA-8

• PA md. 86 assault rifle (standard)
• PM md. 63, PM md. 65, PM md. 90 assault rifle (Navy, and Army reserve)
• HK G36 assault rifle (special forces)
• Steyr AUG assault rifle (special forces)
• SIG 551 LB assault rifle (marine special forces)
• PSL semi-automatic sniper rifle
• Pistol md. 2000 handgun (standard)
• Glock 17 handgun (National Police sidearm)
• Dracula md. 98 machine pistol
• HK MP-5 and UMP-9 SMG
• Ratmil SMG and Assault SMG (Gendarmerie/Military Police)
• Puşcă Mitralieră md. 64 light machine gun (romanian version of 7.62x39mm RPK)
• Uzi SMG (Military Police)
• Mitralieră md. 93 Light machine gun (romanian version of 5.45x39mm RPK)
• 7.62x54Rmm Machine gun general purpose machine gun (romanian version of PKM)
• PSL designated marksman rifle
• B&T APR .308 sniper rifle
• CA-94 man-portable air-defense systems
• AG-7 rocket propelled grenade
• KPV and KPVT machine gun
• Browning M2HB QCB machine gun
• Vektor SS-77 general purpose machine gun
• ArmaLite AR-10 SuperSASS suppressor capable, long range rifle [1]
• M72A5 LAW
• Light Mortars: 60mm Model 1988, Model 2001 and 81mm Model 1977, Model 1999

Artillery

• Model 1977 100mm AT towed gun
• Model 1989 122 mm howitzer-selfpropeld 2S1 Gvozdika
• ATROM 155mm gun-selfpropeld ATMOS 2000

• Model 1981 152 mm towed howitzer 152 mm towed gun-howitzer M1955 (D-20)
• Model 1985 152 mm towed gun-howitzer 152 mm howitzer 2A65
• Model 1982 120 mm towed mortar 120-PM-43 mortar
• Model 1981 130 mm towed gun 130 mm towed field gun M1954 (M-46)

• Model 1977 82 mm towed mortar 82-PM-41
• Model 1982 76 mm towed gun 76 mm regimental gun M1943
• Model 1938 122 mm towed howitzer 122 mm howitzer M1938 (M-30)
• AG-9 73 mm SPG-9
• 85 mm antitank gun D-48
• 76 mm divisional gun M1939 (USV)
• 76 mm divisional gun M1942 (ZiS-3)
• 85 mm divisional gun D-44

Anti-Air

• S-60 AA-Artillery
• S-75 M3 "Volkov" SAM
• Hawk XXI SAM
• SA-6 (2K12M "Kub") mobile SAM
• Gepard mobile AA
• ZSU-57-2 mobile AA-reserve
• CA-95 mobile SAM
• SA-8 (OSA-AKM 9K33M3) mobile SAM
• 100 mm air defense gun KS-19-reserve
• 85 mm air defense gun M1939 (52-K)-reserve
• M-1988 30mm-2 AA-artilery

Anti-Ship

• P-20M Termit mobile anti-ship missile platform
• 130 mm air defense gun KS-30-reserve

Tanks and IFVs

TR-85M1 on a training exercise

• TR-85/TR-85 M1 main battle tanks
• T-55
• TR-77-580
• T-72 main battle tanks (to be phased out)
• MLI-84/MLI-84M, and MLMV tracked IFVs
• LAROM MLRS
• APR-40 MLRS
• TAB-77 8x8 APC
• B33 Zimbru 8x8 APC
• Mowag Piranha
• RN-94 6x6 APC
• TABC-79 (short 4x4 version of the TAB-77)
• TAAD mobile anti-air missile system based on the TABC-79 chassis
• MLVM-mountains hunters combat vehicle and carrier
• MLVM-ABAL-munitions carrier for artilery

Other Vehicles

• HMMWV (Humvee)
• URO VAMTAC
• ARO (being replaced)
• Medevac and command vehicles based on the MLMV chassis
• AT-3, AT-4, AT-5-antitank rockets on vehicles,airplanes and helicopters or portables for infantry
• BRDM-2-with 6-AT-2

Airforce

Airplanes

Mig-21 Lancer B

• Mikoyan-Gurevich Mig-21 LanceR
• Lockheed C-130 Hercules
• Alenia C-27J Spartan
• Antonov An-26
• Yak-52
• Aero L-39 Albatros
• IAR 99/IAR 99 Şoim
• Antonov An-2
• RQ-7 Shadow
• Antonov An-30

Helicopters

• IAR 316
• IAR 330 PUMA (including Medevac), SOCAT, NAVAL

Naval forces

• Type 22 frigates
• "Mărăşeşti" frigate
• Rear-Admiral Eustaţiu Sebastian class frigates (corvettes/patrol frigates)
• Admiral Petre Bărbuneanu class frigate (corvettes/patrol frigates - to be replaced)
• Năluca (Epitrop) class torpedo boats
• Zborul (Molnaya/Tarantul 1) class corvettes
• "Emil Racoviţă" electronic surveillance ship
• Training ship "Mircea"
• Salvage and rescue ships
• Minesweepers
• 1 Miner

See also

• Romanian Armed Forces
• Saur I

References

• Romanian Land Forces
• Romanian Air Force
• Romanian Naval Forces
• Ministry of National Defense
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