Romanian Army During the Cold War

Are not the Mobile SAM Regiments organic to the mechanized divisions?
After all that was the standard WP practice .

This post has been edited by osutacincizecisidoi on January 15, 2011 05:03 pm

Hallo osutacincizecisidoi,
According to the informations taken from the Romanian military media, the 50th AntiAircraft Missile Regiment "Andrei Mureseanu" unit established on June 30, 1989 in the Cluj city area, equipped, according to the standards of the Warsaw Pact at that time with 9K33M3 "OSA-AKM" surface-to-air missile systems. This regiment was directly subordinated to the 4th Army Command in Cluj.
I can't say with certainty whether the other 3 AA Mobile Missile Regiments (all with 2K12 Kub mobile systems) were or were not subordinated to the other 3 Army Commands (Buzau, Bucuresti and Craiova) but is likely to be so.

I saw two artillery pieces at Izvorul Nou Park's entrance in Bucharest.
I think Zis-2 57 mm AT guns. Were those guns in Romanian Army's post World War 2 inventory?

Yes, each artillery battalion from all infantry regiments had 18 pieces. They were quite common. Nowadays, they are frequently used as "gate guards". You can find out more about the Romanian Cold War artillery here: http://www.rft.forter.ro/17_bibvirt/pdf/00...-si-imagini.pdf (in Romanian, but the pics and titles are quite eloquent.)

Many thanks!!

This is more of a post-Cold War question but this is the closest thread I could find. There is a miltary/coastal base north of Navodari, next to Corbu. You can see it easily on Google Earth. Does anyone know what regiment or battalion occupied that base? I am using the past tense because I think it is now deactivated (dezafectata).
Or perhaps I'm wrong? Is it still active? If, so, by which unit? It looks pretty cool on Google Earth, you can see the gun/rocket emplacements, berms, etc...

Thanks in advance...

That place hosted a battery of 8 guns KS-30, 130mm used as coastal guns since 1965. There are another two very similar installations - one at Capu Midia, just west of the oil refinery tank farm and another south of 2 Mai, on the brink of the sea and eroding fast.

Don't know which unit operated them, but KS-30 were retired from use in the early 90's and the unit operating them disbanded.

I think you're talking about this facility, right?
TRAINING CAMP AND SURFACE TO AIR FIRING RANGE "Gl. bg. Ion BUNGESCU" - CAPU MIDIA

It's still active, it actually fools a lot of tourists during the summer in thinking there is a thunderstorm coming. )

There are no more KS-30 guns of 130mm, no the artillery units of the Navy.

There are no more KS-30 guns of 130mm, no the artillery units of the Navy.

Yes, that's what I said too.

The place mabadesc was talking about - next to Corbu - is here: 44.388820 28.719518
That's indeed the Capu Midia SAM and AAA range, Mircea is right.

The one I was talking about - the former coastal battery - is this:
44.352847 28.690102

This post has been edited by Vici on May 24, 2011 07:55 pm

The battery that used to "frighten the tourists" is closer to "Hanul Piratilor" (and indeed, it used to make a lot of noise )
The co-ordinates are 44.17'55N 28.37'07E

There are also a four old wartime gun emplacements in the city itself, on the bluff close to the loghthouse, overlooking the harbour.
The co-ordinates are 44.09'31N 28.38'00E

Radu

Batteryes of 130 were in three position : 2 Mai, Mamaia Sat (Hanul P.) and Cap Midia.

A new unit (it isn't new actually, but I didn't know about it before) is the 7th Tank Brigade "Muscel" from Slatina, who had 3 Regiments: 3rd Mechanized Regiment in Caracal, 27th Tank Regiment in Bascov and 1st Artillery Regiment in Slatina. I remember reading somewhere that this Brigade was unique in the Romanian Army, and was sometimes mistaken for a Division, some were claiming that Romania would have had three tank divisions: the 6th, the 7th and the 57th.

Excellent work mate. Is there more

Great thread, too bad it is so old and there are no recent replies but maybe I am lucky.

Any chance to find somewhere the general TOE in the 80s? for example how was organized a Vanatori de Munte battalion?

Also are there any info about a Vanatori de Munte division ? Back then were only brigades but as far as I know from memory, one would be transformed in division in case of war (the 2nd?) What units would have been included in a Mountain division?

Also what was the TOE of paratrooper regiments?