ARMS AND EQUIPMENT OF THE RUMANIAN ARMED FORCES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R006300590011-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 17, 2003
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: November 8, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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TOPIC. 122's and quipment of the iium nian armed Forces
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Infantry Arms
10 The equipment of the Rumanian infantry with arms was completed in
February 1950, Rumanian weapons were to be gradually r:9placed by
soviet materiel0.All artillery battalions of the infantry regiment
had been fully equipped with Soviet guns 0 i.hout 14.0 percent of the
material in other hits was of Soviet origin. (1)
20 Deliveries from the U.S.S.R. included rifles with 10-round clips,
light machine guns, mounted model Iiaxin heavy machine guns, model
PFS submachine guns, 45--rte and !7-resin AT mans and short-'barreled
7602-mu infantry accompanying guns. (2)
30 Rumanian materiel of the infantry included model Z1 7"92-r= rifles
constructed with pernAscion of the Czechoslovakian Zbrojovska in
Brno; model ZI 7092-mm light machine .guns with a 20-round magazine
and mode'! Zr. 7092-Time heavy machine guns with 150-round ma ;azine
which were also constructed. with Czechoslovakian perrai: sion; model
Oritz 9-mm submachine guns, also called P.A.U. or Pusca automata
usoara, which are light automatic rifles ,with a short, thin and
smooth barrel, a long wooden butt similar to the rifle butt, and
long 30-round magazine feeding; the gun from below manufactured in
the Rumanian Cugir Arms Factory after the patent of Rumanian Captain
Orita, (fnu); model Schmeisser 9 -mm submachine guns with a 30-round
rta;azino and a wooden or metallic telescoping butt, acquired from
Germany during '.';orld ~;ar II; model 13reretta 9-ran submachine guns with
a 30 round magazine and a water jacket around the barrel, originating
in Italy; 310 -nd and 120-mm mortars manufactured in the Rumanian
Recite ,,arks; and Rumanian 60-mm mortars for mountain troops.
Artillery and AAA 7 capons
4e The artillery equipment which was available was sufficient for the
entire Rumanian Forces. It wa., estimated that 30 to 90 percent of
the dunanian artillery was equipped with Soviet materiel in early
19500 Of the i iunanian materiel especially the 100-mm and. 150-mr2
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Croup of officers inspecting the i zrnanian AAA training, center in
Prasov (R 35/X 37). (3)
Deliveries from the Upa.Swa;? included 76.2-inn field. os, 122 mm gun
howitzers, 100-mm and 152->qwm howitzers, 742--mm AT grais, 20-MM and
37-1= AA guns and 120--rmi xaortars. (4)
6. Pouraaniari wweaoons still in use with the dur anian artillery included
model. ikoda loo-mni and l50-nza howitzers; French 75- mm mountain Urns;
model S od a lot mm mountain howitzers; G rr,an 105 ir,cn guns which v% ere
to be turned in; 75?nari AT pine t th a nearly vertical. gun shield.,
a solid muzzle brake and a double recoil larake,g capable of penetrating
ct ]. 0-ram armor 31ato,, nufactured in the t?uxnanian taacita corks a:Ct"r
the patent of Captain (, x~i;r) i{urla.cu,, (fnu), and Colonel NJestorescuu,
(fm); rAt7f)."e V eers 7; mm iA duns; and German and i>i~ivzt t 88-mm AA gg` ne.
?dea ens of the Armond z3nd ;.; fachanizad. Forces
7, The armored and mechanized forces were e_ nipped exclusively With Ooviot
materiel.. ccorMing to Captann t.:ihai Jonescu, a Co .--r^aunist and trainee
of the military acadermy, the natc riol for four .ar?r orod divisions and
additional independent ar.,_iored and motorized forces has boon doliv. reef
by the uw~nv. ~o (5)
8, Deliveries from the U.b.sb. . included T-34 tanks, loo-r,m ::a guns., 122-mm
and 152- r- SF ens, referre to as "guns on solf-propelled mounts",
half-track and wheeled armored scout care , full-track arr:iored rso nnel
carriers .th two heavy machine guns and one 81.4 iwL mrtar, and. half-track
cross-country personnel carriers. (6)
9G The .Zuraanian cavalry, sit al, engineer and railroad troops, had infantry
17eaoons apart from their special equipments,
10. Lctor vi:hicles delivered from the included Pobcida corariarid cars,
v11; pr:i.rae movers for heavy artillery and :.T gsns,, 3-ton ZIS trucks,
command cars and soviet 11.15s jeepp,,, mobile motor vehicle rapair shop,,
ambulances,, tank trucks, radio trucks? charging units, buses and tracks
with a boxlike body for transportation of r zterial4
Observation and urve;r alui raex~t
13.., Survey e uiprzent furnished by the UO Sa S U:i. c .misted of field Masses,
compasses, periscopes, range-finders and special rapmountin,, boards for
artillery use.
Other Data on Arm -merit widC , i# rat
12. It was planned to replace all arms and equipment of "tutnanian make by ,aoviot
materiel. Prior to February 1250, however, the U.;.`~. Sap delivered only
woa`3ons which were already in use in `.orld ",Tar IL No heavy tanks or rocket
launchers were seen in the iiur:~anian f.rmy. -(7)
33. Ai general shortage of materiel was only observed with the '"Manion Air Force
and 1Javy. (8)
l4. The Rumanian units had beeri ordered not to spar. e a':m!tuni Lion for the training
of troops?
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()) Goer nt~ Available records indicated. a consideral.1y
by the deserter are con sidered correct as he served with the
;rtur:ranien a.r:-Vr and had many for detailed ob-
servations.
(2) ',omacnt, The fr>oviot model 191j2 45-rrua, AT :un is considered
o so. c;scs-n 1 is no longer used by the boviet.. rrnyo The infantry
,rua ?ar paroliai:1y the i:ixlol 1943 76-rza ;urn.
or. cents The information checks n,ith available reacordsm The
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re~Vr ;omenof the Rur"niarr artillery hao, been virtually corrpletodn
(Li) loy:urcnt. Howitzers of 130-mm caliber were not identified with
;sze :.ov:r. :.rmod s'orcos. The -oviet 107-r.111, qun of model 191a0/la 60
has not u -on manufactured since 1943 or 191111. It seems very doubtful
that the raenti:)nod gun should have been the 100-ma AT ;un of model
19144 because this most recent and heaviest type of a 1oviet AT gun was
proi-ably not given to the dui a.nians The other guns mentioned were
of known soviet t , es 0
(a) czmiento Only two armretl divisions have so far been identified.
(6) tow. e?nt o It is doubted " - ~. ' the of :'i3.ns which the deserter
descri aeT ns g-ins on self-propelled mounts should have been of the
Sovi u t mod.. s :,U 1009 JSU-x22 (.::U 249) or J ;U-'1!2, since only armored
vehicles of radium types,, such as the T'-3V35 model, have been oh-
served in ttura