Sourced : Euronews
By Cristian Gherasim
For the first time in decades, the Black Sea will once again be patrolled by a Romanian navy submarine.
The announcement was one of the first acts of Mihai Fifor, the incoming Minister of Defence and was the most noteworthy of a series of measures designed at modernising the country’s military.
“There is a great need to modernise the Romanian Naval Forces. This very ambitious programme will reinstate Romania as a key player at the Black Sea”, said the Minister during the Parliamentary hearing. He added that “developing full submarine fighting capabilities is a medium-term plan and that the submarine will be produced in a shipyard in Romania.”
Romania has been without a functioning submarine for over 22 years since its only previous military submersible, the Delfinul was retired.
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